January 2010 Neatlinks

Funny. But kinda sad. But funny. Dear Sir/Madam (via Webb) (0 comments)

I had never heard of Lee Miller before: Savage Incongruities (via Iconic Photos) (0 comments)

Dunno why, but I like art things like this: The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap (0 comments)

I was thinking the other day that blog posts are kind of like postcards. So I decided to Google for a postcard blog theme and came across this cool concept Postcard WordPress Theme (0 comments)

Sometimes I enjoy the backstories more than the posts themselves:

It’s been a few years, so I’m not sure I’m telling this story right. Bear with me. Not long after Serious Eats launched, we were either at lunch with or ran into überblogger Jason Kottke. (His wife, Meg Hourihan, was consulting for SE at the time.) I don’t know how it came up now, but I think Jason may have said something along the lines of … If Serious Eats wants to offer readers utility, it could start with getting the Spotted Pig’s Smoked Haddock Chowder recipe. Seems Kottke loves the stuff. We bugged April and bugged April and finally got the recipe—in the middle of summer 2007. Not a very summery recipe, so we held onto it, waiting for winter. Then forgot all about it. Until now. So here, Jason. Here’s your recipe. Any other requests?

Though in this case, smoked haddock chowder sounds mighty good. (0 comments)

That’s one ugly camera: Casio’s new EX-FH100 (is it undressing?) (0 comments)

Oh. Oh man. This is just going to burn up the internet: The most excellent comedie and tragical romance of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. (0 comments)

Neat: teaching a computer how to paint (2 comments)

This is handy: Howto Delete Files Permanently and Securely in Linux

sudo apt-get install secure-delete

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YES! Fahrenheit 451… Book burning as done by lawyers:

Unlike Fahrenheit 451, the vast majority of the culture swept into this 20th century black hole was not commercially available and, in most cases, the authors are unknown. The works are locked up — with no benefit to anyone — and no one has the key that would unlock them. We have cut ourselves off from our own culture, left it to molder — and in the case of nitrate film, literally disintegrate — with no benefit to anyone. The works may not be physically destroyed — although many of them are; disappearing, disintegrating, or simply getting lost in the vastly long period of copyright to which we have relegated them. But for the vast majority of works and the vast majority of citizens who do not have access to one of our great libraries, they are gone as thoroughly as if we had piled up the culture of the 20th century and simply set fire to it; and all this right at the moment when we could have used the Internet vastly to expand the scope of cultural access. Bradbury’s firemen at least set fire to their own culture out of deep ideological commitment, vile though it may have been. We have set fire to our cultural record for no reason; even if we had wanted retrospectively to enrich the tiny number of beneficiaries whose work keeps commercial value beyond 56 years, we could have done so without these effects. The ironies are almost too painful to contemplate.

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For future reference:

When I decided to write a column about running effective meetings, I turned to a leader who holds more than anyone I know and who actually credits her meeting structure for leading to some of the most innovative advances in technology today: Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products

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File this under “recipes that include sex”

Put the chicken in a pan, stick a lemon or some onion or any fruit or vegetable you have on hand into the cavity. Put the chicken in the oven. Go away for an hour. Watch some TV, play with the kids, read, have a cocktail, have sex. When an hour has passed, take the chicken out of the oven and put it on the stove top or on a trivet for 15 more minutes. Finito.

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Nice phrase: architectural misfeature (0 comments)

Google v. China, round 2: Google fights back

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

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Too perfect: I’m sure that if Hadopi commits two more acts of infringement, it will order its own offices taken offline for a period of a year. (0 comments)

Just read the whole thing: Time Traveler Essentials Print (0 comments)

You stay classy, Texas: Boy, 4, Chooses Long Locks and Is Suspended From Class

You stay classy, TSA: Meet Mikey, 8: U.S. Has Him on Watch List (0 comments)

So cool I wish I had thought of it: American Pixels (more info) (0 comments)

Poor Moleskine: How To Turn an iPhone into a Moleskine Book (0 comments)

This makes me giggle: mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ (0 comments)

Now this is news: Fiat 500 to Hit Chrysler’s U.S. Showrooms in 2010 Followed by Convertible in 2011 and Abarth in 2012 (1 comment)

Very very interesting article: In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise (4 comments)

And I thought it was nuh-GEHN-eks: nginx (pronounced as “engine X”) (0 comments)

This funny: The Late Night War by Ken Burns (0 comments)

This looks yummy: Pici con Ragu dell’Anatra: Hand-Rolled Tuscan Pasta with Duck Ragu (0 comments)

Yes yes yes! Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks? (0 comments)

What do the UK and Uzbekistan have in common? The Plight of Umida Akhmedova and U.K. Photographers Protest Police Harassment (0 comments)

Makes me want to eat in solidarity with Haiti:

People with yellow tickets received a 100-pound sack of bulgur, lentils and cooking oil — enough to feed a family of five for three weeks. Within minutes of the distribution, the smell of cooking wafted through the air.

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I appreciate Mike’s perspective on such things:

From a non-photographer perspective, you’ve got to admit it’s pretty funny that TIME paid $125 for a cover photo to illustrate a story about “The New Frugality”! At the very least, some art director there has a sense of humor.

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Amazing double rainbow as seen from Joy’s backyard: It’s Been Raining (0 comments)