The lost list of Christmas.

We all know The Muppet Christmas Carol is the perfect Christmas movie (and the definitive movie version of that novel) already... but did you know the Muppets' costumes are all era-appropriate - and their styles for the 1780s, 1790s, 1840s are all different! www.tiktok.com/@littlebloss...

Bloody Beaker folk www.instagram.com/reel/DPeXW2m...

Bank robberies in Sligo up 600% www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

"Tough Guys", Northampton, England (1980) Photo: John Heywood / Victoria and Albert Museum

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

Best spot for the Christmas shopping - still cash only!! 🎸

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice#WinterSolstice#Newgrange#ShareTheSolstice

Maureen Tucker, Velvet Underground (1967)

Public Domain Day 2026: works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/...

Here's a good video review if you want to see it in action. So many great details, it's clear this was a labor of love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PnW...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

This wonderful made video by Rón Maguire highlights how integral The Complex has been for DCAF's growth #SaveTheComplex

Reflections - Arnos Grove More wet knees, this time at Arnos Grove London Underground station. I can't resist a good puddle reflection shot so I captured this photo quickly as the train arrived at the station.

Today marks 250 years since the birth of the incomparable Jane Austen

They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.

December light

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Bleak reading.

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

gotta say this set aged pretty well www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2b...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Martin Parr. Britons in their natural environment, a queue.

This blog post about Google de-indexing a personal blog very much rings a bell for me -- journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-in... . The vast majority of my own blog is no longer in the Google index, for the same reason: "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"

Pudding basin hair-cut and snake belt. ‘Peter’, 1974 Artist: Harry Wingfield

Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy for 10 Seconds vs 10 Hours. “When it comes to photographing deep space, the longer you can take a picture, the more detail you get to see.” This is also an excellent explanation of the basics of astrophotography. [kottke.org]

Hore Abbey • Cashel • Tipperary Hore Abbey (also known as St. Mary's Abbey of the Rock) sits both literally and figuratively in the shadow of the mighty Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary. #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #IrishHistory

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

David Lynch's Dune (1984): Matte painting by Syd Dutton

Hot mix! Playing with Roman concrete recipes www.scientificamerican.com/article/pomp...

Most importantly more people watched my TED talk than watched Sam Altman’s for which I thank everybody involved 🙏

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

This entire video is fantastic, but my favorite part has to be the shout out to the great work of Dr. Richard Pan. @drpanmd.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

The first cathedral at Thurles was replaced in the 1860s with a new building & few traces survive of that earlier building. Delightful, therefore, to learn that the carved Corinthian columns from the altar depicted in the London Illustrated News are actually preserved in St Patrick’s College!

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Remembering Con Houlihan (born 100 years ago today): "A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything."

Noel Redding in the Vitus Studio for an episode of "Hoepla" on Dutch television, Bussum, Netherlands (1967)

I think about this one pretty much every afternoon

Martin Parr A drive through McDonalds. Nutgrove shopping centre. Dublin. Ireland. 1986. www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

RIP the great Martin Parr

RIP Martin Parr

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/

Two of the most famous screeches in music history are from House of Pain’s Jump Around and Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain. Which one of them was sampled from a horse (and not Prince)? [kottke.org]

I wrapped up work with a clever group of teens in May. Some of them want to recut this Vimeo as a BTS version, showing the aha moments they felt uncovering history. vimeo.com/1143764564?s...

youtu.be/sRk6N7UQQzY?... Just throwing a random moment of serenity in here. #speirgorm