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➜ Cassette tapes were the original form of responsive design

Cassette tapes were the original form of responsive design. [via] But this format was frustrating to someone who cared about the artwork and design. The usable space went from 144 square inches to a...

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➜ Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat died. Mr. Mowat was a trickster, a ferocious imp with a silver pen, an ardent environmentalist who opened up the idea of the North to curious southerners, a public clown who hid his...

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➜ Upcoming.org

Upcoming.org is coming back. ★ Permalink

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➜ SNL’s slavery jokes

SNL and Leslie Jones’ slavery jokes: brilliant or entirely inappropriate? Comedy’s pretty tricky. So when a person who expressed outrage about a joke reveals that the source of their frustration with...

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Weekend reading

This is a list of articles favourited in Pocket over the last week. You can view my reading list at any time here, or subscribe to the RSS feed here.

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➜ The Sims you left behind

The Sims you left behind. In the beginning, some Sims were against experimenting on our own citizens. “Shloo Shlim Shlim!” cried the protesters, raising their angry fists to a now empty sky. But their...

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➜ An oral history of the West Wing

An oral history of the West Wing. Toby came down to a two-man race between Richard Schiff and Eugene Levy. Levy was fantastic — strong and sad and very compelling — but you couldn’t take your eyes off...

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➜ The banality of surveillance

Short review of Greenwald’s new Snowden/NSA book offers an interesting Hannah Arendt (who’s so hot right now) note. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more suitable illustration of this humdrum banality...

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➜ East Village Radio shutting down

The fantastic East Village Radio is shutting down. From the Awl: What went wrong? A lot of things, probably, but it didn’t help that the small independent radio station operating out of a standing-room...

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➜ Copyright and the voice of God

If you dictate a book to someone, you own the copyright. But if God dictates a book to someone? We’ve now got a case on the books in which a person who claims not to be the author of certain words gets...

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➜ The CBC divide

Jesse Brown1 on the deep divide at the CBC. One side is the CBC of bespectacled young producers who subscribe to podcasts like 99% Invisible and Radiolab, who study the craft of radio like it’s Talmud,...

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➜ The open-office trap

The open-office trap. The open office was originally conceived by a team from Hamburg, Germany, in the nineteen-fifties, to facilitate communication and idea flow. But a growing body of evidence...

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➜ The disappearing 90s

The 90s are disappearing from history. The total dollar figure of vinyl sales in the U.S. in 2013 was only $177 million; which, in the context of the entire music industry, represents little more than...

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➜ The space between words

Computer performance and the infinite space between words. [via] If the CPU registers are how long it takes you to fetch data from your brain, then going to disk is the equivalent of fetching data from...

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➜ I Am Curious (Yellow)

About I Am Curious (Yellow) the “scandalous” and “dirty” film referenced on last week’s Mad Men. The sex in the film is explicit, but not particularly outrageous. Nor was it really meant to be. Sjoman...

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➜ I Am Curious (Yellow)

About I Am Curious (Yellow) the “scandalous” and “dirty” film referenced on last week’s Mad Men. The sex in the film is explicit, but not particularly outrageous. Nor was it really meant to be. Sjoman...

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➜ Poolside.fm

Posted without comment: Poolside.fm. ★ Permalink

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➜ The new Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is radically changing the way they deliver content with their new redesign. I hope they release analytics in the future. From the Editor: The new newspaper provides more context and...

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➜ The New York Times innovation report

Not unrelated to the last post, Nieman Journalism Lab has the leaked New York Times innovation report. The value of the homepage is decreasing. “Only a third of our readers ever visit it. And those who...

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➜ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The life and times of ¯_(ツ)_/¯. After seeing the light of ¯_(ツ)/¯, it’s hard to not notice it everywhere. Han Solo makes the gesture in Star Wars, as Reddit noticed in 2012. Daily Dot writer Miles Klee...

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➜ Humans aren’t wired for logic, reason and scientific thinking

From an evolutionary perspective, our brains aren’t really set up for logic, reason and thinking about things scientifically. Fascinating stuff. Options for problem solving are limited to the tools...

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➜ The endless t-shirt trend

The endless t-shirt trend. Further keyboard conjecture: Could the endless T-shirt be the latest bro trend, arriving just ahead of the bro-iest of seasons, summer, when bros assemble to act out...

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➜ Arcade story

Arcade story: a must-read for everyone who grew up in the Dragon’s Lair/Space Ace era. I’m not especially proud of this story, but I post it because I think you will find it amusing, and also because...

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Weekend reading

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➜ The best commencement speeches, ever

NPR has created an archive that links to over 300 great commencement speeches. ★ Permalink

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➜ Knowlton Nash

Knowlton Nash died. When the CBC cuts down in 1996, he said “These cuts are really into the bone … it’s fundamentally hurting the whole concept of public broadcasting.” Peter Mansbridge also notes: He...

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➜ Tiii.me calculates your binge watching

Tiii.me calculates how long it takes to binge watch a show. So now I know I spent 247 hours watching The West Wing last summer. ★ Permalink

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Pop Loser is dead, long live Pop Loser

I’ve been posting links here for about eight years. Some things that aren’t eight years old: the iPhone. My marriage. My youngest son. Awhile ago I posted something about killing all the analytics on...

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The new Pop Loser

You can probably expect a few of these posts over the next week or two. YOU! Yes, you. You, the person reading this post via RSS. Haven’t you heard? Email is the new thing. And I mean that. Pop Loser...

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