https://bumnote.com/notes/Recent content in Dispatches / Notes on bumnoteHugoen-GB© 1974–present bumnote press • Copyleft / anti-copyright CC BY-NC 4.0Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:40:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/notes/azimuth-tuesday/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:40:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/notes/azimuth-tuesday/<p>The heads on the 244 were out by enough that the top end fell off a cliff above 9 kHz. We aligned them by ear against a test tone and then, because we are who we are, by ear against a Cabaret Voltaire cassette. The tone won on paper. The cassette won in the room.</p>https://bumnote.com/notes/seen-from-lynx/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/notes/seen-from-lynx/<p>Open this page in Lynx and you get: the masthead as a line of text, the navigation as a numbered list, the lead essay as a headline followed by prose, and every card as a heading with a date under it. No layout survives. Every word does.</p>https://bumnote.com/notes/on-seventy-gsm/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:10:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/notes/on-seventy-gsm/<p>Seventy grams per square metre is the weight of a free newspaper. It creases if you look at it, yellows in a year, and shows the ink from the other side. It is also cheap enough that we can print three hundred copies of a pamphlet and post them for less than a single glossy run would cost.</p>