It’s a Harlan Coban. It should have been great. It wasn’t. I am increasingly finding that his stuff falls into 2 star or 4 star. This is the former. I didn’t care about the people. The mystery …
Should it be 5 stars?
Probably because it is quite simply an absolute spectacular gem.
🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff. The writer …
I don’t know - I share a lot of Om - but this one - this right here is in a class of its own - so beautiful. A delight to read. A level where you don’t just give up highlighing the best parts - but maybe even give up writing - because how can you even begin to achieve this.
Talking of 🖇️ Herb .. this is one of his iconic ones and it got me to wondering why Haight Ashbury wasn’t called Ashbury Haight. I now know the answer - BUT - now I’m wondering what rules the signage in SF follows .. I have my suspicions, but need to check - and if they are consistent.
Sitting and catching up with the world - and not one, not two but three Substacks all on a single theme;
🔗 Open Source and AI, FSF Edition - Dana F. Blankenhorn
🔗 The Mar-a-Lago Accord, or the Plan to Crash the US Economy - Umair Haque
🔗 State Of The (Super)Consumer: Why Government Cuts Are Spooking The Market
They are all different and come from different angles but the theme is not good. And planned?
It’s head-scratching if you’re a boomer. You lived through JFK, proffering what you could do for your country and… Now it’s WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?
💬 Bob Lefsetz
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025
Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.
💬 Dave Winer
I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)
Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.
💯 🔗 It’s Scorched Earth Time - let’s start with over throwing 🖇️ Chuck.
This is the second post from Indexed with that headline …
Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about ‘The People’s OS’. 🔗 Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first …
I’ve been following 🔗 Umair for years - but - only 10 references to him on this blog (I just counted). I think partly because he sometimes seems do be so out there and partly because he desperately needs a good editor - because he can go on … and on … and on …
Still - when you look at some of his old stuff that was ‘out there’ then .. and you look at today - maybe he isn’t as weird as he sometimes reads. So I commend you to today’s offering ….
What’s going to be left after five years or so of this? What we’ve already seen, and we’re just two months in?
💬 Umair Haque