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Wednesday 7th August, 2019 #

  • The Addams Family Trailer (2019)
  • UK pushed out of Interrail scheme after dispute
  • Celebrating the subtle (and not-so-subtle) genius of Pulp Fiction, 25 years on - it’s hard to understate how important this film was for me, I get a somewhat giddy feeling even thinking about it all these years later (I'm not sure if that is something new though, I don't remember having that feeling at the time), it’s almost as if life was in black and white when I entered the cinema, then when I exited it was in glorious colour, several new layers had been added to my imagination and perception - this podcast is a really nice wonder back through that period
  • Brexit - Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver - this is reassuring "Half of the food we eat is produced in the UK. The rest of our food is imported, with 30% coming from the EU and 20% from other countries. There will not be an overall shortage of food in the UK after we leave the EU."
  • Seashells - lets you pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time, even without installing any new software on your machine - really neat idea for a product/service, wish I’d thought of this, I’d like to read their privacy policy though, I wonder if piping your logs to a 3rd party is a security risk
  • No-deal Brexit - 'Big unanswered questions' for UK music
  • Europe launches second EDRS space laser satellite