Sad to say, the Apple Store and Greg Knauss have a little problem: [Including…] the phrase “iPhone XR” or alluding to some announced, advertised, demoed but technically theoretical new phone will result in another rejection, up until October 26, 2018, when something will be released. Maybe it will be a flamethrower, or humane treatment for… Continue reading Rejection
Author: John
Quoted For Truth!
From Memex 1.1: “More fiction is written in Excel than in Word” Troy Vosseller Amen to that, brother. Sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.
Libraries
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries. Preach, brothers!
AROOGA-THUMP
I realise this is not the right time of year for posting this, but I came across this yesterday and the notion of Javier Grillo-Marxuach bringing The Middleman and the Doctor together was just too delicious to keep to myself just because it’s not Xmas again just yet: […] By the time The Middleman fired… Continue reading AROOGA-THUMP
Of Interest
It’d be marvellous if writers about TV could spend a few years never mentioning Lost at the drop of a hat,[note]I enjoyed that show a lot, including the ending, but enough time has elapsed that surely we can stop pretending that every bit of prestige TV is secretly either aping Lost or bravely showing us… Continue reading Of Interest
Love Notes to Newton
I’d somehow failed to notice that a documentary about the Apple Newton had been released: Love Notes to Newton is a mix of historical footage about the machine’s development and tributes to the dwindling band of Newton aficionados who have tried hard to keep their Newtons in daily use in the modern world where the… Continue reading Love Notes to Newton
The Program Audio Series
I can’t remember where I heard about The Program Audio Series, but having spent the weekend catching up with the three podcast episodes released so far I’m definitely intrigued. The premise is that episodes are from a future where decades before something called The Program has pretty much taken over the world and governments have… Continue reading The Program Audio Series
One Day
I guess the reason people keep coming back to being inspired by Vannevar Bush’s Memex, Alan Kay’s Dynabook and what have you is that the internet as it currently exists falls so far short of the dream of what a global information network could have been. Thank goodness that dreams like this keep popping up:… Continue reading One Day
A ‘salad’, allegedly
As a dedicated “meat and potatoes man” can I just say a loud “Hell no!” to this monstrosity: This gets more horrifying by the word. pic.twitter.com/lVfMZfcq4h — Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) August 18, 2018 Do be sure to read the entire recipe to the end. Just do not, under any circumstances, consider ever eating the end… Continue reading A ‘salad’, allegedly
Elections
xkcd: Voting Software: QFT!