Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
[A great rant on The Atlantic’s (apparently it’s a bug) RSS feeds going title-only][link], but it applies to pretty much anyone selling words for a living.
[link]: http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/416273227/nostrich-summary-theres-a-thin-line-between “kung fu grippe : nostrich: Summary: There’s a thin line between…”
[I have long had a beef with the conventional wisdom that recording everyone all the time makes us safer][link]:
>There are exceptions, of course, and proponents of cameras can always cherry-pick examples to bolster their argument. These success stories are what convince us; our brains are wired to respond more strongly to anecdotes than to data. But the data are clear: CCTV cameras have minimal value in the fight against crime.
[link]: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/25/schneier.security.cameras/ “Spy cameras won’t make us safer – CNN.com”
[Eliza][el] has got [some shirts for sale on CafePress][link]:
>In the internet broadcasting system, art-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the SWEATSHOP, the dedicated artists who perpetuate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT.
[link]: http://www.cafepress.com/sweatshopSVU “SWEATSHOP: SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT”
[el]: http://toxoplasm.org/gibberings/ “Eliza Gauger’s blog”
In other words, “[Sorry Adobe, but we’re going to keep making new things you don’t like.][link]”
[link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0871.html “HTML+RDFa, Microdata, and Canvas in HTML WG from Tim Berners-Lee on 2010-02-25 (public-html@w3.org from February 2010)”
[All you have to do is get me to hand you some money is use the words “artisanal” and “sodas” in the same sentence][link]. If you expand it to read:
>artisanal, handmade sodas made with fresh ingredients
Then my support can only be described as *total*.
[link]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1427166211/brooklyn-soda-works-artisanal-handmade-sodas-ma “Brooklyn Soda Works – artisanal, handmade sodas made with fresh ingredients — Kickstarter”
[Seems like we’re going to find out about some real homophobes at CitiBank][link]. [I echo Gruber’s sentiment][gruber], and repeat: What the fuck business is it of CitiBank’s what a company blogs about? I found nothing “objectionable” on their blog. If anything, it’s significantly less objectionable than this one.
[link]: http://blog.fabulis.com/post/409789428/citibank-is-so-not-fabulis “citibank is so not fabulis – fabulis”
[gruber]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/25/fabulis “Daring Fireball: fabulis”
[Finally][link]. He started about 3 hours ago, and by my watch he is adding roughly 75 new followers per second. Currently the tally sits at 106,875.
[link]: http://twitter.com/conanobrien “Conan O’Brien (ConanOBrien) on Twitter”
[30 million views means a whole lot of dead links][link]. Wonder why they waited 3 years?
[link]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_the_rumors_rickrolling_isnt_dead.php “Despite the Rumors, RickRolling Isn’t Dead”
[Oh, the points you will earn in the future][link]. I think saying the growth of Mafia Wars was driven by authenticity is a very silly, if not outright insulting. Authenticity is not something you can acquire.
[link]: http://kotaku.com/5479125/points-for-toothbrushing-the-gaming-speech-everyone-is-talking-about?skyline=true&s=i “Points For Toothbrushing: The Gaming Speech Everyone Is Talking About – Dice 2010 – Kotaku”
[The singularity approaches.][link] Via [Andy Baio][andy].
[link]: http://img687.yfrog.com/i/b29.mp4/ “Yfrog – b29 – Uploaded by toymachinesh”
[andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy dot org”
