A new Dredd movie? Please please please don’t take off his helmet this time.

Good and sensible tips, especially the eye contact mantra - drivers definitely react differently when you give them the Julie Bishop death stare:

Finally, drivers act with more courtesy when they are being watched, eye contact is a powerful thing - a bit like a flashing light, increasing the probability that you’re not ignored.

Having watched the pro’s, a beautiful short film on a group of amateurs climbing the Tourmalet and three other Pyrenees peaks. Where do I sign up?

The New Yorker on online music’s potential to replace old fashioned radio:

I didn’t care for a few of the songs, but the experience was much more like grappling with a d.j. than like watching a piece of software operate. I learned about two bands I didn’t know, was reminded of beloved tracks I had forgotten, and didn’t listen to anything I already had in mind. Scotfree’s playlist didn’t last as long as a good d.j.’s shift; the burden is on the user to find other appealing users and more lists, and to build the experience. In some ways, it’s an improvement on the radio model: the number of potentially appealing d.j.s here dwarfs what you might have once found on radio.

Tim Bray on Android vs iOS vs ?

This is the big league; bigger today than the computer industry ever was, and growing fast. This is as fierce a concentration of R&D heat and manufacturing virtuosity and distribution wizardry and marketing mojo as humanity has ever seen.

The staggering power of Facebook.

Fascinating and depressing article on the fate of Bluefin Tuna, and the possibility of replacement with farmed species:

These were the thoughts that made my mouth water as the waitress approached my table. But when she asked me in blunt Nordic style if I’d like to “try the whale”, all at once my 21st-century foodie curiosity wilted. “No,” I said, “I’ll have the mussels.”