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I think hustling might have jumped the shark.
In August due to a flight change I now have six hours in San Francisco, and I’m pretty excited having never been. Where should a nerd like go in six hours? Apple Park?!
Diving into another perfect Gold Coast day volunteering at #GC2018 Commonwealth Games
All of the big Internet companies want your private data, but Cloudflare’s business model looks transparent and I think this is a service worth using your protect yourself online: 1.1.1.1
My kind of April Fools gag is a Seth Godin April Fools gag
Watching Qld Police officers, highly trained in bringing down criminals, embarrassingly bring down the letter of the law on rogue bongo drummers in Burleigh Park.
The USA is proposing reviewing social media of nearly everyone seeking entry and I’m really looking forward to their riveting critique of my 3GB Facebook archive, almost 80,000 tweets, and 6,000 Instagram posts.
There is nothing more exciting on earth today than this Twitter thread
There’s a primary school in Torres Strait, the far northern tip of Queensland, Australia, that has no books for the students. It would be so cool if everyone sent them a children’s book!
People are losing their mind as Pope Francis says ‘Hell does not exist,’, which is great and all that, but why don’t we just ‘fess up and say we simply don’t know & the information we’ve got on the subject is sketchy.
A 2007 article by Victor Keegan arguing that MySpace had a monopoly and it was too hard for it’s users to leave.
Your fortune teller isn’t as good as David Gerrold
I’ve just checked into my hotel for the night and I think I’ve been drafted to represent Scotland in the #GC2018 Commonwealth Games
Seeing this photo makes me feel extraordinarily proud
“The truth is, we could make a ton of money, if we monetized our customer - if our customer was our product. We’ve elected not to do that.” - Apple CEO, Tim Cook, commenting on Facebook’s business model.
Apple’s constant efforts to win over schools and students isn’t a silly effort. My first computer experience was an Apple IIe in Grade Five, then using my uncle’s Macintosh in the early 90s cemented it. I wanted an Apple computer.
Humans, we aren’t going to beat the computers if it takes this airline staff member 14 minutes to figure out there’s no direct Vancouver-Gold Coast flights.
Doc Searls makes a pretty good point about what the rest of the year is going to look like in the news (OMG Amazon is tracking me!)
