92. Back to the fog and bad food

North v South

Roll up, roll up. Listen to a dog drinking beer. From Belgium. The beer, that is. The dog's from England, mate. In other news: Panic's Playdate, BT's new look, Manga at the British something or other, Microsoft browsers, Shanghai bookshops, and, naturellement, pies.

Roll up, roll up. Listen to a dog drinking beer. From Belgium. The beer, that is. The dog's from England, mate.

In other news: Panic's Playdate, BT's new look, Manga at the British something or other, Microsoft browsers, Shanghai bookshops, and, naturellement, pies.

Links:

• Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System — Software house Panic have branched out in to Hardware with a cute little hand-held games console.
• IM Pei: celebrated architect behind Louvre pyramid dead at 102 - Art and design - The Guardian
• Mirrored Ceilings and Criss-Crossed Stairwells Give a Chinese Bookstore the Feeling of an M.C. Escher Woodcut - Colossal — A stunning bookstore in China.
• X+Living — Architects of the bookstore above.
• "Street Corner at Worlds End, London, 1954. — A wonderful photo that cropped up in Rob's Twitter feed, by Inge Morath.
• Love is the Devil — Jon's been watching Love and the Devil and digging deeper in to the life of painter Francis Bacon.
• Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma: Amazon.co.uk: Michael Peppiatt: 8601417755228: Books — Bacon reading.
• Microsoft Edge Insider — Microsoft is back with a new browser for the Mac.
• BT unveils new logo after years of work – its name in a circle - Business - The Guardian — BT rebrand. The usual pile-on via social media.
• Manga at the British Museum exhibition review — Manga comes to the British Museum.
• Fighting Fantasy Fest 3 - fightingfantasy — Who knew there was a convention for Fighting Fantasy books? Not us.
• Airline Logos — Wonderful collection of mid-century US airline logos from Reagan Ray.
• South Coast Journal — How to do a local magazine the right way.
• Fantasma - Magic Rock Brewing — Gluten Free IPA from Magic Rock.
• A new Guy Warley print over at Ellipress — Cockpit - a new print from sci-fi illustrator Guy Warley - available in LP (320mm) or Single (200mm) sizes.
• Rob's got a brand new Patreon — Rob's developing his Weird-Field World of spaceships and alien technology over at Patreon.