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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.
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In the search for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, astronomers, and organisations like SETI, often seek out narrowband radio signals. Space is full of radio signals, most of them broadband, which usually occur naturally....
Proposals were afoot to rename Eleventy — often styled 11ty — a blog publishing platform favoured by some Indie/Small Web bloggers, as Build Awesome. The awesome part of 11ty’s would-be new name derives from Font Awesome, producers of a...
Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra...
The second edition of the Internet Phone Book is in the works, and publishers of personal websites are being invited to submit their URL. I was stoked to be included in the inaugural edition, compiled last year by Kristoffer Tjalve and...
Bill Premo: I don’t know where to start with this but yeah I’m making flash if flash was built in 2026. I’m making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you remember Flash, the animation/multimedia creation application, originally...
Scott Shambaugh: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream...
Naarm/Melbourne based Australian poet Evelyn Araluen has won both the Victorian Prize for Literature, and Prize for Indigenous Writing, in this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, for her second collection of poetry, The Rot....
Chico Harlan, writing for MSM: Sometime over the next 100 years, human-driven warming could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat northward from the tropics. After this breach, most of the world would keep getting hotter — but...
Emma Roth, writing for The Verge: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only...
Emma Wynne, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): When Perth mother Lisa Taylor’s 11-year-old daughter slipped one arm out of her seatbelt, the family had been on the road for over two hours, returning from a holiday...
People unfortunate enough to have one, or more, toxic people in their lives, are more likely to experience accelerated biological ageing, according to research published by PNAS. This is, no doubt, something anyone subjected to the...
Libraries, letters, street magazines, and face-to-face social networking. This is how I saw a world without the internet sixteen years ago. Most very serious.
The new tool will look after some aspects of the design and maintenance of a WordPress.com blog. As I understand it, the AI assistant will not write content, though it can “edit and refine” posts if asked. The assistant however can...
Kali Hays, Regan Morris, and Peter Bowes, writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The head of Instagram has defended his platform against claims it caused mental health damage to minors, arguing in a California court that...
Jacinta Bowler writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): The condition, known as tattoo-associated uveitis, can lead to permanent vision loss, glaucoma, and patients requiring immunosuppressants for the rest of their...