19th October

1) Very interesting – How Google Works (slideshare by Eric Schmidt ) HT to @neilperkin.

2) Apple’s new iPads, thinner, faster…. and available in gold??

3) In Dylan Thomas’s centenary , the wonderful Richard Burton reads Under Milk Wood.

And why not? Whilst we are on a literary curve, here are 16 of Oscar Wilde’s best quotations ( and he’s got a few…).

….and if Dorothy Parker quips were motivational posters.

4) A very real and increasing worry , In The Atlantic, Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly show how social media has turned against women.

5) Extraordinary – 40 portraits over 40 years , with 4 sisters. A compelling labour of love.

6) From The Digital Filter blog this week. An essential element of creative thinking and the brainstorming process, but often neglected. The importance of The Geography of Ideas.

7) Spooky. Warped Photo Series Turns Abandoned Buildings Into 360° Panoramas.

8) Can’t remember what TV show you were watching on the evening of the 16th December, 1985? Well now you can -The Radio Times archive goes live – 1923 to 2009.

9) Brian Eno’s 20 Essential Books For Sustaining Civilisation.

10) A horse walks into a bar…? No, this time she walks into a police station.Happens all the time in Cheshire…..