Sunday 290418

Stuff not nonsense

• Mark Knopfler 
• & Emmylou Harris - Why Worry
• For Pat the Piper: Mark Knopfler - Piper to the End
• On his tod - Remembrance Day
• Katie Melua
• Fields of Gold
• I Will Be There
• When you taught me how to dance
• Material world
• Will Griffin talks about knives
• Pouring a conical concrete silo
• 1965 cars: before seat-belts, crash-helmets, head-rests, anti-lock brakes were fitted as standard.
• Backlog feedback
• We've looked into Eddie Izzard before: now the late night garage.
• Saline vs Ringer's dilemma you first heard it here; now here is a neat explanatory video.
• Finally, in the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, we can revisit txtn while driving a lethal weapon. In 2013 I put out my credentials for talking about people being whacked by distracted drivers. I survived, broken but not beyond economic repair. Werner Herzog had just made a short documentary film From one second to the next. It's about people killing people because they are tricking about with a phone while driving. Now, because it's a subject that keeps on taking, AT&T have made a couple of films in a series called It Can Wait:
• Caleb
• Forrest Fair warning [from Kottke]: do not watch that second video unless you want your coworkers to see you sobbing at your desk.
• Face is down. A Toyota sponsored app for helping keep your phone out of your driving mind.
• That's a terrible way to finish starting Sunday morning. Here's Arlo ramblin' and Pete and Tao just singin'.