From The Digital Filter. Ten Stories From This Week. 21st August 2022.

1. Love this. A rule for public speaking inspired by an ex-President. 'Pause like Obama'. Here's a five-minute compilation of Obama pausing. On a related point, apparently in golf they talk about “feel” vs “real” - what a person thinks is happening when they try to hit a ball rarely is what actually happens. Same seems true of public speaking - pauses are perceived and consumed by speaker and audience in a totally different way.
2. This has been me for over a year now, for assorted ethical, sustainable and health reasons. Nice to see this is increasingly being espoused. The Best Diet for the Climate Crisis Takes Red Meat Off the Menu. Agriculture is responsible for 26% of global greenhouse emissions.
3. Tinder for booklovers: the new app matching like-minded readers. 'Klerb' is ideal for finding companions who share your taste in books, its developer says. Early signs are it will be a bestseller.
4. This is pretty scary. From The Guardian. Wish you weren’t here: the photos that show an hour in the life of ‘quiet’ tourist hotspots.
5. Meet the musicians connecting with fans over email. Forget TikTok and Instagram, Substack’s where it’s at these days
6. From @storythings. Found In a Library Book. The Oakland Public Library has a page on its website featuring scans and photos of all the things they've found in books that have been returned to them. 
7. Title Film, to Creativity and Design festival in Vienna. An animated tale of non-conformity and rejection that builds to a kaleidoscopic ceremony and the uplifting power of finding your place. Quite some trip. (5 min watch) 
8. From time machines to threesomes: 12 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe. How about this one? 'I spent the whole morning building a time machine – that’s four hours of my life I’m definitely getting back....'
9. Very nice. Rocky Balboa makes an epic comeback in Ladbrokes’ recreation of the iconic running scene. And here is the original from 1976.
10. In a slightly related story, overhead a fabulous piece on Radio 4 this morning. It featured Burgess Meredith (played the trainer in Rocky) in a WW2 information film for US Army personnel, introducing them to the peculiar customs of the British. Fun starts at 3.27, in.