Jaws from the point of view of the shark. Hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt KILL hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt LEARN BAGPIPES [Spielberg edited that last bit out of the movie for some reason]

Memory of no. 1 kid, then aged 8. No. 1 kid: "Is that Charles II?" Me: "Er, that's Brian May."

Piotr Pietruszewski.

I had no idea you could have a curved escalator. It's oddly pleasing.

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

Ocean's Fort Knox.

Could you topple a row of dominoes in zero gravity, or would the lack of gravity mean there was no potential energy? How many toppings would there be from momentum alone, I wonder.

According to BBC auto-generated subtitles, police were called after a 'superstitious' bag was found at a Peter Kay gig venue. ... Someone's lost their mojo possibly.

New Blues on the Sofa: Walk Away by Tom Waits. youtu.be/ML6J50fbGoU?...

Happy naked cucumber planting day to all those who celebrate.

Al Parker, 1943

Photographer unknown.

If they've made the whale into a rabbit, then yes, that's a pretty radical change. Ahab poking a harpoon into a burrow: "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!"

Life goal.

'Ground floor: perfumery, stationery and leather goods; wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and shoes. Going up!' ... I always thought it was a rather eccentric combination of goods - why are these things all grouped together?

TIL the first instalment of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the first instalment of HG Wells' First Men in the Moon appeared the the same issue of The Strand magazine. Boggle.

Are James Bond and Blofeld like Dr Who and The Master, locked in an ongoing struggle over multiple regenerations?

19th century door knocker in Lisbon, Portugal Katrin Manz, photographer

Illustration by Chuck Groenink for Full Moon Pups by Liz Garton Scanlon.

Master Splinter? (Nephrite Rat by artist Sergey Chestyunin.)

Of all the artworks that were meant to be a warning, not a blueprint, surely Judge Dredd was the most obvious. FFS.

Here's another one. Shot by Daniel Schlaepfer.

Every time I repost this, I think it needs even more pages...

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Everyone needs a day off.

Turns out fruit and veg need to eat at least five portions of human a day

Nina de San

Fetching Supper by Chris Dunn.

Frankenstein spelled backwards is Nietsneknarf. Which could easily be a name. Nietsneknarf's retsnom.

Annie Ovenden.

Also, as a side-note, the lyric 'You told me love was too Plebean' is wonderfully odd and unexpected. I too prefer my emotions to be Patrician, of course.

On the birthday of Queen Ella: Blues on the Sofa presents Cry Me a River. (There's a C chord here that I don't even know the name of...!) youtu.be/DZkOhAd35-k?...

If I were a sculptor, I wouldn't want to press a button and have the sculpture done for me by a robot. Writing is no different. We're carving a story into shape. Part of the process is discovering that shape as you go.

This could partly be because men are statistically less likely to think about the need to clear things up. (I hope it's improving, but I work with at least one guy who is clearly used to having all his cleaning done for him, as if by fucking magic.)

Listening to an orchestral piece, I am struck by how the composer, the conductor, the musicians, the artisans who made the instruments, the architects and the builders who constructed the venue, the paying audience, others... all contribute to a shared endeavour of making something beautiful... 1/2

Benjamin Wolf.

"Blackberry picking" by Cecilia Rowan.

Cat tiles by Korean firm designdb, part of a recycling initiative called Green Road. They are concrete, but instead of aggregate, the firm uses milled plastic waste - here, largely from empty cat food bags.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I mean if I'd known this was an option...!

'Joint Force' does sound like something from a stoner comedy. Maybe 'Cheech and Chong Get Drafted'.

Unfortunately, this is not what it sounds like

My theory (as of 5 seconds ago) is that Colombo is just a figment of each killer's imagination: their conscience given shambling human form.

Philip Jackson.