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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Introducing the New Kottke.org Comments
Great idea, I love a good comment section and this seems a good way to manage it. They, and this…
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The Online Photographer: Open Mike: Razor Love (OT)
Another one here who’s been using a safety razor for years. In fact I’ve never used a multi-bladed…
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The Online Photographer: A New, All-Off-Topic Blog?
I enjoy your off-topic posts as much as the photography posts, sometimes more so, and have no…