Bookmarks for October 9, 2026
- The people holding up the internet | Data Drop
In case you’re not worried about how precarious the internet, and modern life in general is.
Tag: culture
Bookmarks for June 17, 2019
- Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design | Kellan Elliott-McCrea
"Culture is what you celebrate. Rituals are the tools you use to shape culture." Smart work, needs serious thinking about.
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
Required reading.
Bookmarks for March 17, 2016
- No Wool, No Vikings
Fascinating write up of the role of wool in viking civilisation.
Bookmarks for September 3, 2015
- Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. – Laughing Meme
Notable and interesting stuff in here.
Bookmarks for May 15, 2015
- Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories : Monkey See : NPR
This is a really good essay on the Black Widow problem in the new Avengers movie. Taken by itself, it's not actually terrible – the metaphors she represents are worth pulling into the light and talking about, and there are reasons why it has to be a female character that has to given them – but the problem is that there simply aren't enough prominent women characters in this kind of movie for us to take them in isolation. And that, I guess, feel like the most nuanced criticism one could level …
Bookmarks for February 11, 2015
- I'm Brianna Wu, And I'm Risking My Life Standing Up To Gamergate | Bustle
Like most poeple I know, I wish to god there was something I useful I could do about this hateful shit. But actually, all I can do it repost the link, say that the kind of stuff that Ms Wu and other suffer from day in day out is *not* OK, and hope the people who can do something, do do something.
- Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true | Television & radio | The Guardian
I mean, it's not news to anyone, but I dunno, this is still kind of chilling.
Bookmarks for February 5, 2015
- Twitter CEO: 'We suck at dealing with abuse' | The Verge
Wow. Sounds like they might actually be planning to do something about the hordes of trolls wandering the Twitter swamplands. Cause for cautious optimism?
Bookmarks for June 6, 2012
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
- The world's worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
- Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
- cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
The design of street food culture.
Bookmarks for July 7, 2011
- The iPhone SLR Mount
OK, I quite want this. (As I do half of photojojo's stuff.) If only it were about half the price, I'd buy it like a shot.
- Google Ads Preferences
If you're currently logged in to Google (or if you log in), this page will tell you what ads Google currently things it should show you based on the sites google knows you have recently visited. And if you prefer that their sinister robots *not* spy on you while you browse the web, there's a handy button to opt out.
- A field guide to bullshit – opinion – 13 June 2011 – New Scientist
Oi! Hippies! Read this!
Bookmarks for April 6, 2011
- What is digital?
Some time ago, one of our clients hired someone who was found telling us that they had "ten years experience in digital." as a way of trying to convince us they knew best. It was I phrase I certainly found a little comical. But here's a link that does a splendid job of explaining exactly what it means to be "in digital", as is something I'd also link up with Jack Schulze's pithy phrase "Design is cultural invention."