Category: Personal
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Daily Physio for Cystic Fibrosis
Jen & Lorcán (Little Fierce One)
My friend Jen's been blogging and vlogging about cystic fibrosis - which her young son Lorcán has - in order to raise awareness of it and of a promising new treatment, Orkambi, which would very likely dramatically improve the lifespan and health of chidren like Lorcán... were it available … -
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I'd write a positive review of their …
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Secure Messaging Apps Comparison
SecureMessagingApps.com
This site maintains a table cross-referencing the most popular "secure" messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Skype etc.) against their security features, so that you can make an informed decision.
The tl;dr is, of course, what I've been saying all along: use Signal! (at least until Riot is more mature...) -
If The World Was Created By A Programmer
Toggl -
Forgetfulness
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Kids
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Working late.
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Worst New Social Trend
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The death of the internet
hen I was very young, before I was on the internet — even before the internet was really a thing you could “go on” — I would dial into BBSs (bulletin board systems). BBSs were kind of like private, micro-internets that people set up in their houses. You had to use a dial-up modem to …
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Digest for November 2017
Summary
This month I attended a festive breadmaking workshop and I wrote about how I discovered that a Turkish university's libraries stole the website of the University of Oxford's and confronted them about it. I shared Elena Filatova's latest video of her explorations of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an article on the strange appeal of … -
Ghost town 13. Night ride through the dead zone
Elena Filatova
If you've not come across her before: Elena Filatova is a Ukranian woman who periodically motorcycles through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, recording her progress and filming/photographing what she sees on her adventures. I bought her photobook the other year and I've particularly enjoyed her videos ever since. Worth a look. -
Digital Resource Lifespan
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Diary
The time capsule was buried in a secluded square in Murmansk in 1967 on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Inside was a message dedicated to the citizens of the Communist future. At short notice, the authorities brought forward the capsule’s exhumation by ten days, to coincide with the city’s … -
Jogging from the Perspective of Animals
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Interdimensional Cable