Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for March 5th from 21:29 to 07:04:

• Matthew Irvine Brown » Schooloscope – Remembering the joy that was Schooloscope, courtesy of @irvinebrown's blog @itsallgonewrong
• The Web’s Grain by Frank Chimero – "The edgelessness of the web tears down the constructed edges in the company." Brilliant treatise by @frank_chimero:
• Dashboard – Voter registration – GOV.UK – The data on this page is so important:
  <– 20 April deadline to register to vote in gen elec
• Register to vote – GOV.UK – The data on this page is so important:
  <– 20 April deadline to register to vote in gen elec
• Fraser Speirs on Twitter: “@drwave @monkbent Of course! I had forgotten that. http://t.co/BvFaZNb3Xo” – @drwave @monkbent Of course! I had forgotten that.
• Untitled (http://dymaxion.org/talks/CTF2015-Everything-is-broken-except-hope.pdf) – Slides for Everything is Broken Except Hope are here: & there's a (truncated) recording here;
• Untitled (http://dymaxion.org/talks/CTF2015-Everything-is-broken-except-hope.mp3) – Slides for Everything is Broken Except Hope are here: & there's a (truncated) recording here;
• The case against killer robots, from a guy actually working on artificial intelligence — Fusion – Ng's algos "are far worse translators than humans who’ve seen a fraction of that data.”
• Getting Started | GitHub API – Let’s walk through core API concepts as we tackle some everyday use cases.
  Most applications will use an existing wrapper library in the language of your…
• Issues | GitHub API – Issues use these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here. List all issues across all the authenticated user’s visible…
• My IxD15 conference talk: “Jumping to the end” – This talk summarizes a lot of the approaches that we used in the studio at BERG, and some of those that have carried on in my work with the gang at Google…
• The BBC, the licence fee and the digital public space – The Controller of the BBC’s archive strategy maintains the institution’s fundamental role within the media ecology and argues that the Licence Fee should…