I just received two more Top Cache awards for my treetop geocaches. I'm absurdly pleased with all of these. Thanks to Amberel for his awards, and his craftsmanship!
Blue Angels 360
Some 360 video is better than others....
Almost at peak Wisteria
Westonbirt Arboretum
Arb Show 2018 is very good. But not as good as the entire rest of the arboretum!
Jim's Ukulele Songbook
Goodness gracious me, Jim Carey has updated his 2000+ song songbook for ukulele. You can get it from his amazing website here in pdf form.
(Though if you are online it is worth looking at them on his website because you can transpose any song into any key, change the chord diagrams if you are left-handed, change what instrument you are using etc. It’s a real piece of work.)
Facebook's T&C Reading Level is College-Age
I thought I'd run a reading-age checker over Facebook's Terms. I did not include the onerous "other terms and policies" because they are only available as separate documents. (It is curiously tricky to just get all the terms you sign up to in one place.)
The Flesch Reading Ease level is 39.6. This is the middle of the "College Age" range (30-50).
It seems to me that any Terms document should be written at the reading-age of the youngest people you allow to create accounts. Facebook's is currently thirteen. (I am assuming of course that all people over college age have a reading level that reflects that. They don't.)
Fingle Bridge
How to Fight Climate Change: Figure Out Who's to Blame, and Sue Them
What was I thinking?
WAS I thinking?!
How to Strike
Wow - this is absolutely the way to do it...
Okayama buses strike by continuing to run and refusing to take anyone’s money
Read the whole article in Japan Today (02/05/18)
Who Gives a Crap?
Kevin B Parry
Kevin B Parry is an absolute genius. I first saw him (unwittingly) in this tremendous video of walking styles, all of which he completely nails, and which is over six minutes that you will certainly gawp at to the end and wonder where the time went.
Then it turns out he's all-over talented, as this
and this
demonstrates.
Oh, and this.
We love you Simone
RSS Readers are Due for a Comeback
It does seem we've all forgotten that you can curate your OWN news/social feeds.
Swan Songs
NPR's All Songs Considered have compiled a list of songs that their listeners would like at their funerals and, knowing that, listening to it is really quite touching. You can do that on this Spotify Playlist. Or read about it here.
Rainbow Connection... I mean... You can't go wrong!
Bad Lipreading does Zuckerberg
This is tremendous.
Waitrose and GDPR
The irony of receiving an email from Waitrose advising me of their GDPR Privacy Notice despite me repeatedly asking to be removed from their mailing list has not gone unnoticed.
Chroma Keying Fun
Nothing especially interesting to show for it yet... But I'm having fun working out green-screen/chroma-keying...!
Tiny Desk Concerts
NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts are the best and most fertile part of the web for music you may not have heard of and will probably be glad you discovered. This is a playlist that I'm adding my favourites to.
Another rescue
Our cat is horrible.