found drama

• Our phony economy
  by Jonathan Rowe (Harper’s Magazine):

  “Not all Americans confronted with these expenditures regard them as “consumption choices” that propel them further up a happy mountain of more.”

• Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
  via /.
• Maperture plug-in
  via TUAW: Google Maps + Aperture = geo-tagging plug-in
• Seeds of Change
  Anthology edited by John Joseph Adams (who brought us Wastelands). I’m really excited about this release and can’t wait to grab a copy.
• US Internet speeds won’t catch up with Japan in 100 years
  via /.: This is really just sad. Even our rural communities should have top-notch, world-class broadband. (Remote northern Alaska? Maybe not. Rural Iowa? You’re right in the thick of it!)
• → Divide.
  at Big Contrarian (via DF):

  …nothing infuriates me more than hearing a designer talk about something as “an engineering problem”. You absolute bastard.

• Putting Our Hot Heads Together
  via ALA Articles
• Slamming Butternut Chilijack
  via Erin Cooks

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