I know enough about academia, electrical safety, people and hygiene to find this plausible, reckless, funny and revolting respectively, but not enough about any to know which should win.

Wild idea: Why can’t we use the polling card as the ID?

Wilder idea: Why can’t the polling card also be a mail-in ballot?

Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is one of the advertiser’s most powerful tools.

See, the thing is, I hate the styling of it, but I absolutely love that car makers - freed from the rigid designs demanded by huge combustion engines, transmissions and fuel tanks - are actually trying stuff out.

I’m already in a number of communities about beige nineties computers, thank you very much.

the queen

I have some news for you.

The first is when something isn’t completely brit, the second is HM Government’s new cryptocurrency.

+1 for Mumble. I set up a load of Android PoC devices with a Mumble server and it’s honestly like having walkie-talkies that work over the Intertubes.

Years ago, a British, Murdoch-owned, pay-TV company called Sky was piloting this on trains. The showreel for it literally showed weary commuters trying to rest their heads against the window being blasted with audio adverts through acoustic bone coupling. One of the most tone-deaf (pun intended) things I’ve ever seen.

Serious question:

Is it pronounced bour-joys-ee or bour-joys?