Tech workers in San Francisco want electric scooters to return
As the scooters reappear on the sidewalks … a thought for the ‘scooter resistance’ … keep renting them and scoot them down the Peninsula … rinse and repeat.
“We [Estonian intelligence] have detected a network of politicians, journalists, diplomats, business people who are actually Russian influence agents and who are doing what they are told to do."
Mikk Marran, D.G. Estonia Foreign Intelligence Service
80% of teenage girls suffer serious mental illness after sexual assault
I am surprised that is isn’t 100%.
🎵 Fred Frith - Founder of Henry Cow - A Little Joint History
I came across an old Fred Frith album in my collection today and recalled that when at school I ‘knew’ that he was the son of the headmaster of my school.
I forget how I ‘knew it’ and over time even started to question the truth of my own memory (just because they have the same last name, blah blah blah .. )
So, with the internet on hand, I just finished some ‘research’ - ok I went to Wikipedia to see if I could find out if there was any truth …
Turns out he was. Still is I assume!
”In the early 1970s Fred’s grey Morris Minor sported the band’s heraldic logo, much to the amusement of boys at his dad’s grammar school in York where he was the headmaster.”
I even remember the car. The memory was real.
Florida Sheriff Won’t Arrest Parking Lot Shooter
Because if you ask someone a question and they shoot you … the ‘stand your ground’ law is a viable defence!
When a link to a news story shows the source of the story, some people end up trusting it less.
”That’s especially true with certain outlets, including Vox, Fox News, and Breitbart News.
Vox? I bet the sample thought Vox was something to do with Fox.
Welcome @bobbyandi
The US produces more Italian cheese than American cheese
”Specifically … Cheddar Cheese accounts for more than three times as much as all other American cheeses combined.
So, English Cheese Cheddar is counted as American but Italian cheese Mozarella is still Italian.
… ummm …. the UK will hand him over to the US?
How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
”Work your way through the corporate food chain like an intestinal parasite at a gratis conference buffet.”
Lest We Forget ... If Indeed You Remembered It First ... Because Only Then Can You Forget ....
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
”… government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Uber: Everything you need to know!
Click through if you wish … I’m really more interested to know the logic of iMore who seem to think that some part of their readership needs to be educated about who and what Uber is ….
Cyclist ignores warning gates, tries to ride onto lifted drawbridge and fails … Wisconsin.
Click through for the video of human beings interceding to change the course of Darwinism …
Trump won Wisxonsin, didn’t he?
🎵40 Essential Albums You Probably Missed So Far in 2018
… probably? In my case definitely.
Even sadder, not only did I not even know one of the albums, I didn’t even know one of the artists.
18% of Americans Own a Smart Speaker …
… count me in the 82% category … assuming they really mean ’18% of ‘People Who Live In America’ Own a Smart Speaker’.
I wonder how good the autonomous driving software is going to be since it now seems that a $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic.
Oh My - Floyd from the archives. All standing around playing their electric guitars and not a cable to be seen …
Now, I write not as ‘An Englishman in New York - but certainly ‘in America’ and tend to agree with the French Ambassador. Not Noah.
Is that the ‘European' in me?