”Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.”
T.S. Eliot
”A simple rule for network TV producers. Don’t book election denialists if they haven’t publicly retracted.”
Simple is good.
JetBlue’s Founder Is Preparing to Launch a New Airline in a Global Pandemic
”Breeze CEO David Neeleman thinks masks are for morons and this is actually a great time to start an airline.”
Morons sometimes start airlines.
🎶Porcupine Tree’s In Absentia: the story behind the album
If you are into ‘The Tree’ / Wilson … an interesting backstory to the early days, In Abstentia, Harrison joining and building a following.
Elizabeth Holmes Makes First Courtroom Appearance in Over a Year.
On and on and on and …..
🎧🎼Sennheiser IE 900 First Look: $1,300 Earbuds for Audiophiles
“Sennheiser’s New $1,300 Earbuds Are the Best I’ve Ever Tried”
At $1300 … I would certainly hope so!
How shady companies got names for fake anti-net neutrality comments
”Quel surprise!’
Meanwhile ….
”a 19-year-old college student submitted 7.7 million, and the remainder came from unknown but spurious sources.”
That is a lot of commentary!
Doc Searls Weblog · First iPhone mention?
I wrote this fake story on January 24, 2005, in an email to Peter Hirshberg after we jokingly came up with it during a phone call. Far as I know, it was the first mention of the word “iPhone.”
FUNNY.
My goodness … Obsidian is BIG!
Scripting News: Friday, April 30, 2021
It little old, but I’m ‘kinda’ with Dave. Confusion is being wrought. Podcasts are heading down the path of cable TV. (My words)
Move on?
Screw him and the rest of those thugs. How about we move him and the rest out?
Facebook encourages iOS 14.5 users to enable tracking so its apps remain ‘free of charge’
I love how Apple’s default setting is simply ‘off’. That’s exactly how I’ve left mine - and it’s going to stay that way.
Tom’s not wrong .. whatever happened to honesty in advertising?
Another oxymoron - like his question … ‘how can you increase my unlimited data package’?
Farmer Moves the French Border to Make Room for His Tractor Increasing the Size of Belgium
.. reality … meet ‘The Onion’
The people that argue against increasing the minimum wage are on the wrong side of history. Same for all their other half brained ideas.
In fact ‘half’ is overly generous.
No - whilst an interesting story about Apple v Facebook - I think they are attempting to rewrite history. It’s subtle - but the hosts are not clear on what has gone on and is going on. (short podcast)