I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are.
Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has clearly never seen a class full of parents try to use Microsoft Teams to do remote learning for their children.
I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard,gard,gard)
My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously very cute and mildly creepy.
Workin’.
Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has passed from COVID.
A lovely person and a great talent, lost. Heartbreaking.
How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
Evening on the beach.
Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
Oh, elf. How I hate you.
🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now
I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social dancing at a Scottish school will remember
🏴
Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us?
Kids today wouldn’t believe that.
Love a bit of garden office porn.
Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how Russian misinformation was sowing discord in US communities.
If only people had taken that a lot more seriously.
I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various platform moves.
But it’s more fun just to chose a random tag — like seashore.
Archive spelunking
Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a subject for another post).
Looking back on the 2006 web - pre-social media as we know it today - I can’t help feeling that many aspects of it were better and healthier than what we have now.
We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
Breakfast of champions.
