I set up a Google Alert (now an obsolete Google tech, but still working) to track any web news about Iain Banks’ new book Surface Detail. Very few uses of the phrase “surface detail” relate to his book though.

I am either getting stuff about astronomy/photography like:

Photo Tips for Shooting the Moon

Or stuff about about military modelling!

Weird!

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