- Start with the favicon | Quince Blog
- Is Pinterest Already Making Money, Quietly? – NYTimes.com
silently redirecting e-commerce links to affiliate links
- #shitsiskosays
- The book industry’s “Moneyball”, by Ted Striphas
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Links – February 7, 2012
Links – February 6, 2012
- What did people do in a Medieval City?
- The Technium: Next Phase of Commercials
"Which means the early clips were commercials for the commercials of the commercials."
- Ocean Currents suggest trajectory of Fukushima’s radioactivity
- CMU alumnus Scott Draves talks about Electric Sheep – The Tartan Online
sp0t.org/videoriot.
- Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
Home taping didn’t kill music. It killed corporate middlemen.
Big six publishers – try to have some dignity.
Links – February 5, 2012
Links – February 4, 2012
- DIY science: should you try this at home?
- Alzheimer’s spread by a protein, studies say
- Hosting Netlabel Releases at the Internet Archive – Ektoplazm – Free Music Portal and Psytrance Netlabel
- Dressing psychologists as wizards in court
- Radiation Posters, 1947
- Bent Objects: I’m just writing this to get it out of my system.
- Balloon Juice » One More Thing About Komen
RT @eliasisquith: Helluva troop-rallying post from @johngcole
- Apple Updates iBooks Author With Better EULA Wording
Apple clarifies that they don’t own your words. They just own any labor you put into formatting them. Yippie!
- Smelliest Cities on the Planet – GQ – The Best and Worst-Smelling City: Travel Features: GQ
Best smelling city in the world: Los Angeles. Worst smelling: Paris.
Links – February 3, 2012
- Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-Death
- The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom…
- Why I am an atheist and a naturalist « Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith
- When Judges Are Determining Whether Or Not Art Should Exist… We Have A Pr
- The Technium: Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
- A Brief History of the Los Angeles Plaza, the City’s Misplaced Heart | LA a
Links – February 2, 2012
- A Brief History of the Los Angeles Plaza, the City’s Misplaced Heart | LA as Subject | SoCal Focus | KCET
MT @LAasSubject #LAPlaza Fact: In 1815, major flood shifted #LARiver’s course, forcing Plaza to move to higher ground:
- Cannibal who ate his girlfriend finds love with vampire behind bars of psychiatric unit | Mail Online
Ah, Sweden.
- This Is Sad All Right
- How to Name Things
How to Name Things
- How to Name Things
- Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio
- Science Writing in the Age of Denial
Madison, Wis. on April 23-24, 2012
Links – February 1, 2012
- Angry Birds CEO Explains How The Company Embraces Piracy | Techdirt
"We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy."
- Concessions 90210 by Lindy West – Seattle Film – Concessions – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Hella Close and Grippa Loud: The Tom Hanks Hamstravaganza Never Forgetstival Brought to You by Fig Newtons™
- A favour from Goliath – The Bookish Blog
"To all the innovating malcontents in the field of digital reading, Apple has paid an honest favour.
I guess it’s just a shame about that EULA."
- What Happens When Sharing Is Turned Off? People Don’t Dance. | John Battelle’s Search Blog
"But I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well that ain’t going away. "
- Hippies of Haight Street, San Francisco, 1967 | Retronaut
Frisco uses the hearts it steals from its victims to preserve itself as a transhistorical instagram palimsest.
- Former L.A. Times Employee Warns Of Impending Massive Writer Layoff
- Flying Missiles CAN Be Stopped!
- Into the Earth: Illustrated Article from 1969 Japanese Magazine – Nerdcore
- Dyson Spheres Make the Fermi Paradox Worse
- The self-epublishing bubble | Ewan Morrison | Books | guardian.co.uk
- The self-epublishing bubble
- Instagram
LA tattoo – cover of an old Thomas Guide
Links – January 31, 2012
- PLoS ONE: Familial Linkage between Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Intellectual Interests
autistic families produce engineering majors, depressed drunk families produce art majors
- A Stalker’s Guide to Competitive Research
- Drive-by Scanning: Officials Expand Use and Dose of Radiation for Security
- Because it’s a FAQ: some thoughts on self-publishing
- Flickr Lays Off Highest Level of Customer Support | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
Flickr’s agonizing death will not be the honorable, courageous, blaze-of-glory kind. It will be the other kind.
- Jonathan Franzen Shakes His Fist at the Clouds, Especially the Virtual Ones
- How To Join WPTRT « Make WordPress Themes
- Yes Men to keynote this summer’s Hackers on Planet Earth conference in NYC
- Pricing Strategy for Creatives
- Art-chitecture: Take a Look at Artist’s Proposal to Bury a 727 in Kern County
Plans for working bathrooms, and a maximum 15 visitors per week.
Links – January 30, 2012
- British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes | Mail Online
"You really fucked up with that tweet, boy"
That thar is some galldag serrius Home Land Securi-tah.
- Twitter users beware: Homeland Security isn’t laughing
Clearly "Homeland Security" is nothing more than bad performance art.
- The Corner: How Amazon’s KDP Select Saved My Book
"Also worth a discussion — what doesn’t help or boost sales. I hate to say it, but I’m gonna. My blog, my Facebook fan page and Twitter feed didn’t help push the book beyond the confines of my regular following. "
- Hang The Pirates — But Start With The Movie Moguls And Record Execs « Nosey
- Musings on Markets: My small challenge to the "university" business model
- British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes |
Links – January 29, 2012
- Berkeley Electronic Press Closes up Journals
BEPress: "Hey! We’re like open access, and like Berkeley and peace love! Right on!"
Writer/Editor: "Well, okay. You can publish our stuff then."
BEPress "Ha ha SUCKER!! Never trust a hippie!"
- yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/ockdaswj Shared by zota
Film series title idea:
"David Warner, Sexy Motherfucker" - Image of the Day: Proof Godzilla could sometimes be a gentleman | Blastr
- Flavorwire » Ansel Adams’ Street Photography of 1940s Los Angeles
- Results
- QR code malware arrives.
Links – January 28, 2012
- Twitter’s t.co URL wrapper is now on for all URLs 19 characters and greater | Twitter Developers
"In a few months, you’ll barely remember seeing t.co links at all.
23 weeks 2 days ago"
- Followgram.me – The Instagram Follow Button, Vanity Url, Album and Feed RSS
I’ll never understand the new economy hoodoo behind Instagram’s refusal to provide basic services like this:
- zota’s instagram vanity url – Followgram.me
I do not understand why instagram refuses to just do exactly this. Website. Photos. RSS. To they hope to draw people so deeply into their "app" that users will forget the rest of the world even exists?
- Dark Roasted Blend: Extraordinary Inventions: Victorian-Era Prank Machines
Victorian-Era Prank Machines.
- Dangerous Minds | A young Jon Stewart in mosh pit at Dead Kennedys show
RT @RichardMetzger: A young Jon Stewart in mosh pit at Dead Kennedys show
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
- Amazon’s Hit Man – BusinessWeek
- The Human Lake | The Loom | Discover Magazine
- gallery of mallenry
LOVE. #humanMushroom
Links – January 27, 2012
- Eight Reasons Anonymous Should Welcome Glenn Beck With Open Arms | Threat Level | Wired.com
Goddamnit, reality. Could you quit being weird long enough for my parody of you to outlast the week?
- Eight Reasons Anonymous Should Welcome Glenn Beck With Open Arms | Threat Level
Links – January 26, 2012
- Burgled in Philly « The Bygone Bureau
- The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Writer William Gibson on Science Fiction and E-Reading
- Who Does Google Think You Are?
- After Years Of Near Obscurity, Atari Turns To Copyright Trolling
- The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
- Log In – The New York Times
FUCK YOU, Williamsburg. Get your OWN ridiculous men’s hairstyle.
- Marianne Gingrich: Newt Told Me Callista Would Help Him Become President | TPM2012
Callista-Six convinced Newt Baltar he could be President of the Colonial Fleet.
- David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
The Web was invented in France, on a NeXT.
