There’s a global setting in macOS (in the General pane) where you can choose to “Prefer tabs” in all applications. This means that any time a new window would get created, you get a new tab instead. Which I love for Terminal, because I hate getting swamped by random
TV
The Next Generation season two is a revelation. Not in the sense that it’s unimaginably better than season one — it is, but just a bit. No, it’s a revelation because I never knew that Dr Pulaski existed. She's actually a pretty decent character, arguably more interesting
Star Trek
> Spoilers for 1987! Netflix recently allowed you to save some videos offline, and the entire history of Star Trek appears to be up for grabs. So I’ll be watching Trek on my daily commute and reporting back here. When I get to it. I’ve just started season
TV
Gosh, the world is depressing right now. Not that worse things haven’t happened before, but apparently I had some emotional investment riding on the idea that the USA had broadly sensible leadership. This was clearly a mistake. Let’s talk about television instead. Sherlock I am a little bit
Politics
Who Are All These Trump Supporters? [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies] — George Saunders in The New Yorker I’ve been trying to write something about some of the bullshit you see about political correctness these days… where it’s evolved from being a term criticising the
Film
It's your regularly-scheduled Sunday post. Oh yes it is. Every Sunday since this one. You remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd heard good things [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/26/the-babadook-review-mark-kermode-brilliant-chiller] about The Babadook [http://letterboxd.com/film/the-babadook/]. And it is very well-made. But. There'
Link
Gay Talese in The New Yorker: [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel] > Finally, I will be able to satisfy my constant yearning and uncontrollable desire to peer into other people’s lives. My voyeuristic urges will now be placed into effect on a plane higher than
Link
The Financial Times has a 404 page [http://www.ft.com/foobar?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true] that should be an inspiration to 404 pages everywhere. It turns out they've been playing around with several experimental 404 pages [http://labs.ft.com/2015/08/four-oh-four/], which are
Windows
1. Edge 2. Opera 3. Chrome 4. Firefox 5. Chrome with Material Design 6. Vivaldi 7. Internet Explorer 8. Brave
Film
I was pretty ambivalent about Man of Steel [https://thegreatescapism.com/steely-man/]. The thing that bugged me at the time (and a lot of other people, as it turned out), was the wanton destruction and general boringness of the last act. It turns out that Batman v Superman does not
TV
I was minding my own business, listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast, when John Siracusa delivered a brand new thing to be neurotic and obsessive about: 24 frames-per-second content being delivered over 60 frames-per-second output.[1] I’ve been casually streaming my films over my Apple TV like a chump,
Quote
> I envision a glorious, artisanal return to the bespoke backstabbing of yesteryear. If craft beer can do it, then so can we. — Annabel Crabb, Backstab all you like, but please do it in private [http://www.smh.com.au/comment/backstab-all-you-like--but-please-do-it-in-private-20160219-gmyia0.html] in The Age. Mmm. Beer.
