Merlin Mann on Full-Content Feeds
Phil Nelson A great rant on The Atlantic’s (apparently it’s a bug) RSS feeds going title-only, but it applies to pretty much anyone selling words for a living.
Bruce Schneier: Spy cameras won’t make us safer
There are exceptions, of course, and proponents of cameras can always cherry-pick examples to bolster their argument. These success stories are what convince us; our brains are wired to respond more strongly to anecdotes than to data. But the data are clear: CCTV cameras have minimal value in the fight against crime.
SWEATSHOP: SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT
Eliza has got some shirts for sale on CafePress:
In the internet broadcasting system, art-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the SWEATSHOP, the dedicated artists who perpetuate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT.
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee Rejects Adobe’s HTML5 Procedural Arguements
In other words, “Sorry Adobe, but we’re going to keep making new things you don’t like.“
Brooklyn Soda Works on Kickstarter
All you have to do is get me to hand you some money is use the words “artisanal” and “sodas” in the same sentence. If you expand it to read:
artisanal, handmade sodas made with fresh ingredients
Then my support can only be described as total.
CitiBank Blocks Company Bank Account, Without Telling Them, For “Objectionable Content” On Company Blog
Seems like we’re going to find out about some real homophobes at CitiBank. I echo Gruber’s sentiment, and repeat: What the fuck business is it of CitiBank’s what a company blogs about? I found nothing “objectionable” on their blog. If anything, it’s significantly less objectionable than this one.
Conan O’Brien is on Twitter
Finally. He started about 3 hours ago, and by my watch he is adding roughly 75 new followers per second. Currently the tally sits at 106,875.
YouTube Removes Most Popular Fan-Uploaded Rickroll
30 million views means a whole lot of dead links. Wonder why they waited 3 years?
Jesse Schell’s Presentation at DICE 2010
Oh, the points you will earn in the future. I think saying the growth of Mafia Wars was driven by authenticity is a very silly, if not outright insulting. Authenticity is not something you can acquire.
Minimalist Citizen Kane Poster
Created by yours truly (view) in about 40 minutes, using sketchy clipart from here. It is not as… minimal as the others, but I think it captures the film pretty well. It may work just as well with only the rose, or only the title. The snow says a lot. I think it would look pretty fantastic with the rose / text letterpressed.
Inspired by Eduardo Prox’s minimalist movie posters.
The Extra Future No-Prize
I am hereby instituting the Extra Future No-Prize, a non-prize awarded to readers and users of my software who spot bugs, omissions, or misspellings. Include a mailing address with your bug report or correction, and you’ll get sent one of these handsome fellows.
You can find more information about No-Prizes at your local library.
Shawn Medero’s Daily Briefs
Of possible interest to readers of Extra Future: My old pubhacking pal Shawn Medero is posting daily briefs in the morning and afternoon varieties, collecting links and thoughts that come across his desk and brain. Our areas of overlap are remarkably slim.
Fullness
As another one of Extra Future’s 6-hour projects, I present the following: Fullness, a web page which displays today’s date (22 February 2010). Each second that passes from the moment the page was made live will “age” it, blurring the text. As the viewer’s memory of the page ages and deteriorates so will the page itself, until eventually the text is entirely obscured and unreadable.
In about 5 years, the text will be one big smear. It will be be impossible to visually tell that it was ever text at all.
The 3 Types of Knowledge
I’ve long said that one of the primary factors for being considered an “expert” on a given subject, is knowing how long shit takes, which is a split between shit you know and shit you know you don’t know.
Buy Food For Artists Directly On Todays #SWEATSHOP
I’ll have a SWEATSHOP account set up on Eat24Hours.com, a website that acts as a portal to every delivery restaurant with an online menu. You, the Sweaty Victims Unit, will be able to order food directly to the studio in order to sustain the artists during our long haul. Bay Area locals are welcome to drop sustenance off in person, and come in for a studio visit.
Do not forget to file the proper forms.
Apple Now Blocking ‘Overtly Sexual’ Apps from App Store
First they came for the creepy almost-porn apps, and I said nothing because I wasn’t into creepy almost-porn apps. I’m sure this makes sense to businessmen, but I am really fucking uncomfortable with Apple being in charge of what is considered “overtly sexual.”
This is purely “I know it when I see it” fascism. There is no defense for it that doesn’t start and end with “they can do what they want so shut up.”
The Layer Tennis 2010 Season Kicks Off
The nerdiest of sports begin anew, starting with this afternoon’s match of Kohi Vinh .vs. Nicholas Felton.
AdBrite, Longtime Advertiser on Goatse-Laden Sites Like Boing Boing, Uncomfortable With The Word “Shizz”
Adbrite, the company most known for providing spam pages with endless supplies of 7 Minute Diet and GET RICH NOW banner ads, has apparently decided that those big, bad, grownup words like “shizz” are bad for business. To be honest, it has gotten to be a hassle to deny the 100s of “Weight-loss Secrets of Horny Moms” and “Meet Sexy Singles in the Area We Guess You Live in Based on Our Shoddy IP Geolocation” ads that are the site’s bailiwick, anyway.
Here is the exact message I got from Adbrite, vis-a-vis my ad submission for FRMT.me:
The landing page contains slang terms for profanity, which we can’t allow in AdBrite. Please remove the word Shizz and resubmit the ad.
Needless to say, I won’t be doing that.
Panic Takes A Look Back At Accolade’s Amazing Box Art
1984-1990 was a great time for video game boxes. Nowadays, nobody will release cover art that doesn’t look like an explosion happened in the game’s art asset department.