2014 — 25 May: Sunday
We've got a short, local loop, walk planned1 for a bit later this morning, GWATCDR, but not before my next cuppa and a spot of breakfast. That should — with luck — give the sun time to emerge from hiding.
Who could resist...
... a pull quote like this?
Not me, evidently. The term "start-up incubator" takes on a whole new level of meaning.
This, too, is a fascinating read:
Rational heroes; that's what we need!
Speaking of heroes...
... I was delighted to see that BBC 6Music is yet again repeating some of its "Guitar Greats" documentaries. This time, at least, I've discovered that fact before they've all flown under get_iplayer's radar (as it were) rather than after. It's lovely to hear the late Alexis Korner's voice once again.
Should I ever need...
... reminding why I don't watch broadcast TV in the UK, I like to re-read this little gem:
A recent survey2 of the British population revealed that the average Briton watches 30 hours of television per week... the message (in these shows — sitcoms, soaps, crime, sport) is hardly uplifting, and the net effect is rather one of creating a homogenous set of values in the population. People evidently do not want to be creative in the 30 hours per week that they watch television but to be brain-washed.
This robust opinion was expressed by Professor Roy Rada, director of a multimedia research group at Liverpool University, in the Winter 1993 issue of "Science and Public Affairs" (a journal whose editorial committee included Sir John Fairclough).
Blast from my IBM past
On today's walk we'd been reminiscing about earlier times when we both had "day" jobs. That, in turn, sent me on a bit of a delve into some of the deeper archives of text files buried on BlackBeast. (The snippet above is one such file, for example.) It occurred to me that the Statute of Limitations should make one or two more of my tales safe, as it were, for modern-day consumption. So, here's a previously-unpublished IBM Mole Report, circa 1993.