Bank Holiday Monday Links.


"To acknowledge the work of culturally diverse Australian writers, we have compiled this second list of 50 great reads by First Nations writers and Australian writers of colour published in 2021!"

"The first phase of a major project to restore and reopen Oldham’s historic Old Library has started."

"Continuing our tradition of releasing new sets of emulated items around the holidays, the Internet Archive has added a new collection: THE JACKPOT LOUNGE."

"The new Peter Jackson documentary, ‘Get Back‘, takes a fresh look at the Beatles as they work on a project. As someone who works on communicating change and organisational cultures, I noticed seven key management lessons to learn from the Fab Four. How could I resist writing them up? I couldn’t, so here we go…"

From "Dune" to "Licorice Pizza," "Succession," "Yellowjackets," and more, these are the best film and TV one-sheets of the year.

"Chloé Zhao’s best director Oscar, an unforgettable turn by Joanna Scanlan and Céline Sciamma’s flawless fairytale stood out, but the year belonged to Bond…"
[Editor's note:  Actually Mark, I think the year probably belonged to Spider-Man.  Shrug emoji.]


"At 7:50 pm EST, Webb’s first mid-course correction burn began."

"Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice."

"I want you to look at Princess Leia's (Carrie Fisher) face in the photo above."

"Had there been no plague to close the London theatres in 1592, Shakespeare may never have penned his epically erotic poem Venus and Adonis."

"The big guy's back, and he wants to take New York for himself again."

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