Links for Sunday 26 December 2010
- Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Politics - GOOD
- It’s staggering, as ever, to see how financially unequal the country is, but also fascinating to see how people don’t realise it. I’m not sure I’d have responded much more accurately, and it’s also probably similar in the UK. (via @ianbetteridge)
- ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
- About Yahoo! and Delicious, and other things they’ve closed, and Flickr, and the fact all the content on Yahoo! Video will be deleted in March. *sigh* (via Simon Willison)
- LRB · Terry Castle · Adieu, madame
- A good account of just how huge an international star Sarah Bernhardt was. Also, the fedora was originally a hat worn by women. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
- LRB · Stefan Collini · Browneâs Gamble
- A good account of the inconsistencies of the Browne Report into the future of funding Britain’s higher education. Sounds like it’s written by people for whom education is simply a way of earning MOAR MONEY.
- LRB · Ross McKibbin · Nothing to do with the economy
- On the cuts. The bigger the cuts, the more it makes the economy seem in more trouble than it is, and this in turn makes the previous Labour government look more incompetent. Also, the Liberals as a friendly fig leaf hiding the Tories’ extreme ideas. Fuckers.
- LRB · David Simpson · Because We Could
- Interesting look at why soldiers torture prisoners. Lays much of the blame at (a) the normalisation of torture as a technique in films/TV watched by troops and (b) the training soldiers go through that prepares them for being tortured themselves. (Subscribers only.)
- The Online Photographer: How To Improve Digital Print Tonality
- Simple tip for improving tonal separation: “Pull up Unsharp Masking. Set the Amount for somewhere between 8 and 15% (depending on taste, subject, and printer). Set the Radius for around 60 pixels. Set the Threshold to 0.”
- THEM THANGS
- Sorting out my bookmarks, I have a few image scrapbooks like this. Love this one. No comments, just interesting images grabbed from all over. Absorbing. (Occasionally NSFW.)
- THE DAY AFTER YOU DIE
- Also quite a good scrapbook, although a higher adolescent incidence of naked ladies (so 40% chance of NSFW).
- CONVOY
- Not sure about this scrapbook. Some nice interiors and products, but all a bit too tastefully hipster.
- Dinosaur media and the Internet both suck, a Booktrust story
- Francis Irving using the Booktrust funding u-turn story as an example of how most journalism never providws basic facts and resources that, these days, should be a no brainer.
