Category: links and bookmarks

Vertical-Scroll Mobile-First Comics Tools

LTD Development -“Position three: evolve the tools. Now, Matt Webb recently posted his tools for making his weblog.”

Working From Home Every Day Carry: Housebound WFH EDC Pack May 2022

Computer Channel – “the digital tool that fills in the few gaps I have remaining in a life of knowledge work and personal record. Here’s where I am today and here’s what I think it looks like. These are the things I can see and hear. These are the books I want to remember because culture is made up of what remains after everything else has been forgotten. Also photos of chickens.”

When I Nearly Cut My Fingers Off With A Spade

Kim Stanley Robinson On Building Books

Decision Razors

Going Analogue, Returning To Digital

Selected highlights here from the tranche of works that entered the public domain on Jan 1.

A team of researchers in Canada say they have discovered two new minerals – and potentially a third – after analysing a slice of a 15-tonne meteorite that landed in east Africa.

The meteorite, the ninth largest recorded at over 2 metres wide, was unearthed in Somalia in 2020, although local camel herders say it was well known to them for generations and named Nightfall in their songs and poems.

Wilko Johnson, the soul of the Thames Delta, has passed.

Art Works – containing “The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s.”

Give Us Back Our Moon Dust And Cockroaches – containing “The Lost Avant-Garde Movement that came Decades before Dada”

Outsiders – containing a piece on the avant-garde outsider writer Juan Emar.

Anthology Of Post Industrial And Experimental Music From Italy – “Influences from various artistic avant-gardes of the last century converged in the so-called grey area: futurism, Dadaism, situationism, performance, body and mail art”

BRITISH RADIO DRAMA 1945-63, Hugh Chignell – “This is the story of a group of men and women at the BBC, in a time we generally conceive of as smotheringly conservative, working to evolve a new art form and introducing challenging and often avant-garde narrative art to a mainstream culture.”

LANNY, Max Porter: Dead Papa Toothwort Awakens – “To try and channel his wild dreamy nature, they convince a local artist — known in the village as Mad Pete, a part-retired avant-garde artist of the 20th Century — to give him lessons…”