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Sub/Title is a fun game where you guess the film based on a snippet of dialogue. You can also get my links by signing up for my weekly link digest, Thursday Thirteen.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
The Polish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Wydawnictwo Czarne, in a translation by Martyna Tomczak. It has a new cover, designed by Liza Korolova: This is my first time seeing one of my books published in translation and I'm completely| Caroline Crampton
A Wikipedia editor has uncovered what looked like a decade-long attempt at self-promotion by a minor American composer, David Woodard. Until recently, Woodard's entry was the most-translated on the entire site, appearing in 335 languages (for reference, the country of Japan only has 334). "This editing pattern| Caroline Crampton
I don't at all understand how this video was made, but I enjoyed flying around a miniaturised Baltic state nonetheless. Source: Kuriositas. You can also get my links by signing up for my weekly link digest, Thursday Thirteen.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
In Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dowager Duchess is always getting her quotations confused. But this isn't a character trait deployed only to indicate absent-mindedness; as this analysis shows, her substitutions generally have something to say about the book's themes. Sayers, as her| Caroline Crampton
Photo: G. L. Kohuth/Michigan State UniversityI promise I am interested in how this new innovation will help to save bees from bacteria, but I am mostly sharing this because of the photo of Maple the detection dog in her beekeeping outfit. You can also get my links by| Caroline Crampton
A thought provoking list. As a perpetual diary-abandoner, I'm trying to let this one inspire me: "I regret that I have never kept a journal, especially in my 20s. Nothing fancy; I just wish I had kept a regular list of what I was eating, who I| Caroline Crampton
I have made no secret of my obsession with pipe organs (my favourite podcast is still Hot Pipes). I am new to Walter Martin's radio show, but I liked his organ episode very much. Episode 48: The Organ Episode It’s time to talk about organs WALTER| Caroline Crampton
I believe I have heaped praise upon data journalism outfit The Pudding before, but I'm doing it again because the design of this piece about the best way to dice an onion is so clever. They made a red onion font! Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way| Caroline Crampton
You've heard of a url shortener — bit.ly et al — but what about a url lengthener? One that adds a lot of needless and meaningless text to make your link much more likely to trigger a spam filter if included in an email? You can| Caroline Crampton
It has long been my opinion that Elementary, the TV series starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, is far superior to the BBC's Sherlock (the Benedict Cumberbatch one). This is not an especially popular or widely held opinion, which made me all the more delighted to come| Caroline Crampton
A software curator at the Internet Archive explains why it is worth preserving Flash (even if you found it very annoying in the mid 2000s). So much creative expression went into those browser games and animations. Vanishing Culture: Why Preserve Flash? | Internet Archive Blogs <p>Join us for| Caroline Crampton
Sub/Title is a fun game where you guess the film based on a snippet of dialogue. You can also get my links by signing up for my weekly link digest, Thursday Thirteen.| Caroline Crampton
This piece skews a bit much towards digital marketing agency speak for my liking, but it does make some valuable points about the "cruel paradox" of the so-called creator economy. Successful influencers become successful because the way they communicate their humanity is appealing, but the very process of| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
As promised last time, I'm still slowly catching up on the monthly reading updates I skipped earlier this year. In case you're new here or would like a refresher, when I made my reading goals for 2025 — Reading A Lot, But Differently — I decided to prioritise seeking greater variety and| Caroline Crampton
I've been working hard on breaking my phone addiction since last summer and March was when I finally felt something shift. I stopped wanting to look at my phone and almost all of the time I used to spend on it now went to reading books. I began to get| Caroline Crampton
This was the month where I realised what I need to both enjoy reading books and feel like I'm doing it purposefully: structure and planning. To that end, I spent some time finally creating a centralised list of books I want to read on my Storygraph. Then I cross-checked my| Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton is the author of A Body Made of Glass and the creator of the Shedunnit podcast| Caroline Crampton
