2020-02-21 (Friday)
Tweets
@amysueagnes @samuelpepys The Latham and Matthews volumes are the ones to get. California Press, I think.
This article about design fiction is cleverly presented so that you can imagine what it would be like to live in a terrible future in which you can only read something relatively easily if you click five things out of the way first. technologyreview.com/s/615190/how-b… Imagine, if you can!
@gilest Better suggestions to replace some of the more dodgy ones always appreciated!
@TechLixo Thanks! It's in the queue on ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
@CohanRobinson Belated thanks Cohan (someone else sent it in too). I'd saved it in my Tumblr drafts four years ago for this very moment. ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/190947756…
@gilest You reminded me to spruce up my playlist of a song named after every year since 1945: open.spotify.com/playlist/3r48W… Some of it's not very good. There are some gaps in the songs-named-after-years market.
@bankwithsmile Thanks. It's been like that for years so I assume someone's noticed it before now but it's too much trouble to fix.
Meanwhile, @bankwithsmile (who I barely use now) still can't display £ signs in messages on its website, which I guess is non-core functionality for a UK bank.
Yes, I'm having a good day online!
Actual web page for choosing how to pay a one-off payment into my SIPP. It must be nice if you're a fraudster that the bar to looking legitimate is so low.
@whathifi OK, I *assume* it’s a bug, but also I’d never underestimate an ad sales team’s desire to screw up a website for £££.
I suppose this is the future of online content. I get a few seconds to read a review on @whathifi before the entire thing is replaced with this, with no means of returning to the article. I’m only surprised the middle isn’t covered by a pop-up ad of some kind.
Liked tweets
Masterclass in economic storytelling from @PerryFellow. Entire concept, story, and joke in three panels
Yet it still stores the same number of web pages as a $149 hard drive bought in 1996 twitter.com/davidfrum/stat…
Just opened the new 4 terrabyte hard drive I bought for $149. In the year I graduated from college, that amount of storage would have cost more than $4 billion.
mkomo.com/cost-per-gigab…
Hi, I have very little idea what I’m doing
