Straw poll: Have you ever hired a photographer or bought a photo, because of a watermark on a photo? I wonder if they're not there for marketing reasons why else we would watermark. Copyrighted work owners deserve the right to decide how their work is used, but watermarks?

At their wedding I officiated over one year ago, it was illegal for Brendon & Brad to marry in Australia, but not today!

Great way to highlight to the public that there is a home-alone Japanese woman inside a house: a shadow boxer on closed curtains #idiocy

Hot tin roof // Kalbar, Qld

Bow of rain // Kalbar, Qld

Up standing performance

Your marriage should be better than your wedding.

For over two years I’ve been enjoying a daily tech news email with an Aussie slant plus a bit of snark called The Sizzle. While the editor is on holidays I’m one of three producing the email and we’re doing work I’m proud of + I think you’d love it.

The Monocle’s Urbanist podcast today features Brisbane’s CityCat ferry network and now I’m thinking, I’d love to catch a CityCat to BNE.

Amazon Australia has started casually leaving stuff around your house.

She likes me for meee, not because I look like Tyson Beckford

Making a big change to our business today, which I'm a little bit scared of, so if you could just reply with a "this won't fail" comment that'd be great, thanks 🤜🏻

Byron Bay, Australia // Wednesday

The trick is to never, ever let it make you cynical

Inspiring Elon Musk read via Electrek

Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world. Soon, they will all be better. This is not enough. We will keep going until the Model 3 build precision is a factor of ten better than any other car in the world. I am not kidding.

Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.

Some parts suppliers will be unwilling or unable to achieve this level of precision. I understand that this will be considered an unreasonable request by some. That’s ok, there are lots of other car companies with much lower standards. They just can’t work with Tesla.

I ❤︎ Patterns

Ev Williams: Now that the ad-only experiment has decidedly failed, quality information providers will be able to build strong businesses, and consumers will be better served than ever

I spent most of Ready Player One trying to figure out who was voicing i-R0k. Erlich Bachman, of course.

If you ever want to fall down a rabbit hole of wonder, just think about how someone loves you ... and how that doesn’t make sense, but they love you for you. Thank you for loving me, Britt xx

📽 Ready Player One 💯

At the age of 36 I’ve found out that my last name is an “Old Norse personal name Viðarr, composed of the elements víðr ‘wide’ + ar ‘warrior’”. Joshua Wide Warrior. Ancestry dot com is the website equivalent of a high school bully.

If you’re booking VA flights here’s a 10% off economy and 30% off biz seats promo code valid for the next week: KLT69

The Blue Mountains // Sydney // Australia

When I’m president I’m going to regulate the pillows that serve no purpose industry. They’re out of control.

If you're wondering about the exotic dream life of a marriage celebrant, last night I spent the entire night in my dreams trying to find a hotel room in Bundaberg because in my dreams I was performing a wedding there ...

Proud to announce that "Navigating Sydney roads with an Apple Watch because the phone is in for repair" is the title of my next horror movie production.

Will tablet computers replace desktops/laptops? This analogy from Steve Jobs pretty much sums it up.

sunset.friday.sydney

I'm travelling for six nights with an iPad only, if that kind of thing interests you, read this

How are more people not freaking out over the Australian government's facial recognition deal

According to the ABC Quiz, I'm not that fancy

On the off chance anyone cares I wrote a little piece for #TheSizzle about how I’m taking a step back from Facebook and going all in on Micro.blog

Vodafone thinks its mobile network is better than the NBN for lots of Australians #guffaw

Australian wine region, the Hunter Valley “set” to become the new, New Silicon Valley of Australia /sarcasm

This sequel to The Social Network doesn’t seem to have the consistency and production values as the first movie.

record scratch freeze frame yup. that's me. so you're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation

Can’t believe I forgot to celebrate Rex Manning day this year

Very GC #GC2018 #GoldCoast

Oddly proud to see the Gold Coast light up this week. It’s not the ghost town it was last week. #GC2018

Ok, I hope you’re sitting down for this banger: Chicken salt, the musical. And someone call Hugh Jackman, he’s needed back home for a career defining role in Peter Brinkworth.

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It’s like the Skype product team have realised that the only reason people use Skype anymore is for recording podcasts

Look, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but if you delay feeding a cat by 30-60 minutes they get super affectionate.

I’m unsure if the Scam Artists Industry will ever recover from Tony Robbins misogyny.

African news crew in my #GC2018 car this morning asked what the crime rate on the Gold Coast was, and “where is the ghetto?” I’ve never considered how low our crime rate was, nor how blessed we are to live here.

Roy & HG praising the #GC2018 merchandise on the radio this morning: “I love the Peter Beattie doll, you wind him up and he just starts talking!”

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David Letterman with Malala Yousafzai is so beautiful. ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ is a 10/10 show!