Category: Weekly digest

• Confessions of a former bike thief
• Racism is the bogeyman
• The Flying Scotsman – Forth Bridge 15.5.16
• Persuading Britain to spend billions on Trident is like convincing a tramp to buy a bazooka
• How Your Gut Affects Your Mood
• The Golden Age of x86 Gaming
• Project Ara Lives: Google’s Modular Phone Is Ready for You Now – The phone that no one needs.
• The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness
• The days slip away
• Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity – only a matter of time before apps like this hit the UK
• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
• Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
• Moby: ‘There were bags of drugs, I was having sex with a stranger’ – Shocker!
• Post-it Note War Erupts On Canal Street
• The Maker of Things
• Bridges Mark Zuckerberg Destroyed
• Its the simple joys in life – hilarious!

Finally some decent weather this week…and we’re about to enter tech news nirvana – I/O, WWDC and E3.

• Jeremy Corbyn A ‘Scruffy Worzel Gummidge,’ Say Voters Of Nuneaton – Unelectable
• Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji
• Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community
• The Panic Sign – I love Panic.
• Lionhead: The inside story
• ‘I’m living the dream’: Sadiq Khan on his first week as London mayor
• Could Different Borders Have Saved the Middle East?
• I have never wanted a baby. Yesterday, my dream came true: Woman, 30, is sterilised on the NHS – and she says ‘To hell with the trolls’
• Revealed: ‘Glasgow effect’ mortality rate blamed on Westminster social engineering
• Ranking: Every Radiohead Album From Worst to Best
• Ranking: Every Radiohead Song From Worst to Best – I’d tweak the top ten but a solid list
• Star Wars – Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” Homage (Title Sequence) – Stunning and uses Spectre by Radiohead.

• Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down
• This Is How The World Reacted To Sadiq Khan Becoming London Mayor
• The BBC deserves better than a chump’s charter
• How The Global Elite Have Spent Eight Decades Being Injected With Sheep Foetuses – Wow
• Why I Hate Security, Computers, and the Entire Modern Banking System
• I fly 747s for a living. Here are the amazing things I see every day.
• Kung Fu Motion Visualization – Stunning
• Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously. – Is it a bug, is it user error? No one really knows and thats the problem for Apple.
• No, Apple Music is not deleting tracks off your hard drive — unless you tell it to
• tvOS at 6 Months: Where Are the Apps? – There’s not many that are any good but I do enjoy Plex and Youtube not he Apple TV. Good not great.
• Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for
• Captain America: Civil War And The Superhero (In)Security State
• After incredible win, Leicester City is still a complicated place
• Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr – Somebody, anybody apart from the Daily Mail. I’m trying 500px but I’ve so much invested in Flickr that I don’t want to leave or see the site/community fail.
• How Music Taste Evolved
 – Stunning site
• A Moon Shaped Pool – New Radiohead Album! Go on, run and download.
• Radiohead – Daydreaming – Paul Thomas Anderson directs the new Radiohead video. Stunning.

A week off work. Rested and ready….for a bank holiday tomorrow 🙂

• Hillsborough inquests jury rules 96 victims were unlawfully killed
• Hillsborough disaster: deadly mistakes and lies that lasted decades – Justice at last for the families that suffered over the last 26 years.
• Hillsborough verdict: Andy Burnham demands South Yorkshire police chief resigns in extraordinary speech
• James Takes Aim At Kelvin MacKenzie Over Hillsborough – A must watch
• My plea to the left: treat Jews the same way you’d treat any other minority – What an awful week for Labour…and Ken Livingstone is for the right wing media the gift that keeps on giving.
• Zac Goldsmith: your London mayoral campaign is a disgrace
• Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
• What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
• Pseudoscience in the Witness Box – Jawdropping
• State Of The Gadget Union – Hard to argue with much of this
• Inside One of the World’s Most Secretive iPhone Factories
• I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch – took 2 hours to boot much like the other Apple Watch apps
• Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
• The real reasons you procrastinate — and how to stop
• How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running – I miss my runs
• Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women
• Toddler vs. CEO – So true
• How Uber conquered London – Great article on how Uber conquered London
• Aerial views of London – Some of these photos are great
• President Obama at White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Obama’s last roast and he couldn’t not rip into The Donald.

Last week was busy but I’ve a few days off work so plenty to catch up on.

• Game developers must avoid the ‘wage-slave’ attitude – That article and this presentation caused quite the ruckus this week.
• I am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He is Wrong About Women in Tech
• Stephen Curry’s 3-Point Record in Context: Off the Charts – Sports records are always being broken but this is amazing.
• How Scotland Became the Most LGBT Friendly Country in the World
• Impressions of the 9.7″ iPad Pro & Apple Pencil – Still want, don’t need
• iOS 10: Wishes and Concept Video – Usually these concepts and idea’s are pretty ill thought out but this is excellent.
• Apple’s Organizational Crossroads
• Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell has died — here is some of his best leadership advice
• The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup
• Boris Johnson suggests ‘part-Kenyan’ Obama may have ‘ancestral dislike’ of UK – Please step forward Boris the racist
• Dyson vs Big Paper Towel: the battle over hand-drying hygiene – Dirty business
• London’s Crossrail Is a $21 Billion Test of Virtual Modeling
• Prince live: five of his greatest moments onstage – 2016 is quite the year for all the wrong reasons. Another genius gone.
• The Secret History of Tiger Woods
• The web is Doom

• Lily Allen on being stalked: ‘I was asleep. He steamed into the bedroom and started screaming’
• The women abandoned to their online abusers
• The dark side of Guardian comments – amazing stats from the Guardian
• The Secret Rules Of The Internet
• Exactly how male gamers react when they are forced to play female characters
• I’m on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones
• Four Years A Student-Athlete: The Racial Injustice Of Big-Time College Sports
• Tiger Woods 40th Birthday Interview – Hard to think of Tiger as a 40 year old
• Craig Joubert: Why I ran off the pitch at Rugby World Cup – Six months on and I’m still angry at what he did. Seems a nice chap though.
• Velocipede – stunning
• Ed Miliband: Panama Papers show that wealth doesn’t trickle down. It gets stashed
• A New Map for America
• Facebook Chatbots Are Frustrating and Useless – Agreed
• We don’t know how to build conversational software yet
• In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
• Instagram Is Ruining Vacation
• The HTC Vive Could Be our Generation’s Commodore 64
• Game of Thrones Opening Credits 360 Video – Fire this up on Chrome or on a mobile device. Just over week to go until season 6 – can’t wait!

A taxing week for everyone.

• We are now witnessing Elon Musk’s slow-motion disruption of the global auto industry
• SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time – This was amazing to watch live. What a week for Elon Musk.
• See Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching From Above
• In depth: the nuclear submarine that can remain underwater for 25 years – Remarkable machines
• The sugar conspiracy
• Willie Rennie with the best video of the Scottish elections so far
• The trouble with 3D Touch – I’ve got 3D Touch on my work phone and it still feels like a gimmick rather than an essential part of the iOS experience.
• TextExpander 6 and TextExpander.com – Great summation of the Apple community feeling on the sharp increase in price of TextExpander. I’m all for paying for software put the price increase is sharp.
• RUN and RUN / lyrical school – Watch on an iPhone – this is great.
• ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Official Teaser Trailer
• Sphero’s BB-8 Can Now Watch and React to The Force Awakens Along With You – Can’t wait to try this in a few days time
• HTC VIVE REVIEW – Some of the best ideas in VR, but not the best execution

A bit late this week but it’s worth the wait. Some goodies below – enjoy.

• Blind Microsoft engineer unveils AI-powered project that helps him ‘see’ the world – Inspiring project from an amazing Microsoft Engineer.
• Dillan’s Voice – April is Autism Acceptance Month and this film from Apple will give you all the feels and make you feel pretty lucky. Dillon’s Path is also a must watch.
• 40 years of Apple history with Walt Mossberg – Love this
• We Should All Have Our Own Bot – The future is bots?
• Chat bots, conversation and AI as an interface
• This Is What It Feels Like When A Robot Takes Your Job
• Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names?
• The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming – Amazon have a real hit with the echo.
• How to Hack an Election
• David Cameron’s cans: when mockers become the mocked
• This genius UKIP trolling is further evidence that Scotland is the p*sstake capital of the world – I can’t hear you
• Techies: A Study of Silicon Valley
• A day in the life of a young black male engineering “coding” student.
• Like – Thought provoking video on whats important in the online world.
• The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR
• Virtual Reality Is Always Almost Here – Verge review the Oculus
• SNES Code Injection — Flappy Bird in SMW – This is bizarre and impressive.
• Rey is a Palpatine – Spoilers if you haven’t seen Force Awakens. Thanks to Gordon for this one.
• 100 Greatest One-Liners: Before The Kill

Happy Easter! Been doing these backpocket posts for a year now…time flies.

• No, Adam Johnson, child abuse is not a grey area – Great article from Victoria Coren Mitchell
• The Future of Twitter: Q&A with Jack Dorsey
• Apple’s ’40 Years In 40 Seconds’ Video Annotated
• Inside Liam, Apple’s super-secret, 29-armed robot that tears down your iPhone
• How the iPad Pro Changed My Illustrating Career
• Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
• What It’s Actually Like To Visit Factories In China As An Entrepreneur</li>
• Glasgow: A city divided along learning lines – Heartbreaking that so many don’t get opportunities and it’s down to money, not talent.
• These unlucky people have names that break computers
• Make your own Amazon Echo – Thanks Amazon!
• As We Become Cameras – there is still such a fuss around surveillance and being constantly watched…will we end up stumbling into a world where nothing is recorded?
• The Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine’s 2015 Photo Contest

Busy busy at the moment. looking forward to some time off at Easter.

• The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online
• I’m 16. Five months ago, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer – Such a great article and puts so much into perspective when we moan about shitty little day to day things.
• Why Do We Work So Hard?
• What Have They Been Smoking at Apple Music? – Some of the playlists are really good. I still get Rolling Stones recommendations though…every fucking time I open the app.
• Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist – Big week ahead.
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 Results
• Satoru Iwata Game Developers Choice Awards Tribute
• Firewatch: One Month Later – Such a great game and good to see it sold so well too.
• Here’s why Google’s Tilt Brush may be virtual reality’s killer app
• Cuba On The Edge Of Change – Stunning photo article
• Glasgow – Raymond Depardon – Photo’s from 1980’s Glasgow that were never published. Feels like my childhood when I look at these.