Alice receives a mysterious package. Continue reading →

It’s over a hundred years since World War One. Everyone involved is dead. Continue reading →

England is a cup of tea.
America is a gun. Continue reading →

The Golden Treasury of English Verse and a harmonica were my only mementos of civilization when I set off to go backpacking around the world. Continue reading →

The Sirens:[Singing, soothing] Sleep, brave Ulysses! Sleep! Let us soothe your sinews with our sensuous songs of slumber! Scylla: [LOUD!] *LOUD CLICK* I WHOOSH YOU INTO WAKEFULNESS! NO SLEEP FOR YOU! MY INFERNAL NOISE BRINGS FIRE FROM THE VERY DEPTHS … Continue reading →

One thousand years later, beer is still excellent and the song is still fantastic. Continue reading →

Sometimes in the middle autumn days, The windless days when the swallows have flown, And the sere elms brood in the mist, Each tree a being, rapt, alone, I know, not as in barren thought, But wordlessly, as the bones … Continue reading →

Did, as Keats claimed, Newton destroy the beauty of the rainbow by unweaving it? Helen Fisher doesn’t think so:

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. … Continue reading →

So. Farewell then Agitar Software (formerly known as TestAgility). We sent you code. You sent back tests. Free. You helped us find crappy code. Now we have to find it for ourselves. Shame it’s so easy. Here! I found some! … Continue reading →