My notes are like a personal Wikipedia for my thoughts and browsing habits. It’s made up of articles I’ve read, interesting concepts and innovative ideas I reckon are worth writing about.
Mariah is slipping down the rankings for listnership for the first time in decades… Listenership in the October and November months took a big hit this year, declining 35% from October 2023 to October 2024 and declining 22% from November 2023 to November 2024 (Source, Last FM). At least it’s never going to be a […]
Is it just me, or am I always wanting to stop the microwave before the beeper goes off?
A classic Hollywood technique. A classic childhood memory. This is one of the most hillarious things I’ve seen this week and I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard for something that’s just so simple. Just for fun.
I stumbled across an article this week that hit the nail on the head for me in the first tag line.
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?
I’ve been listening to the streets recently. The sound of the quiet purr is upon us. Be it a futuristic noise, or just a classic “rev”, each sound that is emitted from the new wave of EVs has been delicately designed to sound “like a car” should, not how a car “needs to sound”. I […]
Creative thinking and how the world of offline and online converge into one stream of consciousness.
This week my mind has been blown after reading a kids book about planes.
Bear with me here.
One of my favourite things about the world are maps and how we use them to communicate spaces, places and locations. I also love how malleable they are as a medium, and I love it when a plan like this comes together – a runner from Toronto has used it to craft a person dancing […]
This photo is making the rounds on the internet at the moment showing the sheer size and vast capablity of BYD’s new production line in Zhengzhou, China. Not only is this factory 4km across – the video of the construction of it is WILD – there are so many diggers, trucks, workers – all building […]
This month has been a HUGE month globally in the digital world. There’s been the “bigly” US election, the insta-relaunch of Jaguar (see Caroline’s section) and Ben from Jono and Ben’s use of GenZ vernacular to embarrass his daughters. He’s got the rizz. The current digital broadcast world is different to the other media revolutions. […]
There’s a new game in town and it takes a classic and turns it on it’s head… your head. You chomp your mouth to move and turn your face to steer. You look…pretty dumb while playing it. At the end it tries to give you the dumbest possible gif of yourself (it tracks when your […]
Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman created a series of graphics for the Wall Street Journal back in 2015 – and the visuals are clear to see. They show the impact of the introduction of vaccines in the US specifically – but the trands are easy to see and can be cast globally to the impact […]
Knock down your arial. Bop Spotter is a cool little project where someone set up a box in San Francisco to listen to and try to detect the tunes people play in cars, on boomboxes – the tunes that echo out to the world. Inside the box is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam […]
OMG. The BBC has just opened the doors wider to its incredible sound effect library, now featuring over 33,000 samples that you can download for free. The collection has been available to the public since 2018, and it’s now doubled in size (!) These recordings take our ears back to the 1920s, capturing sounds both […]
I’ve been experimenting with the new NotebookLM over the weekend, and I hate to say it, but the audio output is outstandingly similar to how current podcasts are structured and delivered. Here we’ve got 2 AI ‘hosts’ actually having a conversation with each other about a topic. It’s not just good, it’s pretty incredible for […]