>’People have lost the ability to even know what a joke is. It’s very Orwellian’
Looking forward to seeing them in just over a fortnight. 🎵
Category: Links
Posted on March 29, 2018
Google and Facebook data – Despite myself, I’m quite impressed with the data that Google holds on me, as detailed in *Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you*. The timeline locations and ‘My Activity’ sections of the data seem particularly comprehensive! In comparison, for me, the download of my Facebook data seems relatively superficial.
Posted on March 12, 2018
Trying the experiment of turning off all the retweets from people I follow on Twitter using the method detailed at lifehacker. Interested to see what impact that has on the noise in my Twitter timeline.
Posted on March 12, 2018
Interesting article by Blake Morrison – Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed? 📚
Posted on March 10, 2018
Yes! Aston Villa 4-1 Wolves ⚽️
Posted on March 10, 2018
Still think St. Austell Proper Job is one of the best bottled beers you can buy. 🍺
> An authentic IPA brewed with Cornish spring water and a single malt made from Cornish grown Maris Otter Pale barley.
Posted on March 7, 2018
Mary Wollstonecraft, author of *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* (1792), the first book in English arguing for the equality of woman and men, must finally have her statue – more info at maryonthegreen.org
Posted on February 28, 2018
Bobby Klein's best photograph: Jim Morrison has a beer for breakfast.
Posted on February 26, 2018
Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets – just noticed and appreciated this article, published on the anniversary of her birth, February 22nd 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry has been eclipsed by her personal life – let's change that 📚
Posted on February 11, 2018
Villa beat the Blues to win the local derby and go up to second place in the Championship Aston Villa 2-0 Birmingham City ⚽️