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For a moment I thought this was about Manzikert, Tonsure, Shriek and Finch...of Jeff Vandermeer's Ambergris trilogy.

I have a simple hack to achieve most of the advantages of the Daylight Computer: set the display of your computer, tablet or smartphone to greyscale. Voila!

Promite is better than Vegemite.

We create the future we imagine: so it is important to imagine the future we wish to create.

A lot of the confusion and anxiety will melt away if we distinguish the terms “optimal” and “desirable”. The most desirable amount of fraud, corruption or tax evasion is zero. In t…

Github says the Mac app is available but the website only says coming soon. The binary is not available for download. Disappointing.

Thoughts are somewhat like electric current: prefers lower resistance paths to the ground. Twitter succeeded because it is the least resistance path to an audience. Blogs in compar…

It has been 15 years since Amazon introduced the Kindle and we're still stuck with a single page tablet. Why isn't there a folding or hinged screen ebook reader, so that we can rea…

What happened to technorati?

There is no advantage in doing this. Typing words fully and correctly, with correct spelling and grammar, is a skill worth preserving.

Mastodon (more correctly, the Fediverse) is far more suited for interest-based communities than Twitter is. With communities getting onto their own servers (journa.host, econtwitte…

There is no bigotry in the post and the references to monasteries are not even disparaging.