That's something I'm never going to unsee.

The thought of "Vote for Beaker!" posters popping up come the next election, that's making me giggle.

And, he's my MP.

At least something to give players time and space to replay 400 years of chess opening theory evolution.

Applying modern methods to the start positions. Not flounder like our Italian and Spanish ancestors.

#chess #chess960

I kinda look forward to a "thematic" tournament, where a single Chess960 starting point is picked a day before the first round, and every round uses the same position.

The tournament becomes a battle to see further and deeper than your opponents. Or find creative solutions and systems.

At the moment, I can't help feeling that we are tending more towards rediscovering Napoleon's mate than inventing modern systems like the Sveshnikov Sicilian.

That players have 10 minutes before a game to figure out a position seems like something out of The Generation Game. #chess

Two practitioners and bloggers on Zettelkasten worth following reading:

Bob Doto: writing.bobdoto.computer/zettelkasten/

Chris Aldrich: boffosocko.com/tag/zettelka...

Both regular commenters on www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkast...

My thoughts conclude with: What does a link blog look like done in the spirit of a zettelkasten, and necessarily public?

A single link blog item has (two way) references to other link blog items and commentary/thoughts.

It may be a bit wild (in the untamed sense), but over time...

So I'm toying with the idea of, not just link blogging, but threading conversations with that particular second-brain over time, may result in interesting connections (and serendipitous ones).

A single item in a link blog isn't isolated, it's a time-stamped pin in a journey of discovery.

The bite-sized posts reflect the idea of "Atomic notes", and mirror Simon's philosophy that one note may not be ground-breaking, but the evolution of thoughts, and narration, in subsequent discoveries -- that's the fundamental basis of zettelkastens (of the pure Luhmann variety)

Ah, I found this BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AIUI, if I'm reading this right (disclaimer: brain fried)

An amendment added would delay the bill, because it's got to go through the various reading stages again.

So the amendment is used to stop the bill from going ahead now.

Just tried a NameCheap renewal. Honey didn't find any discount codes. I popped up a Google search, 2nd site that wasn't namecheap gave me a 20% discount code that worked: COUPONFCNC

The video seems to give a convincing explanation of why Paypal's Honey doesn't give me even this code on checkout.

What's infuriating is that the Honey extension is using dark patterns to coerce customers into clicking it's buttons in cases where no discount codes are found. and using that to cookie stuff their affiliate code as a referral. FROM THE CHECKOUT PAGE!

What started out as a genuine "find the best deal for customers" after Paypal's aquisition of Honey, looks to be optimising their own affiliate comission at the expense of customers and content-creators using affiliate marketing for their income.