How is Jetstar the only Australian airline fully utilising the Apple Wallet API with flight and gate updates and heaps of info inside the ticket info page?
Nine years ago I had an internet-enabled egg tray. I feel like technology has not really advanced past this milestone.
It’s absolutely glorious reading the reactions to the introduction of the push button.
“The fact that so often in modern America one may press a button and be served, seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button?”
Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded - more unlikely simultaneous events over at Kottke.
The invention of jaywalking by Clive Thompson.
Me doing my job on Bruny Island on Thursday from two different points of view
Patrick McKenzie’s travel recommendations post for Japan is really good:
“You should have most of your meals at places which you don’t know the name of and which, ideally, see relatively few foreign guests. Almost every train station in Japanese cities has an almost arbitrary depth of restaurants around it. The ones closest to the station are not your best options, but go out any station gate and walk 2–3 blocks (a few hundred meters) and then just walk in anywhere.”
I read posts like this and wish I was a better/wish I was a graphic designer. I jsut don’t hold the skill.
Cam Winstanley on Read Only Memory writes about the making of what I still consider the ultimate real time strategy game, Dune II;
“Dune II did a great job of hitting the hot sand running, not only creating a genre but also working as a piece of stand-alone entertainment”
“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”
back in my safe place: “going somewhere”
A week in Tasmania
The first point of order was to check out the land we’ve just bought!
From there it was straight into work.
First in New Norfolk …
Then in Freycinet …
I really do love this state.
Back to work again on kunanyi, formerly known as Mount Wellington.
From Mount Wellington we move to Bruny Island for Katrina and Oscar’s elopement and it’s also my 41st birthday.
The Arch, at Bruny Island
And on arrival to our Airbnb, a 200 year old church, we found a very rare white Bennett’s Wallaby. On the mainland they’d be snapped up by predators, but on Bruny Island a small population of the genetically unique macropod survives and as a result, Bruny Island is the only place on earth you’ll spot one.
Hey, you guys wanna play old people’s Seven Minutes in Heaven?
Novelist Jeanette Winterson on the value of darkness:
“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing — their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights — then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”
AI loves a good beach deer: “brown deer on white sand beach during daytime photo”
Imma start sending this to everyone I ever meet so they know how to rate me when the social credit system from Black Mirror finally comes into play.
Brian Eno:
“One of the reasons I have to take distinct breaks when I work is to allow the momentum of a particular direction to run down, so that another one can establish itself.”
Ted Gioia:
“Mr. Zuckerberg’s ideal Metaverse is just a panopticon—those infamous prisons where every inmate can be scrutinized simultaneously.”
Chris Dixon:
“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 years.”