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I’ve been interested in a simpler, less exploitative web for a long time. It feels like the modern web is increasingly dominated by ads, intrusive surveillance, tracking scripts, and bloated layouts that mock our…
A song from Canada you might enjoy: 🎵Goûtons du plaisir, from the album Au Coeur de l’Aube by Genticorum.
Why is everyone going to Japan?
That’s the question addressed by an episode of the Search Engine podcast.
By ’everyone’, they implicitly mean Americans, which is odd since most visitors to Japan come from China. Still, it’s a very interesting discussion.
We have a rectangular Japanese-style omelette pan in our kitchen. These pans are called makiyakinabe (巻き焼き鍋), and they’re sometimes square rather than oblong, depending on which region they belong to. But just because we have one of these pans doesn’t mean we really know how to use it. This pan…
The main purpose of my collection of notes, organised according to the Zettelkasten principle, is to help me complete writing projects, mainly small but sometimes large too.
I’m always jotting down thoughts and ideas to use in my ever-expanding blog empire. For example, for some time I’ve been making…
The AI Doc on Netflix, subtitled ‘How I became an Apocaloptimist’, was a little disappointing Wikipedia. It mainly tried to showcase ‘both sides’ of the argument about AI heralding the end of civilisation. It was interesting to see how uncomfortable everyone seemed to be when addressing existential questions about…
As attentive readers of this website will know, I’m happily using micro.blog as the site’s hosting platform. Micro.blog has a surprisingly wide range of features and it comes with several associated mini-apps, which provide easy access to those features. One of the apps is called Wavelength, and it has just…
Some close, others open, but more and more, bookshops are becoming venues for live events, and thereby contributing to the knitting together of communities of literacy and ideas. What’s happening where you are?
Read more: Bookshops in Sydney: how’s it going?
#BookShops #Sydney
In the house by the ocean where we’re currently staying there’s a copy of Annie Dillard’s collection of essays, For the Time Being. In the inside back cover there’s a label from the store where it was purchased: Norton Street Books in Leichhardt, Sydney. That book shop has long…
📷 A bluebottle (Physalia utriculus), washed up on the beach.
#photography #wildlife #Australia