Life
Always like a wee bit of snow over a winter but we’ve had quite enough this year now. Does make for good photo’s though. Looks like new car in around 5 weeks…toys ahead!
Media
Enjoying Derry Girls on C4 and shocked that one of the girls is 31 in real life. Wowsers. McMafia is no Night Manager though. Yawn.
Links
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Google Memory LossAlways thought Google was the biggest and best search engine? Nope.
- A New Old Skywalker – Joseph Gordon-Levitt – MediumMore hot takes on The Last Jedi, this one though has a wee bit more to it.
- How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s – Waypoint
In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that ruined his reputation, Daryl Gates found himself in a point-and-click professional afterlife.
Loved this. - Zombie – Cranberries MTV Unplugged – YouTubeLove The Cranberries – really sad news that Dolores O’Riordan passed this week. Her voice was so distintive.
- Escape Kits: Real-Life British Spy Gadgets from World War II – Core77Real world James Bond stuff. Great read.
- Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories – The New York Times
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
Who doesn’t love some stationary porn. - Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism – YouTube30 minutes and a passionate debate, but the hate that Cathy Newman recieved is a disgrace.
- ArtStation – Paul ChadeissonIf only future freighters would look like this. Amazing.
- Jeremy Corbyn under pressure to shift Labour policy on Brexit | Politics | The GuardianHuge opportunity for Labour…will they grab it? Members certainly want it but will Corbyn?
- Gorgeous 50-megapixel panoramas shot on an iPhone at 20,000 feetCan’t believe these were shot on an iPhone. Wow.
- CES 2018: Real Advances, Real Progress, Real QuestionsA (very) long summation of CES – interesting take on what’s next.