September 2020 internet

A big list of articles read during the month and just one video this time round. After reading about the new King Alfred's Way route developed by Cycling UK I actually managed to get out and bike it along with my dad, header photo relevant

• When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number (Alex Hope) - amusing read along the lines of the title
• Social Cooling (socialcooling.com) - the effect of social media and reputation-based metrics on human behaviour
• How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole (wired.com) - work and life in an era of incessant distractions
• List of fictional companies used in Microsoft material (social.technet.microsoft.com) - contoso is not a real company

The kind of ridiculous video of riding Land's End to John O'Groats, it seemed a lot more of a grind when I did it:

• Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian (theguardian.com) - time to embrace the winter like those in Norway

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• Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years (bbc.co.uk
• GB Fuel type power generation production (gridwatch.co.uk) - live data showing how the Great Britain is currently generating electicity broken down in to all the different types of power generation
• The rise and fall of Pret a Manger (wired.co.uk) - Pret being hit hard by the pandemic and the exodus of London-based workers away from the city
• An Arsonist Destroyed A Wonder Of The World For Modern Reasons (outline.com) - the arsonist who destroyed the Temple of Artemis to become famous and the ancient Greek punishment of erasure from history
• How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks (thehustle.co) - making fish popular in the U.S. with the invention of the fish stick
• Everyone Has a Tom Pritchard Story. Only I Have His Bike. (bicycling.com) - a story about a larger than life chef and the history of his bike
• Hotels of Pyongyang (hotelsofnorthkorea.com) - photography book covering the architecture and design of North Korean hotels
• The First Appearance of a Real Computer in a Comic Book (fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th) - finding the oldest representation of a computer in a comic book