Archive - REMORANDOM

Deep Blue vs Kasparov

This famous 1997 chess match, declared by "Newsweek" to be "The Brain's Last Stand", marked the first time that the general public came to feel that…

3 hrs ago • Remo Giuffré

This thick and salty black paste made from yeast extract mixed with vegetable and spice additives is the quintessential Australian shibboleth.

Jan 15 • Remo Giuffré

The Truth About Icebergs

All of the stock images are fake news. Forget everything you think you knew about the shape of icebergs. They don’t look like submerged mountains at…

Jan 14 • Remo Giuffré

Things I Have Drawn

“Things I Have Drawn” began as a creative side project for UK-based father Tom Curtis, who started digitally reimagining his then-young son Dom’s…

Jan 13 • Remo Giuffré

Interesting Etymologies 2

The word "daisy" comes from the Old English, meaning “day’s eye”, because of the way the flower opens and closes with the sunrise and sunset.

Jan 12 • Remo Giuffré

2026 is the year of REMORANDOM volumes 6 and 7. So, to honour that cultural serendipity, and in the first post of the year, we celebrate an infuriating…

Jan 11 • Remo Giuffré

December 2025

Season's Greetings

Peace & Love in 2026

Dec 24, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

Final Episode for 2025

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Nouns of Assembly, Snowflake Bentley, Met Gala

Dec 24, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

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The Winged Keel

In 1983 "Australia II" competing for the America's Cup in Newport, RI – stunned the sailing community by winning possession of the world's oldest…

Dec 23, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

Wonderland City

Wonderland City was a grand amusement park that operated at Tamarama Beach from 1906 to 1911. It was dubbed the “Coney Island of Australia”.

Dec 22, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

Unusual New Year’s Traditions

In REMORANDOM 2 (the orange book) readers were treated to a handful of unusual new year’s traditions from around the world. Do you have any other…

Dec 21, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

Cole turned a “bookshop” in 19th-century Melbourne into a cultural hub with a global reputation. His self-published "Cole’s Funny Picture Books" were…

Dec 18, 2025 • Remo Giuffré

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