Rachael’s post made me wonder if there are any photos from my own hometown in the Life image archive.
"The precious commodity that we, as publishers, have to offer advertisers is the attention of our readers. Web page views are a terribly inaccurate, if not outright misleading, metric for attention. Subscribers to a full-content RSS feed are among the readers paying the most attention, but generate among the least web page views."
Right on. If I were to pick a single favorite site on the entire internet, it’s Daring Fireball, but the only time I ever visit is to grab links and share them. The Deck’s Cost per Influence metric hints at this idea as welI, which I’m sure he’ll discuss in his session with Jim Coudal at SXSW next week. I can’t wait.
Now that’s a nice desktop setup. (via uncrate)
Gold, silver, and bronze plated MailChimp wrestling belts. Details soon.
MailChimp brings the lumber.
Deerhunter as South Park Characters (via bradford)
"Ebert’s writing is gentle, calm and infectious. He trusts his readers not to be morons. He writes for who he imagines to be the ideal reader, which is actually the reader we all wish ourselves to be. Those who thought of him as the fat man with the thumb always missed the point. He became who he was because of his work. He did it the right way."
Will Leitch, My Roger Ebert Story
Robot Unicorn Attack
Robot Unicorn Attack is an amazing new online game by Adult Swim. I won’t spoil it with details; just click through to make your wishes come true.
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Google and Facebook’s entire business model is based on the notion of “monetizing” our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself—the “social norm,” as Facebook puts it—so that what we’re giving up doesn’t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric about how Company X really cares about privacy. I’m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?
The problem with buying things with your privacy is you really don’t know how much you’re paying. With money, five bucks is five bucks. But what is the value of your list of friends? If it’s not worth much, your membership on Facebook may be the deal of a lifetime. If it’s incredibly valuable, you’re getting massively ripped off. Only the techies know how much your info is worth, and they’re not telling. But the fact that they’d rather get your data than your dollars tells you all you need to know.
"Lyons, on Buzz, etc. (via newsweek)
I love this series of covers by David Pearson. In fact, I think I’ll go out on a limb and say he’s my favorite book cover designer. Just look at all those beautiful covers.
a bright sadness: Beginning
“And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.” –Genesis 32:25
Forty days, I will send the beasts
away, all my servant indulgences
in droves; my loves over the brook
and linger on the quiet bank alone
to grapple arms of One not made
with hands until morning comes.
Merciful Other, grant me this:
my stubborn heart’s hip
broken with an early touch
that I might limp through the dark,
neither run nor wander
but find you, awake,
in the garden,
empty
of death.
My friend Cam is writing a blog through the season of Lent, and he’s killing it on day one. Wow.
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Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated
And let my cry come unto Thee.
"TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday
Il Comandante Mark was an Italian comic about a French guy who fought in the American Revolution. He didn’t marry his true love until the end of the Civil War, though, for obvious plot reasons. And, in case you were wondering where he learned to fight:
Mark is a French nobleman, as a child he was shipwrecked thanks to the English, but survived when a patriot saved him; he was than raised by a tribe of Native American Indians. His adoptive father teaches him fighting and fencing, as well as the values of liberty, loyalty and defending those oppressed.
It never occurred to me to have a personal logo, but I think this may be it.
