• How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
  I knew that Mickey was a huge part of the reason for ongoing copyright extensions. What I didn't know was that Disney have no real *need* to push for them, since they've got him so heavily trademarked. They own him as long as they want to.
• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?
  This is saddening. Even among the famous works, there's a lot here that it would be a huge public good to have copyright-free, and I don't think anyone could argue that the original creators (or in most cases, their estates) haven't been fairly compenstated for these work.

• The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators | UK news | The Guardian
  So it turns out that particularly during peak times, it would be better if escalators on the tube were standing-only and people *didn't* walk up the left hand side.

• App Directory | Slack
  Slack app integrations. May be useful later.
• Official BBC instructions for knitting Doctor Who’s scarf
  How to knit the 4th Doctor's scarf.
• The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
  Interesting and saddening breakdown of the economics of internet fame.

We ought to bring back this sort of thing. It’d make dating easier and more civilised.

• Ehsan Abdulaziz: Saudi millionaire who said he ‘accidentally tripped and penetrated’ teenage girl cleared of rape | Crime | News | The Independent
  What the actual stuttering fuck? OK, I am reading the reporting, I wasn't in the court, but jesus christ almighty. 30 minutes for 12 people to agree on this, what the hell? The poor girl.

• Science has spoken: ending a text with a full stop makes you a monster | Technology | The Guardian
  This is some weapons-grade bullshit right here. If my texts are every improperly spelled or punctuated – including a full stop at the end – then these are mistakes that I am shamed by, not a lack of sincerity.

• London Underground Station Design Idiom
  One to read in depth when I have the time. Because I'm a nerd.

• Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed | HUH.
  I would generally agree with the results of this study, but I definitely differ in some specifics – the finding that people without Facebook have a more active social life is definitely not my experience, although I would agree that the *quality* of my social life improved without it.

• wordpress – WooCommerce show custom column – Stack Overflow
  How to add a custom column to a woocommerce orders page. Move along really nothing at all to see here.

• Cope « Nerdcon, authorship, and the problem with games
  This is of some interest to me, almost from the point of view of my own internal monologue. I have a number of friends who are professional writers of one stripe or another, and I tend to in some sense, mentally rank myself "below" them as a creator, because what I mostly create these days is narrative games – LARP. (NB: this is *entirely* about my view, not theirs, and *entirely* about the media we work in, not us as people.) I have an internal sense that my storytelling medium is less "prope…