Your party might be cancelled, but not your birthday!
Geschiebegis.
Maar de geschiedenis kent geen startschoten, enkel een aaneenrijgen van flardjes draad door de eeuwen heen, rafelig touw, samengeklitte lompen.
David van Reybrouck: Zink
Forumulti.
The €101m, trapezoid Forum building is part library, part meeting space, part science museum and part recreational hangout – a 10-storey “multi-space” designed to resonate with citizens who know that shopping is not necessarily the answer. It’s a new-look department store that doesn’t actually sell very much.
Oliver Balch (The Guardian): The new-look shopping mall that doesn't sell stuff
Freeducationline.
It worries me when an online course starts with "sign up for X" where X is a non-free proprietary third-party service. Education should not force its participants to be surveilled and exploited.
The Ignocrapalypse.
Feeling: I really don't like buying stuff from people who don't know what they are selling.
Theory: Things become crappier, unrepairable and more evil when the people who sell them no longer understand them.
Example: Computers. In the good old days (and before I ever used a computer), staff in computer shops actually knew how they work. Nowadays, try asking an employee of any store what the Intel ME is and does.
Other examples: Cars, Bicycles (especially e-bikes), and of course nobody knows knows how a smartphone works.