Lou Burnard
@lb42.bsky.social
Old enough to know better. Retired digital humanist and TEI editor currently obsessed by 19th c. Theatre. Anyone here heard of thomas hailes lacy?
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Pleased as Punch to see that our retrospective of the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archives" study day we held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social last month is now online on @rs4vp.org's website! Wonderful speakers, keynotes and audience. Thank you all!
Happy Friday! Some light reading to enliven your weekend: a retrospective on the "Pictorial Punch: Treasures from the Archive" study day by our friends @punchspocketbook.bsky.social in November. Several candid photos from the day included! Thanks for #SharingYourNews!
rs4vp.org/pictorial-pu...
rs4vp.org/pictorial-pu...
Pictorial Punch: Treasures from the Archive – RSVP
The Punch's Pocket Book Archive team shares a retrospective on their one-day study day hosted at the British Library on 7 November 2025.
rs4vp.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Pleased as Punch to see that our retrospective of the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archives" study day we held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social last month is now online on @rs4vp.org's website! Wonderful speakers, keynotes and audience. Thank you all!
An encounter with Gemini Pro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1216
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
An encounter with Gemini Pro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1216
Did some more bloggage after a long gap. Representativeness and how to check it. Foxglove. Consulté le 9 octobre 2025 à l’adresse foxglove.hypotheses.org/1104
Representativeness and how to check it
As the number of TEI encoded titles in Digital Lacy is about to reach a milestone, it seems a good moment to consider its representativenessity. So I have been dusting off my utterly decayed spreadshe...
foxglove.hypotheses.org
October 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Did some more bloggage after a long gap. Representativeness and how to check it. Foxglove. Consulté le 9 octobre 2025 à l’adresse foxglove.hypotheses.org/1104
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But after the depressing loss of Rayner last week, it is very pleasing to see the eminently sensible loss of Mandelson this week.
September 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
But after the depressing loss of Rayner last week, it is very pleasing to see the eminently sensible loss of Mandelson this week.
Another blog update happened foxglove.hypotheses.org
Foxglove – A British Perspective on the Digital Humanities in France
foxglove.hypotheses.org
August 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Another blog update happened foxglove.hypotheses.org
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This is the last thing the BBC needs
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is the last thing the BBC needs
I wrote a blog entry. I know, i am so old school. Http://foxglove.hypotheses.org
May 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I wrote a blog entry. I know, i am so old school. Http://foxglove.hypotheses.org
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my plan to move to bluesky to get away from politics seems to be having limited success.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
my plan to move to bluesky to get away from politics seems to be having limited success.
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Ok, so this is cool: blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/. Might be the thing that gets me to learn Rust.
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
I announce Xee, the implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust that I've been working on for the last two years.
blog.startifact.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ok, so this is cool: blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/. Might be the thing that gets me to learn Rust.
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Where can you find a dial telephone sculpture on a building? One of a number of relics of 1930s technology at the Faraday Building of Queen Victoria Street from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
March 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Where can you find a dial telephone sculpture on a building? One of a number of relics of 1930s technology at the Faraday Building of Queen Victoria Street from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
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On the queue to see Jazz Emu tonight, I was distracted by the people behind me talking about Jazz Emoo. Mr Emu had the yod-ful pronunciation, though, so phonetic identity crisis averted.
In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...
In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...
Dear English Language,
YouTube video by Jazz Emu
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
On the queue to see Jazz Emu tonight, I was distracted by the people behind me talking about Jazz Emoo. Mr Emu had the yod-ful pronunciation, though, so phonetic identity crisis averted.
In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...
In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...
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White House reports AP will not be invited to its sleepover where all the other press agencies will be playing truth or dare and talking about cute boys.
The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico
February 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
White House reports AP will not be invited to its sleepover where all the other press agencies will be playing truth or dare and talking about cute boys.
@flannobriensoc.bsky.social this title maybe of interest : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-alt...
edinburghuniversitypress.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@flannobriensoc.bsky.social this title maybe of interest : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-alt...
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I missed that Jules Feiffer died this week.
Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.
Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.
January 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I missed that Jules Feiffer died this week.
Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.
Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.
I just published my annual report on life with me at lb42.github.io/Diary ... should get rid of some of my weirdo followers.
Index
lb42.github.io
January 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I just published my annual report on life with me at lb42.github.io/Diary ... should get rid of some of my weirdo followers.
Spent most of the so-called holiday period trying to track down online biographical trivia for a bunch of 19th c playwrights, with moderate success. 30 out of 300 remain entirely elusive though. Full disclosure at foxglove.hypotheses.org/994 -- do get in touch if you can fill any gaps
January 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spent most of the so-called holiday period trying to track down online biographical trivia for a bunch of 19th c playwrights, with moderate success. 30 out of 300 remain entirely elusive though. Full disclosure at foxglove.hypotheses.org/994 -- do get in touch if you can fill any gaps
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I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.
January 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.
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There are over 1,000 copies of Eastgate's most renowned "serious" hypertexts—e.g. Patchwork Girl and Afternoon—in libraries throughout the world. Most of them are in circulation (as opposed to Special Collections). But guess what? Unless you have Windows XP or a circa 2005 Mac, you can't read them.
Eastgate Census: Tracking Legacy Literary Software Titles in Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections
Eastgate Systems Inc. published influential works of electronic literature through the 1990s and 2000s, many of which are only compatible with obsolete computing environments. This research has ide...
www.tandfonline.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
There are over 1,000 copies of Eastgate's most renowned "serious" hypertexts—e.g. Patchwork Girl and Afternoon—in libraries throughout the world. Most of them are in circulation (as opposed to Special Collections). But guess what? Unless you have Windows XP or a circa 2005 Mac, you can't read them.
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Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh
Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) | NAVSA
bit.ly
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh
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Posted this just yesterday:
What do you call a wizard who walks everywhere on bare feet, has poor bone density and really bad breath?
A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis
What do you call a wizard who walks everywhere on bare feet, has poor bone density and really bad breath?
A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis
December 4, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Posted this just yesterday:
What do you call a wizard who walks everywhere on bare feet, has poor bone density and really bad breath?
A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis
What do you call a wizard who walks everywhere on bare feet, has poor bone density and really bad breath?
A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis
My #dayofdh2024 started with me deciding to give up on sparql for a bit, achieving something promising with ceteicean, and then sinking into a boggy morass of javascript syntax.
December 2, 2024 at 2:28 PM
My #dayofdh2024 started with me deciding to give up on sparql for a bit, achieving something promising with ceteicean, and then sinking into a boggy morass of javascript syntax.