Linkdump for July 12th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
at Wise Bread — resonates with me because I've been thinking about making a bookshelf or three…
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at NCZOnline — yes please, anything to kill off sprites
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by Marc Ruxin (via B²) — contains many of the same thoughts I have as I wrestle with this quirk of our modern landscape:
And so, as the tactile pursuit of the cultural arts disappears, it is only fair to acknowledge how, in many ways, you were never armed with the right equipment in the old days. There was no Amazon collaboratively filtered recommendations to check, no www.metacritic.com meta scores to cross reference, no social web to tap for peer review. and feedback. There was no www.IMDB.com available for film, no Pandora for music discovery. Of course, part of that old paradigm is that mistakes were made. Bad records and books were bought. Disappointing films were rented. Despite these minor setbacks, the joy of the unexpected existed, and the mitigation of mistakes took actual work.
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by Eric Meyer (at ALA) — a worthy and reasonably in-depth discussion
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at BeerAdvocate (via @tharx75) — ZOMG! want!!
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"One-touch cleaning system" — really? this is the only way to get a new foot cap?
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at Unreported
Isn’t that nice? Businesses get to dress up delinquency as “a negotiated transfer to lenders.” The next time you can’t make your credit card payments, try calling up your Visa representative and say, “No, no. I’m not late. We just need to engage in payment negotiations.” See how that goes. Also, enjoy prison.
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