Glyn Moody
@glynmoody
writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com
2026 #Skopje - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2026/04/2026... a short trip to North #Macedonia I made last weekend #travel
Frank Gehry: maximalist master who created instant icons like the Bilbao Guggenheim - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... loved it when I was there - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2023/03/2023...
Dungans at Penn - languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71832 fascinating culture. here's an amazing Dungan mosque - that looks like a pagoda - which I saw in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan last year - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2024/06/2024...
one of my favourite spots on the planet; it was a bit mistier when I was there, but still beautiful.... moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2020/05/2017...
2025 #Azerbaijan - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025... a trip I made recently, including a memorable concert by a mugham master, and an amazing stay in the ancient Caucasian hilltop village Khinalug, at 2200 metres (with 40 pix) #travel #music
2025 #Azerbaijan - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025... a trip I made recently, including a memorable concert by a mugham master, and an amazing stay in the ancient Caucasian hilltop village Khinalug, at 2200 metres #travel #music
fascinating place - I was there last month - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2025/04/2025...
2022 #Stavanger: Fancy a quick tour of the city and nearby fjords? here you go - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2022/10/2022... now with pix, including analogue bits #norway
2021 #Gibraltar - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2021/10/2021... in case you missed it, now with pix... #travel #spain
2022 #Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Khiva, Bokhara, Tashkent - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2022/06/uzbe... dreaming of somewhere hot and exotic? I'm thinking of when I visited these amazing places a couple of years back... #travel
For anyone looking for a little distraction this Friday: a trip I made last year to the fascinating #Basque city of #bilbao, now with #photos - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2023/03/2023... - includes visits to the #guggenheim (of course), and a short ride in an unusual gondola #travel
want to get away from it all? try this: 2023 #Tajikistan: #Dushanbe, Khujand, Panjakent - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2023/06/2023... a trip I took last year, including a visit to the #Yaghnob valley, and 2 trips through the "Tunnel of Death"; now with 60 pix I took along the way. #travel #centralasia
2023 #Shetland - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2023/11/2023... a trip I made last year to the UK's most northerly point, near the SaxaVord #Spaceport, the world best fish and chip shop (allegedly), and much else...now with some photos that I took there, for some Sunday armchair #travel
The truth about #copyright: even successful authors can’t live on the #royalties #publishers pay them - walledculture.org/the-truth-ab... it's tragic that most people still believe in this fairy tale put about by the copyright world
2024 #Kazakhstan and #Kyrgyzstan - moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2024/06/2024... a long post about my trip to these amazing places earlier this year, now with 68 photos that I took along the way #travel #transhumance
this is yet another reason why we need the Internet Archive - @archive.org: it can keep backup copies of all URLs that are cited in a book, forever (if the #copyright industry doesn't shut IA down). we did this for my Walled Culture book - walledculture.org/the-book/ see sample below:
Travel can slow the aging process, new study says - wapo.st/3XXsr5P as an inveterate traveller (as per image taken on Saturday...) I really hope this is true...
interesting new wave of email trickery, this time in french (attached) lots of other people seem to have received it too.
I just *love* uzbek train stations - the blue of the signage matches the sky...