The Map With No Names

I printed out a map leaving the details of the counties blank - just the borders showing.

The idea is to look at it and see (as in notice and observe) the countries, their positions relative to one another, their sizes, what the touch and what they have access to - and from that to become more educated about the world.

Robert Hardy, Actor

The headline reads

Robert Hardy, Harry Potter actor, dies at 91

and I cannot help but think he would be disappointed to be described like this. I guess I will always think of him in All Creatures Great And Small.

Howard Jacobson on Mariam Mirzakhani

Howard Jacobson on the death of Mariam Mirzakhani:

It is a sad story for other reasons, too, not least the intensity of Mirzakhani's expression in the photograph most of the papers used. There is a beauty that can only be described as that of the mind's migration to the face, the transfiguring beauty of exceptional intelligence. So it's a double loss: the premature loss of a person and the premature loss of her genius.

RGBA

RGBA color values are an extension of RGB color values with an alpha channel - which specifies the opacity of the object.

An RGBA color value is specified with: rgba(red, green, blue, alpha). The alpha parameter is a number between 0.0 (fully transparent) and 1.0 (fully opaque).

Example:
 webkit-box-shadow: 0 4px 0 0 rgba(65,156,192,1);
 moz-box-shadow: 0 4px 0 0 rgba(65,156,192,1);
 box-shadow: 0 4px 0 0 rgba(65,156,192,1);

Gmail content will not be used or scanned

G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.

Quote from Google's blog today, June 23rd, 2017

When is later this year?

Will Not Be

Gmail content will not be used or scanned
The revolution will not be televised.

When I Was Younger

When I was younger I thought that 'the revolution will not be televised (Gill Scott Heron - here are the lyrics ) was about as raw as lyrics got.

EU Sues Member States Over Asylum Seekers

The Atlantic reports:

The European Union has launched a formal “infringement procedure” against three of its member nations—the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland—for failing to comply with a 2015 agreement to harbor asylum-seekers.

Jim Bouton | Terry Lennox | The Long Goodbye

Looking at a clip of The Long Goodbye and noticing the name of the actor who played Terry Lennox.

Decided to look him up because I don't recall ever seeing him in anything else.

Here's Wikipedia on Jim Bouton, who played Terry Lennox:

James Alan 'Jim' Bouton (born March 8, 1939) is an American retired professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He has also been a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew.

Bouton retired midway through the 1970 season, shortly after the Astros sent him down to the minor leagues. After a handful of unsatisfactory appearances, Bouton left baseball to become a local sports anchor for New York station WABC-TV, as part of Eyewitness News; he later held the same job for WCBS-TV. Bouton also became an actor, playing the part of Terry Lennox in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), plus the lead role of Jim Barton in the 1976 CBS television series Ball Four, which was loosely adapted from the book and was canceled after five episodes. Decades later, Bouton would also have a brief one-line cameo as a pitching coach in the James L. Brooks film How Do You Know.

Who would have guessed?