3min 28sec clip - tallest working water straw

1min 12sec clip - K Aerial Showreel: Water, Ice & Fire – Abstract Coastlines, Glacial Rivers, Icebergs & Volcanoes

50sec clip - How Venice got drinkable water despite being surrounded by sea water.

How Venice got drinkable water despite being surrounded by sea water.

[🎞️ Primal Space]pic.twitter.com/fMWKTDBRTt

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 19, 2025

All Earth's water in a bubble

All Earth's water in a bubblepic.twitter.com/WRYLWkOW5u

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 20, 2024

3min 11sec clip - Is this why Venus lost its oceans?

Privatising a nation's utilities - the 17 point playbook to unearned profit

1) Start claiming that nationalised industries are'nt competitive, customer focused, efficient, effective, inventive or productive 

2) Claim that once privatised a competitive market will deliver all of these things, (ignore any evidence that monopolies don't deliver such) 

3) Privatise the nationalised industry and include selling shares to the ordinary punter so you can claim its for the benefit of all 

4) Create a regulator with few teeth, head it up with one of your mates, make it clear you don't actually want them to regulate

5) Allow regulatory capture to occur so that, in effect, there is no regulator asking awkward questions about service or value 

6) Create a complicated web of owning companies so the privatised utility companies can pretend they're not giving their shareholders massive returns

7) Stand by and do nothing as privatised utility companies use their almost guaranteed revenue stream to borrow large amounts of money which they use to give excessive profits to their shareholders 

8) Stand by and do nothing as privatised utility companies flout legislation on their service or  environmental obligations

9) Stand by and do nothing as privatised utility companies make the minimal investment that they can get away with 

10) Stand by and do nothing as privatised utility companies pay their directors top market salaries and bonuses for sub market customer service

11) Allow the cost of the utility to increase at a pace well ahead of inflation or any true increase in production costs 

12) Allow all of this to go on for 30 years or so 

13) When it becomes clear that the privatised utility companies have fleeced their customers and the government talk tough but do little 

14) Allow the privatised companies to claim its all to do with the state of the infrastructure they inherited 

 15) And as shareholders refuse to stump up the equity required to start making the required infrastructure improvements. talk about government bail outs/take overs rather than suggesting shareholders take a haircut or threatening legislation to recover excessive unearned profits

16) Instead say prices will need to increase to fund the invesment that should have already occured

17) Whatever you do, don't allow your company to be put into special administration, as that protects service rather than protecting the company and the shareholders

 Photo by elaine alex on Unsplash

11min clip - What Makes New York's Water System One-Of-A-Kind - NYC Revealed

1min 14sec clip of #m&m's dissolving in water - strangely #beautiful

found via laughing squid

10 useful links (no. 17) - #glue advice, twitter #advanced search, surf the web like its #1999, google #keyword planner and much more

   

links to the previous 16 lists are at the foot of this post  glue advice - found via a kickstarter email twitter advanced search - found via buffer blog post  surf the web like its 1999 - found via cool hunting time to play with water - found via a kickstarter email simulations on your computer of really old computers - found via boingboing  how to print posters split into A4 blocks via block posters - found via free technology for teachers

cofe archdeacons induction booklet - found via thinking anglicans

google keyword planner - found via visually blog

think with google research on micro-moments

10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information



Previous 10 Useful Links posts 

No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,

what happens to your #body when you're #dehydrated ?

found via lifehacker

new #charitywater campaign video

 via http://twitter.com/simonsinek

#fire and #water

 via theonlymagicleftisart

this is water by david foster wallace

brilliant

via laughing squid