- Webcurios 20/12/24 - Reading Time: 33 minutes AND SO, WE CAME TO THE END. 44 editions of Web Curios, roughly 3,500 links, 400k-odd words (fcuking HELL though) and here we find ourselves, on the cusp of entering the second quarter of the first century of the third millennium of recorded time, with supposedly-educated residents of one of the world’s richest and most…
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- Webcurios 13/12/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes So, kill the rich or don’t kill the rich – where do YOU stand? Obviously MURDER IS BAD, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I think I’ve come up with a solution to the general problem of plutocratic wealth accumulation which we can all get behind. Let’s all…
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- Webcurios 06/12/24 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO HAPPY FRIDAY! I, er, went out for LUNCH yesterday, which, it turned out, was quite long, and quite liquid, and which almost certainly didn’t require the additional afterbooze, and which possibly was the reason as to why I woke up at 4am this morning…which is by way of small explanation as to…
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- Webcurios 29/11/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes I got to go to a GALLERY OPENING this week, like an IMPORTANT PERSON (I am not an important person, I simply still have friends who work in arts PR), and as such I would like to use the limited real estate available to me at the top of Curios to strongly recommend the Electric…
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- Webcurios 22/11/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes I had something of a new professional nadir this week which I feel it might be cathartic to share. So I was booked to appear on some panel thing by a very corporate company, to talk about AI (I was asked as a result of one of my ‘actual jobs’ – rest assured I wasn’t…
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- Webcurios 15/11/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes On Saturday night I went to the pub for my friend Nick’s birthday, and happened to meet a group of football fans who supported Swindon Town FC, the team of the town where I grew up (but, to be clear, I WAS NOT BORN THERE). When asked why they supported the team, despite not being…
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- Webcurios 08/11/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes WELL. I know I say this after every big event, but you really don’t need or want my opinion on the US election and so I will spare you (see, don’t you wish other newsletters were this considerate?). Oh, ok, fine, apart from two specific, semi-related things. One, we really, really need to hope that…
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- Webcurios 01/11/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes The world’s either going to get maybe, possibly, a tiny bit better next week, or it’s going to get LOADS worse – EXCITING, ISN’T IT? I don’t know about you, but part of me quite wants to be put into a medically-induced coma until America gets its sh1t together. I am still Matt, this is…
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- Webcurios 25/10/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s still, technically, Summer here in the UK, until Sunday morning at least – WHY AM I SO FCUKING COLD THEN? Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that phase of the year when all I can seem to think about is how fcuking cold my fingers are when I am typing this fcuking thing, and whether…
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- Webcurios 18/10/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO I AM BACK HELLO! What have YOU done with the past few weeks of your life? I have singularly failed to take a holiday of any sort (how does one take a holiday from oneself? No, not ‘acid’, tried that), or indeed to really stop looking at the internet, but I have caught up…
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