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What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
I’ve been following the development of rss.chat on Dave Winer’s Scripting.com for a while. Dave set up a limited example at chat.rss and now an open one at https://demo.rss.chat which I joined. There dosen’t seem to be a promise that...
↳ “But is it, is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Junior?” Justice Samuel Alito, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (2025). I’ve been reading a lot of...
I updated my Uses page. While updating it, I had fun considering the items I no longer use. A lot has changed!
Gig number one is the birthday party for Da Da Da zine, run by Elodie Ginsbourg. It's in Sheffield and starts at 3 p.m.I'll be on at 5.30Tickets here:...
I love this demonstration from Ghost Font: The Anti-AI Font Only Humans Can Read. Your browser does not support the video tag. The explanation is very clear and as a proof of concept it works well. However like the newsletter that sent...
Have you ever had a romantic moment interrupted? It can be annoying – and it is certainly the case for the two lobsters in Tanked an award winning animated short by Duncan Rudd. Their tango in a tank is interrupted by the chef, who has a...
Here are two Mac friction points: It's been 16 years since Mission Control was released, and "Desktop 3" is still "Desktop 3." Apple's API doesn't expose Space naming to any third-party app — there's no system-level hook to hang a label...
Here are two Mac friction points: It's been 16 years since Mission Control was released, and "Desktop 3" is still "Desktop 3." Apple's API doesn't expose Space naming to any third-party app — there's no system-level hook to hang a label...
Current stage of pregnancy: week 9 GA; week 7 FA We had our first imaging done. The baby is alive and well attached, heart is beating, everything's good. Turned out my mild bleeding wasn't an hematoma, nothing's to worry about. Seeing...
I have had some wonderful holidays in my life, and yet I am secretly always longing to jump into my favourite books and share a holiday there. I once wrote a post about a destination resort with the title There may be murderers, but no...
I discovered Mole in May, and it has become an instant favourite.
Welcome to the warmest edition of this newsletter, it’s been HOT in Sweden and we don’t do well with that. This week the newsletter passed 200 subscribers (yes, you are part of a very exclusive club!). I didn’t write a new post this week...
Jude, in her need to safely navigate the treacherous world of Faerie, finds herself catching a tiger by the tail. I’m not the target audience for this, and that’s fine. The writing is fine, as is the world-building, and the characters....
I’m inclined to skip cardio. By the time I’m done lifting weights each morning, I’m feeling beat. Also, I’m anxious to get back to my desk and start the big editorial lift of the day, which can feel heavier than any dumbbell.In that...