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Linkspam for 21-8-2008
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This is, quite simply, brilliant. Very cunning use of perspective in a very practical manner. Wonder if I could persuade NCP to hire him?
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Everyone's favourite lunatic posts about the etiquette of friending people on LJ. I fall into the "don't ask, there's no point, doing so pisses me off" school, and also the "I add you back if you make interesting conversation" thing.
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Why are your phone battery meter and signal meter so crap? Sometimes, it's a deliberate part of the software. Which is stupid. Ah well
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I haven't had time to read this yet, but I know a bunch of you will be interested, so here y'go, feedback welcome
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Robert Rodriguez is making a Red Sonja and she will be played by Rose McGowan. That's the archetypal chainmail bikini wearer played by someone that isn't Nielsen. Might actually be fun. Gratuitous and stupid, obviously, but fun too. And she looks great.
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More silly signs. Good fun
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John McCain is so desperate for a bit of that viral internet action that he's set up a reward scheme for people posting comments in his favour. Openly. Obama supporters are, naturally, laughing themselves silly and going back to posting such support for free. Desperate measures?
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Look at this! The Insubstantial Careerist hath blog. It's crap. Really really crap. But you knew that from the tagline, right? Empowerment? FFS. I nearly studied in Salford, she gives the whole place a bad name.
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A games software developer invites those who rip off his games to tell him why, gets a lot of constructive feedback and decides to change his SOP as a result, including substantially improving his demos and dropping DRM completely. Interesting times.
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Why the Twitter SMS gateway got closed down over here. SRSLY, USians? Do you guys REALLY pay to receive text messages? That both explains Twitter's revenue stream AND why it's both more popular and less viable over here :-(
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This is interestingâ”judge rules that comments on a discussion board are not libel, merely slander, a different, lesser offence. How that would apply elsewhere in, for example, blog comments, is open to further interpretation. Stupid libel laws.
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Nice little gadget showing pretty much everything I can think of in the history of daftness online, right from the very beginning. I still love that coffee pot.
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Giving a former chief of police who obviously got hid over the head with a truncheon once too often a damn good fisking over his imbecilic anti-legalisation article. There are some good arguments against legalisation, but he chose to deploy hyperbole and fear tactics. In the Independent. Fool.
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This looks like a neat little plan. Mozilla developers are working with Adobe to create a plugin for INTERNET EXPLORER that could possibly make it able to display stuff according to standards. This could mean that mapping software like Google Maps might actually work properly. Which would be nice.
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This is, quite, frankly, one of the most horrifying things I've read in a long time. It's also one of the most hopeful. It's not a short read, and those of an emotional should be warned that it made ME a bit teary eyed at times. If child neglect stories make you upset, read with extreme caution.
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Well, yes, she is. That's not a bad thing though, is it?
Oh, she thinks it's a bad thing, doesn't she? Ah well.
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Who, exactly, is the one missing the point of feminism when Pratchett writes strong female characters, and then some other twit redefines them as masculine according to a set of criteria they've just made up? Because if they're strong characters, they be masculine?
Who is the one asserting that ? It's not Pratchett.
And worse, in my opinion: there's no point to it. Let's enjoy the books and share them with each other. We can deconstruct all we like once the poor guy's dead.
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OP: Thanks, Mat, for the excellent linkspam---still working through it, but there's a lot of fascinating stuff here.
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In fact he specifically shows the opposite, and often.
Given that several Pratchett female characters are based on real people I know, have met, or have heard of, I don't think they're secretly men.
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Hmm, was that really necessary?
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And I don't see that it is a study of netiquette so much as just an exhaustive accumulation of netiquette.
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But so many people do, I lose count of LJ friending dramas even functioning adults come up with—it can be amusing to watch, but getting stuck in the middle can be annoying.
And then there are the perpetual "is it ok to add you" / "can I link to this" people, who I've never understood but perpetually see out there.
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