1 week ago
But really, Devine’s column isn’t there to express a view shared by real people, but rather to disagree with a particular group… Along with the expressions of anger come links to the online version of the column, where metrics are collected and advertising hosted. In a fragmented media marketplace augmented by real-time social media, networked irritation drives traffic. Devine’s columns look more and more like linkbaiting, pure and simple.
Jason Wilson, “If I Make You Angry Enough, Maybe You Will Keep Reading” at the New Maltida (via somethingchanged).
1 week ago

From Lauren McCarthy comes functional fashion in the form of the Happiness Hat 2009:

A wearable conditioning device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. Frowning creates intense pain but a full smile leaves you pain free! The first in a series of Tools for Improved Social Inter-Acting.

1 week ago
It seems Great Whites are turning on each other up North. See also.

It seems Great Whites are turning on each other up North. See also.

1 week ago
At the Alila Cha-Am Hotel, Thailand from Duangrit Bunnag Architects. Odd and compelling.

At the Alila Cha-Am Hotel, Thailand from Duangrit Bunnag Architects. Odd and compelling.

1 week ago
Monoscope discovers the Elelot Tube Amp, a new generation vacuum tube amplifier for EK Japan Co., Ltd.

Monoscope discovers the Elelot Tube Amp, a new generation vacuum tube amplifier for EK Japan Co., Ltd.

1 week ago
Avedon’s instructions to his printer or, as Clayton Cubbitt so eloquently puts it: Fuck the darkroom right in the ass. I don’t miss those days. I have books filled with instructions and recipes for my own prints. They’re like spell books for a dead magic.

Avedon’s instructions to his printer or, as Clayton Cubbitt so eloquently puts it:

Fuck the darkroom right in the ass. I don’t miss those days. I have books filled with instructions and recipes for my own prints. They’re like spell books for a dead magic.

2 weeks ago

Create Your Own @font-face Kits

Font Squirrel eases the pain of EOT and @font-face conversions.
2 weeks ago
But if the donor stays on beyond the honeymoon period Cornucopia charges the charity between 80 to 95 per cent of the total pledged for the first year, regardless of when the donor then withdraws.
Paying to collect the charity dollar. Outrageous.
2 weeks ago
From Married To The Sea.

From Married To The Sea.

2 weeks ago

MetaLab has opened a new business!

Getting themselves into a market that we should have sewn up an age ago.
2 weeks ago

If you missed John Safran’s Race Relations last night, you can watch episodes online (or vodcast them). Absolute. Gold.

2 weeks ago

Weird promo for Windows 386. Weird is right. I guess at least Microsoft is consistent.

2 weeks ago

Evidence that the only outcome from wearing cable-ties on your helmet is that you look like a douche.

3 weeks ago
Presenting Seal Dog—as comfortable on land as she is in the sea. Better known as my Mum’s chocolate Labrador, Buffy.

Presenting Seal Dog—as comfortable on land as she is in the sea. Better known as my Mum’s chocolate Labrador, Buffy.

3 weeks ago
Corey Holms’ poster for The Birds. Part of Now Showing an exhibition that pays homage to more than 70 years of film.

Corey Holms’ poster for The Birds. Part of Now Showing an exhibition that pays homage to more than 70 years of film.

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