- Webcurios 09/12/22 - Reading Time: 37 minutes MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Yes, I know that it’s over two weeks to go until That Special Day, but tomorrow I turn off the internet for a few weeks and as a result this is the FINAL WEB CURIOS OF 2023! I am going to take a brief moment for some tediously-self-indulgent navelgazing, if that’s ok,…
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- Webcurios 02/12/22 - Reading Time: 40 minutes This week I thought I would ask GPT-3’s new chatbot to pen the opening – this is what it came up with, based on my request that it ‘write me a humorous, cynical opening paragraph to a newsletter about interesting things on the internet’: “Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the most interesting…
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- Webcurios 25/11/22 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Are you running a slight temperature? Do you feel a bit clammy? Are your glands a bit ‘up’? Test yourself, because you may well have come down with WORLD CUP FEVER!!!11111eleventy Except of course you probably haven’t, as noone seems particularly able to get excited about this one, perhaps a result of the jarring cognitive…
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- Webcurios 18/11/22 - Reading Time: 35 minutes No turkeys! No money! WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS 2022 EVERYONE! Still, on the plus side, at least it’s looking increasingly unlikely that you’ll be able to worsen your mood by spending the ‘festive’ (lol!) period doomscrolling through Twitter, what with That Fcuking Man apparently beating even the most optimistic predictions about how quickly he could gut…
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- Webcurios 11/11/22 - Reading Time: 32 minutes Many years ago – I think it was 2012 – I was unexpectedly approached on LinkedIn about a job at Twitter (they were looking for someone to run their comms in the UK and Europe, suggesting someone somewhere was very much having a laugh when they suggested me). I had several interviews in London, and…
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- Webcurios 04/11/22 - Reading Time: 38 minutes OH GOD I AM SO BORED OF IT ALREADY PLEASE GOD CAN EVERYONE SHUT UP OR JUST SUPERGLUE HIS FINGERS TOGETHER OR SOMETHING SO THE ENDLESS MUSKIAN HYPECYCLE CAN STOP FOR A SECOND AND WE CAN GO BACK TO BURNING ASYLUM SEEKERS TO KEEP WARM OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT WE ARE DOING NOW IN…
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- Webcurios 28/10/22 - Reading Time: 31 minutes I AM RISEN! I appear to have survived covid (so far, at least – I am generally of the impression that that which does not kill you is merely operating in concert with that which eventually does, though, so am not getting ahead of myself), and have emerged, blinking, into a strange and terrifying new…
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- (Not quite) Web Curios 21/10/22 - Reading Time: 2 minutes HELLO! Finally, after 30 months of successful evasion, covid finally got me – whilst I don’t think it’s likely to prove fatal, it turns out that it really does fcuk with my ability to concentrate for 6 hours whilst writing several thousand words about stuff on the internet (also, I physically couldn’t get out of…
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- Webcurios 14/10/22 - Reading Time: 33 minutes Are you aware of the concept of the ‘ratking’? It’s one of those things that’s become popular in the post-web age despite there limited evidence that such a thing has ever existed, but it works so well as a metaphor for so many things that it’s destined to be a part of collective mythology for…
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- Webcurios 07/10/22 - Reading Time: 32 minutes October! Pumpkins! The increasingly-heated domestic arguments about when, exactly, you are allowed to start looking longingly at the thermostat! Yes, that’s right, WE’RE INTO THE HOME STRAIGHT OF 2022! Basically from hereon in it’s just waiting for Christmas party season and for mulled wine to become an acceptable breakfast drink (third week of this month,…
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