If technology is increasingly a place where we live, it needs to have space for the soul
~ Frank Chimero
Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Imrich and Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus
No reason to make Cold River kind of films in Australia, Ausfilm wants more tax breaks ...
For those who came in late, Rupert Murdoch had a slip up on Lachlan Murdoch's yacht early in the New Year and had to be helicoptered out and spent some time in hospital with a back injury
Sydney's population set to grow to seven million in next 30 years
Sydney's population is set to grow by 2.6 million people in the next 30 years to 7.3 million, adding even more strain to road, health, education and open ... In a major report to be released today, federal government research body Infrastructure Australia warns Sydney is not prepared for the magnitude
Pan Macmillan will publish a book from former FBI director James Comey on "ethical leadership" a year after he was dismissed by US president Donald Trump.
Why Altered Carbon is not about the future – nor is any other science ...
Iconic Icebergs Dives Into A Proud New Era
Nikon F2
The 1971 follow up to the Nikon F was the Nikon F2. Still aimed at the professional market and still a "go-to-war" tough camera. The F stayed in production until 1974, a testament to the quality of the F more than a criticism of the F2. Production of the F2 finally ended in 1980.
Quite a few non-fiction works among the other finalists, but the one that most stood out (just from the descriptions -- I haven't seen any of these) -- and not in a great way -- is Martin Page's L'Apiculture selon Samuel Beckett. Hmmmm. See the Starling Bureau information page .....
The fact that this is the Martin Page who wrote The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection and How I Became Stupid does not reassure me. I wonder what the Beckett-estate had to say about this.
After a bitter dispute, Emma Alberici has succeeded in getting the ABC to repost her 'analysis' of the Turnbull government's tax cut plans with the help of lawyers, The New Daily can reveal. ABC sources told The New Daily that lawyers were involved as the former Lateline presenter, now the ABC's chief economics ...
From PwC tax lawyer to photographing the doormen of New York: Alina Gozin'a
afr.com — Alina Gozin'a didn't pick up a camera for the first time until her late 20s. She had just quit her job as a tax lawyer at PwC and decided she wanted to be a filmmaker. The Sydney-sider liked the detective-like aspects of solving problems using tax law – but working in a corporate structure didn't gel with her. "You felt like just a number," she says. Her father was a photographer but he didn't help. "He kept away the camera from me. He did not want me to become a creative at all."
Atlas Obscura asked readers to send in the best things they found pressed between the pages of old books
“Kafka Was A Terrible Boyfriend” is a sentence that is simultaneously unsurprising and revelatory. But it gives us a chance to dive into Kafka’s letters, which are, along with the stories, unfinished novels, and the conversation slips he passed back and forth at the end of his life when he could no longer speak, among his most treasured works.
The Norwegian century continues (WSJ): “When Norwegian athletes take to the ice and snow at the Olympics, they don’t mess around: the Scandinavian nation of just 5 million has won the most medals of any country in the history of the Winter Games.”
It was love at first sight when Sydney and I met properly a dozen years ago. I fell hard with the sort of giddy infatuation that makes it easy to overlook the odd flaw or two, and to blithely ignore those flaws even as they crumbled into mighty chasms over the subsequent years. But now I'm ending things and moving out...
Frank Chimero has a long, insightful essay about how commercial imperatives have creeped in on the public commonwealth of the web, creating a bunch of pseudo-public spaces whose experience continually degrades (think a negative stereotype of NYC’s Penn Station) as opposed to free and open public spaces (think a positive stereotype of NYC’s main public library).
"Remember: the web is a marketplace and a commonwealth, so we have both commerce and culture; it’s just that the non-commercial bits of the web get more difficult to see in comparison to the outsized presence of the commercial web and all that caters to it. It’s a visibility problem that’s an inadvertent consequence of values."
A NATiONWIDE DEMONSTRATION:
The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor compiled this
collection of photos around the U.S. of people supporting the
students of Parkland and calling on American officials to protect school
kids.
A
REMINDER:
The NRA is
under FBI investigation of funneling Russian money to Trump in the
2016 campaign. 
