This Rob Bell podcast series is making me feel seen right now

Every airline’s business class is just an upper class hostel in the sky, and the frequent flyer lounge is just an upper class hostel kitchen, free to those who frequent the hostel.

Convince me otherwise.

Thirty years ago today the first website, recreated at http://info.cern.ch, was born.

Thirty years earlier than that, the internet - the global system of interconnected computer networks - was conceived, but it wasn’t until the hypertext markup languag, HTML, lead the way to a HTML viewer - a web browser - and the first website became viewable on the 20th of December 1990.

Almost a century earlier we started realising the power of machine as a computer, and thirty years after we started connecting them in a network, we gave birth to a method of publishing and sharing knowledge, stories, information, on “the web.”

We’ve never been more connected, and more divided. Who knew that when we smelt so much of each other that it all wouldn’t be like roses.

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”

The Guardian

“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops.”

@gruber on Daring Fireball

You’ve got to read this LA Times report on how toxic jet engine fumes have been making their way into airplane’s air supplies FOR DECADES AND THE AVIATION INDUSTRY KNEW?! wtf.

For decades, the airline industry and its regulators have known about these incidents — called fume events — and have maintained that they are rare and that the toxic chemical levels are too low to pose serious health risks.