Fun and games this morning, as a ClientCo script SNAFU accidentally deletes one of my working directories. Luckily I had a backup… at home 
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- Inside Monopoly's secret war against the Third Reich - Christian Donlan looks at the various strange methods devised by the strange people of MI9 to assist Allied POWs during WWII, with particular emphasis on the custom Monopoly sets manufactured with maps, money, and tools concealed within: "While other departments swooped on Cambridge dons and sinister hardnuts to run their spy-rings and gather their intel, MI9 was just as likely to employ stage magicians... Any image gallery of its notables would include at least a few men who like to be photographed with an eyebrow inscrutably arched and hands outstretched, fingers splayed, as if casting a fireball."
- Everything We Leave Behind - "20 years ago, if I died unexpectedly, the things I left behind would have been quite different than today. I would have left behind scribbles and scraps and other people’s memories... Now? Piles upon piles of digital trails. Tweet streams and Facebook feeds. Blog posts, Instagram photos, forum conversations and/or arguments. Tracks left behind me, tracing every step. With every tweet or comment, we write what we are going to leave behind us. Because we most assuredly will leave it behind."
- Caution Weird Load: Ken Kesey’s Furthur, the proto-hippie bus, headed for restoration - "It seems as though Furthur hasn’t taken its last trip after all. Though the effort has been beset with fits and starts, the family of author Ken Kesey has long maintained a vision of seeing Kesey’s Furthur – the 1939 International D-50 school bus transformed into a rolling testbed for psychedelic experimentation – on the road again, and with a new foundation dedicated to restoring the bus, that just may happen later this year."
- The Names They Gave Me - What's in a name? Tasbeeh Herwees knows: "Roll call is the worst part of my day. After a long list of Brittanys, Jonathans, Ashleys, and Yen-but-call-me-Jens, the teacher rests on my name in silence. She squints. She has never seen this combination of letters strung together in this order before. They are incomprehensible. What is this h doing at the end? Maybe it is a typo... She said it wrong. She said it so wrong. I have never heard my name said so ugly before, like it’s a burden. Her entire face contorts as she says it, like she is expelling a distasteful thing from her mouth."
- JS: the Right Way - Good collection of links to useful stuff about JavaScript, which will come in handy as Atwood's Law comes ever closer to fruition.
- London In 1927, Recreated Shot For Shot - "You might remember this remarkable short film by Claude Friese-Greene, showing the London of 1927 in colour. Well, someone’s only gone and recreated it, shot for shot, in modern London."
- The New York Times Had a Mistake on Its Front Page Every Day for More Than a Century - "In 1898, somebody added one to 14,499 and got 15,000, and the paper's issue number remained off by 500 until 2000." Awkward
- RAF Molesworth’s Ground Launched Cruise Missiles – 25 Years On - "Cars and people pass them every day: an empty sentry tower here, a weed-covered “pill-box” there, and a dark tower standing watch over abandoned bunkers." Cool exploration of what remains of the base.
- How to keep your husband out of the pub...and other tips from a forgotten heroine - "She's no longer a household name, but Hannah Woolley's books offer a fascinating, occasionally laugh-out-loud insight into the lives of 17th-century women." Those of you who have husbands will be able to tell us how much, or little, has changed in the last couple of centuries
- Minimiam: Tiny People’s Adventures In The World of Food - I'd seen the grape one, but it turns out photographers Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle have loads more of these clever photos with food and miniature figures:
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