- Relying on Friends in a World Made for Couples — The Cut
This resonated strongly with me.
Category: Digitalia
Links for Thursday February 25th 2016
- Concerns Grow As Britain’s Biggest Biscuit Factory Still Isn’t Running
Crisis! Riot in the streets! Overthrow the government!
Links for Monday February 22nd 2016
- Alan Moore: The art of magic
One of Mr Moore's more interesting interviews. - The Taxonomy Of Sin | MORNING, COMPUTER
I really liked today's morning.computer, no other reason.
Links for Saturday February 20th 2016
- London’s 10 Best Bus Routes | Londonist
I may now be considering taking each of these buses.
Links for Saturday February 20th 2016
- Five maps that quantify exactly how rammed London is
I know some people roll their eyes when I say other cities feel small to me. Here's why. - Leap Motion ORION: Yes, The Leap Works Now
If it's gotten better, I'm curious. I got one, then almost immediately consigned it to a drawer as useless. No Mac version of the new software yet, though. - The State of the Speakularity / Snarkmarket
Summary of speech-to-text apps currently on the market.
Links for Thursday February 18th 2016
- Why the FBI’s request to Apple will affect civil rights for a generation | Macworld
If you care about electronic security or privacy, this case is one to watch closely, and with a certain amount of creeping dread. This case isn't about one phone, it's about the precedent. - Apple can comply with the FBI court order – Trail of Bits Blog
Apple can easily comply with the order, without placing (all) their customers at risk, because they literally couldn't comply with the order on their newer phones. But what the order would establish is that the US govt can ask private business to work to circumvent their own security features.
Links for Wednesday February 17th 2016
- Engineers asked children to come up with useless inventions then actually made them
Absolutely brilliant, some really handy things in here. - Hackers hijack Hollywood hospital.
Alliterative dystopia is the future.
Links for Tuesday February 16th 2016
- Isle of Wight model triceratops left in middle of high street – BBC News
"It takes about five blokes to move the dinosaur a couple of inches, so it was definitely a concerted effort and drink was probably involved". - Amazon Alexa PHP Library
Useful for me, and for work. Not so useful for normal people. - Alexa, Unlock the Internet
I use Siri a bit, but voice controlled computing feels like the web in 1996: weird to use now, and not properly joined up, but clearly going to be huge. But: always-on listening devices creep me out.
Links for Monday February 15th 2016
- Time Inc. acquires Myspace – Business Insider
Wait, is it still 10 years ago?
Links for Tuesday February 9th 2016
- Landscapes of Data Infection – BLDGBLOG
Genetic engineering to make plant genomes hold data: "sit down on a bench, touch your handheld DNA reader to a leaf and listen to the Rolling Stones"