Not Christmas Links #5


"There are plenty of fireworks displays across Merseyside this evening."

"Back in early 2015, I'd just started working at the BBC and whilst getting to know who's who and what's what, I discovered to my surprise that large parts of our main websites (www.bbc.co.uk and www.bbc.com) were only available over plaintext HTTP. My immediate thought was, "Well, here's something I can get stuck into immediately - how hard can it be to get to 100% HTTPS?"."

"As she releases an album inspired by Girl, Interrupted, the US indie icon reveals how a childhood kidnapping and her repressive southern childhood left her with PTSD."

"Photographer Jordi Barreras’s new book, “Already But Not Yet” (Punctum, 2021), was made on the streets of London over four years, from 2015 to 2019. On the surface, it is a book that shows people caught in shafts of light that punctuate the shadows of London’s financial district. Underneath all of that, Barreras’s work is about the spreading influence of corporations throughout our lives."

"Claude Fredericks, a Bennington classics professor, knew Anaïs Nin and James Merrill, and taught Donna Tartt. He kept a journal for eight decades, and persuaded many in his orbit that he was writing a titanic masterpiece. Did he?"

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