- Meet the adorable mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics – STOATS!
- “The closer [to] the railway station the less tasty the Kebab is” – A Study – SCIENCE! (tl;dr – hypothesis is disproven.)
- Chris Kluwe ‘figured’ he would get arrested for protesting MAGA — and he’d do it again (exclusive) – HELL YEAH. (Not gonna lie; I immediately looked up whether this guy is single. He’s not.)
- Knorts – LOL, Kat knitted shorts! Having flashbacks to that time I knitted a bikini. (It was Not Good, and I never did wear it.)
- Darlington Stitch Club – Ooh, a monthly sewing/knitting/crafting club within walking distance of my house! Considering it…
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Random links I enjoyed recently
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Beautiful Canberra
4 Canberra buildings that prove new developments can be beautiful.
We actually stayed in the Nishi building in New Acton last week on our trip. It’s definitely stunning, and we enjoyed being able to walk to so many amenities (concert at Llewellyn Hall, drinks at High Jinks, breakfast at Mocan & Green Grout, movie at the Palace Electric).
We also saw the buildings mentioned in Braddon while walking through there. I don’t understand what Canberra architects have against windows that are rectangular though. 😂
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Gulf of Snook
Okay, this is hilarious, and honestly the best possible advertisement for MapQuest. Maybe I should be using MapQuest for directions on my phone?! (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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Download & Transfer your books
As of Feb. 26, Amazon is removing the ability to download and transfer your purchased Kindle ebooks. This sucks. This means you lose the ability to back them up, or to move them to your devices over wired connections. If also means Amazon can one day decide to remove the books entirely, because you never really owned them to begin with.
I suggest you log into your account NOW and download each of your purchased ebooks. Of course they make it as difficult as possible, so you have to click on each one individually and download it to your computer. (I had 77 of them. I’m sure there are people with loads more.)
And then if you were so inclined, you might also install something like Calibre, an open source ebook collection manager. And if you were further inclined, you could also install some useful plugins that would give you further flexibility in how you read your purchased content.
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Nope.
Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users…
Yeah, no. Subscription cancelled, and I told them why.
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Tragedy in Munich
Rodd saw the news but didn’t want to tell me, knowing I’d be upset. I probably rode my bike down that street a dozen times. This is terrible. 😢
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Aubrey/Maturin novels
Okay, I saw the movie version but don’t remember much about it. I certainly didn’t think I was interested in reading the books… until now. 😂 (Link via Metafilter.)
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Pickle fountain
When I die, please make sure my funeral reception includes one of these. ⛲🥒
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An Ode to Twitter
Along with posting more often on my own blog, I’ve also been trying to get back in the habit of reading others’ blogs more regularly. I followed a link recently to my old friend and colleague Daphne Chong’s site. I really loved her “Ode to Twitter”, especially this bit:
I feel a surprising pang thinking about Twitter going away, even though I don’t actively post on it today. There is more than a decade of me catalogued – a lot of my professional growth, and serendipitous connections. Even now, I can’t get some of that back…
Looking back on the thousands of tweets I imported over the weekend, I know exactly what she means. It was a big part of my life for a long time, and I’m sad that it ended the way it did.