The Open-Office Trap – The New Yorker I absolutely loathe open plan offices. I have never been more productive than in the brief, halcyon period early my career where I had my own office. Or, I guess, when I work from home. Both of these things enable me to manage the terms on which I engage with colleague's requests for help. (Which isn't to suggest I don't wish to enage, merely that I want to do it in a planned and productive manner, not to be forced into it by someone saying my name…)
Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project | Reuters I… don't know what to make of this. If it's true, this is *huge* news. Just enormous, on a sort of I-can't-quite-believe-this scale. But this isn't "mad scientist with basement lab makes mad claims" like we've seen with fusion before, this is a major military industrial player that is apparently seeking partners to actually *build* the thing! I really hope this is true. Wow.
Yahoo Directory to close down I am internet-old enough to remember when the Yahoo directory was the best way to find websites on the internet. A hand-categorised-by-actual-humans list of the most useful websites on many topics was superior (for a while, anyway) to what was produced by the early-stage search engines. I used it pretty much daily. A significant chunk of my first ever internet job was devoted to making sure that our client's sites actually got listed in the Yahoo directory. I am, therefore, wiping away a little nostalgic tear.
ntlk’s blog: Why can’t you track periods in Apple’s Health app? As this article makes clear: there probably isn't a good reason why not, and there are loads of reasons why it would be useful. I would home this is an oversight that will be rapidly corrected.
15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging – Anil Dash I sort of wish I had kept up the habit of writing "proper" posts on this site, or any other. I'm not even honestly sure that I can point to when I stopped. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever really started – I've never had a topic to explore, never tried to set my blog up as about anything – it's just, y'know, an agglomeration of stuff. Which explains why it has a double digit audience on a good day. But then, it's really not for the audience, so that's fine – it's an aide memoire for me. Anyway – some solid advice here.
Mom’s Evangelical Christian Rewrite of Harry Potter CANNOT Be Real "Thank you very much for your concern, sir, but he does not need your religion, he has science and socialism and birthdays." Sadly, other bits of it are considerably madder, but that bit made me laugh. And it is now my new personal statement.
Raiders of the Lost Ark as a silent B&W film Steven Soderbergh has made this cut of Raiders available as a means of focusing on the staging of the film. I want to take the time to sit and watch this. When I'm not at work.