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Dr Andrew Skinner
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How is it that time of year again
Still from "Not Quite Almost Christmas Time" by Tom Cardy. Featuring Tom Cardy looking adorably bemused, and the subtitle 'premature Michael Buble'
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Brain immediately went right here:
Screenshot of the Unreal Tournament (1999) CTF map 'Facing Worlds'; two interconnected towers float in orbit above planet Earth.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The Airstrike Devil
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Looking for some light reading this afternoon? May I suggest SAND92-1382? Specifically, appendices F and G.

Reading how these folks were thinking is wild. But I guess that's to be expected when you're trying to build an immortal shrine to invisible dangers
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Figure 4.3-6 of the Sandia National Laboratories report 'Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (SAND92-1382).' The figure is labelled "Spikes bursting through grid, view 2 (concept by Michael Brill and art by Safdar Abidi)", and that's a pretty good description. The image is a noisy monochrome photocopy, depicting a single human figure (centre) surrounded by large architectural spikes, intended as concept art for aboveground markers for long-term nuclear waste disposal sites.
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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More like medical attention
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Out on a recent survey, my colleague snapped a shot that makes me look way cooler than I ought to
A strip of light and greenery shows through a gap in a cave, running right to left, with a person standing in the left third, looking over some archaeological deposit.
June 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Drop a ship that's not from Stars Wars/Trek
Screenshot from the 2003 film 'Master and Commander: Far Side of the World', with Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) in the foreground, and the sail-ship HMS Surprise behind and to the right.
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Today in spellcheck
March 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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And 1755:
February 16, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1785) has a complete scan online: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

Here's the relevant page from the 1773 edition (Japan at bottom left):
February 16, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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From Webster's International (1907). It's a very big, delicate book, so difficult to photograph cleanly
February 16, 2024 at 12:26 PM