Weekly Digest

Life
Busy week followed by a short holiday weekend. Trip to Barrow on Thursday, long drive but great day. Also picked up a new camera lens today. Well, I will do when Amazon delivers later on. Prime wins again.

Media
Re-watched Rogue One. Good, not great but between that and the new trailers I can’t wait for Last Jedi.

Still plodding through Zelda – what a game.

Links

• A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight
  Still amazed that it took United over a day to say sorry. Disgraceful.
• How the BBC’s truth offensive beat Hitler’s propaganda machine | World news | The Guardian
  Rings more true given the last 18 months…stop being balanced, just tell the truth!
• AutoDraw
  This is a great tool from Google. Start doodling and more times than not the tool will give you a better version of what you were trying to draw.
• Technology is a marvel – now let’s make it moral | Martha Lane Fox | Opinion | The Guardian
  Sensible – yes. Enforceable – not so sure.
• Theft and Loss Recovery for iOS Users
  A post about theft and recovery from Fraser Speirs and it’s worth checking how you would recover from a similar situation. After reading I’m having to make a couple of changes to make sure I’m not totally locked out from all my accounts and devices.
• An Illustrated History of iOS
  Tower Blog – About Web and Software Development, Marketing and Design
  Nice summary of the improvements in iOS over the years. What will 11 bring in a few weeks time?
• Webstock ‘17: Cal Henderson – Emoji for fun and profit on Vimeo
  By 2020, all written language will have been supplanted by emoji. But how did it come to this? To understand how emoji work, you first need to learn a little bit…
  Nice explainer on the origins of emoji.
• Self Reflected – Greg Dunn Design
  Beautiful visualisation of the human brain.
• New Full-hemisphere Views of Earth at Night | NASA
  New pictures form Nasa of the earth at night.
• Thor: Ragnarok Teaser Trailer [HD] – YouTube
  This November, Thor: Ragnarok. Watch the teaser trailer now!
  What a great trailer, no doubt the best we’ll see this week…
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser – YouTube
  Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Arriving in your galaxy December 15.
  Fuck the Thor trailer – it’s Star Wars. Still get excited for new Star Wars films despite those dodgy prequels.
• ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Breakdown – Film School Rejects
  As ever there’s a lot to pick up from the teaser trailer.
• A Tribute To Carrie Fisher – YouTube
  May the Force be with you.
  There’s a little something in my eye.