Friday Cocktail: virtual pots, mechanical watches and stupid rules. Plus gin.

Sip: on a Gin Sonic (soda + tonic)

Weekend browsing:

• How does a mechanical watch work? – amazing interactive animations! The author has a whole series of fascinating explanatory essays

• In Afghanistan, the Taliban forces women back into burqas

• How GDPR rules crush online innovation

• Idle hands: Google’s virtual pottery studio

Listen: to Detectorists performed by Johnny Flynn (in honour of the new feature-length special due later this year)

“I knew the call of all the song birds

They sang all the wrong words

I'm waiting for you…”

Have a great weekend.