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  1. The Online Photographer: The Evanescent and Phantasmagoric

    “[Buildings] age, they need to be updated, their uses change, their meaning relative to the “now”…

  2. The Online Photographer: Sony Changes Its Design

    Tom Burke: “…residents apparently greatly enjoy living there”. I lived in the Barbican for 15 years…

  3. Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2024

    Thanks once again Sean. What a 20 years. I listened to the first half of this on train journeys…

  4. An oral history of HotWired, Wired’s original website. “We h…

    Here’s a demo version of Hotwired from 1995, if you want some nostalgia.…

  5. The Online Photographer: Long Live Bands! (OT) (Music Notes)

    I think it’s both true and false that guitar groups have declined. The difficulty is that it’s hard…

  6. The Disciples

    Reminds me of Hans Eijkelboom’s ‘People of the Twenty-First Century’ (on Colossal), which you…

  7. A scientific investigation into bears, the cuddly apex preda…

    That reminds me, I liked this recent article on bikepacking.com, A WOMAN WHO LEFT SOCIETY TO LIVE…

  8. Life-Ruining Mistakes?

    We live at the best time to be alive in human history. Maybe collectively, on average, but that…

  9. A new “less competitive” version of Scrabble is coming soon….

    The Guardian version of this press release included this: When it comes to competitive gameplay,…

  10. Quick Cryptic crossword No 1 | Crosswords | The Guardian

    Excellent idea! I spend all week failing to complete Monday’s cryptic, so it’s nice to have the…

  11. bookofjoe: Clotted Cream v Double Cream: Two enter — which one (both?) leaves?

    Depends what you want it for, as the pictures suggest. Clotted cream for putting on scones. Double…

  12. Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only.

    This sounds related to the Helsinki Bus Station Theory, which I assume you’re aware of (because I…

  13. Waffle House’s Magic Marker System

    There was a discussion about this on MetaFilter a while back. A lot of comments, but it’s worth…

  14. It’s really become a thing for bands to go on tour to play t…

    The first I went to was in 2007 when The Wedding Present did a tour to celebrate the 20th…

  15. The Visual Science Lab : As commercial photography changes more and more quickly I am running out of things I want to write about here.

    I enjoy reading whatever you choose to write about, whether that’s photography, swimming, new…

  16. Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from Wordpress to Ghost

    Nice to hear how that went, thanks! I maintain a couple of self-hosted WordPress sites for people…

  17. I am a relative NYT crossword n00b, so I just found out abou…

    https://times.xwdsnitch.link/ The SNITCH (Same-day Numeric Index of Times Cryptic Hardness) is a…

  18. Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Charging for IPv4 Addresses

    My favourite UK web hosting service, Mythic Beasts, has charged for IPv4 addresses for some time.…

  19. In order for the 2024 indie web revival to work: “We need mo…

    I think having a GitHub account and even having heard of Docker, never mind understanding what it…

  20. Blogger: The Visual Science Lab / Kirk - Post a Comment

    Happy new year Kirk. One of my few resolutions this year is to take the “proper” camera (Fujifilm…

  21. I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian

    It’s a shame the subeditors(?) came up with that title, because calling blogging “outdated” sounds…

  22. Where Do You Call Home?

    From my mid-twenties I lived in London for almost half my life but it never felt like “home”. It…

  23. My Recent Media Diet, Fall 2023 Edition

    I recently watched Kleo on Netflix, which I knew nothing about, and I really enjoyed it. Kleo is an…

  24. Who Are the People in the Neighborhood?

    Hello from Herefordshire, in the UK, where we moved nearly four years ago from London, to a house…

  25. How’s Everyone Liking the Comments?

    I don’t know if this is a good idea, but it’s an idea: Include any “top comments” after the post…