For years I’ve been wondering if I misremembered a game from my youth, since repeated searches revealed nothing. So I gave a description to the Plagiarism Machine and what do you know: it was Enchanted Sceptres.

I see we’ve now reached the LinkedIn ‘thought leadership’ stage of Coldplay-gate (or whatever). They can try to wring the fun out of it by telling us ‘three things it taught me about B2B sales and circling back to crisis management’, but they won’t succeed.

Canberra put on some lovely misty (and frosty) conditions for the pup’s morning mountain walk.

For a long time I’ve been a fan of what @janeng.com, @rodkin.online, and so many other clever people built with Firewatch. Clearly I’m not alone, so I wrote about why a nearly decade-old game still sticks in people’s heads.

theurbanerepublic.com/posts/firewa...

An excellent use of ChatGPT (for me) is tech support. Searching online for solutions usually leads to dozens of pages of irrelevant posts, while asking people directly gets me: “Here’s a solution to a unrelated issue.” But I can keep querying the AI until it resolves my specific issue.

Oh dear. I fear Phil Coorey has gone and done a Gladys on Dutton with this latest LNP hagiography.

Guardian Australia is really onto something with this podcast. If there’s one thing Australian political discourse has been lacking, it’s the opinions of old white blokes.

I’ve been hovering over the ‘unsubscribe’ link on Nate Silver’s emails for a while, mostly because I delete about 9 in 10 unread. But his colour blindness when it comes to a site run by (and increasingly for) white supremacists was the last straw. Support someone who supports, literal Nazis? Nah.

I often think of this as well. The billionaires managed to convince the people with pitchforks that they weren’t the enemy, it was the people with different-coloured pitchforks.

Hilarious Thanksgiving recipes from kindergarteners. The stuffing recipe calls for “a tablespoon of turkey” and “200 meters of honey” while the turkey involves cinnamon and teriyaki sauce. [kottke.org]

With the rush of legislation getting passed in parliament, there’s endless speculation about election timing. My thoughts on why it’s all nonsense. theurbanerepublic.com/2024/11/25/e...

I’ve finally got around to setting up my tent here. Not entirely sure how this place works yet, but keen to see what happens. If you’re into retro Apple, design, media, politics, photography, and/or astronomy, say hi. Also, I write more at theurbanerepublic.com