Date: August 2011
"Since Pinboard has collected a lot of bookmarks at this point, I thought it would be interesting to actually run the numbers on link rot -- the depressing phenomenon in which perfectly healthy URLs stop working just a few years after appearing online." Link rot is the bane of the web. #link
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Following from Steven Soderbergh's media diet. Some interesting suggestions here, though I disagree with the horror choices: they're better in colour. #link
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Among the tributes to the late Macho Man on MetaFilter is this gem of an anecdote. #link
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Personally I don't mind dabbling in sci-fi elements; it's when some authors are at pains to distance themselves from the genre that really gets my goat. See also: The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction. #link
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More longform reading to file for later. #link
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Discovered these recently; I didn't realise texting with Twitter was so versatile. #link
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Filing this for future reference. #link
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Just read it. #link
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Because 'liveable cities' lists are bullshit; they often confuse 'aesthetically pleasing' for 'interesting'. #link
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This is where I fit in, I guess. I think I got caught between two stools as I didn't even have a computer till the very late '90s. #link
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The New York Review of Books on the state of American public radio, an institution that much of America doesn't even deserve. #link
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BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh chats with the co-author of a book that posits airports and their environs as the cities of the future. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but there's some interesting ideas here. By the way, the book is on my wishlist, hint hint. #link
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Only goes up to 1998. I think quite a bit has happened since then. #link
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