The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you stay up to date with what your friends are doing,[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Strict disciples of history as a science may scorn the intuitive process, but that attitude comes from being more Catholic than the Pope.

Such a strappen fine gentleman as he was, too. Yes, I rather like en sometimes.

For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.