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Grand East Berlin Hotel iPhone 6S Berlin, Germany Monday, September 5th, 1988.
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A successful nation has to be, to one degree or another, a romance.
Mark Steyn
Honeymobile iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Marina Gazing iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, July 9th, 2018.
Folk & Galvanized iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, June 25th, 2018.
Bowie Lives iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, June 21st, 2018.
Brighton Rock Bicycle Race iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, June 8th, 2018.
Skydarking iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
Dusk Drama iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
Tranquilo iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
The Return of Stromberg iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
The Fighting Jetty iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Mist Away iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Spit, Polish & Ruin iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Flatform iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Rich Wooden Ceiling iPhone 6S Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018.
Lovely Dog iPhone 6S Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018.
Harlequin Ed iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, April 19th, 2018.
Aquamarine iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, April 14th, 2018.
Fire Lasers iPhone 6S Hyde Park, London, England Wednesday, April 11th, 2018.
Joins iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, April 9th, 2018.
Bright iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, April 6th, 2018.
By the Seaside iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, February 19th, 2018.
Eros from the Bus iPhone 6S London, England Wednesday, February 14th, 2018.
Sou-hwick Square iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, January 28th, 2018.
Same in Hebrew iPhone 6S East Sussex, England Sunday, January 28th, 2018.
Needed a Break iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, January 20th, 2018.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Trump the Shibboleth Marauder: On August 31st, the State Department announced that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNWRA, the UN agency that has served to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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, September 23rd, 2018
John Gruber’s Daringfireball reviews, no, essays, on The iPhones XS and Apple Watch Series 4 are a pleasure. “Series 4 is to Apple Watch what iPhone 4 was to iPhone,” he writes. “The model that takes the original design to a new level.”
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
How did I not know about ribbonfarm all these years; truly I’ve been living under a rock for ages. Thoughtful, concise, erudite, relevant: Tendrils of Mess in our Brains by Sarah Perry.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Premieres for the Rams doc by Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica) are being held all around America. The only cities where it’s sold out are: NY, LA and SF.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
When Judaism curls into something surely bonkers and even deleterious: Orthodox Jewish women shamed for long wigs. Ah, to cover one’s hair with… hair.
Saturday, September 8th, 2018
Never mind it being yet another acronym, this method humanizes selecting colors for the web: On Switching from HEX & RGB to HSL by CoDrops explainer extraordinaire Sara Soueidan.
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
9to5Mac presents 50 new watchOS 5 features.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
I miss the days of forums, when any issue about a product was discussed on its own site and nowhere else. I do believe issues are better resolved online with posts, not chats.
Inappropriate use of chat software erodes mental health, at least, mine. Here’s a fun articulate essay on why the author hates Slack (and you should too).
And Slack is proprietory. I just scrolled up and was stopped and told I need a paid plan! And Discord: why?! Trendiness happens.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Trump the Shibboleth Marauder: On August 31st, the State Department announced that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNWRA, the UN agency that has served to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Thursday, August 30th, 2018
“Breaking Smart” by Venkatesh Rao. This is the first collection, “Software is Eating the World”, inspired by a residency at Andreessen/Horowitz.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Spotting the Golden Ratio in the wild: At the end of their hairbrained Federation Plan for Israel and the Palestinians (minus Gaza, which would spoil the math), the authors state: “Jews and relatives of Jews, in this estimate, would comprise 62% of the population, while Muslim and Christian Arabs would total 37%.”
Monday, August 27th, 2018
Adventures of a Bystander
Peter F. Drucker
Beloved creator of management, recipient of 25 honorary doctorates, Peter F. Drucker wrote his autobiography in the form of vignettes of spectacular individuals whom he encountered throughout his fabulous life from privileged childhood in Vienna, through journalism in Germany, banking in London, and over to America. It’s a book of overflowing humanity.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
“Modelling Process Intensive Scenarios for the Smart City” [PDF]. In this paper by professors at the computer science department at the University of Camerino in Italy, the authors discuss BPMN (and bpFM, which I’d never heard of before) in the context of municipal services, specifically bike-sharing.
Another perspective on bike-sharing, this time re usability, by mobile-first thought leader Luke Wroblewski.
“Service Design 101”, a primer by the Nielsen Norman Group.
Jake Shears at Concorde 2. Bloody missed it is all.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Pinhas Inbari sheds new (to me) light on the roots of Palestinian nationalism, arguing that the similarities to Syria’s schisms are more than parallels but in fact the same issue: pan-Arabism (Fatah, Ba’athists) vs pan-Islamism (Hamas, ISIS).
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Impressive mobile usability thought leader Josh Clark shares the tools he uses, from pen to Piwik (now Matomo).
Monday, August 20th, 2018
David P. Goldman has been predicting this for years, and now it is happening (nudged along by Trump’s new steel tariffs): Turkey is in a horrible mess and likely to become a Chinese satrapy.
Contrast with George Friedman’s notion that Turkey will become a superpower, which to me seems comically misguided.
That said, Turkey does seem a fulcrum power, a bellweather of who dominates global affairs; if it falls to China’s influence, this is not great for the West.
To me, with my limited exposure to Turkey, the fundamental problem is that as a people are misguidedly unsatisfied with being a nationstate. Instead, they want to be the local imperium, which cannot be. Turks, I say: apply your justified satisfaction with quotidian life to the national level. That way you will indeed make friends and influence peoples.
Look to Britain for this, which once ruled much more than the Ottomans, but harbors no hopeless dreams to revive a moment in history.
Perhaps not coincidentally, both countries are currently in some danger of a secessionist crack-up.
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
On nationalism old and new. In Tablet, the prophetic columnist David P. Goldman discusses Yoram Hazony’s new book The Virtue of Nationalism.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
This guy wrote reviews of every Queen song.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Who is Michael Cohen? Part of the exquisite series on Trump’s coterie by Josh Fruhlinger in The Baffler.
Clips from the great British documentary The Great British Year. No need for a BBC license; this is the programme’s web page. Just great stuff.
Sunday, August 5th, 2018
Why does tech have so many political problems? A list of 17 answers by Tyler Cowen. I love the phrase “Robespierrean social justice terror”.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Why was he like this to her? Excerpt from Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ upcoming book about her father Steve.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
“Shouting ‘Peace, peace’ may actually push peace away,” argues game theorist and Nobel Economics laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, New York-born head of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at Hebrew University.
This is just about common sense — by that I mean it’s only a single twist of what Edward Luttwak calls the paradoxical logic of strategy. Yet perhaps there are further twists; I suggested one back in 2003 in “Allah Help the Jackals”:
Perhaps Israel is following a subconscious national strategy of the strong, in which it behaves too meekly for a decade or so, emboldens its vicious but feeble enemies until they go too far, then lashes out in a now-obviously-justifiable response and gains untold assets in the process.
Not to mention that the more time goes by, the more Israel strengthens and the Palestinians weaken.
This subconscious national strategy of delay by dint of wanting too hard, if it ever were effective, seems to have played itself out now, as demonstrated by Israel’s shift of focus towards undermining UNWRA, which plays such an underlying role in prolonging the conflict.
What with the Sunni warming to Israel and the supremely sympathetic Trump Administration, Israel it seems believes that allowing the conflict to fester for gradual gain has now become counterproductive, and so seeks a new path to end it.
All that notwithstanding, nothing ends until the Palestinians begin educating their children towards co-existence alongside Israel.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Friday, July 20th, 2018
We have a bunch of companies that are comprised of a sales department and a tech department, because every other job has been outsourced to a website run by another company composed of a sales department and a tech department.
Peter Welch, “How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer”
Programming Sucks is some cynical cuteness on coding by Peter Welch.
Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people’s faces while they’re speaking and you don’t know they’ve finished because there’s no semicolon.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Hillel Frisch explicates the Russian view on the Middle East: while Israel is most concerned these days about Shiite Iran, Russia worries more about Sunnis.
Saturday, July 14th, 2018
Check out this important web development article, CSS: A New Kind of JavaScript. I think the author is especially clear on opacity.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Nicely done on the semi-colon. Besides, anything that gets in Moby Dick‘s chapter 42 is alright.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
In the JAMstack — the new decoupled way of building web sites (rather than using a monolithic system) — data gets passed around, usually in JSON format, which is essentially arrays. The newest versions of Javascript, ES5 and ES6, have more methods for handling arrays, the most cited being map, filter and reduce. Since handling arrays in JavaScript constitutes a significant part of coding a JAMstack (Javascript, API, Markup) web site, it’s vital that a web builder be adept with these methods.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
Well, this an extravaganza of an article, practically a short book, on the American 9.9%.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
Lesbians protest transsexuals at London Pride. The group is called Get the L Out. The event and the media condemned them but they seem to have some sympathy in the discussion on mumsnet.
A German court has issues the first GDPR ruling, reports The National Law Review. It concerns ICANN, the American non-profit that oversees the global WHOIS database of registered internet domain names, and German registrar EPAG.
Sunday, July 8th, 2018
Saturday, June 30th, 2018
Scientific paper on the effect taking pictures has on recall.
Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
Tyler Cowen: Why read news?
If you follow the news, you will work at it every day, more or less. Better those compound returns than to do something else once every three months and a half.
Sunday, June 17th, 2018
Michael Chabon on Finnegan’s Wake [2012].
As my year of diving languorously into the murky waters of the Wake wore on, I came to feel that it was this failure, this impossibility, this grand futility of the Wake, that constituted its secret theme, its true aboutness.
Saturday, June 16th, 2018
First she called herself a Joycean, then she realized she’s more of a Joyceaholic. A great fun rueful erudite walk around the city that is James Joyce.
This is not the first time I’ve broken up with Joyce. A couple of years ago I decided we were in a co-dependent relationship. Except how could that be true if I was the only dependent one?
Friday, June 15th, 2018
What a lovely episode of Westworld is the latest, “Kiksuya”. I think the show has been great recently, such as crashing into the Shogun version of Sweetwater in “Akane no Mai”, and James Delos’s incarceration and repeated relaunches in “The Riddle of the Sphinx”.
There is so much death depicted in Westworld; I haven’t watched Game of Thrones nor The Walking Dead so perhaps that is par for the course nowadays on tv but it’s new for me. In reality this level of mayhem only exists in pockets (and of course among the non-human), so I suppose it is important that we be reminded of it.
I love the ongoing reversal within Westworld that the real world shot outdoors is fake while the indoor sets underground, reached through Lost-like hatches, are real. And the music; beautiful! And the scenery, beautiful! Without these two elements, how great can a moving picture story ever be?
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Internet Trends 2018 — all the stats. A presentation by Mary Meeker.
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
The Web is coming to the Watch! No webfonts yet though.
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
The US Supreme Court has ruled 7–2 in defence of Colorado baker Jack Phillips who refused for religious reasons to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple who subsequently sued him.
Justice Anthony Kennedy: “The outcome of cases like this in other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts, all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market.”
Friday, June 1st, 2018
Bernard Lewis, 102 by Yonoson Rosenblum:
Lewis was one of the first to take note of the “Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders,” issued in an obscure London Arabic paper in February 1998 by Osama bin Laden. Lewis began his piece in Foreign Affairs as only one deeply immersed in Arabic literature could, with attention to the declaration as a “magnificent piece of eloquent, at times even poetic, Arabic prose.”
More:
At times, he has been a player, not just chronicler of events. Well before the Yom Kippur War, he was tasked by Egyptian diplomat Tahseen Bashir with bringing to Israeli leaders the message that President Sadat was ready to make peace. Bernard met with then prime minister Golda Meir, whom he describes as having a “personal filtration system” that allowed through only what she wanted to hear, as well as Moshe Dayan, Yitzchak Rabin and Menachem Begin. Only the last was eager to pursue the diplomatic feelers.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
The Dawn of Day
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is a delicious book to pick up in spurts — BMW punchy as Emerson is Rolls-Royce bubbly — but I couldn’t say what it’s chiefly about, where it starts, where it ends, how it fits in with Nietzsche’s other books, nor whether I’ve even read it before (I do remember particular points but perhaps they’re also mentioned in the other books). As usual this 19th-century giant sounds as if he writes… this morning.
Mosquitoes New Menace...
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Emergency evacuation: Flyer mistakes exit door for bathroom...
Cuomo blames weather, not taxes for NY population decline...
Rhode Island the most sex-crazed state?
NASA can see dark, polluted Carolina rivers spilling into the ocean from space...
State Officials Weigh Joint Probes of Big Tech Companies...
FACEBOOK Deletes Political Pages...
'Chinese Spy' Arrested In Chicago...
EU Justice Commissioner: Media Must Be Regulated to Prevent 'Hate'...
Planned Parenthood forces cancellation of 'GOSNELL' screening...
TWITTER to ban 'dehumanizing' comments -- with user help...
Video...
Cruz Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Protesters...
'YOU ARE NOT SAFE. WE WILL FIND YOU'...
Republicans' Least-Worst Option Is If Kavanaugh Withdraws--Soon
The Hysterical Campus
Who Will Protect Mueller's Russia Probe?
The Best Way for Democrats to Win Working-Class Voters
Worried About Google's Political Bias? Don't Use It
Why Aren't Liberals Fun Anymore?
The Huge Stakes of Thursday's Confrontations
Republicans, You're in Charge: Confirm Kavanaugh and Move On
REITs Are Real Estate Working for All Americans and Reshaping Communities
The Suicidal Sanctimony of Phony Conservatives
Whose Side Are Asian-Americans On?
Reeducation Campus: The First-Year Indoctrination
Saving Our Future
Donald Trump Versus the Foreign Policy Blob
The War on Coal Is a Winner for China
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
Fata Morgana in the Juan de Fuca Strait
Meshbird – distributed private networking
AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
New Research Finds that Caravaggio Died of Sepsis, Not Syphilis
The Mystery of the Shakespearian Cartoons
Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux
Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5
A Brief History of Alibaba Founders
Java 11 released
Street View of 1980s New York
Old Concept Cars
How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust.
Arizona sex crimes prosecutor tapped to question Kavanaugh and Ford
Iran's president suggests Trump has "Nazi disposition"
Kavanaugh vote scheduled for Friday morning
Why it matters: Global supply lines are entangled in China
Trump's latest juxtaposition
John Bolton to warn Iran: "We will come after you"
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison
Podcast: Facebook's photo fallout
Trump publicly doubts second Kavanaugh accuser
Trump at the UN: "Few give anything to us"
Subscriptions dominate streaming
Qualcomm says Apple gave its trade secrets to Intel
Russia’s first Krasukha-4 electronic warfare unit lands in Syria. It can jam spy satellites, enemy radar
Trump calls on all nations to isolate Iran’s regime
Netanyahu: IDF will carry on striking Iranian targets in Syria and coordinate with Russia
Moscow sources: Syria to get 8 S-300s. Russian electronic gear delivered
Russia’s electronic warfare, S-300s for Syria to be aired at Trump-Netanyahu meeting
Israeli security cabinet meets Tuesday on crisis with Russia
Putin turns Netanyahu down on canceling S-300s for Syria
Palestinian terror innovation: A large bomb attached to a balloon cluster
Russia declares electronic war on Israel ranging over Syria, E. Mediterranean
Russia to supply S-300s to Syria, jam navigation over Mediterranean
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Putin's Missiles for Syria
Israel Knows How to Deal with the S-300
10,000 Palestinians Riot along Gaza Border on Friday
U.S. Warns Russia over Advanced Missile Defense for Syria
Russia to Send Syria S-300 Antiaircraft System
Gunmen Kill Dozens at Military Parade in Iran
Israeli Doctors Bring Cataract Treatment to the Developing World
Significance of Attack on Military Parade in Iran
The Lies of Russia's Report on Israeli Culpability for the Downing of the Russian Spy Plane
Corbyn Says Labour Government Would Recognize Palestinian State
Israeli Airstrikes in Syria Destroyed Rocket Factory, Iranian Aircraft
Monitor: Four Years of Coalition Strikes on Syria Kill 3,300 Civilians
Gaza Arson Balloons, Kites Spark 6 Fires in Israel on Saturday
"Hizbullah Treasurer" Arrested in Brazil
Newborn Joins 300 White Rhinoceroses in Israel
Trump administration launches sweeping review of fetal-tissue research
From the archive
Cryo-electron microscopy shapes up
Yellowstone grizzly bears back under endangered-species protections
No more first authors, no more last authors
Genetic determinism rides again
The costs of climate inaction
Daily briefing: India, China, Saudi Arabia and the United States will lose most from climate change
Landslides pose threat to Himalayan hydropower dream
Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter highlights the value of physical repositories
Big-data project aims to transform farming in world’s poorest countries
Secrets of long-lost mummies unwrapped
Advice from the high seas: how to transition to a new lab
Machine learning gets to grips with plankton challenge
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
The Promise and Peril of ';Smart'; Cities
Due Process for Judge Kavanaugh
The Madame Defarge of New York
Midwestern Radiance for 2020?
Feminist Narcissism
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Prank: Make a surprise mini golf course in your friend's bedroom
Who is the lazy one now, Susan?
Boy with autism hates being in photos, mom lets him wear T-Rex suit for family pics
How to take care of yourself when exposed to sexual violence in media and online
Spectacle frames that reflect infrared light, blinding CCTV cameras
Listen: Buddy Hackett's filthy Donald Trump putdown joke, as told to Merv Griffin
The Transportation Safety Agency wants you to give their dogs a good home
Low-carb butter pecan cookies
The history of wingwalking as told by a wingwalker, whilst walking on a wing
Dunkin' Donuts drops Donuts
Yellowstone grizzly bear hunt cancelled thanks to court ruling
The one beer to have when you are having more than one
Pete Rose, Pelé, and Don Knotts pitching the Atari game system (1978)
"Almost Famous" will be a stage musical
Climate change may be more expensive than we think
Tuesday assorted links
Get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free
Do moving and making big decisions tend to happen together?
Reihan Salam on the immigration crisis
Monday assorted links
F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy, by Peter J. Boettke
World War II and African American Socioeconomic Progress
Syverson on Productivity
Claims about alcohol
Congestion pricing is not just slanted toward the elite
Sunday assorted links
How to have a good conversation
Ethiopia fact of the day
The forthcoming Chinese charter city?
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
Another working Apple I nabs $375,000 in auction
Apple Pay chief says Apple not out to disrupt credit card industry
Apple pulls conspiracy theories, debunked news from Safari's 'Siri Suggested Websites'
Apple Watch Series 4 has smaller batteries than Series 3, official specs show
Apple build costs for 256GB iPhone XS Max estimated at $443
Apple releases first macOS Mojave 10.14.1 beta to developers
How to choose between stainless steel vs aluminum Apple Watches
Increase your Mac's usability and fun with one of these 10 accessories for less than $50 each
Panasonic announces new line of Lumix S full-frame mirrorless cameras for 2019
How to make a bootable, external macOS Mojave install disk
Why did Apple spend $400M to acquire Shazam?
VMWare Fusion 11 and Pro ships with full Mojave, 18-core iMac Pro, i9 MacBook Pro support
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Spotted: New Logo for Tribune Magazine by Lauren Traugott-Campbell
Spotted: New Logo for Wave
Linked: Right Between the Is
Noted: New Name and Logo for WW
Reviewed: New Logos and Identity for FA Women's Leagues by Nomad
Spotted: New Logo for University of Dayton
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for FS Assist by ALSO
Announced: 2018 Brand New Conference: Photos, Tweets, and Videos
Linked: Spooky Fanta
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Malta by OLIVER
Reviewed: New Logo and Packaging for Carlsberg by Taxi Studio
Spotted: New Logo for The Kennedy Center
Linked: 2017 - 18 Brand New Summary at BNConf
Noted: New Name, Logo, and Identity for Whirli by Ragged Edge
Reviewed: Friday Likes 260: From Pràctica, Bedow, and Futura
Biting the hand that feeds IT
experiments in refactored perception
Dodo Thoughts
Refactorings Roundup 09/02/2018 — 09/15/18
London Visit Next Week, Three Events
