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Writing and links.
Mostly links.

An issue of replication

That Exact Nonsense - Daring Fireball

Security or Performance Art?

Has the nation simply wasted a trillion dollars protecting itself against terror?

Mostly

Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? - Vanity Fair

Just come out and say that you want to eat the rich.

In other words, Chase knowingly larded up the nation of Greece with a crippling future debt burden, then turned around and helped the world bet against Greek debt.

A Christmas Message From America's Rich - Rolling Stone

UPDATE: Rereading this in 2025, it strikes me as obvious inflammatory bullshit. I guess I was more naive in my youth, but now Mat Taibbi really looks like a pretentious no-nothing fuckwit. Even when he manages to find a point, he buries it in irrelevant bullshit. It's basically the art-speak of journalism.

CSS Resources

10 Top CSS Design Resources - Design Festival

The most pretentious crap I have ever seen.

Best Made Company

Resistance is Futile

Catvertising (by johnst172) via underground

You Have Died

Joel and Jack meet the Kinectimals (by RoosterTeeth)

Gaming?

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime review - The Verge

Joanna reviews the Asus EEE Transformer Prime.

Marci Harnden

Marci Harnden painting painitng by Marci Harnden

Early Work

photo by Stanley Kubrick photo by Stanley Kubrick

Original link is dead, this is he earliest post still available: stanley kubrick's new york

Optics

US Medal of Honor marine Dakota Meyer sues BAE Systems - BBC News

As our military industrial complex sells advanced weaponry to the highest bidder, they also find time to slander our heroes.

Focus Group

SNICKERS Peanut Butter Squared – "Focus Group" (by SnickersBrand) via Adweek

UPDATE: Original video was taken down, so here is a still from the video should it be taken down again. The general gist of the ad is that sharks prefer eating people who have recently eaten Snickers.

I don't know what sick fuck came up with this ad, but they deserve a medal.

Snicker's shark ad screenshot

Mixed Media

Address Is Approximate – A Google Street View / Robot inspired stop motion short (by theoryfilmsUK) via the verge

New Wheels

Bicycles demonstrate Indonesia's new spending power - BBC News

Just Riding a Bike

training, climbing, and racing is hard. It stays hard. To put it another way, per Greg Henderson: "Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired."

Rule #10: Velominati - The Rules