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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 tenth novel by the Tasmania based author, and previous winner of the Miles Franklin literary award, was published last week: James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he...
Specifically, a Hue light switch, using an old door opening button from a Jubilee line train. I lived in London for a few years awhile back, and the District line also had door buttons you’d press to open or close the train doors. As I...
American author Scott Turow, in conjunction with five publishing houses, claims Meta used material protected by copyright to train its AI agent, Llama. They make the suggestion the Facebook owner chose not to obtain permission to access...
Half the web might know about your blog, but how many of your in-person acquaintances, people in your household, community, or workplace, know you blog? Do you even tell them? Do you want to? The question came up at Forking Mad this...
Lindy Percival, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter, and others: This list of our 50 best films will likely provoke debate, but with the aid of 24 experts, including directors, actors, critics, curators and authors, what follows is an...
Andy Hunter, CEO and founder of indie bookseller Bookshop.org, talking recently with Shannon Cudd of Fast Company: “People are really galvanizing around bookstores as a force for good in our culture,” he says. “You see that in the fact...
Even after Friendster stopped being a social network I still checked in on the website from time to time. It’s evidently been a while since I did that though. Last time I looked, Friendster — having gone through a number of changes in...
David Malouf, the Miles Franklin and Booker Prize winning author, died last week, Wednesday 22 April 2026, in the Australian state of Queensland. If you’re unfamiliar with Malouf’s work, Sydney Morning Herald writer Nell Geraets has...
Canadian author and researcher Kathryn Jezer-Morton documented friction-maxxing in an article (paywalled) for The Cut, in January this year. Weeks later, a Wikipedia page was published about the phenomenon. Is that, then, why...
Nearly missed this, staying focused can be tricky, to say the least, at times like these. The book crawl was established just last year by Federico Lang, who works at Librería Luces, an independent bookstore in the Spanish city of...
Brian Fagioli, writing for NERDS.xyz: Something interesting is happening inside Mozilla, and it is not your typical browser update story. With Firefox 150, the team says it fixed 271 vulnerabilities after turning AI loose on its own...
If you subscribe to the notion that the presence of em dashes (—) in a body of text means — in the AI age — the piece must have been composed by an AI agent, you could consider using am dashes instead. Yes, that’s right: an am dash, as...
Spotify members in the United States and United Kingdom will soon be able to buy paper, or physical books, through the music streaming app, by way of a partnership with Bookshop.org, supporters of local and indie bookstores. With just...
This is where we’re at now. Your website needs to be AI agent ready, or it presumably no longer makes the grade. I scored eight out one-hundred. Can I get a badge? I’m not sure though disassociated is a website AI agents have any...
From the European Space Agency (ESA) blog: The “lunar hay fever”, as NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt described it during the Apollo 17 mission created symptoms in all 12 people who have stepped on the Moon. From sneezing to nasal...