Geoff Manaugh opens his story about spending six months following round a professional safecracker with an image that might have been hand-crafted to get my attention: The house was gone, consumed by the November 2018 Woolsey Fire that left swaths of Los Angeles covered in ash and reduced whole neighborhoods to charcoaled ruins. Amidst the… Continue reading Safe?
Month: February 2019
Discovering more Discovery
When Netflix started screening season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery to the rest of the world I was aware that CBS had produced a number of shorts in the same setting and featuring characters from the show under the title Short Treks, but the word was that no UK service had picked them up so… Continue reading Discovering more Discovery
Civilisational HTTP Error Codes
There’s no substitute for thinking ahead. Who can say when we might need these HTTP error codes for civilisational errors: Civilisational HTTP Error Codes To be truly useful, HTTP error codes need to take into account possible future issues. We therefore propose the 8xx range of codes for errors pertaining to the civilisation in which… Continue reading Civilisational HTTP Error Codes
Improved
One of my favourite xkcd entries, improved: Someone gave it a happier ending 🙂 pic.twitter.com/QskUPzF9tu — Gleñ Matthews 🏳️🌈 🍑 (@GlenMaffews) February 13, 2019 [Via @amendlocke]
Comfort food for readers of a certain age
Readers a decade or so younger than me may not recognise this beloved trio, but trust me: my generation spent much of the 1970s regarding content like this as sufficient justification for the TV License Fee all by itself, if ever we gave that topic much thought. [note]Not that we were responsible for paying the… Continue reading Comfort food for readers of a certain age
Before the smartphone
Coming soon (with any luck) to a screen near you: General Magic, A Documentary Feature: Judging by the trailer, John Sculley is not going to come out of this smelling of roses. General Magic, the upcoming documentary, is a tale of how great vision and epic failure can change the world. The film features members… Continue reading Before the smartphone