No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).

No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).

New Zealand have never won a game at the Word Cup but in 2010 they were the only unbeaten team (3 draws in group play; Spain won the final but lost a group game).

Love this story from Craig Robertson's Chris Knox bio about how an Auckland punk band learned to play "Anarchy in the UK" by taping the short bits that aired in a news segment off of the TV and just playing those parts. (Try to explain this to a young person today haha)

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love. These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when... #aotearoa @audioculturenz.bsky.social

In hindsight not a great idea to have your hobby be writing a book when your day job is writing books but a decade in the making my bio of Aotearoa NZ musician Chris Knox is coming out in a few months.

What a year for the legends of NZ music. The Don McGlashan doco. The Shayne Carter doco. And now the Chris Knox biography, out in Oct. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/

"Not This Way- Knot This Way!" Internal GPO poster advising on the correct knotting method. Unknown artist, September 1964. Ref POST 110/1569, Royal Mail Archive

Some more background on the history of passports & free Black people pre 14th Am. States could issue passports & abolitionists exploited this to use ppts to argue for citizenship. And while numbers are low the State Dept did issue more than 2 passports (1)

This is content you need - an Instagram account devoted to poles www.instagram.com/polesofcambr...

This is content you need - an Instagram account devoted to poles www.instagram.com/polesofcambr...

I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...

As many of you know Jonathan Sterne is in hospice. If you would like to send a message to Jonathan and Carrie please send an email to [email protected] Carrie is receiving these messages and sharing them with Jonathan

If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Dirt/Night Gallery's books of assorted iPhone notes: the 21st-c version of the epistolary novel - meets - commonplace book - meets- critical edition (considering a lot of iPhone notes are *drafts* of things people bang out cathartically but never send :) nightgallery.metalabel.com/notes?varian...

Doesn't this feel familiar? @craigrobertson.bsky.social writing on the dominance of the passport as a governing technology (and why many of us fear online age identity verification is a trojan horse w/ implications for all internet users).

A powerful review of Pagan’s new book on the history of the rape kit.

A powerful review of Pagan’s new book on the history of the rape kit.

Offices look different now than they did a few years ago, which is to say many of them are a lot emptier. But, other than humans, something else has disappeared from the modern office space: filing cabinets.

@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...

@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...

As they say there’s always a local angle: for identification technology scholars

oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

And Diana Kamin is now here - @dianakamin.bsky.social

Diana Kamin’s fantastic book is out! I happily wrote a blurb “In this remarkable book, Kamin shows how 20thC social networks of paper & touch shaped today's digital image economy. An invaluable perspective and a major contribution to media & info studies.” Open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...