- State Library acquires Flinders’ original love letters – It’s more than just love letters, really. I’ve been to a couple events at the State Library of NSW in the past year and I’m always astounded by the depth of their collections. It’s as much a museum as it is a library!
- News Knitter – A data visualisation project where information gathered from daily political news was analysed, filtered, and converted into a pattern for a machine knitted sweater.
- The Commercial Pattern Archive – A wonderful resource that archives commercial sewing pattern data to preserve these ephemeral bits of our culture for the future. (Link via Metafilter.)
- The Easy Tiger Sessions by Charley Castle & The Boys in the Well – We heard this group playing a bit at Wayward last weekend and Rodd tracked them down. It’s “newgrass.” Very nice.
- Blogroll.org – I’m still on the hunt for more sites to add to my feed reader. Lots to explore here!
Category: Music
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Links I’ve been enjoying lately
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“I still love you, the girl from Mars…” ❤️ @jpofoz and I continued our musical tour of the 90’s with tonight’s Ash gig at Sydney Uni. So fun! The openers (So I Says to Mabel) were great too. (They won me over with a Taylor Swift cover…)
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Links that amused me today
- Sydney Sweeney Knows Her Boobs Drive People Crazy – LOL. Good for her! I want that sweatshirt.
- The Man Who Killed Google Search – Deliciously scathing post about the enshittification of Google Search. Guess what? AI-generated content is only gonna make it worse.
- 27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person – Both Rodd and I agreed that “purpose” is really critical and that neither of us have it, which is but one of many reasons why we are not serious people. Great piece.
- Any John Cage fans? “This is may be the most beautiful accidental explanation of the power of a work of art I’ve ever read in my life.” Agree. I also rather liked this reply.
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Reading on Flipboard
- The Disappointment of Michael Sam Getting Cut From the Cowboys
- Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
- Someone made a 14-minute Breaking Bad tribute starring American Girl dolls
- Peter Quill’s Awesome Mix Vol. 1 soon to be an actual mixtape
- What Happens When Chemists Don’t Wash Their Hands
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I literally stopped dead in the street and went: “WHUT.” Oh hell yes!
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BIEBER DUCK TAPE
Justin Bieber Duck Tape – My brain is just exploding from the awesomeness. Who thought of this? Why? It’s so wonderfully random. It’s like surrealist art. I want some.
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Got new headphones as my old ones (bequeathed by @chrisgander ) were falling apart. These are “for DJs”. I feel hip.
