Comments I've posted on other sites: 2024
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The Online Photographer: The Evanescent and Phantasmagoric
“[Buildings] age, they need to be updated, their uses change, their meaning relative to the “now”…
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The Online Photographer: Sony Changes Its Design
Tom Burke: “…residents apparently greatly enjoy living there”. I lived in the Barbican for 15 years…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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The Disciples
Reminds me of Hans Eijkelboom’s ‘People of the Twenty-First Century’ (on Colossal), which you…
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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…
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Life-Ruining Mistakes?
We live at the best time to be alive in human history. Maybe collectively, on average, but that…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Charging for IPv4 Addresses
My favourite UK web hosting service, Mythic Beasts, has charged for IPv4 addresses for some time.…
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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…
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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…