This month
inessential.com: One of My Mistakes
But I’ve long had a similar question about NetNewsWire. Back in 2002 and 2003, when NetNewsWire would read a feed, it would send the URL of NetNewsWire’s product page as the referer. That was wrong. (It’s also what other readers did, so I justified it as the then-current best practices.) It wasn’t a privacy violation — it wasn’t terribly wrong — but it was still wrong because it was misusing the referer. (The user-agent is where that info was supposed to go.)
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 | Typeface Reviews | Typographica
January 2012
SOPA, PIPA, Owark and long term preservation | Eric van der Vlist
If we can read the Odyssey today, it’s not because its original “editor” has been able to preserve it, but because “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe” and enough copies had been spread to insure its transmission.
Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
Long-term there’s no future in printed books. They’ll be like vinyl: pricey and for collectors only. 95% of people will read digitally. Everybody in publishing knows this but most are in denial about it because moving to becoming a digital company means laying off like 40% of our staffs. And the barriers to entry fall, too. We simply don’t want to think about it.
100 Jours
Insane Entitlement: EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPA-Like Censorship Law | Techdirt
wtf?major record label EMI (in the process of being acquired by Universal Music to make it the largest record label by far) is suing the Irish government because it feels the Irish government is taking too long to pass a SOPA-like law that would require ISPs to censor the internet and block access to sites it doesn't like.
polis: Moving On Up? Outdoor Escalators in Urban Environments
Ascension sociale… ?In Comuna 13 of Medellin, Colombia's largest city, a recently built 1,260-foot long escalator snakes across the hillside shantytown in six separate divisions. As part of the neighborhood's larger urban regeneration project, this massive outdoor escalator cuts down the time to traverse Comuna 13, reportedly one of Medellin's poorest and most violent neighborhoods, from 35 minutes to six minutes on foot.
A City That Does Not Exist | Crack Two
This is a small city somewhere in East Germany. Its citizens abandoned it long ago and these are just tourists who sometimes come visit this place…
Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt's Blog
Yep, comments seem a bit of an anachronism nowadays. I think I’ll probably turn them off on my blog too, when I get round to deploying the new version I’ve half-finished. I miss the long-form responses though. Tweet responses can be hard to follow with the character limit forcing over-simplicity. That’s one of the nice things about Google+, although it’d be nicer still to make more of a return to personal blogs.
TOSEI-SHA PUBLICATIONS Megumi IWATA "Tatara"
December 2011
[Dossier] Les levées de fonds du web français en 2011 | FrenchWeb.fr
JJSA - Journal of Japanese Sword Arts
Is the American Version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Better Than the Swedish Version? (and 24 Other Urgent Questions) - The Moviefone Blog
Roxanne Pallett
November 2011
Codex » Info
Twilight 4 – Révélation (ou Roupillon, on hésite encore) – 1ère partie « Le blog d'un odieux connard
L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Ferit Kuyus
The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.
L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Ferit Kuyus
The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.
Latest Updates - DocumentCloud
page as unit. units dependent of the shapeThe entities are displayed in a chart that shows how often each entity occurs across each page. Using this chart, you can see which companies and individuals tend to be mentioned together frequently, or which parts of a long document concern a certain topic.
October 2011
Masayuki Shimabukuro Samurai Swordsmanship: Drills [8/10] CD2 - YouTube
HP's ousted Apotheker to take home $25 million - Sep. 22, 2011
Since Apotheker didn't stick around long enough to collect a performance bonus , the company will just use his bonus target as the "average," which is equal to twice his salary.
En même temps, le "performance bonus" c'est normalement un bonus donné en fonction de la performance, pas sûr qu'il en eu mérité un, même en restant plus longtemps.
September 2011
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
The conclusion here should be obvious: if you really care about your site you need to run it on your own domain. You need to own your URLs. You’ll have total control and no-one can take it away from you. You don’t need anyone else. If you put the effort in up front it’ll pay off in the long run.


