Rewriting History
Did John Lyndon Hate The Floyd?
Is Pink Floyd a punk band?
Are people really surprised when Roger Waters delivers protest?
Why is the film not Called 'Us and Them'?
All this and more in this week's newsletter.
Man accused of stealing 1,020 pastries worth $90,000 from New York bakery.
Ninety Dollars?
For a pancake?
And we wonder why the world is in trouble.
🎵 ‘Us + Them’ … BOOKED
… and I do like the subtle switch from ‘and’ to ‘+’
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”I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”
Roger Waters
“All parents want to help their kids get ahead,” they wrote in asking a judge to commit Huffman to prison, “yet most manage to steer clear of conspiracy, bribery and fraud.”
Prosecutors saying crimes committed by Huffman should not be interpreted as runaway parental zeal.
A Test Blog - THANKYOU @manton
GM Turns to Google for in-Car Apps, Voice Commands
Well that saves me having to look at General Motors when thinking about cars in the future.
$4.5 million is a lot of money to most individuals. To MI State - a rounding error. Until these fines get real - until the people involved start paying for their crime themselves - nothing will change.
Compared (say) to 36 years for stealing $50
No wonder people are pissed.
Three - count them - THREE - emails today announcing the closing down of three different services.
I didn’t use any of them - though had signed up.
A sign of the times and/or things to come?
A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online.
Like over 400 million huge.
Thanks for the link Louis.
“How did a man you wouldn’t trust alone with your own sister come to be trusted with the entire country?”
Jeremy Paxman
The Top 10 Portable Microphones .. apparently.
Noting that nine of them range in price from $59.99 to $269.99 … so at $32.30 is the Samson a bargain … or a case of you pay for what you get?
We have a steady stream of images that are being pushed into Instagram - like these.
One Word Art
[Some of these are just so funny that they needed to be shared.](hilarious-indian-hills-community-center-signs-63-5d67908d4aa5c__700.jpg 700×525 pixels)
Just when you think everyone has forgotten Theranos up pops this
Funny - because earlier this week I published this - it touched on Theranos - but is really about Xyleco - wondering if we have another scam on our hands?
Identity Theft
“Think of the Uber Eats Delivery Service more as a logistics company that finds the most optimal setup to distribute a billion extra dollars every year to delivery guys.”
Kyle Westaway
WTF - the terminal dashboard … call it a public service for all you techies …