September 2009
6 posts
The Marquee Tag
the_patches: you know, your children will likely ask you one day, "Dad, what's a marquee tag."
the_patches: and you'll have to say something awkward.
the_patches: like how our parents used to lie to us about the drugs they "didn't" do.
Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice - They... →
Joshua-Michéle Ross makes a fantastic point about the ongoing collapse of print newspapers.
While we have all been busy telling the newspaper institution what they should do differently we have missed one big point: Institutions are structured to precisely NOT do much of anything different.
The failure of newspapers is not a failure of imagination or foresight nor is it a failure of...
Painting With Too Wide A Brush
Back in August Charlie Stross wrote a pretty biting article nominally about the release of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi but ultimately about his perceptions of the American body politic:
There is a cancer in the collective American soul — a mercy deficit that has in recent years grown as alarmingly as the budget deficit. Nor is it as simple as a left/right thing: no political party has a monopoly on...
The College Years Music List and the Digital Age
Derek Powazek recently wrote about his college years playlist:
My playlist turned out to be 9 gigs of awesome and embarrassing musical throwbacks, heavy on the early hiphop and flannel rock. It’s kept me smiling all week.
I went through the steps he listed, and weirdly, the vast majority of the music I found was not my “college years” music. Most of my college music was...
Closing a bunch of tabs here in the next hour. Expect some scattered bloggery.
The Thus Far Weirdest Spam I've Received
Right. So. I open my email, and I see this.
Nice to meet you,
How are you and how is your work? i hope that all is well with you, My name is miss Happiness ,i know that you may be suprise how i get your email, i got your email today when i was browsing looking for honest partner,then i feel to drop this few line to you , and i will like you to contact me through my email so that we can...