We Asked 15 Sommeliers: What’s the Most Expensive Wine You Ever Tasted?

Filed in the ‘stupid and irrelevant questions that have no bearing on anybody .. except the pretension bucket’ drawer.

They aren’t even ‘solving the wrong problem really well”, because they solve nothing.

‘May’ is now ‘Will’ … Finally. But …

Choosing from this gallery of rogues, fanatics and non-entities is like playing the children’s game: would you rather be burned at the stake, hanged drawn and quartered or squashed by a steamroller?

Polly Toynbee

Been revising a version of Pepsi’s

Lip smacking, thirst quenching, ace tasting, motivating, good buzzing, cool walking, high talking, fast living, ever giving, cool fizzing …

Nearly ready … I hope POTUS likes it.

Ouch?

”Like Ted Cruz, Kobach is truly an odious person who nobody likes. Even his fellow Kansans want nothing to do with him these days. Someone needs to give him a late night gig on Fox News and then the rest of us can forget he ever existed."

Kevin Drum

The Full Story

I thought I would answer a question that @ajay asked in one of his recent newsletters.

Here

Court Rules That The President Must Obey the Law

… file under headlines we didn’t really expect to read a few years ago.

Uber Accused Of Failing To Pay £1bn VAT

Another example of the blatant attacks by Europe on fine American companies?

I followed a Tesla yesterday - registration plate something like ‘NO OIL’ (no joke) … I wish I knew their email - then I could send the, this …

How Much Oil is in an Electric Vehicle?

Anyone want a job, that allows you to put your incredible writing skills and talent to producing homogenous, boring content for some useless web site?

If so - there is a job for you

This is why

Creativity Of Criminal Tech

”The calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct a globally unique fingerprint. “

Patched in 12.2

Anyone else remember all the U - NonU rubbish back in the day?

Shibboleths

Not back in Nancy’s day … nor indeed before that … I seem to recall it again got on some kind of upsurge in the 70/80s?

oohh … all that discussion about DayONE and what are the alternatives - now that they have officially lost the plot. Are you a setapp user? Diarly introduced today and includes a DayONE import. Trying it now. More to come.

I am at a loss … just don’t get it, along with the rest of you I guess. More to come, if I can be bothered.

45 of the best oxymorons that caught my eye 10 years ago

Commenting on this to see what might happen as we open up a new set of Web Mention testing … will it ever end?

So detailed, so thorough, so thoughtful and a raft more in the pdf on the click through. Just love this kind of detail - very Tufte in many ways. Maybe even ‘meta tufte’ ?

Let me know if you are interested in dynamic tagging of video ….

… or podcasts for that matter.

My first ever fictional short story … published into the wild.