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Dear readers,It is a rare thing for Art of the Title to publish an editor’s note but the time has come to provide an update. Many of you are likely unaware that, since 2018, Art of the Title has been a one-person operation managed by myself, Editor-in-Chief Lola Landekic. It has been my honour to be a member of the small Art of the Title team since 2011 when I …

My dad might be Austin Powers. When you open his closet it’s like being transported straight into the 1960s prom scene. Dark velour suits, purple polka-dot ties, and frilly shirts hang beside each other like dusty friends from days gone by. “Can you spare some mothballs?” I picture a silk shirt saying to a velvet vest. “I’m not going to make it otherwise.” My dad was a high school teacher …

The 2020s were a fun time for Intel’s Atom line, which went from an afterthought to playing a major role across Intel’s high performance client offerings. Intel’s latest mobile chip, codenamed Lunar Lake, sees Intel’s high performance P-Cores ditch SMT. With P-Cores focusing even more on single threaded performance, E-Cores will play an even more prominent role in boosting multithreaded performance. With Intel facing stronger competition than ever in the …

(Photos by Lauren Lulu Taylor) If you haven’t heard of Sweet Life Lanta and are a fan of 1. Thai food 2. Thai islands 3. humorous YouTube videos and 4. achingly cute families, then you should get yourself acquainted. Not … Continue reading →

I was doing this talk, which I’d done dozens of times before. Good, well-practiced deck. I was speaking to CTO-types (current and aspirational) as a favor to a friend. This was a monthly morning coffee chat for this crew, and they invited folks like me to speak. It was on a weekday morning near Slack in downtown San Francisco. No problem. Practiced talk, small group, low stakes. I was editing …

The Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) is disproportionately represented among the most-cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Let's look at the numbers and think about why. Background: This post is based on my analyses of citation rates in the Stanford Encyclopedia in 2010, 2014, 2019, and 2024. As a measure of prominence in (as I call it) "mainstream Anglophone philosophy", no measure has better face validity than SEP citation …

Studded with hit songs and telling a truly inspiring story, hit bio-musical Tina, The Tina Turner Musical finally plays Melbourne, arriving in peak form. Wondrously warm and vocally superb, the powerhouse lead performance by Ruva Ngwenya is a key attraction of Tina. On stage almost the whole time and singing basically every song, Ngwenya captures audience affection the instant she appears, holding the audience firmly in her palm for the …

“How can you eat that so early in the morning?” asked my friend. She gestured with a fork at the plate in front of me, which contained a softball-sized muffin... Source

Ireland’s Lake District The view from Aghadoe Heights over Killarney. Quote of the Day “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news ‘Fairytale of New York’ played at Shane MacGowan’s funeral Link Shane McGowan’s funeral in Dublin was never going to be a staid affair, and so it proved. Long Read of the Day The American historian Heather Cox Richardson …

We do a lot of book clubs at work. Some of the books have been good, some have been bad, and some have been terrible. Most recently I was in a group that read Patty McCord’s Powerful, a book about the Netflix culture. While I don’t want to write a review of the book, I did want to share some of the highlights I made while reading. I made a …

It’s spooky season again, and if you know me, you’ll know I’m no fan of scary movies! But TCM has lots of other good stuff airing this month and I’m recommending two of my pre-Code and film noir features that I’ve previously covered here at Shadows and Satin. My Satiny pick is What Price Hollywood? (1932), starring Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman, and directed by George Cukor. Bennett plays Mary …

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There’s just one month to go until the opening of our new exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. We can’t wait for visitors to come and explore the rich and complex lives of women in the Middle Ages! If you can’t wait either, then you might be excited to...

As part of restructuring my shop for the current economy, I added all of the individual In Detail publications to the Digital Whimsy section. This is an excellent way to learn about original pieces of fancy work. Each volume (except the blue ribbon case) contains directions for making your own. The compilation edition: Fanciful Utility […]

The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem). Nevertheless, I keep getting things that need to be read or recorded or transcribed… Here for economy, is a recent conversation written up as a note: There are topics that sociologists should regularly discuss – the problems with the university because that …