Barely enough gaps for a sandwich today, never mind getting this lot together. Anyway, here's something to read while we wait to see if they cancel the project I've been working on since early last year 
Happy invoicing!
- The Old and the Restless - ”An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.” Strange doings in a Mexican town filled with American expats in the 1970s.
- Why small annoyances can harm us more than big disruptions - ”A largely forgotten psychological concept helps explain the insidiousness of minor problems – and what to do about it.” It’s the little things…
- Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try - ”Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.” I suspect I’m surrounded by ZX81s
- The Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed - ”When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.” A modern(ish) Pheidippides.
- These conspiracy theory believers went deep down the rabbit hole — then found a way out - There is hope for those lost in a maze of twisty little Facebook groups: ”Today Stephanie is, in her words, a conspiracy theorist in recovery. And she wants to help others who are trapped in a world of false beliefs to recover, too.”
- In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913) - ”In 1901, two British women just getting to know each other took a trip to Paris. The day they visited Versailles, things turned strange.” Their theory was that they didn’t just see ghosts, but the actual memories of Marie Antoinette
- For the first time in 37 years a new parliament will meet without a member of the cast of The Railway Children - One of the more recondite circumstances that will surround the new government. ”For an explanation, listen carefully to Bernard Cribbins in the film's most famous scene.”
- The Dave Nice Video Show, Part One: “A 60s Version of The Word” – Dirty Feed - A remarkable project to find the source videos used in Smashie and Nicey: the End of an Era: ”Where does the archive footage in these scenes originally come from? Surely we can do better than “a 60s episode of Blue Peter” and “footage of a Beatles concert”? Yes. Yes, we can. Much better.” Already up to four parts, with more to come!
- In 1989, A Teenage Atari ST Dev Made One Award-Winning Game Then Vanished - What Happened? - ”A 14-year-old Swiss resident created an amateur game for the Atari ST, won a prize from the bank Crédit Suisse, and then promptly vanished… what happened to Jean-Claude Schopfer?” Life, it turns out.
- Lucky strike. - ”Twenty five old Japanese matchbox labels, mainly 1950s, scanned from a recent stash we acquired.” More nice ephemera from the stationers at Present & Correct
Happy invoicing!
