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 September 24th from 16:43 to 11:58:

• A history of the oxo good grips peeler – One of the most important moments in the history of industrial design occurred in 1990, when the kitchen brand OXO defied the traditional, knuckle-bleeding tools of culinary tradition, and released its Good Grips line. To this day, these tools are the best articulation of the potential of inclusive design: Developed for people with arthritis, Good Grips had thick rubbery handles that were also better tools for everyone to use.
• This Dumb Industry: Telltale Autopsy – Twenty Sided – I remember when Telltale raised that money…
• First GDPR Enforcement Notice from UK ICO –
• Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage September 19, 2018 – “On the last day of the 2018 Filing Season (April 17, 2018), the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a firmware bug that caused a storage array to fail. As a result, 59 tax systems, including the Modernized e-File system, were unavailable for about 11 hours. The IRS Computer Security Incident Response Center found no evidence of any breach or cyber threat activity related to the outage. The IRS restored mainframe operations by the afternoon of the day the outage occurred and processed almost 4 million tax returns before midnight.”
• World’s first animal was a pancake-shaped prehistoric ocean dweller –