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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.
Latest Posts
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, posting on X: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it’s supposed to do! It finally does what it’s supposed to do. Am I to think AI agents were not supposed to...
Made by Las Vegas based software developer Pablo Enoc, who’s also behind indie RSS aggregator powRSS, lettrss will send a chapter of the book you’re reading to your RSS reader each day. Here’s an idea with merit. Reading novels is just...
The Booker Prize, which recognises English language novels published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has unveiled a new award: the Children’s Booker Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in 2027. The Children’s Booker Prize,...
Flicks list of Australia’s twenty-five most beautiful cinemas is almost enough to tempt me back into going to film screenings instead of streaming from home. Of those on the list, I’ve been to Golden Age Cinema and Hayden Orpheum Picture...
Elissa Welle, writing for The Verge, with some apparent clarification regarding Mozilla’s proposal to launch an AI browser: AI Window will be one of three browsing experiences offered to Firefox users in addition to the private and...
Simon Willison: My piece this morning about the Marimo acquisition is an example of a variant of a TIL – I didn’t know much about CoreWeave, the acquiring company, so I poked around to answer my own questions and then wrote up what I...
Anna Washenko, writing for Engadget: The company’s official line is that the plugins “reflect an earlier era of web development, and their usage has naturally declined as the digital landscape has evolved.” But Facebook also plays a much...
67 has been named word of the year by dictionary.com: If you’re the parent of a school-aged child, you might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals. If you’re a member of Gen Alpha, however,...
alive internet theory, all lower case, by Spencer Chang: alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless...
Tatiana Siegel, Brent Lang, and Matt Donnelly, writing for Variety: The hope is to have a fresh “Star Trek” movie, though the studio has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from...
The Rot, by Indigenous Australian author Evelyn Araluen (Instagram page), follows up 2021’s Dropbear, which won the 2022 Stellar Prize. The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the...
I don’t know how this works in other countries, but the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), a statutory authority that regulates communications and media services locally, has allocated a range of non-existent phone...
The bus I’m on arrives at an interchange stop but a minute late and misses the connecting service which left a minute earlier than scheduled. The bean grinder at the cafe breaks down just as I arrive. The door phone at a friend’s...
Located along the shoreline of inner Sydney suburb Circular Quay, Sydney’s Writer’s Walk commemorates well-known authors and playwrights, who are either Australian, or visited the country at some point, with circular plagues set into...
Brisbane based Australian musician and singer, and founder of Pub Choir, Astrid Jorgensen (Instagram page), recently published her memoir, Average at Best. Average, says Jorgensen, is underrated, given how difficult it is to be the best:...