I stumbled across some enthralling speeches for and against HS2, recorded at a debate organised by The Spectator. Here’s Rory Sutherland against HS2 and Matthew Parris’s counterargument, for HS2. Both are somehow riveting, each in different ways.
November 2013
November 27, 2013
- Klunssilan nokkatippuri - YouTube. "Ei pidä mennä nenineen sinne, missä toiset on ollu munineen." #
November 26, 2013
- The business of Phish. A fascinating article on how Phish mastered their trade and built a musically and financially successful career that went against the grain of the conventional music industry. #
- Why clever and lazy leaders are more efficient. Interesting classification system from 20th century German military strategists. #
- Will ad agencies ever make products successfully? #
- The 38 most unexplainable images on the web. #
November 25, 2013
- Politico Magazine: Sex in the Senate. An incredible interview with Bobby Baker. #
- The Next Web: 8 simple copywriting tips, backed by science. A story needs to have an absolutely, undeniably irresistible topic for me click on a headline that starts with a number (e.g. "10 things..."). Still, an interesting dissection of headline gaming. #
- Government Digital Service: the best startup in Europe we can't invest in. #
- 10 most incredible Earth scars. #
- Rory Sutherland on why not HS2. An entertaining recording of Sutherland's speech at a debate organised by The Spectator. #
- The Magazine: Everybody knows you’re a dog. The origins of the seminal cartoon, published 20 years ago, and how, after the Snowden leaks, it reflects a more innocent time of the web. #
- Vice: Irvine Welsh doesn't regret choosing life. Here's something I didn't know: "Kubrick based the film on the American edition of the book, which omitted the last chapter, which was very British, very pragmatic. Whereas the American one was very clear: there’s good and there’s evil. " #
- Vice: Porn is dead, long live sex. An interview of Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.tv. Gallop has some interesting points the current state of porn and feminism. Quote from a user: "Watching porn makes me want to jerk off. Watching [MakeLoveNotPorn] makes me want to have sex." #
November 22, 2013
November 21, 2013
- Top 30 best film score composers. John Williams, Alan Silverstri, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Vangelis... #
- Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”. A very long and scary interview, part of PBS's Hunt for the Nightmare Bacteria. #
- Monday Note: Microsoft Mission Impossible. #
- Benedict Evans: The meaning of really cheap Android. Cheap electronics are bleeding out of mobiles and tablets, making more objects smart. #
- Pressure Drop Brewing. Looking forward to trying these local beers. We might be serving these at the next #FEL! #
- Yle: Salakirjoitusten murtaja käy Vatikaanin arkistojen kimppuun. #
- BBC News: 'I thought I was on The Truman Show'. #
November 19, 2013
- 36 realistically colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real. #
- Codex Seraphinianus. In the late 70s, Italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer Luigi Serafini made an encyclopaedia of unknown, parallel world. The 360–380 page opus is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. #
- Bizzare animal creatures that actually exist. #
November 14, 2013
- Marty Sullivan figured out how the world’s biggest companies avoided billions in taxes. Here’s how he wants to stop them. #
- New river monster (Arapaima Freshwater Fish) discovered in Brazil. This fish can grow to over 3 meters long! #
- inFORM: Interacting with a dynamic shape display. #
- Hire of Raj Date boosts Bitcoin credibility. #
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Mobile is eating the world, autumn 2013 edition. Benedict Evans’ presentation on usage, sales and trends of mobile and tablet devices.
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November 13, 2013
- Bad taxidermy is the perfect mix of hilarious and terrifying. #
- More people should write. Reminds me of why I originally started to blog. I should write more! #
- Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP. Easy to overlook when pulling things together quickly. Surprising to see so many big sites do it. #
- Rumination: The danger of dwelling. Interesting study on stress by the BBC. #
November 12, 2013
- LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS. How LinkedIn cleverly adds profile information to messages in Apple's Mail client. #
- Most people won't. With a great excerpt from an interview of Elle Luna, who audaciously proposed to redesign Uber the its founder -- and was taken up on it. #
- The Government wants to teach all children how to code. Here's why it's a stupid idea. Should we tech kids to code? Fair question. This column, however, is fairly inane. My favorite sentence: "Jack is the perfect poster child for why our kids can’t code – he’s a normal person, rather than an exceptionally dull weirdo, like the bulk of developers." #
- Four insanely tough interview questions (and how to nail them). #
November 9, 2013
- Russian criminal tattoo archive. Fascinating explanations of tattoos. #
- WSJ: How teen Nick D'Aloisio has changed the way we read. #
November 8, 2013
November 7, 2013
- Trie. Ordered tree data structure using characters as keys in the tree. Obviously pronounced "tree". #
- Devops Horror Stories. Campfire-side tales of devops nightmares. #
- Is bitcoin broken? A nicely measured response to a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper on a potential flaw in bitcoin mining. #
November 5, 2013
- I bought an apartment to rent out on Airbnb. #
- Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels. This TED talk provides a power look at how drug cartels follow the same market rules as legitimate corporations. Both the War on Drugs and the double standards allowed by generally law-abiding recreational drug users are both complicit in perpetuating the violence of the cartels. #
- How I deal with users who steal. Beautiful way of responding to users who cheat to get the service for free. #
November 4, 2013
- Reindeer eyes change colour from gold to blue over course of the seasons. #
- BBC News: Tesco petrol stations use face-scan tech to target ads. #
- My first job: fired and rehired on day 1. #
- Three reasons why the Semantic Web has failed. #
- Photos from Homerton in the 80s. #
- Responsibility for Healthcare.gov's IT problems lie with dot gov. #
- With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things. #
