The Boston Globe’s Scenes from the Recession photo gallery. The above image, by Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters, is of an abandoned construction site in Warsaw, Poland, but it could well be of an abandoned site in northern Portugal — an uncannily similar scenario.
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“We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.”
“The most venomous of all cables are headphones. The combination of thin wires and stubborn earplug hooks is an endless source of gordian frustration (notably amplified when combined with seat belts on an airplane).”
Christoph Niemann’s funny rant about cables.
Today’s XKCD is one of my favourites.
A supremely weird Japanese Windows 3.1 advertisement.
Famous american film critic Roger Ebert writes about his experiences in learning to ‘read’ a movie. Some (in Europe mainly) might mistake Ebert for a populist critic, but here’s a guy who actually enjoys going to the movies, not bothering himself with the ‘cultural supermacist’ stances dear to the kind of film critics that zero-star Slumdog Millionaire just because they say so.
A Periodic Table of Typefaces (link to large image) which is actually pretty useful. (via Lifehacker).
I used to think fanzines were the apex of cool. Then the weblog killed the fanzine — and Web 2.0 killed the weblog.
Some people still publish zines, though. And you can download PDFs.
Some interesting short films here.
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