Weekly Digest

Life
What a fucked up week. Politics, terrorists and all the while the predominantly right wing media twist everything to suit their will. Hoping next Thursday will be a day of reckoning. Fearing it won’t be.

At least there’s WWDC to look forward to.

Media
Really enjoying Ready Player One. I can see me getting more into Audiobooks thanks to this.

Links

• 2017 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
  2017 Internet Trends
  Always interesting, although almost double the length of last years and harder to parse.
• Britain’s most average place – BBC News
  The views on the streets of Worcester – Britain’s most average constituency.
  Great article just one week before the election.
• StockStream – Twitch
  Mike Roberts is an Amazon engineer who is letting the crowd guide his $50,000 investments via Twitch. Bold…and it will be interesting to see if the wisdom of the crowd pays out.
• What Is ‘Covfefe’? The Internet Wonders
  Late Tuesday night, President Donald Trump tweeted the word “covfefe,” sending the internet into a frenzy.
  The Mango Mussolini strikes again…but what does it mean? I don’t think I’ve seen so many memes spread so quickly. Twitter at it’s best.
• 7 Ways to Maximize Misery 😞 – YouTube
  Love this from CGP Grey
• Inside Google’s Global Campaign to Shut Down Phishing | WIRED
  Google really are fighting a war on our behalf.
• What Really Happened with Vista
  A long read but really great. Vista was a mess and this story reveals some of the reasons why.
• Grilling Glasgow: a short documentary about Glasgow’s burger scene – YouTube
  Between 2012 and 2015, Glasgow experienced a foodie phenomenon – a burger boom. In this short documentary, we speak to the biggest and most influential playe…
  Good wee video into the burger scene in Glasgow and how it grew over the last few years.
• How Lego clicked: the brand that reinvented itself | Johnny Davis | Life and style | The Guardian
  Lego was part of my childhood and I love that they are still around and growing stronger. Picked up this last week and looking forward to building it soon.
• Channel 4 News on Twitter: “What brings politics into disrepute? @Krishgm spoke to Brexit Secretary David Davis. https://t.co/6QijvEtrLG”
  David Davis tries to be smart…Krishnan Guru-Murthy opens up and rips him a new one. Love it.