Links: Museums, art, Star Trek, and more
Lots of fun stuff I've been reading...
The 'small web' is bigger than you might think by Kevin Boone, crunching some numbers on the actual size of the small/indie web.
I did a blog title trade with James, who wrote three! Sparking joy, Library memories, and The artist was here which discusses a video of the author Orhan Pamuk visiting The Met:
Pamuk talks about the “museum-ness” of the museum. This makes me think about all the qualities of the museum as a place: the interior design, how each room feels, how it feels to walk between rooms, the art on the walls, the conversations that people have while studying an artwork.
James ran the IndieWeb blog carnival on museums and wrote a roundup. There are so many great entries including VH Belvadi's Collections and catalogues and Museums That Aren't Quite Museums at SammieLand.
One of the titles James gave me was about things I want to do with my site, and Connie has written her own version, Here's The Thing About My Blog.
I love Bruno Dias's A unified theory of Voyager watch guide: part one, part two, part three, part four. Rankings include
episodes of Voyager that are insane. Those are often the very best episodes of Voyager.
The kind of rankings I can get behind. We should do more exasperated/fond/bemused watch guides to shows. Just this weekend my wife dragged an actual tonne of Voyager VHSs out of her mum's roof. Luckily we don't have a VHS player.
Life, Long and Short by write.as's Matt about finding balance.
Annals to zeitschrift: An A–Z of magazines and journals at the V&A, via Magforum.
Just a little bit on AI, just a tiny bit, from n+1: Large Language Muddle.
Landslide; a ghost story by Robin Rendle, h/t James. I haven't watched the news since 2010 and I try to read as little as possible so I'm always interested in other people's approaches.
Tracy Durnell's thoughts on Brute force learning with lots more links.
A lovely, thoughtful post from Gabby at wool gathering, Will you tell me about the world.
i wholeheartedly love the earth. i am more than grateful to be alive and experience it alongside countless other people. in the most beautiful way i can be, i often find myself overwhelmed by just how vast our little (relatively speaking) planet is.
Very into whatever gets you through the night, poetry from Angles Morts.
And last but not least, some art!
Strength of One's Time fragment on finding a piece of public art.
Three paintings from John William Waterhouse by Martín Vukovic.
Ironic Sans looks at what different museums consider their Mona Lisa.