- TRNSPRTNATION | London
Beautiful. Want.
Links for Wednesday January 18th 2012
- 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.
A Serpent Uncoiled
A Serpent Uncoiled was the best crime novel I read last year.
It has just come out in paperback, and the writer, the very lovely Mr Simon Spurrier would like your attention while he tells you all about it.
Now that you have watched his amusing movie, you must buy it at once.
(Also available in hardback, Kindle, and iBooks editions. Seriously folks, pony up the cash, you won’t regret it.)
Stunning
Apparently this is by Rashad Alakbarov, an artist from Azerbaijan, and may currently be available to be viewed at the De Pury gallery in London as part of this “Fly to Baku” exhibit. I’m just posting it because I think it’s jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, I know this sort of thing is what tumblr is for, but this is just so fucking inspired that I wanted to blog it proper like.
Links for Tuesday January 17th 2012
- 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.
Well, it made me laugh
In a hollow, sick sort of way.
Links for Tuesday January 10th 2012
- Copy Text from Quick Look Previews with a Terminal Command
Handy tip, that will save me a lot of otherwise-pointless application opening.
Links for Friday January 6th 2012
- Ink Calendar
This is really, really beautiful, and I would pay a moderate sum of money to have on hanging on my wall.
Links for Thursday January 5th 2012
- The phone game
This is a brilliant idea – during meals with friends, everyone puts their phone on the table face down, and the first one to check theirs pays the bill. I'm absolutely as guilty of this as anyone else, but I am increasingly of the view that basically, phones are for when you are alone, and that checking them in company, outside of when you have received a text or call is Not On. Hypocritical, maybe, but I'd like to be better, and will attempt to do better this year.
Links for Wednesday January 4th 2012
- Dirty 30s! – The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
Lester Dent sold a lot of books in his day. Writing a series of modern day stories that ultimately follow this formula might be fun. 10 or 12 would make a nicely publishable volume, too. - Paypal orders destruction of antique violin
I'm not sure what to say. This feels very like something that ought to be a crime – the seller had an authenticated antique violin, worth $2,500, and sold it. The buyer disputed the purchase. Paypal required proof of destruction before they would refund money. Buyer destroys antique, seller is now out both an antique violin *and* the money. Surely Paypal could be held to be complicit in a theft, here?