Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow. [youtube.com]

Apparently it’s Buzzards Day. Never need an excuse to show appreciation for these amazing raptors! #Birds #UKBirding #BirdingScotland #BuzzardDay #Raptors #Buzzards

Yesterday's early parade in Cashel flic.kr/s/aHBqjCNbsF

“Rooks are gathered in their rookeries, rebuilding the nests of last season” Artists: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore online. “Almost every institution with a significant collection of medieval manuscripts digitizes many of their most significant works and makes them freely accessible online.” [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com]

Still Life with Red Cushion

Bubble Sorted Amen Break: from 10k Drum Machines, which recently featured drum machines made from Donkey Kong, billiards, and the current time https://parametricavocado.itch...

The Wrens are starting to get busy building and preparing their nests, these were taken last year during the material gathering process and I hope to capture more this year #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

Fragments: reporting fines, engaging with gen AI, experience engineering, watching the ralph loop, migrating COBOL martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Wind fallen apples every year? Don’t waste them! 🍎 Make fresh apple juice, tangy apple chutney, or brew your own cider. 🧃 If you’re not into that, compost them to enrich your soil or leave a few for garden wildlife to nibble on. 🍂🐦 There’s always a way to make the most of nature’s bounty!

One Battle after Another (2025)

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Still missing from the Cashel area a few weeks now.

We did box feeding with our boy. As he got used to it we added more and more external stimuli. Tapping the box, jangling his leash, even opening the door. It helped him tune things like that out, plus it's a really fun way to turn feeding into a fun, social activity. youtube.com/shorts/KLGsu...

Day of the Triffids (1981, BBC 6-part series)

Sex Pistols gig, Halmstad, Sweden (1977)
Photo: Lars Astrom

The Internet Archive has a ton of old HyperCard programs that you can run right in your browser, including Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, the Whole Earth Catalog, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ebook, and The Manhole (Myst precursor). [kottke.org]

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

As promised 😎

"Frasier" s04e01 aspect ratios

Apropos of nothing Why not treat yerselves to a nice shiny copy of Another Fine Mess and read about some of History's funniest catastrophes www.anniewest.com/books-cards/...

Forbidden Planet premiered 70 years ago today! If you've never seen it, don't miss this Star Trek ancestor.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Give your tomatoes a mid-season boost in July by applying a balanced fertilizer or compost. Focus on a formula with high phosphorus & potassium to support fruit development. Avoid high-nitrogen fertilizers to prevent excessive foliage growth. #Tomatoes #Fertilizer #JulyGardening

Ann Ballentine bought an old candy factory building in Brooklyn in 1979. She filled it with working artists and became something of a fairy godmother to them all. A lovely little short film. [kottke.org]

Troubled that my wife is not come home from Chelsey, whither she is gone to see the play at the school where Ashwell is, but she came at last, it seems, by water, and tells me she is much pleased with Ashwell’s acting and carriage, which I am glad of.

It just keeps getting better. New version is out! 😍 Windows Maintenance Tool v5.0.3 A free, powerful, all-in-one Windows maintenance toolkit built entirely in Batch & PowerShell. www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/fi... #tech #PCRepair #ComputerRepair #TechNews

RIP Paul Brainerd who introduced the term "desktop publishing" and co-founded Aldus Corporation who released PageMaker in 1984. Some absolute nuggets in this obituary. www.historylink.org/File/7657

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

They're smaller, have both lossy and lossless modes, lossy animation (like gif but not terrible), and lossy transparency, etc. For the purpose of web media, they can do basically everything jpg, png, and gif can do but better. It's lack of support is mostly because Apple hates open standards.

This guy gets it.

1st playlist of the new age! Was very nice to be back on the radio, you can have listen back via here tinyurl.com/4kf8fubd and tell me I did good, eh? @8radioireland.bsky.social #themusicwelike

The modern world in old Ladybird books. “Nowadays there are police women as well as policemen. Every force has at least one or two” (1962) Artist: John Berry

In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...

Dust has settled, contracts have been signed. Very pleased to say that Click Clack will be back on the radio, the kind folks at @8radioireland.bsky.social have given me a little patch on which to graze, Thursday nights at 8! Starting tomorrow, do tune in! It's on the DAB radio and all, super fancy.

Gemini 3.1 Pro produced an excellent pelican riding a bicycle SVG but took over 5 minutes to do it - I'm pretty sure that's just teething problems on launch day though, I got a few error messages about capacity while trying it out. simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/...

WHEN TECHNOLOGY WAS WONDERFUL: a sausage vending machine in Berlin, 1954. Translation: "Warm sausages with bread rolls"

"A 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial" endtimes.dev/why-your-web...

A vintage ABK sketch to plug my UK tour. KING OF CRUMBS starts this Saturday! Come along for more nonsense like this. www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

Hedge cutting season ends 28 February Help protect nesting birds and other wildlife in our gardens. Complete any cutting/pruning of hedges + other vegetation before 01 March. Find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFsX... @wildlife-wri.bsky.social @hedgerowsireland.bsky.social

"In 1995, Westwood Studios set out to make a game based on one of the most beloved science fiction films ever made. They took a big risk, applying unproven technology and storytelling methods. Blade Runner would go on to become of the highest-selling action-adventure games of all time."

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

A Man Called Horse (1970)

My wife had a great mind to choose Valentines against tomorrow, I Mrs. Clerke, or Pierce, she Mr. Hunt or Captain Ferrers, but I would not because of getting charge both to me for mine and to them for her, which did not please her.

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Your annual reminder of what a fantastic drummer Karen Carpenter was www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVBt...