• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Time Inc. acquires Myspace – Business Insider
  Wait, is it still 10 years ago?

• 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"

• How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
  I knew that Mickey was a huge part of the reason for ongoing copyright extensions. What I didn't know was that Disney have no real *need* to push for them, since they've got him so heavily trademarked. They own him as long as they want to.
• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?
  This is saddening. Even among the famous works, there's a lot here that it would be a huge public good to have copyright-free, and I don't think anyone could argue that the original creators (or in most cases, their estates) haven't been fairly compenstated for these work.

• The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators | UK news | The Guardian
  So it turns out that particularly during peak times, it would be better if escalators on the tube were standing-only and people *didn't* walk up the left hand side.

• App Directory | Slack
  Slack app integrations. May be useful later.
• Official BBC instructions for knitting Doctor Who’s scarf
  How to knit the 4th Doctor's scarf.
• The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
  Interesting and saddening breakdown of the economics of internet fame.

We ought to bring back this sort of thing. It’d make dating easier and more civilised.