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John Lampard
disassociated (usually all lowercase, sometimes all uppercase) sates a 1997 high-school like fascination with web design, and, for better or worse, has been transmitting from the east coast of Australia ever since. On and off, and in different formats, but it all kicked off in 1997.
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The productivity suite, which includes a word processor and spreadsheet, similar to Office 365 (though I understand it is now called Microsoft 365), was downloaded about one-million times the other week. One-million downloads....
There’s been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a...
It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media. But not quite. The Australian government is proposing to give local social media users the choice to opt out the algorithms that determine the content they see. If the laws...
On the subject of less than faithful book-to-film adaptations, it sounds like a sequel to 2011’s the Adventures of Tintin might be on the way. To be precise, New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, who collaborated with Steve Spielberg to...
Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, has lashed American film director Christopher Nolan’s recent adaptation of The Odyssey, in a recent London Review of Books article....
Eleven websites have been selected as finalists for this year’s Tiny Awards, and you can vote for your favourite. Polling closes on Friday 25 September 2026. There’s some awesome late-nineties web design vibes to found among the 2026...
I’ve been reading Josh Ellis’ blog for a couple of years maybe, since finding a link there on Dense Discovery once. Ellis has been at it since 2004, so achievement unlocked. In his latest post, he ruminates about writing a book....
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? It seems not. The more people use AI agents, the more robotic their behaviour comes, says Victor Tangermann, writing for Futurism. Tangermann’s article brings to mind the trailer for The Social...
Murat Demirbas suggests the work of writers might be amongst the safest from AI, a notion that defies broader thinking on the subject: In systems theory, a wicked problem is a problem that lacks a definitive formulation, a clear stopping...
That sounds like a bold claim. But such vehicles are already transporting passengers in Chongqing and Wuhan in China, and a number of cities in the United States. Australian entrepreneur Tim Kentley Klay, who several years ago designed a...
That’s Mine, by Hobart based Australian author Adam Ouston (Instagram page), which features one incredibly, outrageously, long sentence of perhaps eighty-five thousand words. No full-stops, chapters, or even a few lines of space to break...
A trailer for The Social Reckoning, directed by Aaron Sorkin, which opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 8 October 2026, and follows-up 2010’s The Social Network, which Sorkin co-wrote. As I wrote a few months ago, The Social...
Luke James, writing for Tom’s Hardware: California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1,...
Talk about defying the odds. Maybe. Late last year, Operation Bluebird lunched a bid to “revive” Twitter, the micro-blogging platform Elon Musk bought in 2022. Operation Bluebird claimed — rather optimistically I thought — they could...
Possibly, just possibly, related to the previous post. Recent research by Neal Caren, a professor at the University of North Carolina, has found people in the United States are not going out as much as they once did on a Friday night....