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.

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.