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NINE BELLS clothes hangers

Published December 16, 2025 by Warren Ellis

So I just took delivery of twenty clothes hangers.

A couple of years ago, I had to make some dietary changes due to having entered the “age-related food intolerances” era of life. Basically, my genetic heritage says that I am nearly dead, and therefore my body believes I no longer need to digest lactose or gluten properly and should instead be preparing to leave the village and die in a ditch in the wilderness so as not to be a further burden on the community.

(The real hack here was buying a stack of unbreakable bowls that I can just throw leaves and protein and nuts into and stir with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. We refer to these as “the sadness bowls” in our house, as in “yes, I am having a sadness bowl for my lunch again.” These bowls are also for the berries, almonds and honey I have for breakfast.)

(Also worth noting that I made a few further adjustments after reading ULTRA PROCESSED PEOPLE)

Said dietary changes have led to me losing around four inches off my waist over a couple of years, which I wasn’t expecting. This was a good excuse to buy new clothes, as I love clothes. I am, however, bad at throwing clothes out, and there’s a voice in the back of my head that demands Cornish pasties and thinks that one day a perfect gluten intolerance tablet will be invented that will allow me to go face down in a six foot pile of them so I should probably keep the baggy jeans.

Therefore I now own more clothes than I have since my thirties. So many more, in fact, that I’ve had to order a lot of clothes hangars, each one of which will have to hang three garments as I tend to buy clothes as capsules, a few of which capsules have a matching shoe so oh shit I just realised I need a shoe rack too.

Accidental weight loss turns out to be expensive and somehow also space-consuming.

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morning computer brain work

Published November 18, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Roger Dean.

While companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink are hard at work on brain-computer interfaces that require surgery to cut open the skull and insert a complex array of wires into a person’s head, a team of researchers at MIT have been researching a wireless electronic brain implant that they say could provide a non-invasive alternative that makes the technology far easier to access.

They describe the system, called Circulatronics, as more of a treatment platform than a one-off brain chip. Working with researchers from Wellesley College and Harvard University, the MIT team recently released a paper on the new technology, which they describe as an autonomous bioelectronic implant.

Sportswear brand Nike has unveiled its Mind 001 and Mind 002 trainers, designed in collaboration with neuroscientists to improve the connection between mind and body.

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Described as the company’s “first neuroscience-based footwear”, the shoes were created using data collected from brain scans at Nike’s recently established Mind Science Department.

“These are the first shoes designed from the brain down, not the ground up,” Nike chief science officer Matthew Nurse told Dezeen.

morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day.

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telemetry 29sep25

Published September 29, 2025 by Warren Ellis

UNCLASSIFIED: Edinburgh Festival Highlights

Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Tonight she plays highlights from some of Unclassifield’s favourite artists’ live concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Today’s jacket was the Yarmouth Oilskins sailcloth Engineer chore jacket.

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telemetry 12sep25

Published September 12, 2025 by Warren Ellis

I suspect this embed won’t work, but I got reminded of the time I stayed at the Juvet Landscape Hotel, now famed as the location for EX MACHINA and SUCCESSION season 4:

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As part of my rapid acceleration into my boomer years, I almost always have my phone on loud. It goes back on silent as soon as I get inside the M25. But in the country, where it’s windy and blowy, I have it on loud because I don’t hear it otherwise. Also when someone calls me, it announces who is calling. I am actually 70.

Someone explain to me how Mads Mikkelsen makes the worst colours in the world work for him? See also literally every episode of HANNIBAL.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hx72 – Avi Avital directs Between Worlds and Georgia’s Rustavi Choir in music from the Black Sea

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morning computer clock time

Published April 25, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Maybe Next Time.

While the exhibition is physically immersive, its conceptual focus is time (or rather, how time is experienced in prison). As Caputo explains, “Time in prison is never neutral; it is structured, regimented, and often experienced as an oppressive force.” The exhibition’s title, Prison Times, nods to this fragmented, fictional timescale, where the outside world runs on one clock and the incarcerated on another.

A jacket with built-in electric fans designed by Japanese fashion brand Anrealage keeps staff cool at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation pavilion at the Osaka Expo.

The pavilion aims to depict the future of communication, and Morinaga applied the same idea when designing the uniforms.

“These clothes transcend division and disparity, connect the dots and expand human potential by sharing senses,” the designer explained.

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