- What will happen with the NHS bill, in 5 tweets.
By the time this posts, you'll probably already have seen this. If you live in the UK, and haven't see this already, go and look, because this is the future of your healthcare we're talking about. - Avería – The Average Font
This is actually a really really beautiful font. Lovely work.
Digitalia
- Pirate Bay Hosts Physical Objects – And Is Accused Of Infringing Games Workshop Copyright?
Mr Bradshaw, sometimes seen around this parish, did sterling work in predicating exactly this event a few years ago. Nice to see him proved right, and so swiftly, too. - Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates | technosociology
Are you one of the people going on about how Twitter's new censorship policy is the beginning of the end, and a disaster, and how Twitter should be ashamed for caving like they have? No? Good. If you are, then read this, and shut up. There new policy was quite clearly a model for how to handle this sort of shit, and the on-line wailing completely bewildered me. I was going to write about it, but someone smarter than me has already done so.
- If 2012′s Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth – Movie Feature – TheShiznit.co.uk
Yes, very much so. - Three kinds of things…
Good advice from C.S.Lewis.
- Your Mobile Phone Number is not Safe with your Mobile Operator
Interesting post about mobile-phone-number privacy. I can already think of a dozen way I could abuse this knowledge.
- Bootstrap, from Twitter
Really want to check this out proper like, and maybe build something using it. I've kept on promising myself a custom-designer blog for years, but have never gotten around to it. Maybe now's the time. - Google tracks consumers’ online activities across products, and users can’t opt out – The Washington Post
I was able to opt out of using Facebook when I didn't like their privacy settings. I welcome any suggestions on how to avoid using Google products. At this point, I'm just consoling myself with the thought that the company will probably be dead (or at least, much reduced) within the next 10-15 years, and I'm just hoping they don't damage our norms around privacy too much along the way.
- TRNSPRTNATION | London
Beautiful. Want.
- SOPA/PIPA blackout | MetaTalk
Another story about what it's like to get a bogus takedown letter. 2 weeks of work and stress, without getting compensation from the party that caused the work and stress. - Takedown Hall of Shame | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Just in case you're thinking that this SOPA business is a fuss over nothing, than that it is what its supporters say it is – an act targeting pirates and criminals, and that it won't hurt the average innocent internet user – here is a link to a page collating the worst abuses of the existing law in this area, the DCMA, which is what companies currently use to require takedowns of infringing material. Take a look at the list of companies who have used the existing law in a way that was never intended.
- Movies From An Alternate Universe on the Behance Network
Movie posters, re-imagined as films from an earlier era. Don't worry if that's not terribly clear, just go look. You'll thank me.
- Copy Text from Quick Look Previews with a Terminal Command
Handy tip, that will save me a lot of otherwise-pointless application opening.
- Ink Calendar
This is really, really beautiful, and I would pay a moderate sum of money to have on hanging on my wall.