An experiment combined with a real alert.
Serious issues with John.Philpin.com that some great people are helping me with. Site is down and none of yesterday's posts arrived in the MB stream. Maybe this one will? (That is the experiment part).
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 23, 2026
"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
The live one in particular I think nails why I love Depeche Mode - 'electronica sensibility rocks out'.
Also adding this live cover by Depeche Mode of Depeche Mode - Berlin.
‘nuff said
Just a vote - lt of background work going on on Chez PHI⑊PIN this weekend - sure would be helpful to give me an idea of where this is occuring. Or can I search all the files to find it? Disabling plugins right now.
🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.
💬 Om
👁️ The only surprise is that it took this long.
🔗 Largest North American bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy.
Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
🪦 Farewell Dick - you will always remind me that just one ‘small’ contribution can change everything.
I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.
I just read Lou’s review:
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.
💬 Lou Plummer
🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir.
📸 Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.
Waving from the other side of the bay.
(To make sense - 🔗 click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.)
So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”
💬 Jim Groom
… via 🔗 Stephen Downes
I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;
- no explanation
- appending a little commentary
- surrounded by a lot of commentary
- in a sentence
- with snark
- a little more cryptic than some would like
… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
💬 Bertrand Russell
.. via John Naughton