Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies cinema trip: The Laughing Dog.
Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use it to as good advantage as he who has much. As a search for perception, the recreational stampede is footless and unnecessary.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer when the rate increases to a hundred. The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites on wild nature.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating:
“All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but heavily biased in Johnson’s favour.}
“And somehow, Johnson still lost.”
When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I can think about is this photo:
This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇