Last week was a tough one. Be sure to update your overpriced Mac and your terrible iDevices. No need to give you links, just start them up and click where the red dots appear.

Also, if you are still being used by Chrome, you should go to “About Google Chrome” and check for updates.

This will fix some pretty terrible problems.

Well, except Windows 10, which you absolutely should update, and then have problems. (tl;dr: Win10 update KB5015878 might cause the audio to stop working on your computer, unless it doesn’t, but if it does, you should do a Known Issue Rollback, which will only work if it hasn’t already, and if it has, it won’t).

The Story of the Nation State in Five Biscuits, by Sharanya Deepak is a quick and interesting history of some popular Indian biscuits, how they came to be, and how they came to be important. I am a huge fan of this subject, and a fan of biscuits in all forms. AND I have a wheat sensitivity! Milk Bikis, Nice Time and Bourbons have all broadened both my tastes, my perspective and most of my body.

Any counter can count things, but R?ta counts things AWESOME. I love everything about this. Go look at it and love it as well, or never come back here.

It’s an idle game! It’s a breakout game! If you go play it, and you have a certain simple kind of brain, you may not be able to stop. I lost about a day to this stupid, simple game.

“It might be our data, but it’s not our breach.” Funny thing about this: In terms of how hosed you are when (WHEN) companies screw up like this, it makes no difference which of them manages to not be legally responsible for completely mishandling the information you trusted them with.

Ghostsigns is a collection of photographs of old hand-painted signs in the UK. It is pretty great.

I rip on the Eagles a lot, but generally, that’s just to have fun with my loud friend STEVE. I really don’t give a shit about the Eagles either way.

I never really got why people would take take the time to announce their hatred of the Eagles. I kinda figure it’s some kind of Lebowski LARPing. That makes it doubly not worth thinking about too much, which is both semantically and mathematically difficult.

I believe that there is a lot of common ground between people who genuinely love the Eagles and the (probably really very small number of) people who genuinely, really, actually hate them.

For instance, today at the grocery store, “All She Wants to Do is Dance” came on the PA. Now, if you seriously hated the Eagles, you would just hate that Henley solo tune on principle.

But if you love the Eagles, all that they could do well, and all that they managed to be, you really should also hate that guy for well, everything about that song.

Again, I don’t really care about the Eagles either way, but someone farted in the waxed paper aisle while that song was playing, and I really thought they made a good point.

This made me laugh out loud. Keep the link for the next time you need an analogy for an app idea.

A Taxonomy of Access Control (Schneier on Security). In an elegant nutshell, this feller has defined the four states that a key or account or whatever can be in as “safe, loss, leak, and theft.” It’s a very elegant and simple set. Linked to Schneier because the source is a paper on cryto wallets, and no-one has time for that shit, and also because the discussion on Schneier’s post is mostly interesting.

I have started listening to John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, which is a comedy series from BBC Radio 4 and so far, I like it.

In a sure sign that fall is just around the corner, here’s the beloved Mr. Bean of finance in another hilarious display of expensive incompetence. This latest screwup affects companies, not people, which makes it much more likely to have meaningful repercussions.  They’ll definitely have to take pretending to know how to computer even MORE Seriously.  This time.

A very large site full of public domain images and clipart, mostly from old storybooks, with many arranged by artist.  This is just great.

How a Taiwanese electric two-wheeler startup made its electric battery swapping stations as common as gas stations in Taiwan.  Rest of World is an excellent site, BTW.

If you do not already look at NASA’s Astronomy picture of the day, you should start doing so!  It’s easy to forget the universe, but it’s almost always around, and it’s not just for billionaires.

Some good things are more than a week old.

Some of the best music you will ever hear about a breakfast cereal -From WFMU

Here: Make a wallet out of paper.   Then point me at a link to something like this that will just hold cards.  I use a money clip for foldin’ money, because I think It is cool, though the fact that I still use foldin’ money proves I am not.

This is a site about Japanese whiskey.  And that is as cool as it gets.

If you are one of those losers with a penchant for obscure independent comics, have I got a site for you. 

If you are more interested in independent comics that other people might have read, I have another site for you.  I am sending you there via  a character page about Ham, the Weather Wizard, in part because “Ham” and in part because it contains one of the best sentences in a character bio ever:

“He was not prepared to give her to Weterlackus to clear his own debt to the demon lord, and when he accidentally turned her into a toad he was inconsolable.”