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Moped with Forcefields Olympus C5050 Tel Aviv, Israel Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004.
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Choices iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, March 10th, 2021.
Winter Procession iPhone 6S London, England Thursday, December 31st, 2020.
Fully Appreciative At Last iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 29th, 2020.
A Brighton Blesssing iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 15th, 2020.
Somber Vista iPhone 6S Isle of Wight, England Thursday, August 27th, 2020.
Home is Where the Moka is iPhone 6S East Sussex, England Tuesday, July 28th, 2020.
Cow Cafe iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, June 7th, 2020.
Infrastructure Overview iPhone 6S Monday, January 20th, 2020.
Digestive Building iPhone 6S Highlands, Scotland, London, England Saturday, November 23rd, 2019.
Gay Decay iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, October 12th, 2019.
Oh, Toadstools iPhone 6S London, England Friday, October 4th, 2019.
It Adds Up iPhone 6S London, England Friday, October 4th, 2019.
Moment iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, August 26th, 2019.
Crossing Pink iPhone 6S Portsmouth, England Saturday, August 10th, 2019.
Another Farewell to the Flowers iPhone 6S Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel Saturday, April 20th, 2019.
Malal Lobby iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Friday, April 19th, 2019.
Aesthetic of the Founding iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Friday, April 19th, 2019.
Success iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
NE TLV iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
Available Magic iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
Pillars iPhone 6S Israel Trail, Israel Saturday, April 13th, 2019.
Downhome Downtown iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, April 12th, 2019.
The Goose Abides iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Thursday, April 11th, 2019.
Stop Pulling My Loire iPhone 6S Nantes, France Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
Stark Industry iPhone 6S Nantes, France Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
As Israel finally passes a budget, Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist Raam party, appears to have been the kingmaker, is budgeted an unprecedented $16b for infrastructure, crime, healthcare, education and transport.
Good bonkers, I’m Adam S Khan, the S being for Samuel.
I live in Brighton, England with Irit and our kids and right now no dogs.
Thanks for dropping by — it’s my pleasure to have you.
Sunday, August 8th, 2021
La Maison Xun, a restaurant in Beijing by LDH Architects, featured in Archinect.
Saturday, August 7th, 2021
In this Al-Jazeera coverage of the protests comprising the anniversary of the Beirut explosion, the word “Hezbollah” doesn’t appear at all.
Thursday, August 5th, 2021
Is this a new method of diplomatic forum? Israel seems to have hosted its own mini-United Nations Security Council meeting by presenting to a gathering of ambassadors from the sitting UNSC countries; it’s bloody genius. Is that Lapid taking his current job seriously and imaginatively? Looks like it.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
John McWhorter on “Black Fragility”:
DiAngelo, you may have heard, has a new one out. But do you really need to read yet another book about how white people just don’t get it? After all, roll the tape again and the main theme of intelligent black thought might not be so obsessed with this notion that black America must sit mired in charismatic anomie until white people “get it.” Imagine a black America all about not “Why don’t they get it?” but “How do we get ours regardless?”
As Israel finally passes a budget, Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist Raam party, appears to have been the kingmaker, is budgeted an unprecedented $16b for infrastructure, crime, healthcare, education and transport.
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
Sign up for SPECTRE: The Board Game.
Face James Bond as You Plot, Scheme, and Battle to Become SPECTRE’s Number One.
Scuzzball extraordinaire Piers Corbyn is caught on camera accepting a bribe from a bogus AstraZeneca investor with a request to focus his very righteous ire on Pfizer and Moderna. Awesome!
Sunday, August 1st, 2021
J. D. Vance makes what seems to me an historic speech, calling on the Republican Party to be the family party:
The fact that we’re not having enough babies, the fact that we’re not having enough children, is a crisis in this country. It’s a crisis because it makes our media more miserable. It’s a crisis because it doesn’t give our leaders enough of an investment in the future of their country. And it’s a crisis because we know that babies are good.
And here’s a doozy:
The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to sixteen-year olds. But let’s do this instead: let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.
A great topic, covered well: in Wired, Clive Thompson surveys the problem with productivity software:
To-do lists are, in the American imagination, a curiously moral type of software. Nobody opens Google Docs or PowerPoint thinking “This will make me a better person.” But with to-do apps, that ambition is front and center.
Friday, July 30th, 2021
Bryan Braun recreated classic Mac screensavers in CSS only! It’s cool that Warp only uses 9 different stars to create that star field. [via Hacker News]
Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
Awesome triangular semi-transparent Japanese sauna by architect Taichi Kuma.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Chris Coyier’s 40 for 40 — guy is wise beyond CSS tricks.
Monday, July 26th, 2021
What is an entertainment company? Matthew Ball surveys the landscape, focused on Disney, and concludes they must reach into digital games.
Tuesday, July 20th, 2021
I wanted a way in Apple Mail to list all emails from VIPs to which I’ve not yet replied. After googling, I found a nice solution at MakeUseOf: “4 Mac Mail Productivity Tips All Professionals Must Know” (2019).
So I made a Smart Mailbox “VIP Unreplied” with all the following rules:
does not contain donotreplyAnd in the “Already Replied” Smart Mailbox:
This second one because sometimes a message is handled in some other way than a reply or doesn’t need one.
Monday, July 19th, 2021
I think the author’s almost actually serious in his call to ditch HTML for PDF:
PDFs are page-oriented. This is another fundamental freedom – toknow unambiguously which part of the document you are looking at.Compare to infinite-scroll HTML pages which are disorienting bydesign. This may sound trivial, but seriously: with infinite scrolling,you are fundamentally not in control of the reading experience.
Ha, since he posted the mainfesto as an actual PDF, when I copied that quote it pasted full of triple-spaces and some non-spaces, which I’ve kept for effect — so much for that! Still, the author does bring up many important issues.
Via Hacker News, “The Eleven Laws of Showrunning” by Javier Grillo-Marxuach is so beautifully written and serves as a primer for management of anything
As special and wonderful as creativity and process may be, they are assets that can be channeled, managed, made to work on call, and sent to bed at a decent hour.
Since I’m currently watching Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian, showrunners Jon Favreau and David Filoni appear to exemplify the virtues.
Sunday, July 18th, 2021
This top-draw (The New Republic) essay on James Bond and Ian Fleming is ostensibly disparaging about its subject, but author Scott Bradfield’s sheer depth of knowledge marks him a fan. Another clue: although it’s a book review of The World Is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming by Oliver Buckton, in the entire piece Buckton’s name is mentioned just once! This guy Bradfield’s clearly been chomping at the bit to write something Bondy.
Saturday, July 17th, 2021
A mandate for President Isaac Herzog. It soars to this:
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, I found myself thinking: How can we set a new Guinness World Record and bring the largest number of Jews together for a show of solidarity and support on Zoom? My conclusion was that only the president – regardless of who that is – can gather the different backgrounds and denominations to the same “room.”
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
Some negative-space logos.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
In “How to Structure a Large Scale Vue.js Application”, one piece of advice new to me is to keep a flat components folder. Author Daniel Kelly lists no fewer than 8 reasons to do so. I’m gonna let this cook, as I have indeed found nested folders sometimes problematic for some of the reasons he lists.
For me the worst two bugbears are that when there are many tabs open, their labels all get reduced to a useless homogenous “index.vue”, and that Sublime Text’s superfast all-project search doesn’t provide links to files so I have to hunt them down in my file tree.
Update: Well I never actually tried it because the file paths don’t look like links, but blimmin’ heck, double-click them and the file opens. Sababa! You’ll get my $80 soon, soon, you Ozzie geniuses.
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
I transcribed more of this book than any other, quoting these great guys who’ve been there and done that; it’s one to dip in to in future when seeking inspiration.
The author, wife and Y Combinator partner to Paul Graham, gets out the way as much as possible and lets these guys speak; it’s like Studs Terkel but only with hugely successful tech people.
Monday, July 12th, 2021
I link to this survey of recent British TV comedy in UnHerd if only because author Gareth Roberts calls out the depressingness of Louis Theroux.
In the same publication, “Why Miranda is more daring than Fleabag”.
Friday, July 9th, 2021
A voice new to me, David E. Bernstein, gives a fresh and concise viewpoint on the tired topic of why so many love to hate on Israel, providing separate reasons for the disparate groups. For Christians:
Christian critics of Israel so often accuse Jews of not learning anything from the Holocaust; in their mind, the Holocaust is a story about Christian sin and possible redemption via the actions of the victims; the fate of the Jewish people as a people is at best irrelevant.
For Muslims:
Mohammed started his empire with limited territory and a small army, only to expand throughout the Middle East and North Africa. There is undoubtedly some latent fear that Israel is a camel’s nose under the tent for Jewish expansionism. This of course misunderstands Zionism and Judaism, but the average Muslim knows little about Judaism.
A reminder of the marvel and fragility of the Web by Jonathan Zittrain, law professor and computer science professor at Harvard, and a co-founder of its Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Michael Pollan writes just wonderfully of his coffee withdrawal.
In this new normal, the world seemed duller to me. I seemed duller, too. Mornings were the worst. I came to see how integral caffeine is to the daily work of knitting ourselves back together after the fraying of consciousness during sleep. That reconsolidation of self took much longer than usual, and never quite felt complete.
So much more to quote here; he takes a little meander into intellectual history before returning, now a bit further along in time, to his own predilection. Then on to the science.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
“China-US Relations In The Eyes Of The Chinese Communist Party: An Insider’s Perspective” [PDF] by Cai Xia at the Hoover Institution, June 2021 (via Ambrose Evans-Pritchard).
Since the 1970s, the two political parties in the United States and the US government have always had unrealistic good wishes for the Chinese communist regime, eagerly hoping that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the CCP’s rule would become more liberal, even democratic, and a “responsible” power in the world. However, this US approach was a fundamental misunderstanding of the CCP’s real nature and long-term strategic goals.
The Guardian posts an excerpt from Gillian Tett’s Anthro-Vision. Regarding working from home, a senior trader at JP Morgan observed:
The really big problem was incidental information exchange. “The bit that’s very hard to replicate is the information you didn’t know you needed,” observed Charles Bristow, a senior trader at JP Morgan. “[It’s] where you hear some noise from a desk a corridor away, or you hear a word that triggers a thought. If you’re working from home, you don’t know that you need that information.” Working from home also made it hard to teach younger bankers how to think and behave; physical experiences were crucial for conveying the habits of finance or being an apprentice.
The most valuable sort of press is not articles about you, it’s when people mention you in passing as a matter of course.
Paul Graham, Founders at Work
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
On ear wax.
Sunday, July 4th, 2021
Thursday, July 1st, 2021
Michael Allen Smith of INeedCoffee.com goes without drinking his beloved bean for a whole month:
For a good chunk of the month, I was extremely sad. It was like a death in the family. It was during the depths of this period that I realized that I had been using coffee as a way to avoid feeling down. And I had been doing that multiple times a day for two decades.
What a sinking feeling, reading the announcement that Marginal Revolution is launching on Facebook’s Substack ripoff Bulletin”:https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/a-more-than-marginal-boost-for-marginal-revolution.html (I get a blank screen in Firefox, and naturally there’s no RSS feed). It’s interesting that trillion-dollar Facebook feels so threatened by Substack.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
I’ve just seen a play at the Brighton Fringe — no that’s overstating matters, let’s call it a performance, barely — entitled Shitfaced Shakespeare. It makes me feel way worse about theater than doth Spanish novelist Javier Marías, who writes (2017):
There must be some happy medium between lazy, outmoded productions à la Pérez Puig (who seems to have been in charge of the Teatro Español in Madrid for decades now) and the jokey superficialities of the professional innovators.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
Antonio Garcia Martinez
As author Antonio García Martínez battles away as an eager newcomer at Facebook, his account jolts one awake to the somewhat forgotten power of literature: we are reminded that what will survive these times will likely not be the mammoth trillion dollar company but instead this book.
And shame on Apple, caving to those who campaigned to have Martinez fired recently from his new job there because of some gross and silly yet heartfelt generalization in the book of San Francisco womenfolk; such philistine snowflakes do little more than buttress his point, as well as forcing our author to remain up on these more commanding if perhaps less remunerative cultural heights.
Sunday, June 27th, 2021
Lawyers didn’t get into law because they’re good at business.
Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
Saturday, June 26th, 2021
If you do business in LatAm, you’ve got a Miami office. Prodigal son Antonio García Martínez returns to Miami, now on a Substack-fueled writing mission.
I was raised in the Miami of the wild 80s and 90s, and more or less abandoned the city for 20 years before going back due to a family illness circa 2014. Much to my everlasting shock, all the twee fineries of overpaid SF tech life were there: pretentious craft beer poured by bearded lumbersexuals inside stylized industrial loft spaces; whimsically-named, garishly-painted food-trucks clustered in parking lots-turned-parks serving Korean/Mexican fusion tacos; pompous ‘Third Wave’ coffee places (in a city where espresso was already ubiquitous) featuring pierced baristas conjuring a pourover with all the seriousness of a priest performing the eucharistic miracle; glass-clad, high-rise condo buildings, indistinguishable from the same douche-cubes in SF’s SoMa (“GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCES”) growing like mushrooms in a dewy field throughout the formerly sleepy downtown.
Friday, June 25th, 2021
I just logged on to Facebook for the first time in a while for a few minutes. This piece, full of zingers, captures the feeling of sickly irritation well.
[Facebook] exists as a weird kind of social museum, where I exist as an observer watching people I knew 5, 10, 15 years ago grow up, get married, have children, all the while saying nothing in the silence. Intersperse the family announcements with memes and ads and other nonsense, and my newsfeed is nothing but a wasteland, a place I’ll find maybe one relevant, engaging update from someone I know for every fifty I couldn’t care less about.
To be fair, I have a friend who finds his Facebook feed uplifting and enjoyable.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
The Biden Administration appears to be walking back recognition of Golan and Jerusalem sovereignty. How dangerously and unsurprisingly lame.
Monday, June 21st, 2021
Carwow drives an Audi RS e-tron GT and a Tesla Model S 571 miles from Inverness to London.
Sunday, June 20th, 2021
In big companies, the product spec is market-driven; in startups, the marketing is product-driven.
Steven Blank, The Startup Owner’s Manual
Monday, June 14th, 2021
Mary Catherine Bateson, conversations at Edge [via Hacker News, again].
Sunday, June 13th, 2021
Good Risk advice dressed up as systems thinking [via Hacker News].
A few further points. First, the dynamic of the game becomes more stark once players are eliminated; in the 3-man game is it better to be strongest, weakest or in the middle? More tactically, in the 2-man game I think it’s decisively better to abandon Australia because your defensive army is likely to be blocked and at this point you need all your offense.
Patton neglects feints, such as pretending to leave the game and letting the rather dumb AI take over your turn; as a bot, players tend to consider you less a threat and leave you alone, often to the point of weakening each other tremendously, figuring they’ll deal with the dumb bot later. A more complex feint is mimic being a newbie who does not know the principles Patton describes, though honestly I’ve not tried this and it seems difficult to pull off, as you do lose real armies being stupid, and as soon as you start behaving sensibly you may appear even more formidable; the trick here then would be to play dumb until the very end.
Perhaps more importantly is to keep in mind the pathetic fallacy, to remember that when behaving judiciously and prudently in dealing with the strongest player, relying on the self-interest of others to do so as well, they may not get it, and behave stupidly and weaken themselves against someone else, enabling the strongest player to then sweep to victory.
Excelsior!
Saturday, June 12th, 2021
From Nieman Media Lab, a newsy perspective on Apple’s recent WWDC 2021 announcements:
Will my iPhone’s algorithms decide that a breaking news story from Bloomberg is “urgent,” “important,” or “time-sensitive”? How about something more feature-y pushed by The Atlantic, or a game score notification from ESPN?
Friday, June 11th, 2021
Jordan and Israel need to exchange electricity for water. Jordan can produce green solar-powered electricity at 60% of the cost that Israel can, while Israel is the world leader in processing sea water into drinking water. Jordan is in dire need of more water due to a massive influx of refugees who aren’t going anywhere, while Israel needs green electricity to power those desalinization plants.
Via Hacker News, and in the grand spirit of Charlie Munger’s edict to “Invert, always invert,” this is Julio Merino on “Always be Quitting”.
So what does it mean to always be quitting? It means “making yourself replaceable”; “deprecating yourself”; “automating yourself out of your job” … The key lies in NOT being indispensable … Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself. You make it easier for yourself to grow into a higher-level role and you make it easier for yourself to change the projects you work on.
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
I wouldn’t want to work on anything I didn’t want to take over my life.
Paul Graham, A Project of One’s Own
Protestor carrying sign of aborted fetuses arrested at school...
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NFL Covid Policy Turning Kirk Cousins Into Muhammad Ali
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'Defund the Police' Is a Politcal Liability
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Defunded Portland Police Watch as Antifa Attacks Prayer Event
While Delta Spreads, Republicans Deflect
Could Larry Elder Replace Newsom in California?
California's Crazy Politics Need a Fix
Cuomo Has Always Been Corrupt
Andrew Cuomo and the Quislings of Albany
Mask Up for Washington's Dishonest, Hypocritical Mayor
Newsom on the Edge With CA Hispanics and Independents Deserting Him
States Are Leading on Policing Rogue Officers
U.S. Attorney Picks Represent 'Firsts'
Dem Leaders Increasingly at Odds With Own Voters
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
Localhost
Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
One Bad Apple
Mux (YC W16) is hiring full-stack developers to focus on Elixir and TypeScript
Apps Getting Worse
Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based
Put This In Your Pipe (2013)
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent
Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
What Irony Is Not (2020)
Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
Clock Synchronization (2020)
Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks
Raisi: “Palestine No. 1 issue of the Muslim world”
IRGC chief: Israel does not set the agenda in the region
Serious covid cases spike again as new curbs take effect
IRGC on alert for possible US/ Israeli retaliation for drone strike on ship
Angry Druze villagers attack Hizballah’s rocket crew
Four arson balloons from Gaza in solidarity with Hizballah
Hizballah joins Iran offensive with 19 rockets against N. Israel – most knocked out by Iron Dome & Patriots
First Israeli air strike in Lebanon in 15 years after rocket attack
Three rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel
Seized tanker heads for Iran; four ships immobilized in mysterious “incident”
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Why South Africa Is Wrong to Condemn Israel's Observer Status at the African Union
Israel Names Iran Revolutionary Guards UAV Commander as Responsible for Ship Attack
Guardian Falsely Claims Israeli Town Was Built on Palestinian Land
UK Military Chief: "We Have Got to Restore Deterrence" Against Iran
Israeli Blood Test Tells Covid Patients Their Chance of Deterioration
France Adopts New Laws to Combat Terrorism
An Olympic Truce
Iranian Petroleum Products Will Arrive in Lebanon Soon
Palestinians Rewrite History to Refute the Jewish Connection to Israel
Israel Supreme Court Offers "Protected Status" to Palestinians Facing Eviction in Jerusalem
Israel Has Doubled Its Share in the Gaming Industry
Israel Asks U.S. to Encourage Palestinians to Accept Jerusalem Property Compromise
Tanker Crew Foiled Hijack Attempt by Iran's Commandos
PA, Qatar Reach Agreement on Transfer of Funds to Gaza
Is Russia Recalibrating Its Coordination with Israel in Syria?
Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says
COVID vaccine inequity, species swaps — the week in infographics
Steven Weinberg (1933–2021)
Excitement as Mars rover drills first rock core for return to Earth
Delta threatens rural regions that dodged earlier COVID waves
Major UK science funder unveils strict open-access policy
Such devices as dreams are made on
Back to the lab bench for Chinese entrepreneur
How the daddy-long-legs gets long legs
Squirrels do parkour
Diagnosing Earth: the science behind the IPCC’s upcoming climate report
An absorbing tale: poison dart frogs might have a ‘toxin sponge’
Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless
More women than ever are starting careers in science
‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers
Advances in artificial rainfall hold big promise for water-scarce Arab region
Beirut blast bereaved hold symbolic funeral to demand justice
Egyptian president and Iraqi defense minister discuss issues of common interest
Tunisia launches vaccine ‘open day’ against Delta-driven spike
Iran’s Raisi names US-sanctioned Mokhber as first VP
Houthis snub new UN envoy for Yemen, president welcomes appointment
Sudan recalls ambassador from Ethiopia as tensions rise
Israel PM: Lebanon responsible for attacks, Hezbollah or not
Iran sees highest daily virus case, death counts in pandemic
Egypt FM delivers message from El-Sisi to Bahrain’s king during official visit
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
Classical Music’s Suicide Pact (Part 2)
Anatomy of an Albany Budget Blowout
Truth and Governance
Thinker, Artist, Warrior
US food supply at risk as historic drought sees water to California farms cut
Andrew Cuomo accuser who filed criminal complaint over groping speaks publicly for first time
Sayonara Tokyo, bonjour Paris: Olympics focus switches to 2024
Actress Markie Post, known for The Fall Guy and Night Court, dies aged 70 after battle with cancer
Hundreds in Warsaw protest against political repression in Belarus
Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko threatened with new EU sanctions on re-election anniversary
France appeals for volunteers to help battle coronavirus in Caribbean territories
Dixie Fire: Thousands flee flames as California fire now second-worst in state history
Nigerian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram free after seven years: governor
Huawei, Kunlun and China’s tech giants drive a quiet revolution in Africa’s fintech with mobile payment apps and wallets
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Spend $30 for the over 1,000 courses in this StackSkills Unlimited training — and get a $30 rebate
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Watch this horror video that a teenage Kurt Cobain made in 1984
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Mark Hamill mocks Trump and his "OFFICAL" merch
Female monkey makes history as first ever Ladyboss of a troop of 700 macaques
Sentences to ponder
Sunday assorted links
Words of wisdom (from Ross Douthat)
What I’ve been reading
Iceland and Covid
Saturday assorted links
The Heritage Foundation Says the United States Should be More Like Denmark
Masks and the Delta variant
David Beckworth on Powell and the Fed
Is this the correct market price?
The FDA Is Still Much Too Strict
Friday assorted links
How many children are killed by the schools anyway?
That was then…
Thursday assorted links
Where the design community meets.
What are your favorite Design resources to improve your Design skills?
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Sudan Virtual Fintech Summit 2021!
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
FCC mobile broadband map shows LTE coverage areas across the U.S.
Apple emails beta testers to try out iOS 15, macOS Monterey
Plugable 7-in-1 USB 3.0 Hub review: solid USB-A options, but not much else
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Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
experiments in refactored perception
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