- History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump
- Watch Michelle Obama’s Scene-Stealing DNC Speech – So good.
- Full Speech: President Obama addresses the DNC
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: “Just Tell Him You’re The President” (Season 7, Episode 1)
- WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
- Jeremy Corbyn and the paranoid style
- Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer
- What’s next for Flickr after Yahoo’s sale? – While it’s been stale for a while, it feels like I need to move my photo’s elsewhere. Shame.
- What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
- Platform wars: the final score – Smart analysis
- iPad-only is the new desktop Linux
- The New Desktop Linux
- You Know What? Fuck Drop Downs.
- Do you need to have that meeting?
- The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionised Emulation – It’s amazing what you can get for so little investment.
Month: July 2016
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- How a racist, sexist hate mob forced Leslie Jones off Twitter
- Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos – The fact that Yiannopoulos is a conservative has nothing to do with this story. He is a manipulative bully that has crossed the line many a time. Twitter is all the better without him.
- I’m With The Banned – must read from Laurie Penny
- Your phone is now a refugee’s phone [watch on a mobile]
- Iceland – Monochromatic
- Clay Shirky, on avoiding complacency this election season – I laughed off Trump but Brexit told us anything can happen.
- First Lady Michelle Obama Carpool Karaoke – can’t see Melania doing this
- Master Plan, Part Deux – Elon Musk unveils the next steps. Wow.
- WONDER WOMAN Comic-Con Trailer – Looking good
- Justice League Special Comic-Con Footage – Looking good?
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Official Comic-Con Trailer [HD] – Guy Ritchie directs Game of Thrones
- Doctor Strange Official Trailer 2 – Marvel remakes Inception
- Sherlock: Series 4 Teaser (Official)
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Another quiet week…
- Gun Deaths In America – Data behind the numbers.
- I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
- I Just Saw This Picture And I’m So Disturbed. Because It’s Me.
- After Dallas Shootings, Police Arrest People for Criticizing Cops on Facebook and Twitter – So now the police take social threats seriously.
- For The Record – Boom
- The Last Day at Number 10 – The changes in power this week in the UK have been breathtakingly quick. Insight here from 2010.
- A Short History of Boris Johnson Insulting Foreign Leaders – Be funnier if it wasn’t true
- Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox as the Three Brexiteers? Dream on.
- Labour is miles away from government, says man out to replace Corbyn
- Game of Thrones Beginner’s Guide: Uncensored (HBO) – Listen up mother fucker!
- R+L=J | Departure – Stunning fan made video on the Jon Snow theory.
- How technology disrupted the truth – who do you believe?
- Reversing the wall
- Indie bookshops turn a new page to fight off threat from Amazon
- Inside The Playlist Factory – Apple Music has a lot of flaws, but the surfacing of great music via their playlists is a definite plus.
- 3D geological models in Minecraft – Geological Glasgow in Minecraft.
- Inside the data center where Facebook trains and tests its apps
- Parading Bull – The Fujifilm X-T2 Review – My next camera
- Snow ghosts – stunning pictures of amazing architecture
- The Unusual Excellence Of Halo’s Most Iconic Level
- We’re The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer – Well done Channel 4
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Shorter list this week thanks to the copious amount os sport this weekend. Well played Andy Murray and the other brits who performed amazingly well over the last couple of days.
- Neil Kinnock: ‘I’m bloody angry. Only anger is keeping me from falling into despair’ – Listen to the audio as well.
- Andrea Leadsom is the leader of an am-dram peasants’ revolt
- The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
- The incredible things that had to go just right for Juno to reach Jupiter – Almost lost in the news this week, but the Juno mission is breathtaking.
- The UX Secret That Will Ruin Apps For You – Must read
- Building My $1,200 Hackintosh – Apple’s lack of up to date hardware has some people looking at building their own Mac’s, but so much doesn’t work is it really worth it?
- Are We At The Start Of A Tech World War?
- Battlefield 1 – Immerse – Ultrawide 21:9 gameplay without the HUD. Looks stunning.
- We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets
- The Flying Sensor Network That Could (Finally!) Save Our Planet
- These Are the Top Drone Photos in the World
- The best iPhone photographs of 2016 – in pictures
- Inside the BBC at Wimbledon – a photo essay
- PHASED | LA – Stunning video
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- How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot’
- Luck Runs Out for a Leader of ‘Brexit’ Campaign – Boris the schemer got out schemed by Gove. Shower of cunts. To do what they’ve done to the country all for the prize of being PM.
- Britain needs to pull together to beat this ugly rise in racism
- Here’s Why A Pro-EU Party Could Be Screwed At The Next General Election
- London’s New, $20 Billion Subway Line: A Tour
- Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode
- Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
- I, SNOWBOT
- How Apple obsessive John Gruber built Daring Fireball, the world’s most powerful one-man media company – Good listen
- The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
- See the Connections Behind Ned’s Promise With This Infographic – This season has been great and this infographic from HBO explains the family relationships at the heart of Game of Thrones.
- Tony Hawk Lands 900 At 48!