Linkage

• Great white shark jumps into Australian fisherman's boat (Yahoo) Bad day at the office.
• Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy (Ars Technica) Not surprising. Most of these features are more security theater than actual security.
• The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died (Ars Technica) Modern hardware, backwards compatibility, and a rather high price, but if you are into Amigas, you should look into it.
• How to build your own VPN if you’re (rightfully) wary of commercial options (Ars Technica) It won't stop the NSA, but it will (probably) stop your ISP (**cough** Comcast **cough**), and unlike the commercial providers, you will know that it's not being abused.
• The Magna Carta was good for humans - but even better for fish (New Statesman) There is a line in the Magna Carta restricting the crown's use of weirs to trap fish, which resulted in an explosion of fish in the English diet.
• Band posters of the Renaissance: how medieval music fans showed off their taste (The Conversation) At concerts, they held up tinder boxes.
• How Dr Seuss could simplify boring, wordy documents (Guardian) The Bank of England is using Dr. Seuss as a training aid for staff to help them write more clearly.

I mention Dr. Seuss, I gotta show the best bit from the TV show Moonlighting: