🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
👁️ 🔗 Tête-à-Tête - Futility Closet - Royal fun in days of yore were - well fun.
🎵 🔗 Phil Collins - Face Value - Steven Wilson Remixes
.. an interesting choice for Mr. Wilson. He’s on record as ‘Genesis? No thanks’. So I guess it isn’t Phil that put him off.
🔗 1Password for Claude Lets AI Log In Without Seeing Your Passwords
… hmm - on the face of it - ‘sure’ - but after a second or two of contemplation - nah.
#PeopleFirst
A code of principles proposed at the 1889 National Hobo Convention:
- Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you.
- When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
- Don’t take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.
- Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
- When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
- Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.
- When jungling [camping] in town, respect handouts and do not wear them out; another hobo will be coming along who will need them as badly, if not worse than you.
- Always respect nature; do not leave garbage where you are jungling.
- If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.
- Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.
- When traveling, ride your train respectfully. Take no personal chances. Cause no problems with operating crew or host railroad. Act like an extra crew member.
- Do not cause problems in a train yard; another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.
- Do not allow other hobos to molest children; expose all molesters to authorities – they are the worst garbage to infest any society.
- Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
- Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed; you may need their help someday.
- If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!
Fits right in with just being a good human - maybe we should teach kids how to be a hobo in school?
Brian is billed as
one of the world’s leading digital futurists.
Not sure how valid the claim is - certainly one of the more famous names - but seriously - after a 40 minute conversation … ^^^ that ^^^ is the big takeaway❓
The detail beyond the image of 🔗 The Fene Cellist is available here.
I have pretty much close to zero interest in Football (both varieties) - but this visualisation of a game is just terrific.
TIL that when, in 1935, Gertrude Stein did a book tour in support of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, she visited the University of Texas and was interviewed by a student journalist named Walter Cronkite.
History colliding.
Maybe in my retirement I’ll become a CSS ninja and obsess over the designs of the ayjay.org world, the way some dudes my age obsessively build scale models of World War 2 fighter planes.
🔗 New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs exclude Tesla and SpaceX from indexes
… had to happen.
🔗 Ideas from Daniel Jalkut. It’s an issue I have come to live with - because historically when I have tried something similar - it has royally messed up my App Store.
Maybe something has changed? Time to look again?
If you like this one - you will love these superb photographs on the click through.
🔗📸 International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above | Colossal
🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Who Stole My Alpha?
The term is borrowed from the financial sector, where “alpha” represents the excess return or competitive edge a particular investment yields over what the market might usually return (this is where the leading finance publication Seeking Alpha got its name).
… I’d often wondered.
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I think what’s new is that we finally have a constituency with the power to oppose the wholesale appropriation of data that’s been the mainstay of the tech industry these past few decades. Unlike consumers, who willingly ceded control of their data for the convenience of tech services, corporations are terrified of sharing information that might expose their strategies, competitive edge, or weaknesses.
Ummm .. maybe not all .. but a lot of ‘consumers’ (I prefer ‘people’) were not willing .. they just didn’t have the power to fight back.
Crucial Track 🎵 July 8, 2026
"Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) [The Ultimate Mix]" by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
It’s going to get you. 🔗 Inspired by
More space on Colossal.
🔗 Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist.
We are very very small.
More on the world’s Anti-Christs …..
Every ‘Differality’ I have 🖇️🔎 ever posted (these just on Micro.Blog) - and more - all put together in 🔗📼 a single SNL sketch - brilliant. 😂
.. Also via 🔗Matt
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
LATER (260711) - 🔗📼 more ‘differalities’. (Also SNL).
🔗📼 Matthew McConaughey - via 🔗Matt.
On September 28, Doc Searls wrote a post entitled DIY Radio with Podcasting. I couldn’t locate a subsequent post where he did a Google search and found zero hits for the term, predicting that there would be a lot more, as the idea caught on.
So it was Doc that coined the term?