Matthew Lang

Arment has expressed his hope that blocking bad ads will lead to publishers being forced to adopt “better monetisation methods”, from selling adverts directly (and so cutting out the data-collecting middlemen) to collecting direct payments from readers. To that effect, Peace offers the ability to “whitelist” sites easily from the share menu in Safari, if a user wants to support a specific publisher.

— Adblockers shoot up iOS 9 app charts on day one by The Guardian

I've got a couple of adblockers installed on my iPhone, No more dodgy data hoarding ads for me. This is definitely the mark of a new age of Internet folks!

There's reading and there's reading. Find out the difference.

via Sandbox Rim

More wise words from NB.

There is another way: work from a 3 by 5 card which highlights your vital few, high-payoff activities. Ignore the trivial many. You can't do it all: the predator is lurking, ready to pounce on the fatal human weakness; trying to do it all and being addicted to the unprotected and swampy by-ways of irrelevant minutiae.

— Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times 154
by Nicholas Bate

I missed out on getting one of these last year but I wasn't going to make that same mistake twice. The increasing usage of pen and paper continues. Who would have thought in this digital age that these basic tools would be in so much demand?

To me the sports are not comparable; they are simply different games. I prefer to watch football in my home. I can yell, cheer, and make a fool out of myself with only my family around to see the spectacle. Baseball is a game I truly enjoy watching at the event. It allows me to observe the preparations, and many interactions I simply don’t notice at a football game.

— Sunday by Kurt Harden

I completely get where Kurt is coming from. Me and Jen love going to the baseball when we visit Toronto. You get to see the baseball game more up close than you would a football game. Also the beer and hot dogs aren't a bad thing either!

... by our bushcraft guide Nicholas Bate.