I actually finished a short story. And indeed started it. There's a middle, too.

(Wants to mature for a bit before editing, mind)

I believe I shall be really quite pleased with that outcome.

The missing Wainwright that no-one talks about is obviously 'A pictorial guide to the mountains of madness'.

Actually, it's probably a good thing that HTC's 'social meejah' 'application' has expired. A sack of bollocks at either end with Brownian goalposts in the middle. This would be why I don't take 'web deveopers' seriously.

Apple's Mail.app. Does it have a 'Next unread message' command/menu-item? It does not. It's not actually for reading mail, is it ( Read more... )

This, rather than brutalist shopping centres for grim-faced proles.

(From here.)

Up on that there FB right now are a few tracks from the other band I was in. (the) Total Bureau lasted for, um, about a year and then stopped in unfortunate circumstances. Being a pallbearer is a shit job ( Read more... )

Via the Manchester Guardian, we find this marvellous work of Cold War propaganda. Not that I'm a particular fan of Strategic Air Command, Christmas icon notwithstanding, it's just that the film is an unintentional cavalcade of pre-90s cultural icons. Big analogue screens driven by shipping container-sized tech. Curvilinear stove-enamelled computer ( Read more... )

Three selections from three different articles within the BBC website:

Before those experiments can even begin, however, the target chamber must be prepared with shields that can block the copious neutrons that a fusion reaction would produce ( Read more... )

Bother. The ATM nailed to the side of the Tesco metro had a mechanical and failed its attempt to sick up my card. After three tries, accompanied by increasingly distressed peeping and me attacking it with a sharp knife (we'll gash the caul, etc), it gave up ( Read more... )

... Which leads a chap to wonder why such images appeal so.

Reading about this in one or other of the original set of Eagle Annuals, which contained pictures of this splendid device, obviously leads to mental images of yon Tucker 743 hauling a motley shed-collection hover platform across a Trackless and Alien Expanse.

We also find this, which is ( Read more... )

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