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Apt’s links for April 29th
The future is something with a fin on it: J.G. Ballard RIP ? Bookkake – Agreed.
Inside Steve Jobs? tear-down mansion – Apple 2.0 – “On Tuesday a California city council will reconsider Steve Jobs? longstanding request for permission to tear down the empty 84-year-old mansion that stands on the site where he wants to build [...]
Published: April 30, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 25th through April 28th
Bat For Lashes – Whats a Girl To Do | quietube – Thank You, James.
Rhett Dashwood – “Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the [...]
Published: April 29, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 20th
magCulture.com / editorial design – “Monocle has quietly entered its third year, the spine now featuring an orange issue number key. It?s this sort of attention to detail that makes it so admired by designers.” Shame it’s borderline unreadable tosh.
CR Blog » Blog Archive » Disney: The Cut And Paste Years – “Or, ?I?m sure [...]
Published: April 21, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 10th through April 14th
CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Art Of Necessity – “When the European avant-garde reached Spain in the 1930s, local printers found themselves ill-equipped to respond. Small printshops were mostly reliant on turn-of-the century typefaces: hardly fitting for expressing this bold new world. But, in a remarkable show of ingenuity, they found their own [...]
Published: April 15, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 7th through April 8th
adaptive path » why content management fails – “So why do these CMS projects almost always fail? [...] I?ve spoken to a number of Web teams that have used a CMS with varying levels of success. One problem I heard repeatedly was that the project worked fine, but nobody used the software once it was [...]
Published: April 9, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 4th
Massively Parallel Procrastination: Savory – “If the nice folks at Amazon contact me (you can find my email address at the bottom of this FAQ) and ask me to stop distributing Savory, I will do so. My goal isn’t to “hack” the Kindle, deprive Amazon of revenue or place an increased support burden on Amazon’s [...]
Published: April 5, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 31st
If It’s Hip, It’s Here: A Symbol of Failure Inspires: A Round Up Of Twitter Fail Whale Sightings – Note to self.
iPhone Mockup – No excuse now.
Entangled Particles: iPhone and Android make up 50% of Google’s smartphone traffic worldwide – ” iPhone and Android users ? just 13% of the high-end market ? represent nearly [...]
Published: April 1, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 28th through March 30th
YouTube – Charlotte Roche on Wetlands – Something to cheer you up, James. Via 5th Estate. Maybe if it was me, I’d put an URL at the end of it so the German perv-hounds know where they can go buy it. That is assuming it’s not already on Scrib’d.
Financial Times 2020 – FT 2020.com – [...]
Published: March 31, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 24th
Why social DRM makes sense: Wise words from book maven Mike Shatzkin | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home – “The best social DRM is to sell a product in a way that makes your customers appreciate you enough to shun the idea of taking advantage of you. It?s called ?value-added? products.” (in comments)
Nathan Bransford – [...]
Published: March 25, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 22nd through March 23rd
Discount dash | theBookseller.com – “Half a billion pounds is an eye-popping sum. That is the wad of cash the UK book trade gave away in discounts last year, its highest number ever, with the amount for the last two years approaching the billion-pound mark.”
Redacted: The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker – “one [...]
Published: March 24, 2009. Read more →