4 August 2015
Links
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ukmade | Made in Great Britain – recommendations of quality products made in the British Isles
A blog with some quite exhaustive posts on different types of goods and which companies make their products in the UK.
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Status Board 2
New major version of Panic’s iPad dashboard app. I’ve never quite got into using v1, although I love the idea.
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Teju Cole (@_tejucole) • Instagram photos and videos
I’m really enjoying his series of images about the Mona Lisa.
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Steven Mithen reviews ‘Earth’s Deep History’ by Martin Rudwick · LRB 30 July 2015
On the history of how we’ve explained the history of Earth and life on it. (Also subscribers only)
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Colin Kidd reviews ‘The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century’ [and more] · LRB 30 July 2015
On the history of describing English history, and how “England”, and what makes it English, has changed. (Subscribers only)
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Steven Shapin reviews ‘Empire of Tea’ by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger · LRB 30 July 2015
Interesting history of tea, and the changes around it over the centuries. “By the 1910s, eight thousand [tea leaf] rolling machines had replaced the hand-labour of 1.5 million workers.” (Subscribers only)
Tweets

/me closes Tweetbot

OK, really sorry I asked such a question here. Stupid of me. Is no place for a nuanced discussion, only “this is terrible!”/“this is great!”

@revdancatt I’ll stop here… there are *plenty* of faults, but I approved of a lot more of it than I was expecting. It’s not just good/bad.

@antimega I didn’t get that sense at all…

@revdancatt Yeah, the clothes and Uber thing stand out as being weird / awful.

@revdancatt That’s how I read it. It wasn’t trying to fix all problems in the world, only make his life and footprint better.

@revdancatt Maybe I had (very) low expectations, but it seemed more considered than I expected. (This wouldn’t work for everyone… etc.)

@jamesweiner What are you unconvinced about? Something in general or just that it’s not for you? I can see it’s not for everyone.

@jamesweiner I really like the sound of Soylent, maybe to replace one meal a day.

Apart from the clothes, and the Uber issue, robrhinehart.com/?p=1331 seems sensible to me. Have I missed something or do you hate me now?

@VirginActiveUK Barbican.

@VirginActiveUK trackerfeedback@virginactive.co.uk which is the address on the email the Tracker machine sends.

Despite that I emailed @VirginActiveUK’s Tracker Feedback address but it bounced… The robots are on to me.If only I had the muscle to fight!

@suegyford @VirginActiveUK Leave me alone I’ve got to eat all these cakes so that the computer is right I must please the robots!

.@VirginActiveUK’s algorithms say that since April I’ve lost 4kg of muscle and gained 6kg of fat. I’d argue but I daren’t argue with robots.

@russelldavies This would explain why I can’t easily follow anyone on social networks - they have to invite me in.

Still no Spotify Discover Weekly playlists appearing for me. Maybe I’ve already discovered everything.

@SuperSIMBO @doteveryoneuk @studiopress Thanks Ally!