Wall Street Journal article on NN etc: a concurring opinion. (In law a concurrence is where the author agrees with the result but not the reasoning.)

Props to Guthrie for slipping an idea past the Man.

Are we co-opted yet?

Sorry to report JMB’s pic-see concept has been appropriated by the Adult industry. (Maybe it already existed but this is the first time I’d seen it.) Today I discovered a folder of fairly innocuous abstract drawings in a, yes, open directory on my site, that were displayed using a pic-see-like utility. The eight images were displayed in a table, but instead of links back to the images, each drawing was a link to an Adult site. (The same Adult site, in fact.) At the top of the page were animated GIFs of *ss-f*cking, g*gging, etc. If this persists I’ll close the directories–there hasn’t been any reason to before. No link to that shite. Has anyone else seen this?

If you enter res://mshtml.dll/about.moz into the Internet Explorer address bar you get a blue screen (Microsoft’s little joke about:mozilla)

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Architects’ renderings for the Hudson Yards, currently empty but soon to be developed, adding to an already impossibly congested West Side.
In the top one, let’s see, ridiculous modernist sculpture–check; steel band–yep; breakdancers–got ‘em.
The bottom image looks like Caprica just before the Cylons hit.

Nice glitch, britta, it helped, I think. I can’t really justify posting these. Conan sounds about right.
My only lame defense is I hate the ubiquity of flat screen TVs in our culture. There is a falafel place near me that used to play Middle Eastern music on a CD and had travel posters of Syria and Lebanon on the walls. Recently they hung a big flat screen from the ceiling and now whenever I go in there it’s news or football with the sound turned up loud. The owners “went native,” which is to say embraced the shittier American values.

(originally submitted as a comment to my bigscreens post but I couldn’t get it past the spam filter)