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A football can be a thing of beauty. How then, does a company with the power & wealth of the EPL get to this? #Fugly  https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LO15qu7PfpczOGjRo5Exyw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9Mzc3O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTY3MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/article.90minutes.com/88768bb39b301bb22a1414e873206746

You only think it's a joke.

Nice appreciation of the 606: Forty years of the 606 club: still London's most seductive jazz cellar I went a handful of times during the late 80s & 90s, not really as often as perhaps I should have? In reality a career in tech based in the M4 corridor (& footy on the weekends) didn't mix well with the late night jazz scene in town. #OtherLives http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/oct/25/forty-years-of-the-606-club-still-londons-most-seductive-jazz-cellar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/oct/25/forty-years-of-the-606-club-still-londons-most-seductive-jazz-cellar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B

LOL. So true. Via https://www.nixcraft.com/terry-lambert-quote-it-is-not-unixs-job-to-stop-you/82/

Hey Robert Machin. Other social networks are available :P

(Some) Apple customers seem to have forgotten their role in the relationship. Remember: Apple tells you what you need, you buy it and use it to continue being locked in to a proprietary hardware & software eco-system. The world heads to a new universal standard for connectors (USB-C) #Hooray! Apple prefers you use their own proprietary ones (a mix of them) so that you are locked-in. The world has a universal standard for headphones (mini-jack) but Apple wants its customers to ditch that (on phones) but still use it on computers? Why do people put up with it? Maybe this connector stuff is a step too far? http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2347.html http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/2347.gif

Doonesbury helps simplify the choice of the American people (like they need any help!) http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2016/10/23 http://assets.amuniversal.com/394d53e05e8b0134c10b005056a9545d

Is this Larry Page's flying car I told you about? I told you back in June that Google CEO Larry Page owns another company, called Zee.Aero, which is working on an electric airplane that can take off and land vertically. The local Silicon Valley newspaper snapped this picture of an airplane that looks like Larry Pages flying car. What do you think? http://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/10/22/larry-pages-flying-cars/ http://www.computerworld.com/article/3082035/emerging-technology/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-flying-car.html #ZeeAero

Nice RT-11 disk pack she has there!

Some good techy reading on the Internet outage suffered by many yesterday & picked up by mainstream press: e.g. BBC: Cyber attacks briefly knock out top sites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37728015 Here's a good, detailed explanation with links to further: Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/ and Bruce Schnier's thoughts (with links) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/10/ddos_attacks_ag.html and an earlier article in September which is really interesting (and a bit scary) Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis?utm_term=.opW1kJWOaR#.pmYoROMme3

tee hee http://twistedsifter.com/2016/10/salvador-dali-latte-coffee-art/

Hello Paula Maxera & tom finnerty (is that the right Tom?).

Watched Spotlight last night. Great film making (story, cast, direction, screenplay) and that fairly rare thing of a mainstream movie telling a difficult story well, without sensationalising but making it engrossing and entertaining. Question: given what we learned from the investigations of the original journalists and subsequent revelations - how is it there is still a functioning Catholic Church with regular attendees/"worshippers"? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Francis_Law#Move_to_Rome #WhatWouldJesusSay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)

Strauss–Howe generational theory Just bumped into this. Interesting. I know noting more than a quick perusal of the wiki page. Any of the deep(er) thinkers & book readers amongst my crew know this? Thoughts & comments welcomed. Link jumps into "The Turnings" WE (or rather, the US) seem to be enveloped in: "Unraveling[edit] According to Strauss and Howe, the Third Turning is an Unraveling ... Institutions are weak and distrusted, while individualism is strong and flourishing..." It is followed by "Crisis". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory#Turnings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory#Turnings

Consequence of Sound: Radiohead’s In Rainbows bonus disc available on streaming platforms for first time. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwq7_j-i8 It's true! https://play.google.com/music/m/Bdcmpzgskaagqouwodjjtuya75m?t=In_Rainbows_Bonus_Album_-_Radiohead http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwq7_j-i8

Happy Friday!!

New Danny MacAskill :) (Shame about the song) https://youtu.be/K_7k3fnxPq0

Donny McCaslin: Beyond Now review – left-field jazz from Bowie's Blackstar band Looking forward to hearing this. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/13/donny-mccaslin-beyond-now-album-review-motema-bowie-blackstar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/13/donny-mccaslin-beyond-now-album-review-motema-bowie-blackstar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B

The wise & funny Andy Hamilton on fantasists, fakery & post-factual politics. I hate fakery, hoaxes & scams, we all should. I find it hard to ignore social media posts from friends which are hoaxes & scams. I feel the need to point out the error, link to a debunking source (like Snopes) and let them know they've been fooled. Often, I find people don't like being corrected, which I find hard to understand. If I post a hoax or a scam I WANT to know, I want to be corrected. Being fooled by a hoaxer & (worse!) passing It on to others is a social media sin! If somebody like me takes the time to point it out to you the correct response should be: ooops, sorry everyone; thank you taking the time to help me; lesson learned, I'll be more careful next time :) It's a leap to go from a crappy Facebook hoax to a Trump or the Brexit Leave Campaign... & yet (as in this article) I can't help but think there is a link & both are symptoms of a failure of ...

Pep Guardiola: ‘I would not be here without Johan Cruyff. He was unique’ http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/07/pep-guardiola-exclusive-interview-johan-cruyff-unique?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/07/pep-guardiola-exclusive-interview-johan-cruyff-unique?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B

"and everything is pouring in..." Jack Kerouac - October in the Railroad Earth #NationalPoetryDay https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=MKeCt7G1KJw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI3m-OUtgnIM%26feature%3Dshare

#madebygoogle coming up. I think I'll watch along with TWIT twit.tv/live See also: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13160254/google-event-live-stream-new-pixel-phone-announcement-schedule https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=5LJyWtbp9Y4&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dq4y0KOeXViI%26feature%3Dshare

He's not wrong.

The Internet of Ransomware Things.... http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2340.html http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/2340.png

Science Is For Girls: 30 Books About Female Scientists http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12445

★ band play #Bowie's Look Back in Anger. https://youtu.be/090aOBjtiwQ

Amazing Frisell performance from 2002. I Check out his custom painted guitar. Great band: Bill Frisell - guitar & loops Matt Chamberlain - drums Billy Drewes - alto sax Curtis Fowlkes - trombone Greg Leisz - steel guitars & mandolin Ron Miles - trumpet David Piltch - bass https://youtu.be/GenlDkfC6wM