This is the first part in what will probably be a three part series. It’s well-done and can be easily followed by most high-school students, though I’d also recommend Veronica Mars as another way to deliver the same message.
In a post dense with ideas about the future of television, Noah Brier wonders if television will eventually deliver two different forms of content: the traditional “live” form and a new “time shifted” form enabled by DVR and related technologies.
There’s also a thought-provoking quote from Jared of the Naked NYC blog: “Technology and music reward early adoption, but television does not.”
Agreed. I just finished watching Arrested Development for the first time. About halfway through the first disc, I was glad I hadn’t seen the show when it was on TV; I would have been too heartbroken upon hearing of its cancellation.
It’s worth opening in a background tab and half-listening-to while you check whatever else is so damn important this morning.
The kind of mass protest that always works is illegal just about everywhere in the United States today. Why is that? For a protest to be effective, you have to stop traffic. You have to stop traffic. What keeps you from getting a permit in the United States? Stepping a foot into the street. Now why do you have to stop traffic? Because for a protest to do anything, it has to disrupt business as usual.
I should also note that hawktrainer shared the link via Treehugger via Chelsea Green via After Downing Street.
Magic Paper
[via rodcorp]
“. . . because this is honestly the most exciting thing in the world.”
Thelonious Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)
[via TomC]
My favorite line: “What you don’t play can be more important than what you do play” (italics substituted for underlines). For some reason, everybody keeps lopping off play at the end of the sentence; but it’s right there in Monk’s handwriting, just below the last syllable of important.
If you’d like to swim upstream on this link: Swiss Miss got it from Eric Alba who got it from Neven Mrgan who doesn’t tell us where he found it.
It’s been floating around the web for a while, though. Do The Math did a little legwork on this and discovered that the original document is mentioned or used in Steve Lacy’s introduction to Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music.
Comics grammar and tradition
[via TomC]
A style guide for comics letterers. I’m intrigued by all the traditions—”[a balloon] tail should terminate at roughly 50-60% of the distance between the balloon and the character’s head”—and recent trends:
Thought balloons have fallen out of fashion in recent years in preference for narrative captions. Text in a thought balloon can be italicized. The tail on a thought balloon is made up of smaller bubbles and should point towards a character’s head (not mouth, as in a standard balloon tails). Generally you should have at least three little bubbles of decreasing size that reach toward the character. Two seems insufficient and more than four or five seems excessive.
GOP.gov Anywhere API
[via migurski]
Innovative. Slick. Beige.
Kansas rethinks its prison policies
[via bfunk]
Among other initiatives, there’s been a major push to soften the traditional, cop-like approach used by parole officers when dealing with parolees.
The new strategy seems to be working: five years ago around 203 parolees returned to Kansas prisons each month but by 2007, the number reduced by 100 per month and the number of new crimes—felony convictions that people pick up while they are on parole supervision—also nearly halved.
BBC to put every publicly owned oil painting in the UK online
[via rodcorp]
The BBC is going to put all 200,000 publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK online.
A partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation charity will see all the UK’s publicly owned oil paintings – 80% of which are not on public display – placed on the internet by 2012.
Mapping a connected world
[via migurski]
To understand how the world really works, we need maps, not just of infrastructure, but of flow. We need maps not just of the internet and shipping lanes, but maps that help us understand who and what we pay attention to, how we get information, what we know and what we don’t know.
A partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation charity will see all the UK’s publicly owned oil paintings – 80% of which are not on public display – placed on the internet by 2012.
A Newspaper? On a PC? That’s Crazy Talk
[via nautical2k]
A post from the New York Times’ Bits blog links to this video from 1981:
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