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Facade Ricoh KR-10 Super Barcelona, Spain Monday, August 22nd, 1988.
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To paraphrase what Lincoln said about slavery, if cruelty to animals is not wrong then nothing is wrong.
Larry Hansen
Girl on Plane iPhone 6S Sunday, November 4th, 2018.
Exiled iPhone 6S Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, Great Wall, China Sunday, November 4th, 2018.
Man, Platform, Sea & Border iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Self Portrait as a Shadow on the Rocks iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Up the Hill iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Maintenance iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
A Happier Paving iPhone 6S Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Through the Blind iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Sunday, October 28th, 2018.
A Moment in Shoreditch iPhone 6S London, England Thursday, October 11th, 2018.
More Marina iPhone 6S Brighton Marina, Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, October 7th, 2018.
Lovely Colours iPhone 6S Moulsecoomb Wild Park, Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, October 6th, 2018.
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.
7:56pm UTC
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee announces his startup Inrupt to support and popularize Solid, a platform to enable people to regain control of their own data.
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.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
“Respected journalist” Joel Golby has pulled off this rather spectacularly impressive series of mini-essays for Vice in Choose Your Own Adventure: Friday Night Edition!. More relevant for people say a quarter of a century younger than me but one can appreciate.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
The more you keep your mouth shut, the more fertile you become.
Saul Bellow
If you don’t give literature a decisive part to play in your existence, then you haven’t got anything but a show of culture.
Saul Bellow
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
According to The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East by Prof. Meir Zamir, British Intelligence provoked the Arabs to invade Israel in 1948. The link is to an episode of the Tel Aviv Review podcast featuring Zamir.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
A savvy 69-year-old Dutchman who “identifies as 45” aims to legally reduce his age.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
America and I, both exceptional, would together elude prediction and defy determinism.
Saul Bellow
The degree to which you challenge your own beliefs and expose them to destruction is a test of your worth as a novelist.
Saul Bellow
Telling all is the function of intellectuals.
Saul Bellow
The historic task of a civilization is to remake the world in its own image.
Saul Bellow
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
In this survey of Palestinian opinion conducted 25-27 October 2018 in the West Bank and Gaza [.doc] by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah University, there’s a drop in support for “the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders as a final solution for the Palestinian cause” from a mere 34.6% to a meager 16.4% if it includes “some land exchange”. But if they don’t want this, what do they think they can achieve that’s any better?
Important to consider: despite choice fatigue, users do benefit from some symbolic choices, this piece argues.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Species eradication and wiping out animal populations seem to me a more dire problem than mere climate change. It should be our environmental priority.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Note to self: Eric Elliott’s article entitled 12 Books Every JavaScript Developer Should Read.
British influence in the EU has been far greater than recognised, this piece argues. If this was better understood in Britain — and if, say, the BBC had devoted a couple of hours a week to pure Europe news — I’m guessing Britons would be much more pro-Europe today and the Brexit own-goal would not have occurred.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
The 1953 Bergren Residence, on the market for $2m, is a pretty Wrightian Lautner, especially around the fireplace.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
itshello.co — clientless, open-source video chat in the browser.
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
You’re ♬ never ♫ too old ♬ to ♫ be young. “The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45” in the Harvard Business Review.
Saturday, October 13th, 2018
I’m with Thomas (now Giselle), as robust as it blimmin’ gets with his Empire for Liberty.
My own sort of wacky view about it is that the American Revolution was basically a dispute over the course and direction and ground rules of the Empire.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Worrying that you’re late is one of the signs of a good idea.
Paul Graham, How to Get Startup Ideas
Hussein Agha, senior Fatah member, discusses at some length — and it seems to me with honesty — the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
When Palestinians are close to reaching an agreement and are genuinely faced with giving up 78 per cent of their homeland, they feel surrender, so they recoil. Whenever Israelis find themselves at a similar point and try to justify giving up material assets in return for mere words, i.e. promises about future conduct, they recoil.
An interview at the impressive Fathom Journal with Lyn Julius, author of Uprooted.
The Jews were intrinsic to the rhythm of life in the Middle East. It all ended in the space of a generation. Some 850,000 Jews fled 10 Arab countries; most found refuge in Israel, where over half the Jewish population has roots in Arab or Muslim lands.
Try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
Paul Graham, “How to Do What You Love”
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Now that’s a web site: New York City tree map — every last one, including street view, species, diameter. [via Kottke]
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Friday, October 5th, 2018
The Power of Pull
John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison
The core ideas are repeated so unabashedly often that distaste for the repetition makes me want to reject the ideas. Perhaps though repetition is deliberate, like in television commercials, working under the rhetorical theory that the reader will be irritated into remembering the message?
At any rate, the book posits three steps to getting anywhere: find the resources you need, attract others to your vision, and move at the appropriate pace to implement it. Crossing these three steps is the idea that innovation tends to occur not at the heart of things but at the edge, and so there must be an interplay between the incumbents and the hungry marginal outsiders. And the current business paradigm of digital transformation pumps up these perennial dynamics to where they must now be utilized as a framework.
The book’s blurbs are so hyperbolic and from such high-powered people, perhaps its simplicity is its power and the repetition worked on me: I dismiss the book merely because I understand it, and I understand it due to the repetition. And my understanding the book proves it a good one.
Since a few years have now passed since publication, some of the enterprises cited as exemplary wonders in the making, like Shai Agassi’s Better Places, have collapsed, giving further if unintentional insight into the topic.
You could argue that I missed the point entirely, in that I don’t even mention here the concept of “pull”. But that’s because to me it gradually lost any meaning, they used the term so often, and became a stand-in for “good”.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee announces his startup Inrupt to support and popularize Solid, a platform to enable people to regain control of their own data.
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
In case anyone else was mildly traumatized by the way fonts appear on MacOS Mojave due to the disabling of subpixel antialiasing, here’s the solution by Github user alexanderyakusik:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Also, in System Preferences > General, check Use font smoothing when available.
Then reboot.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
More incredibleness: sefaria.org, a beautiful bountiful platform of the Jewish texts. What an accomplishment.
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
John Gruber’s Daringfireball reviews — no, essays — on The iPhones XS and Apple Watch Series 4 are a pleasure worthy of their subject matter. They feel informed, informal, thoughtful. “Series 4 is to Apple Watch what iPhone 4 was to iPhone,” Gruber 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.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Million Dollar Consulting
Alan Weiss
This most renowned book by the engaging Alan Weiss has a tone of practical, optimistic advice. Its title however is unfortunate as the first part may come off as cheesy while the second part comes off as only applying to consultants. Its subtitle, “The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice”, is more accurate; I was talking with an old friend who now has his own one-man legal practice and realized that pretty much all the book’s advice applies to him.
Although famous for advocating value billing rather than hourly, perhaps the book’s dominant concept is that you should invest your marketing energy in becoming a thought leader — in speaking and writing.
Weiss is a bit of a minor national treasure (despite hovering sometimes on the edge of bad taste — and I believe he is way sophisticated enough to understand exactly what he’s doing) and despite becoming slightly cranky in his more recent musings (not that I disagree with where he’s coming from, but political musings may be off-putting to others). He is a gifted writer in that having read his book you feel he is your friend looking out for you.
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).
Rescuers search for pet owners...
Al-Qaeda Threatens More Infernos...
Woman killed...
French protesters rail against fuel taxes with road blocks...
Merkel protege eyes female quota for lawmakers, takes aim at dual citizenship...
EL AL diverts flight after religious passengers become violent in Shabbat scare...
Netanyahu heads into cabinet showdown as allies demand early elections...
Macron's popularity falls to 25%...
SAfrica white farmer land grabs will be LAW...
More users delete accounts...
Senators Threaten to Regulate...
FACEBOOK investors call on Zuckerberg to resign...
Italy's 'anti-NETFLIX' law to protect film industry...
NETFLIX Sees Oscar Gold in 'ROMA,' but Hollywood Isn't So Sure...
How Kevin Spacey vanished off face of the earth...
Britain's Priority Is to Avoid a No-Deal Brexit
Thanks, Judge Kelly, for Protecting the Press From Trump
Restoring Acosta's Press Pass Won't Restore Trust in the Press
May's Plan Dead in the Water--and Chaos in Britain Has Only Begun
Macron--Not the Nationalists--Is Stuck in 1930s
A Saudi Murder Becomes a Gift to Iran
Trump's Foreign Policy Strategy: Burn the Bridges
Three Changes That Advance Trump's Mideast Peace Plan
What Went Through My Mind the Day I Was Shot
Trump's Attack on Mueller Is About One Thing: Fear
When Scientific Consensus Is Corrected by a Skeptic
Bloomberg Eyes 2020, But Would Dems Warm to Him?
Kerry: People Will Die Because of Trump's Paris Decision
Deval Patrick's Presidential Prospects
Full Challenge to Theresa May Looks Imminent
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
Iris Automation Is Hiring a Recruiting Lead – AI for Drones
Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics
What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)
Simplicity (2016)
GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go
SpaceX Isn't Planning to Reuse the Falcon 9 Rocket's second stage
How cities can fix tourism hell
Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds
If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century
Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch
Ask HN: Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?
Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower
Amazon's Stealth Brands: Everything on Amazon Is Amazon
A million-dollar drug
Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust.
Democrats flip another seat, turning all of Orange County blue
Trump's trade war means restaurants are bringing the bacon
Faith in democracy fades in Latin America
Andrew Gillum concedes Florida governor's race to Ron DeSantis
State Dept.: "Numerous unanswered questions" about Khashoggi murder
The growing movement to define the actual value of drugs
Why drug prices matter: Lives and livelihoods are at stake
How a nonprofit called Civica Rx is trying to provide cheaper drugs
Exclusive poll: Americans don't think Trump will reduce drug prices
The many reasons why drugs cost so much
In the coming decades, seniors will work long past 65
How inmates who fight wildfires are later denied firefighting jobs
First ever US vote against UN condemnation of Israel’s Golan “occupation”
Hamas leader: The next rockets will hit Tel Aviv
New Iranian rocket smuggled into Gaza could threaten IDF defenses including Iron Dome
Russia Swings back to Libya, Promotes the Late Qaddafi’s Son as Next Leader
Portugal Grants China a Mid-Atlantic Foothold
Iran/Hizballah’s Gaza Ploy to Deflect Israel from Smashing their Missile Upgrade Plants
Cabinet Crisis May Spur Israeli Air Force Showdown with Russian S-300s in Syria
How His Tame Response to Gaza Rockets Is Forcing on Netanyahu a Snap Election
Saudi prosecutor seeks death for five suspects in Khashoggi killing
Iran’s army chief praises Hamas “victory”
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
The Rockets from Gaza and the Peace Process
UN Committee Criticizes Human Rights Violations in Iran
Ecuador Honors Late Diplomat Who Saved Jews from the Nazis
U.S. Levels Sanctions on 17 Saudis for Alleged Involvement in Khashoggi Killing
NGOs Disappear when Palestinians in Gaza Fire Rockets at Civilians in Israel
UNRWA Narrows Funding Gap after U.S. Pulls Support
Cutting Hamas Down to Size
Ghana's Support Brings Israel a Step Closer to African Union Seat
Israelis near Gaza Have Lived with Rocket Attacks for 15 Years
U.S. Envoy: Iran Sanctions Help Cut Funding Streams to Hamas and Hizbullah
Video: The Israeli First-Responder Organization United Hatzalah
In Rome, Israeli President Rivlin Tells Pope Israel Won't "Stand By" in Face of Hamas Attacks
U.S. Changes Vote on Anti-Israel UN Resolution on Golan Heights from Abstain to No
Italian Deputy FM: European Attitudes toward Israel Are Improving Dramatically
What Would Other Countries Do When Faced with Thousands of Violent Rioters Attempting to Breach Their Border?
Skull-collecting ants slay with acid
The Doctor Who theme and beyond: female pioneers of electronic music
Daily briefing: Exoplanet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star
Largest overhaul of scientific units since 1875 wins approval
Widespread plagiarism detected in many medical journals based in Africa
Plugging the leaky pipeline for UK female chemists
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies
World’s first automated volcano forecast predicts Mount Etna’s eruptions
Photobombing stars lead to cosmic false identity
Daily briefing: Coral scientist, former naturopath win Maddox prize
Molecular net fishes sugar from blood
Brexit: what the draft deal means for science
Ban on ‘gene drives’ is back on the UN’s agenda — worrying scientists
Linking a cell-division gene and a suicide gene to define and improve cell therapy safety
‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells implanted into patient with Parkinson’s disease
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
Gridlocked, in Fair Weather and Foul
The Weatherman Did It?
Capital of the Cyber-Century
Overpraising the Overseers
Mission: Revive the Rust Belt
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Sole and Despotic Dominion: my story about the future of private property for Reason
Classic film streaming service FilmStruck rises from the dead...sort of
Google donated $5k to GOP Senator who "joked" about attending a lynching with her Black opponent
America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street -- now they're ducking property tax
A most incredible NASA promotional video
Kentucky Kroger shooting suspect to face hate crime charges
Ted Danson learning to floss
Exec who oversaw Google's failed babykiller projects and cozied up to Saudis quits after employee uprising
San Francisco Uber driver distributing filter masks to passengers
Amazon's NYC digs being built on land that would have been used for low-income housing
Oxford Dictionaries' crowns 'toxic' as its 2018 word of the year
These U.S. senators are (on) crackers
Learning piano is as easy as ABC (DEFG) with this new approach
GPU-accelerated dismemberment demo: 10,000 zombies in a giant blender
Saturday assorted links
*Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy*
All Hail Dalton Conley
Teacher expectations matter
The new movement of geno-economics
Friday assorted links
Everyone is upset at Amazon, but…
Science is getting less bang for its buck
Do we need a Journal of Controversial Ideas?
Thursday assorted links
Coasean Skies
How much did the housing shock drive political polarization?
Why aren’t millennials buying boats? (the boat recession)
Twentieth-century cousin marriage rates explain more than 50 percent of variation in democracy across countries today.
Ho hum, or hidden externalities?
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
Amazon's Black Friday Deals Week delivers the lowest prices on HDTVs, Echo devices, Cloud Cams & more
Here are the five biggest iPad Pro problems, because no device is perfect
How to use an iPad or iPad Pro as a monitor for your Mac
Walmart forecast to usurp Apple as No. 3 online retailer in U.S., Amazon widens overwhelming lead
Verizon rolls out 'My Numbers' feature for five lines on a single device, announces RCS support in early 2019
Last remaining AirPort Wi-Fi accessories no longer on sale from Apple
Apple should keep Lightning for now, but USB-A has to die
Adobe Lightroom CC adds support for 2018 iPads and iPhones, new Apple Pencil gestures
Three new Apple Watch Sport Loop and Sport Band color options available from Nike
iPad Pro 12.9-inch review: Putting Apple's 'pro' claim to the test
These pre-Black Friday deals deliver the lowest prices on MacBooks, iMacs, iPads & Apple Watches
YouTuber unsurprisingly discovers that if you try to bend an iPad Pro, it will actually break
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Spotted: New Logo for Comscore by Firstborn
Linked: Overwatch League Expansion Teams
Noted: New Logo for Miami Marlins
Announced: Co-Op Shop: Volume 1 Campaigns are Ready for Pre-Order!
Spotted: New Logo for Chicago Sky by David Day Associates
Spotted: New Logo for Affirm by Mackey Saturday
Linked: TARGET now target?
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Proof Alliance by 10 Thousand Design
Reviewed: New Logo for Azerbaijan (Tourism) by Landor
Spotted: New Logo for Kemper
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Motorsport UK by rbl Brands
Linked: WW III Identity
Noted: New Logo and Identity for ATP Tour by Matta
Reviewed: New Logo System for USL by Athletics
Biting the hand that feeds IT
experiments in refactored perception
Refactorings Roundup 10/07/18 — 11/12/18
May You Live in Epic Times
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