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Roger Montgomery: how SpaceX achieved that two trillion dollar valuation
16 July 2026
SpaceX’s two-trillion dollar (US) share-market valuation astonished market analysts, investors, and probably a great many other people, alike. Roger Montgomery, an Australian financial adviser, sets out in simple terms how the remarkable figure was calculated. My head is still spinning.
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economics, space exploration, trends
Move over Wordle, here is a new word game: 18 Words
13 July 2026
If you’ve had enough of Wordle, here’s something new to try.
You’re given a jumbled-up selection of letters, and have thirty-seconds to figure out the word. The game starts out with a couple of four-letter words, but the they get longer as you progress.
There’s no need to tell anyone how you fared….
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entertainment, games, language
Vale David Hockney, British artist, photographer
15 June 2026
Hockney died aged 88 last week. The work of the British artist and painter, purveyor of bold colours, was required learning in my final year high school art history course.
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art, artists, David Hockney, photography
Backrooms: McDonald’s versus Kane Parsons
15 June 2026
You don’t see too many mentions of global hamburger behemoth McDonald’s here, but their take on Kane Parsons’ 2026 horror/thriller film Backrooms, is simply finger licking good.
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film, food, humour, Kane Parsons
Download your TypePad blog and post the content to a new website
24 September 2025
Phil Gifford, who gave us ooh.directory, has published a method for downloading a TypePad blog, and uploading the files to a another server, should you so wish, so your TypePad blog can live on under a new guise. Don’t forget, TypePad closes at the end of September, so you need to act quickly if you want to retrieve your blog.
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If you knew David Siegel, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Jakob Nielsen, you were an early web designer
31 May 2025
Richard MacManus, writes about three of the best known web designers of the late 1990’s. All three were influential (yet were not influencers), though by way of their individual approaches to web design, were sometimes at odds with each other:
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for ‘hacks’, Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability.
It was the thing during those Web 1.0 days to completely ignore Nielsen. It was only later we came to realise he was onto something.
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Good Internet, an online magazine for personal website publishers
30 May 2025
Good Internet launched this week.
Good Internet is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation. The name Good Internet comes from Katie Baker’s The Day the Good Internet Died, hopefully proving that headline wrong.
Good Internet looks like it will be a great resource for indie web/small web publishers.
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I Want Everything, the debut novel of Dominic Amerena
28 May 2025
If literary scandals of the plagiarism variety intrigue you, then I Want Everything, by Dominic Amerena, an Australian author who lives between Melbourne and Athens, Greece, might be a novel worth adding to your TBR list.
The legendary career of reclusive cult author Brenda Shales remains one of Australia’s last unsolved literary mysteries. Her books took the world by storm before she disappeared from the public eye after a mysterious plagiarism case. But when an ambitious young writer stumbles across Brenda at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is floating in front of him: the truth behind why she vanished without a trace. The only problem? He must pretend to be someone he’s not to trick the story out of her.
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Australian literature, Dominic Amerena, novels, TBR list
Bring Her Back, a film by Micheal and Danny Philippou, with Sally Hawkins
26 May 2025
Image courtesy of A24 films, RackaRacka.
British actor Sally Hawkins stars in Bring Her Back, trailer, the new horror feature by twin sibling Australian filmmakers Michael and Danny Philippou (Instagram page). The synopsis is short and sweet, but tells us enough:
A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.
I’m not a fan of horror, but I am fan of Sally Hawkins, so I just might have to check this one out. Bring Her Back opens in Australian cinemas this week, Thursday 29 May 2025.
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Danny Philippou, film, Michael Philippou, Sally Hawkins, trailers
The motherf***ing website, the way all websites used to be
13 May 2025
A long time ago, that is. But the motherf***ing website (hopefully them asterisks slip this post through them filters wherever they may be) is lightweight, responsive, and works.
Websites aren’t broken by default, they are functional, high-performing, and accessible. You break them.
Designed by someone called Barry Smith, the motherf***ing website has been around for over ten years — the Digiday article I linked just then, is dated December 2013. I don’t know how I missed seeing this before.
Needless to say, NSFW on account of strong language.
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