One of the ideas Frances shared when we exchanged blog post titles was to write about a memory from a library. While the prompt “Sparking joy” is the one I ended up writing about, as soon as I started to think about library memories a fe...

Whenever I visit an art gallery, there is inevitably a painting that sparks joy, or otherwise leaves me with an impression that sticks with me. Peter Paul Rubens’ Landscape by Moonlight was one such painting. The painting depicts a lands...

There's a repository on Codeberg called open-slopware keeping a running list of Free and Open Source Software projects that are permitting, encouraging, or quietly integrating generative AI into their codebases, along with listing AI-fre...

Another email offering would-be free money got through my spam filters. Previously: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” Hi Joe Crawford, I’ve put a lot of thought into this email, and I hope that comes through. I’m %...

On March 12th, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted Information Management: A Proposal. This would form the basis of what became the World Wide Web. On March 12th, 2026, Web Day Out happened in Brighton. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, it is a coincid...

It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland… Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

Best birthday present I've received so far is a council tax bill (I joke, I've had some lovely presents so far)

When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d recommend some Ursula K. Le Guin books more than othe...

First St. Patrick’s Day session

An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus anim...