Peter Black's Freedom to Differ

Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 6-7 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted this weekend was:

• "Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy" http://pjblack.me/Y4ogCf

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about this weekend:

• "The Minister for Zeal: There are no grey areas with Stephen Conroy. He's either loved or loathed" http://pjblack.me/16FPPTJ #auspol
• poor anne hathaway: "Do We Really Hate Anne Hathaway?" http://pjblack.me/Y48fw6
• "Vimeo Killed the Radio Star: Internet makes it hard for music acts to sustain success" http://pjblack.me/16EiKaF
• "Her husband had taken their young daughter to Iran. She was determined to get the child back." http://pjblack.me/XiX55b
• "The Stadiums of Rio: Why They Are Not Yet Ready for the Olympics" http://pjblack.me/17iDar7
• "How Red Medicine LA took social media's power back into its hands" http://pjblack.me/Z80uB2
• "The 'privacy angst' folks like Om Malik are wrong" says @Scobleizer http://pjblack.me/Y2ddcL #lwn117
• "Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy" http://pjblack.me/Y4ogCf
• "PAC launches to support bearded political candidates" http://pjblack.me/10HVtQ4 /cc @spoonerist @iusebiro
• this is from a US perspective ... but does it similarly apply to Australia?: "Law school is a sham" http://pjblack.me/16Fis3l #highered
• "Vine Launches Trending Hashtags" http://pjblack.me/16FilVu
• "The Ghost in the Machine" http://pjblack.me/Y0iKjX
• after her daughter is born with albinism, a mother looks to folklore for meaning and comfort: "The Meaning of White" http://pjblack.me/16DhK6M
• this is a little surprising: "Study: Men more likely than women to be depressed over childlessness" http://pjblack.me/Yzor87
• "A Man Was Murdered Here: Searching for clues to the life and death of William Greer" http://pjblack.me/16DhsNd
• "From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology" http://pjblack.me/Y1pcTq
• "A Few Crazy College Fees That Are Driving Education Online" http://pjblack.me/12nY5Fr #highered
• "Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare" http://pjblack.me/YzooJf
• "As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead" http://pjblack.me/ZbDekT
• this is true: "Twitter Just Became a Games Platform" http://pjblack.me/Y3Jv2N
• "The Rise and Fall of the L.A. Examiner, a Blog That Was a Newspaper That Never Existed" http://pjblack.me/16Ej3Cf
• "When cancer stole Roger Ebert’s voice, Twitter gave him a new one" http://pjblack.me/Y2cWXq
• "Inside the launch of Buzzfeed UK" http://pjblack.me/16EiCrB
• "Does Giving Out High Fives Make Riding the Subway Fun?" http://pjblack.me/Yzofpd
• "Facebook's 'Phone' Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity" http://pjblack.me/Yzof8F
• "Siskel and Ebert: An oral history." http://pjblack.me/XiX4OC
• "Why Dudes Who Can't Smell Never Get Laid" http://pjblack.me/XiX0hH
• "Xbox players better in bed than Playstation and Wii rivals, study finds" http://pjblack.me/Y3Jwna
• "A nightmare in real life: Va. teen’s kidnapping tale in the Philippines" http://pjblack.me/16DhtRg
• this is good news: "Solar Panels Now Make More Electricity Than They Use" http://pjblack.me/Yzoq3R
• "For labels, Apple's iRadio deal could be sweeter than Pandora" http://pjblack.me/12nXsMa #lws008
• "Google Drive inches closer to iCloud with new developer features" http://pjblack.me/16Aroa6
• "Privacy, legals keep cloud at bay" http://pjblack.me/16D6xD9 #highered #lwn117
• "Study abroad plans up in the air" http://pjblack.me/16D6yXF #highered
• "The 1922 Straw Hat Riot Was One of the Weirdest Crime Sprees in American History" http://pjblack.me/12kd4Ad
• "The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set" http://pjblack.me/XRJnrr
• "8 Guys, 6 Weeks: How the Cell Phone Was (Finally) Invented" http://pjblack.me/Xfa3kp
• "14 Words That Are Their Own Opposites" http://pjblack.me/12kd8zY
• "Will Gaming Addiction Become Official?" http://pjblack.me/12kd6bg
• "The New EPG: Every Media Company Must Master the Science of Programming" http://pjblack.me/16yC5Kh
• "Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on" http://pjblack.me/16yc6mo
• "Inside Andrew Sullivan’s Attempt To Turn The Digital Media Business Model On Its Head" http://pjblack.me/XRezqH
• "Meet the PR Guru Who Wants to Help Corporations Write Wikipedia" http://pjblack.me/Yzor7Y
• "Hands on with Vdio, Rdio’s curiously invasive cousin" http://pjblack.me/XRDqKV
• "Al Jazeera Hires First Anchor for New U.S. Channel" http://pjblack.me/Y1oqWA
• "Google releases full Google Glass explainer video" http://pjblack.me/17gcasf
• i wouldn't have expected this: "Your Internet Shopping Sprees Are Driving an Astonishing Building Boom" http://pjblack.me/17gcdEp

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Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim

Daily Twitter Links for Friday 5 April 2013

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "'G-rating' rule for Queensland's outdoor advertising?" http://pjblack.me/XRDkTy
• changes in how universities reported outputs appeared to be legitimate: "A true snapshot of research" http://pjblack.me/16ACgF4 #highered
• "TPG's misleading ad fine slashed" http://pjblack.me/XREFdg #lwn117
• "Yahoo Deal Is the Latest Example of Dropbox Flexing Its Muscles" http://pjblack.me/16ybxsA
• "Google facing legal action in EVERY EU country over 'data goldmine' collected about users" http://pjblack.me/16ybf5b #lwn117
• "How Much Do BuzzFeed, Gawker and Business Insider Staff Tweet About Work?" http://pjblack.me/XQnsAQ
• "The 12 Most Influential Cell Phones" http://pjblack.me/XQeJPc
• "10 Movies Roger Ebert Really Hated" http://pjblack.me/YzoikX
• "The Lease They Can Do: What the Fight Over 'Used' Music Reveals About Online Media" http://pjblack.me/14FssLo #lwb486 #lws008
• "Top 5 Things We All Do That Can Kill Us" http://pjblack.me/16y75Ko
• "How to have the perfect day: Have sex for 106 minutes" http://pjblack.me/14FsnaI
• "Spoilers, Screenerbrags and Squabbles: How Film Critics Use Twitter" http://pjblack.me/XJhEJu
• "Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication" http://pjblack.me/16Ap5Ea
• "Facebook Home will be on Google’s Play Store for select phones April 12, tablets later" http://pjblack.me/XUsKv4
• "Introducing Home" http://pjblack.me/16AoRwB
• "Zuckerberg: Home is the 'next version of Facebook,' not heading to iOS anytime soon" http://pjblack.me/16AnTAA
• a good piece from andrew boe asks :But do we need the De Jersey changes?" http://pjblack.me/16AmBW7 #qldpol #auslaw
• i agree that this is concerning: "Academics fear Dreyfus overload will stymie security debates" http://pjblack.me/16AmlGK #auslaw
• "George Brandis vows to keep a lid on spending" http://pjblack.me/XUn7NJ #auslaw #auspol
• the federal government's legal bill does seem quite high: "Labor's bills are taxing credibility http://pjblack.me/XUmN1f #auslaw
• plans to curb judicial reviews could have the reverse effect: "Senior English judges flag 'reverse effect'" http://pjblack.me/16AlndA
• very sad news: "Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70" http://pjblack.me/XUeB1b
• "Sea lion blows scientists' minds by head-bobbing to the Backstreet Boys" http://pjblack.me/XJhKAK
• "Why is coffee the only thing Americans buy 'fair trade'?" http://pjblack.me/XJhHov
• "The Secret World of 'Garbagemen'" http://pjblack.me/XJhK3H
• it's amazing how many people believe some of these conspiracy theories: "Conspiracy Theory Poll Results" http://pjblack.me/XJhEcn
• jason goldman helped build google and twitter into what they are today: "The Silent Partner" http://pjblack.me/12es4j7
• this may surprise some but i also hate the sound of my own voice: "Why you hate the sound of your own voice" http://pjblack.me/XQ9nU7
• "Check Out the View From One World Trade Center" http://pjblack.me/16y4Mag
• "The Most Dangerous Countries for Tourists, in Maps" http://pjblack.me/XJht0I

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Daily Twitter Links for Thursday 4 April 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "What The Most Productive People Do Before Bed" http://pjblack.me/12iNdsl

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• only 52 days to go now ...: "Arrested Development Has a Premiere Date" http://pjblack.me/XRlP5S
• "'Arrested Development' Release Date Coming Soon" http://pjblack.me/Z3v7rn
• "6 ways of looking at college hookup culture" http://pjblack.me/XJhyBv
• i doubt it: "Will anyone pay for a nudity-free Playboy iPhone app?" http://pjblack.me/XJhykW
• "Amnesty 'outrage' at Saudi paralysis sentence" http://pjblack.me/XQ8jiU
• "Why are you still stealing Game of Thrones?" http://pjblack.me/16y0QWX #lws008 #lwb486 #lwn117
• "What Makes Rain Smell So Good?" http://pjblack.me/XJhtxD
• haha wow: "Here’s How to Magically Cook Scrambled Eggs in the Shell" http://pjblack.me/Z2SaTa
• time for a career change?: "Jane and Jim Henson: How do you get to be a professional puppeteer?" http://pjblack.me/16xtRly
• "Ghostly Photos Of Abandoned Theme Parks" http://pjblack.me/14FswuJ
• "What The Most Productive People Do Before Bed" http://pjblack.me/12iNdsl
• room for debate at the @nytimes: "Should Social Media Activity Cost You Your Job?" http://pjblack.me/16w4JvC #lwn117
• "Why MTV Can't Stop Making Reality Exploitation" http://pjblack.me/XMkVYv
• "What’s the best sentence ever formed?" http://pjblack.me/16w2kRD
• "America is watching more TV than ever before—just not on TV" http://pjblack.me/16vspjD
• "Can We Patent Life?: Should Private Companies Be Allowed to Patent Genes?" http://pjblack.me/16vpDeg #lwb486
• "The Big Problem for MOOCs Visualized" http://pjblack.me/XKMQrK #highered
• "Our Regressive Web" http://pjblack.me/16vnS0I
• "Barons of Bitcoin: the Tokyo-based powerhouse that controls the world's virtual money" http://pjblack.me/YrhRQJ #lwn117
• "Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink" http://pjblack.me/XYQcTQ
• "My divorce from Google - One year later" http://pjblack.me/XDHj6i
• "Welcome to the world’s weirdest e-commerce market" http://pjblack.me/XDHmyV
• "NBC confirms Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno in 2014" http://pjblack.me/XP5cry 
• "Belly up? No, that's just the punters doing their dough" http://pjblack.me/16xusUC
• "What Foods are Most Susceptible to Food Fraud?" http://pjblack.me/Ysr2R7
• from @TheEconomist: "Climate science: A sensitive matter" http://pjblack.me/16hysGK
• "The Diabetic's Paradox: Health self-tracking is in vogue. But is it more of a boon or a burden?" http://pjblack.me/YrhQMP
• "The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind: What Does a Tablet Do to the Child’s Mind?" http://pjblack.me/XRMPhf
• "America's Sea-Born Terrorism Challenge: the Panga Boat" http://pjblack.me/XU39yc
• "The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse" http://pjblack.me/10oGAU7 #lwb486 #lws008

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 2 April 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

•  "'Game Of Thrones' Premiere Breaks Piracy Record" http://pjblack.me/XKTOwK #lws008 #lwb486

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• good to know: "Modafinil Is Wall Street’s New Drug of Choice" http://pjblack.me/YrhOoj
• forget itunes or spotify: "YouTube is the dominant force in music" http://pjblack.me/Ysj9v0
• "The Simple Reason Why Goodreads Is So Valuable to Amazon" http://pjblack.me/XKW07r
• "How Robots and Military-Grade Algorithms Make Same-Day Delivery Possible" http://pjblack.me/10oGBr6
• "The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group" http://pjblack.me/XU2Kf9#lwb486#lws008
• "Smartphones Are Americans' New BFFs" http://pjblack.me/XU2DQE
• "'Game Of Thrones' Premiere Breaks Piracy Record" http://pjblack.me/XKTOwK#lws008#lwb486
• i've never really understood peanut butter and jelly: "29 Ways To Honor The Glory Of Peanut Butter And Jelly" http://pjblack.me/16vpckm
• "Obama outlines human brain-mapping initiative" http://pjblack.me/XKTHkZ
• "Memo to Anthony Kennedy: the courts, not lawmakers, will deliver gay marriage" http://pjblack.me/XU0AMl
• i'm still keen to read it: "Critics Strike Down Justice O'Connor's New Book" http://pjblack.me/XTZrVd
• "Viacom, YouTube Copyright Lawsuit: Judge to Make Decision" http://pjblack.me/YP189L #lwb486 #lws008
• "Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws" http://pjblack.me/YOW7xV
• "Like 500 years ago, geeks are becoming the last line of defense for free speech" http://pjblack.me/YOVRiu
• "Meet Feedly: The startup most likely to replace Google Reader" http://pjblack.me/YpNlqs
• is this really necessary?: "Finally, A Way To Only Date People Who Agree With You On Politics" http://pjblack.me/16a621j
• "Meet Harry Beck, the genius behind London's iconic subway map" http://pjblack.me/ZN4zNB
• "America’s Depression Diagnoses Epidemic and How to Fix It" http://pjblack.me/120K0kQ
• "Twitter to extend its Cards feature to support three new varieties, including mobile app links and photo galleries" http://pjblack.me/XJyxDD
• "Why Aren't Asian Actors Getting Leading Roles in Hollywood?" http://pjblack.me/120K0RL
• "Counting data cost on mobile phones" http://pjblack.me/16a0nbp
• from @tv_rev: "Fast-tracking does not reduce piracy. But it was never meant to." http://pjblack.me/16uTGmq #lwb486 #lws008
• this app is pretty clever: "Handwrite iPhone Notes With This Intuitive App" http://pjblack.me/16uStLR
• "Research impact study's $15m bill" http://pjblack.me/XJcoWj #highered
• "Colombo Plan II an intriguing idea that deserves more clarity" http://pjblack.me/XJcddo #highered #auspol
• "Academe heads for the cloud, with collaboration firmly in mind" http://pjblack.me/XJc49U #highered
• "Conferences fall foul of push to publish" http://pjblack.me/16uP7bF #highered
• this is cool: "Anyone for cricket? Twitter goes deep with Indian Premier League partnership" http://pjblack.me/XJaapK #cricket
• "Sign o’ the Times: Twitter gets a Vine copyright complaint from Prince’s record label" http://pjblack.me/XJ9Vep #lwb486 #lws008
• maybe not just in journalism, also in education?: "A Plagiarism Pandemic?" http://pjblack.me/169TarW #highered
• what does it mean?: "Coughing In A Quiet Music Hall" http://pjblack.me/YnLrXv
• "26 Soundtracks That Were Way Better Than The Movies" http://pjblack.me/YnJ7Q6
• from the @nytimes: "A Clinton in ‘Transition’ Keeps Opponents and Donors Frozen" http://pjblack.me/YnIt5p
• "The Definitive Guide to Eating Lunch at Your Desk" http://pjblack.me/YnI7vu
• "Biting the hand that feeds you: why are record labels fighting Pandora?" http://pjblack.me/YnF7z9 #lws008 #lwn117
• "Machines of Laughter and Forgetting" http://pjblack.me/YnF3iN
• "What I Learned Hate-Reading the Internet" http://pjblack.me/163OqEc

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 2 April 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

•  "The Case Against the Law Firm Billable Hour" http://pjblack.me/162QYT1

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules" http://pjblack.me/16ipCIE#lwb486 #lwn117
• "Brilliant Programmer Robert McNally Put Together An Awesome Presentation On What Bitcoin Really Is" http://pjblack.me/16ipqJA #lwn117
• "Facebook faces jury trial over Timeline trademark" http://pjblack.me/16iphFP #lwb486 #lws008
• this is clever: "This Secret Google Maps Gesture Is Totally Brilliant" http://pjblack.me/YrhOEz
• i still haven't seen an episode: "Winter Is Here: How Game of Thrones became the most important show on television" http://pjblack.me/YnI5Uq
• "Adults text more than teens while driving" http://pjblack.me/167EcCO
• "Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy's Last Safe Haven" http://pjblack.me/167DyoL #lwn117
• "Data laws would hit smaller providers" http://pjblack.me/16hLNi8 #lwn117
• "11 Ways Rappers are Just Like Right-Wing Radio Hosts" http://pjblack.me/175hA9m
• "When Will E-Readers Evolve?" http://pjblack.me/YnLp1H
• "The Master: A Sex-Abuse Scandal at Horace Mann" http://pjblack.me/167CPUF
• "Why Apple Doesn't Own the iPad Mini Trademark" http://pjblack.me/169RDCd #lws008 #lwb486
• "Five Awesome April Fools Day Stories to Keep You Guessing" http://pjblack.me/YsqXwA
• "DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research" http://pjblack.me/163OuUr #lwn117 #lwb486
• "The Case Against the Law Firm Billable Hour" http://pjblack.me/162QYT1
• the long road to marriage equality: "Falling Through the Looking Glass" http://pjblack.me/Yjmb4I
• a tragic look at the one child policy: "Corpse Brides, Forced Abortions, Infanticide, and Child Trafficking" http://pjblack.me/X0p2yv
• "Knowing the unknown: Researchers work to build robots’ awareness of their own limitations" http://pjblack.me/X0p2OZ
• "Please, Apple, No iWatch. It Already Costs Too Much To Be A Fanboy" http://pjblack.me/Yjletc
• umm i think they're pretty geeky: "Are #hashtags geeky? 71% of social media users say no" http://pjblack.me/Yjl2dr
• there is something to this: "Hashtags Considered #Harmful"  http://pjblack.me/10XH1Xv
• "Before the Facebook phone, there was a MySpace phone" http://pjblack.me/10oGBY0
• this is fascinating: "Word aversion: Hate moist? Slacks? Crevice? Why do people hate words?" http://pjblack.me/YrhQMW
• "Russia Begins Selectively Blocking Internet Content" http://pjblack.me/XU3bGh #openinternet
• "The Internet is like junior high"  http://pjblack.me/10mhbde
• "Google vows not to sue with their patent portfolio, unless attacked first"  http://pjblack.me/10XGjtw #lwn117 #lwb486
• from legally weird: "No Foolin', April Fool's Pranks Can Be Arresting" http://pjblack.me/XTYGeM
• are state-run systems of allocating medical internships are unconstitutional? http://pjblack.me/YOZhSe #lwb242 #conlaw
• from the @nytimes: "More Diagnoses of A.D.H.D. Causing Concern" http://pjblack.me/YOXaho
• some great reads here: "Longform Articles Tagged '2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists'" http://pjblack.me/XTU7RD
• "Columbia’s New Journalism Dean Looks Ahead in a Digital Era" http://pjblack.me/XTTZSf #lwb480
• "Google Reader’s Heir Apparent Feedly Relaunches On iOS & Android, Reveals How It Plans To Make Money" http://pjblack.me/YOJfbd
• "Feedly adds 3M new users in 2 weeks, updates mobile apps, and plans premium version" http://pjblack.me/XTIjPq
• "Teenager’s Clean Machine Could Remove 7 Million Tons Of Plastic From Ocean" http://pjblack.me/YWWmmy
• "Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share" http://pjblack.me/XJ5LyC
• "The Incredible Tale of a 1909 Fight to the Death Inside a Moving Elevator" http://pjblack.me/XJ5LPp
• some of these are terrifying: "The Endearing, Funny, and Disturbing Faces of Ventriloquist Dummies" http://pjblack.me/YWWvqe
• "Lindsay Lohan is Here to Stay: Fame Not Fleeting, Study Finds" http://pjblack.me/YWWySV
• "Yeah, We Broke the Internet: The Inside Story of the Biggest Attack Ever" http://pjblack.me/161PGaP

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Daily Twitter Links for Easter Friday 29 March to Monday 1 April 2013

The most-read link I tweeted over Easter was:

• "Seven commentator Derryn Hinch takes to Twitter to name Australian celebrity arrested over sex allegations" http://pjblack.me/YlLKSt #lwb480

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about over Easter:

• "Flipboard 2.0 heralds magazines for 'an audience of one'" http://pjblack.me/169RxKQ
• this is so true: "Foursquare’s API Is A Pillar Of The Mobile App Ecosystem" http://pjblack.me/YRkZSo
• watch out amazon: "Google's Same-Day-Delivery Service Goes Live In San Francisco" http://pjblack.me/YjEmY3
• an amazing story: "From The Stone Age To The Digital Age In One Big Leap" http://pjblack.me/YpZWKh
• "Tom Waterhouse considers suing Fairfax over Sam de Brito column: report" http://pjblack.me/16dKJf6 #lwb480
• from @tcookAU: "Australian political parties find success with social media" http://pjblack.me/YpYPu8 #auspol
• that's a lot of cheese: "Man caught with 21 tons of stolen cheese" http://pjblack.me/167jqDh
• from the @nytimes: "Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy" http://pjblack.me/16awbwZ
• "Beauty and the Plague: the tragic AIDS death behind your favourite Disney love songs" http://pjblack.me/10TVhR6
• "Which is the safest seat on an aircraft?" http://pjblack.me/15Zpyxj
• "The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office" http://pjblack.me/15YltcL
• "Eye for an Eye: The Case for Revenge" http://pjblack.me/14pwLdy
• "Life in Queensland: enjoyable one day, illegal the next" http://pjblack.me/YpL3Yq #qldpol
• "Posthaven Launches In Public Beta, Has Saved 850K Posts Since Posterous Announced Its Shutdown Date Of April 30th" http://pjblack.me/16d8NyM
• "Why are the French drinking less wine?" http://pjblack.me/15XnFkR
• "NYC Street Signs Replaced With Rap Lyrics" http://pjblack.me/14pwCae
• "How climate change is affecting wine" http://pjblack.me/YgOlNI
• "Why now is the perfect time for a vacation to Iran (sort of)" http://pjblack.me/14pwQhr /cc @eannblack
• "Facebook Expands Targeted Advertising Through Outside Data Sources" http://pjblack.me/YhaNWO
• "2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future" http://pjblack.me/15Xx3Fd
• "Will the Chinese Be Supreme? by Ian Johnson" http://pjblack.me/15Xwf39
• "How the internet is making us poor" http://pjblack.me/15Xm7XT
• "What Was It Like to Be a Writer on a TGIF Family Sitcom?" http://pjblack.me/11YWHcb
• "How Samsung Became the World's No. 1 Smartphone Maker" http://pjblack.me/YjA9U5
• "You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations did" http://pjblack.me/161QdcN
• "My Taxpayer-Subsidized Manicure at the Senate Salon" http://pjblack.me/YWWu5D
• "The Demise of the Hollywood Sex Scene" http://pjblack.me/14pwE1Q
• "Who Invented the Mirror" http://pjblack.me/YWWwu5
• intriguing: "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said to launch mobile startup" http://pjblack.me/YjkRP8
• interesting american decision: "Appeals Court Restricts Searches of Students' Phones" http://pjblack.me/169LDt8
• hear, hear!: "Mark Kleiman on why we need to solve our alcohol problem to solve our crime problem" http://pjblack.me/111J3G4
• this looks pretty good: "The iPhone Gets an Answer to Google Now in an App Called Grokr, a Siri Challenger" http://pjblack.me/Yo7ZaH
• "Inside The Mind Of The Foursquare Engineer Re-Mapping The World" http://pjblack.me/15Xmjq4
• "John Cleese says BBC don't know how to make comedy anymore" http://pjblack.me/YgL7tm
• "Anonymized Phone Location Data Not So Anonymous, Researchers Find" http://pjblack.me/15Xbvse
• "Good news on AIDS in Africa: Religious leaders help fight disease" http://pjblack.me/15X0iYu
• the supreme court's long rocky history with the civil rights issue: "Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable?" http://pjblack.me/16a4EMa
• is it time for her to resign?: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg must go" http://pjblack.me/YnPNxI
• "'American Idol' Creator Settles with Fox Over 'X Factor' Money" http://pjblack.me/169RyOZ #lws008
• "Hackers Create An Amazing, Illegal Portrait Of The Internet" http://pjblack.me/10MAEGB #lwn117
• i love it! but it has to be a hoax, right?: "Bacon condoms. Yes, that's right." http://pjblack.me/169RgYc
• "Ilya Zhitomirskiy: Life, death, and free culture in the Mission" http://pjblack.me/10cfrlM
• "The Best Ways to Be Sure You're Legally Using Online Photos" http://pjblack.me/YeTPIE #lws008
• will it ever end? my kitchen rules really is dragging out: "MKR overcooking with Sunday episodes"http://pjblack.me/169PE0L
• "Chinese Gamer Has Spent The Past 6 Years In An Internet Cafe" http://pjblack.me/YeTGVM
• haha excellent - i'm in!: "Big Brother wants older mix" http://pjblack.me/YnFg5L
• matilda is a stunning musical - utterly charming: "Tim Minchin: the man who waltzed Matilda" http://pjblack.me/YnDvFJ /via @thetowncrier
• "Ain't It Cool's Harry Knowles: The Cash-Strapped King of the Nerds Plots a Comeback" http://pjblack.me/169Jy0n
• "10 Movies We Can’t Believe Have Merchandise Tie-Ins" http://pjblack.me/14nSOS7
• cute idea: "Designers cram entire hotel room into a suitcase" http://pjblack.me/15TOc2y
• "Sweden rows with Google over term 'ungoogleable'" http://pjblack.me/15TKYvZ #lwn117
• "The complete guide to eating at work" http://pjblack.me/10dHJxx
• i should check this out: "Life after Google Reader: Skimr offers a minimalist way to read the Web" http://pjblack.me/YhaOtV
• "Netflix Sets Wachowskis Free with J. Michael Straczynski for New Original Content Series 'Sense8'" http://pjblack.me/15Xjbe0
• "The Supreme Court’s rightward shift — or not (in two charts)" http://pjblack.me/11JI5gH
• "Should It Matter That the Shooter at Oikos University Was Korean?" http://pjblack.me/167w3hB
• how the last king of rwanda ended up living on public assistance in virginia: "A King With No Country" http://pjblack.me/167vHrk
• inside the lives of homeless families staying at a ramada inn in the colorado suburbs: "The Weeklies" http://pjblack.me/167vg0g
• i love some of these words: "27 Delightful Obsolete Words It's High Time We Revived" http://pjblack.me/15OrbOi
• this gay week: my idea for a podcast http://pjblack.me/167sGY0 ... what do you think?
• "Bloomberg Backlash: Why the New York City mayor’s campaign for gun control isn’t helping" explains @jdickerson http://pjblack.me/167jBP6
• "2 Letters from Steve" http://pjblack.me/167hPgM
• "Seven commentator Derryn Hinch takes to Twitter to name Australian celebrity arrested over sex allegations" http://pjblack.me/YlLKSt #lwb480
• this is interesting: "Facebook's Gay Marriage Map Shows Profile Picture Switchers" http://pjblack.me/111J6le
• i could do this: "Finnish hotel seeks 'professional sleeper'" http://pjblack.me/YlLnrd
• an easter link: "When and Why Did We Stop Crucifying People?: The slow death of an ancient torture method." http://pjblack.me/11YWyp1
• "How I became a password cracker" http://pjblack.me/15OqWTj
• "Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America" http://pjblack.me/Yc1BTK
• "Why Weirdos Outperform Normals" http://pjblack.me/YbZ77V
• "17 Times The Simpsons Copied Famous Movies" http://pjblack.me/11EWURt #lws008
• "Yes, For Real, It’s An Invisible Bicycle Helmet And It IS Awesome" http://pjblack.me/YbchSt
• do people really need this?: "FireMe! Twitter alert says you've overstepped the mark" http://pjblack.me/11EUuSQ
• "Chinese counterfeits: How to beat the cheats" http://pjblack.me/10HLvBF #lwb486
• "The Inequality of Playgrounds" http://pjblack.me/10dHOkC
• this piece must have been written specifically for you @ryyder: "How Can I Downsize My Ridiculously Large Wallet?" http://pjblack.me/YlrwZa
• "Children should be allowed to get bored" http://pjblack.me/YcrHG1
• "Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 Years in Prison" http://pjblack.me/11Koj4L
• and you thought you were addicted to shopping: "My Gucci Addiction" http://pjblack.me/YeT16N
• "Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop" http://pjblack.me/15WSwOg #highered
• "Facebook Will Finally Resolve Rumors of the Fabled Facebook Phone in One Week" http://pjblack.me/163JM9e
• an egg themed link for easter: "Hard-boiled eggs: Why you should never actually boil them" http://pjblack.me/163k30M
• smart move: "Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple" http://pjblack.me/162EVFf
• "Journalists featured on TIME’s 2013 list of ‘Best Twitter Feeds’" http://pjblack.me/10HISzO
• look out media cheapskates: "New York Times closes another loophole in its digital paywall" http://pjblack.me/10HIGAD
• "Seeing red: why cyclists ride through traffic lights" http://pjblack.me/10C5YI0 /cc @robblack
• "Celebrities' viral video: It's not just about sex tapes anymore" http://pjblack.me/11wWGvI
• from @Typographica: "Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012" http://pjblack.me/11ASLy6
• "Collaborative consumption is dead, long live the real sharing economy" http://pjblack.me/10zCN8n
• the web has changed the disposability of our tools: "(Web) Castles Made Of Sand" http://pjblack.me/16SjES7
• from legally weird: "Teen Breaks Into Home to Check Facebook, Urinate on Couch" http://pjblack.me/YgGLT3
• "Is Spotify gearing up to take on Netflix? Not soon" http://pjblack.me/15XmG48
• "How one prisoner's handwritten petition won him a Supreme Court case" http://pjblack.me/14pwDLa
• "Will changing your Facebook profile picture do anything for marriage equality?" http://pjblack.me/YX0GlS
• "The Man Who Draws the Supreme Court" http://pjblack.me/10TVjbJ
• the extraordinary plot to assassinate—and desecrate—the world's greatest teen idol: "The Killing of Justin Bieber" http://pjblack.me/YiQEQg
• "Who's the Most Powerful Woman in the World?" http://pjblack.me/10TVfsF
• "Chocolatiers Lindt Loses Final Appeal To Trademark Golden Easter Bunnies" http://pjblack.me/161Ld81 #lws008 #lwb486
• "Edited Versions of the Same-Sex Marriage Oral Arguments" http://pjblack.me/15ZfqEW
• "What Did The Justice Whose Vote Matters Most Say About Proposition 8" http://pjblack.me/YdXXIZ
• "YouTube’s court of no appeal: Is there anybody home when Google makes a mistake?" http://pjblack.me/15P8tpI #lwn117 #lwb486 #lws008
• "14 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent" http://pjblack.me/15OrmZU

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Daily Twitter Links for Thursday 28 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• this is a fascinating perspective: "Homosexuality as infertility: How to end the gay marriage debate" http://pjblack.me/15X0g31

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• an interview with shepard smith http://pjblack.me/10HWrPA
• "Why You Are Afraid of the Dark" http://pjblack.me/11wxHc3
• "Motherhood: Six great articles on older moms, surrogate moms, moms who drink, and more" http://pjblack.me/10Drigl
• "Why the Gay-Marriage Fight Is Over" explains @JeffreyToobin http://pjblack.me/15YPqt9
• "Dispute on Spam Stirs Big Assault on the Internet" http://pjblack.me/15YkKZ0 #lwn117
• an appropriate infographic for a long weekend: "24 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Beer" http://pjblack.me/14pwQyb
• "Legal practice to service entertainment biz launches in Sydney" http://pjblack.me/10DhKlm #lws008
• "Get that tune out of your head - scientists find how to get rid of earworms" http://pjblack.me/ZlSQSv
• "The Internet 'Narcissism Epidemic'" http://pjblack.me/14nSO4B
• interesting: "How Much Time Did Cable News Channels Spend Covering Yesterday's Prop. 8 Hearings" http://pjblack.me/15X0wPr
• "CityScan: the dystopian technology that could make breaking the law impossible" http://pjblack.me/ZlSQCd
• "Why Google is pulling the plug on Frommer's" http://pjblack.me/11Aeean
• "Surge in research excellence due to 'clever' reporting" http://pjblack.me/10AqaKi #highered
• "The Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books" http://pjblack.me/11BiPZZ
• would you pay someone to stand in line for you?: "Line-Standing Services at the Supreme Court" http://pjblack.me/15XycfS
• "Now That Oral Arguments Are Over, What's the Point of that Red Avatar?" http://pjblack.me/15XsEC9
• "Kennett joins Seven as election fever mounts" http://pjblack.me/YgNwnY #auspol
• i think the abc needs to do more than that: "ABC to go live in revamp of merged Insiders programs" http://pjblack.me/15Xqpi8 #insiders
• so true: "When you understand hate, you understand Rudd's fall" http://pjblack.me/YgMLvb#auspol
• "The Rehabilitation of David Petraeus" http://pjblack.me/YgBg76
• "How Ellen DeGeneres Helped Change The Conversation About Gays" http://pjblack.me/15XnDcz
• from @rickhasen: "Blockbuster Sneak Peek: Anthony Kennedy’s Summer of Federalism" http://pjblack.me/15XbRir
• "What will the Court do with Proposition 8? Today’s oral argument in Plain English" http://pjblack.me/15XbtRd
• "DOMA as a states’ rights problem? Today’s oral argument in Plain English" http://pjblack.me/YgGQ9w
• "How Food Porn Is Made" http://pjblack.me/11wW0GA
• "There's Money in the Banana Stand!: Netflix Resurrected Arrested Development. Next Up: Television Itself" http://pjblack.me/11wVPLu
• "Fla. House passes bill banning Internet cafes, adult arcades" http://pjblack.me/16SqpDj
• "Are YouTube food channels killing TV chefs?" http://pjblack.me/10zDYVr
• "Cate Edwards ‘devastated’ by father’s affair" http://pjblack.me/YgCK17
• "Gay marriage at the Supreme Court: Did interracial marriage opponents claim to be helping the children?" http://pjblack.me/15X27op
• "Disappointing wins for gay marriage?" http://pjblack.me/YgCgb6
• from @politico: "DOMA case on shaky ground in Supreme Court" http://pjblack.me/YgCfnJ
• i love these moments in oral arguments: "Elena Kagan’s DOMA ‘gotcha’ moment" http://pjblack.me/15X0Z4d
• "44 Front Pages On The Supreme Court's Marriage Equality Hearings" http://pjblack.me/YgC4Jc
• "Supreme Court Justices Take Skeptical View Of DOMA" http://pjblack.me/YgC3VA
• "Here's The Transcript And Audio From Today's DOMA Oral Arguments" http://pjblack.me/15X0FlZ
• this is a fascinating perspective: "Homosexuality as infertility: How to end the gay marriage debate" http://pjblack.me/15X0g31
• analysis from @emilybazelon: "Supreme Court oral argument on DOMA: The Defense of Marriage Act can’t be defended" http://pjblack.me/YgBqv1
• "Data retention as security theatre" http://pjblack.me/Ygx8Ux #lwn117
• "Michiko Kakutani slams Roger Ailes bio" http://pjblack.me/10ztPbk
• "7 Things That Could Have Killed Twitter, But Didn’t" http://pjblack.me/10zCMkO
• an interesting @tapestry: "Highlights from the Supreme Court's Prop 8 Arguments" http://pjblack.me/YgqqOn
• "Attack of the killer smartwatches" http://pjblack.me/16Sqw1H
• "How sociologists (and other social scientists) can use Pinterest" http://pjblack.me/11xTKPm #highered
• "Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development" http://pjblack.me/11AjN8K
• this is cool: "Jay Shells Drops 'Rap Quotes,' His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet" http://pjblack.me/10dHQZM
• "The right wing’s Supreme Court whisperer" http://pjblack.me/10DQEL2
• "The Art of Asking Why We Hate Amanda Palmer" http://pjblack.me/10zCNp2

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 27 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "The 8 Best Protest Signs Outside Of The Supreme Court’s Critical Gay Marriage Hearing" http://pjblack.me/11KhBvv

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The demise of Google Reader: Stability as a service" http://pjblack.me/11wZ2ef
• a profile of evan wolfson and andrew sullivan: "The Lawyer And Writer Who Made Marriage Equality Happen" http://pjblack.me/10DrsEo
• "Forecast is a new, gorgeous weather service and API from the team that made Dark Sky" http://pjblack.me/YeVspL
• it makes news overseas: "Australian store charges customers a $5 'just looking' fee in bid to stop showrooming" http://pjblack.me/10cfzS7
• because he's just not funny: "Why do TV critics hate Jay Leno?" http://pjblack.me/15TNQJf
• from the @nytimes: "Instagram and the New Era of Paparazzi" http://pjblack.me/15TOVR9
• i'm jealous: "These Six Regular People Just Got Invited To Use Google Glass" http://pjblack.me/15TOqqr
• "The Most Isolated People in the World" http://pjblack.me/YeSbqo
• "What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back?" http://pjblack.me/11AdpOJ
• how easter turned into sun, sand and beer: "Who Made Spring Break?" http://pjblack.me/11ASeMt
• hear, hear! i love jimmy kimmel: "Why Jimmy Kimmel Should Host the 'Tonight Show'" http://pjblack.me/10CrzQy
• "'One Tree Hill' Director Completes World's First One-Shot Rom-Com" http://pjblack.me/10DPgYS
• "Questions on local content rule" http://pjblack.me/10HGE3t #lwb480
• this is concerning: "In WikiLeaks Trial, a Theater of State Secrecy" http://pjblack.me/15OrBnP
• "Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad & Android This Week; New App Now Awaiting Approval" http://pjblack.me/10zUd4M
• a very strange exchange: "Justices Discuss Older Men and Fertility" http://pjblack.me/YegDbr
• on @612brisbane this morning, steve austin looked at the biala closing: "More voices on Biala closure" http://pjblack.me/Yedhp8 #qldpol
• "The 8 Best Protest Signs Outside Of The Supreme Court’s Critical Gay Marriage Hearing" http://pjblack.me/11KhBvv
• you can read the transcript or listen to a link of the supreme court's oral argument on gay marriage here http://pjblack.me/YdYbjo
• analysis from @emilybazelon: "Supreme Court Proposition 8 oral argument: Gay marriage will help thousands of kids" http://pjblack.me/YdY8UD
• "Supreme Court justices wary of sweeping vote on gay marriage" http://pjblack.me/YdXZAv
• "Post-game: Lawyers unpack SCOTUS arguments" http://pjblack.me/11JKibU
• "Pols, pundits tweet Supreme Court gay-marriage reactions" http://pjblack.me/YdXqXC
• "Will Supreme Court punt on gay marriage?" http://pjblack.me/YdXmXU
• "Red tape hinders Asia exchange plan" http://pjblack.me/11JCTcG #highered

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 26 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Why women constantly lie about life on Facebook" http://pjblack.me/11wVyIq

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• this is a really good read: "Can gay marriage survive SCOTUS loss?" http://pjblack.me/Yckxlm
• "Gay marriage polls: Bias and other lame conservative excuses for rising public acceptance" http://pjblack.me/15OZhBW
• from @politico: "Culture wars return — with a twist" http://pjblack.me/YcjS38
• "Netflix Adultery: The Smallest, Most Insidious Betrayal" http://pjblack.me/11Aeeav
• "How to Pick a Secular Pope: Could the U.N. benefit from a little white smoke?" http://pjblack.me/10DRyqR
• "Staplers, the Attachment That’s Still Making Noise" http://pjblack.me/10Afhbh
• this is a good idea: "Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required" http://pjblack.me/11AAhxN
• "Why women constantly lie about life on Facebook" http://pjblack.me/11wVyIq
• "Don't Glass and drive -- lawmakers seek to ban Google Glass on the road" http://pjblack.me/YquX2Y
• but when will australia?: "Facebook Messenger on iPhone gets voice-calling and messages in UK" http://pjblack.me/10EmUNX
• "French 'Survivor' Season Canceled After Death of Contestant" http://pjblack.me/Yc1N5m #lws008
• they want fox news to be even more conservative?: "Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News" http://pjblack.me/ZlSR99
• "French 'Survivor' Season Canceled After Death of Contestant" http://pjblack.me/Yc1N5m
• six things to watch for according to @emilybazelon: "Gay marriage at the Supreme Court: What to watch for." http://pjblack.me/15OpUXs
• from the @nytimes: "What Causes Hearing Loss" http://pjblack.me/Yc1doh /cc @robblack
• could fred savage become the next ron howard?: "Fred Savage to Direct Charlize Theron Vehicle 'Ladies Night'" http://pjblack.me/11ASyuT
• "Phones, tablets becoming more popular in the bedroom than TV" http://pjblack.me/10CPCyR
• this is so true: "Why your inbox fills with bacn instead of spam" http://pjblack.me/10CPXBs
• this is fun: "Seven Bizarre State Laws That Hit The Books This Year" http://pjblack.me/11BkBu3
• "Shoes of Prey: The most immersive online experience" http://pjblack.me/11FzQCh
• "Will the Court defend DOMA?: In Plain English" http://pjblack.me/11Frgn6
• "Unis hail Emerson takeover" http://pjblack.me/10IpB0W #higered
• "At The New Republic, Even Firings Enter the Digital Age" http://pjblack.me/10DhV0a
• "The Brains of the Animal Kingdom" http://pjblack.me/11AbUQG
• paul krugman in the @nytimes on "The Economics of Evil Google" http://pjblack.me/11wxAwU
• so true: "A degree no 'guaranteed meal ticket': Kirby" http://pjblack.me/10Aqysn #highered
• "Supreme Court to Hear Michigan Affirmative-Action Case" http://pjblack.me/10HTVcd
• a good read: "Long Night at 'Today': Matt Lauer and the Decline of NBC’s ‘Today’ Show" http://pjblack.me/10dHPVI
• "Wedding Bells: Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court" by @JeffreyToobin http://pjblack.me/10HN8z7
• "Court to tackle California’s ban on same-sex marriage: In Plain English" http://pjblack.me/XCIIWp
• "Why is the UK Intellectual Property Office considering Rebecca Black parody videos?"http://pjblack.me/11BkwGC #lwb486 #lws008
• "Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service" http://pjblack.me/10HKSrM
• "Yahoo! Continues To Attack Mobile, Buys News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly, App Will Close" http://pjblack.me/11ETsGy
• this is a really interesting argument: "Beware of the High Cost of 'Free' Online Courses" http://pjblack.me/11ETlee #highered
• "A Tax Lawyer’s Quandary" http://pjblack.me/10DrUlT /cc @cathbx
• awesome: "Big Moment For Vine As First Wolverine Movie Footage Comes Via 6-Second 'Tweaser' Instead Of Trailer" http://pjblack.me/11ELc9G
• but it certainly is not a good look: "Dreyfus rebuts any conflict of interest on spy agencies" http://pjblack.me/10Hz5K7 #auspol
• "Robert McClelland misses out on IR job" http://pjblack.me/11EIzEJ #auspol
• "Supreme Court sides with bookseller in major copyright ruling, says resale is ok" http://pjblack.me/10zE7Il #lwb486 #lws008
• this app looks fun: "CheckThis: a simple mobile blogging tool for the iPhone" http://pjblack.me/11Ajk6k
• comparing the NBN to how they're doing fibre networks in other parts of the world: "NBN: Fibre to the world" http://pjblack.me/11zzXPJ
• hitler's conflicted relationship with books: "Reason, Emotion, and Hitler" http://pjblack.me/13lGkuP
• "'Stop the Cyborgs' launches public campaign against Google Glass" http://pjblack.me/10zdoM6
• "Twitter Sued For $50 Million For Protecting Identity Of Hateful Twitter Users (Even Though It Deleted The Tweets)" http://pjblack.me/10zdd3f
• "The Social Media Guide to Ruining Your Relationship" http://pjblack.me/XyyJ49
• an obituary of peter scott, britain's most accomplished cat burglar http://pjblack.me/WYpyy0
• should porn receive copyright protection?: "Websites Can Legally Pirate Porn Movies, Prosecutors Rule" http://pjblack.me/10zcjEb #lws008

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 23-24 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted this weekend was:

• "Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American" http://pjblack.me/ZIr0SY

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• remember the winklevii?: "Winklevoss Brothers Move On From Facebook" http://pjblack.me/11wt5md
• "AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use" http://pjblack.me/10zDwq1 #lwb486 #lws008
• the conversation is coming to the uk: "Jaspan brings academic news website to Britain" http://pjblack.me/11xGM4i #highered
• "Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry" http://pjblack.me/11xFFBB
• "Oxford University settles 'selection by wealth' case" http://pjblack.me/11xFiXM #highered
• "The First Date for a Half-Senate Election is 3 August" http://pjblack.me/10AeAii #auspol #auslaw #conlaw #lwb242
• "Consumer group endorses bypassing online geo-blocks" http://pjblack.me/11xz36p #lwn117
• does the state need to take a life to make a point?: "The Death Penalty Has a Face: A DA’s Personal Story" http://pjblack.me/11syT05
• hear, hear! i couldn't agree more: "Modern Mobile Etiquette: Don't Leave Me A Voicemail Unless You're Dying" http://pjblack.me/11rUpC3
• "We now live in a world where more people have mobile phones than clean toilets" http://pjblack.me/11p0O0W
• "A Tale of Two Londons: The Shadowy Residents of One Hyde Park—And How the Super-Wealthy Are Hiding Their Money" http://pjblack.me/WL3R4w
• bizarre but brilliant: "Tilda Swinton is Currently Sleeping in a Box at MoMA" http://pjblack.me/WYpwq3
• "Inside ‘Apple Anonymous’: The Secret Society of Apple’s Retail Army" http://pjblack.me/11ovijE
• a great opening montage on #insiders today: "Rudd fails to contest Labor spill-Insiders" http://pjblack.me/11wmFTZ #auspol
• this is interesting: "How did my Google Reader logo become the 'default'?" http://pjblack.me/14fti1r
• "Fighting Fallon Fox: the controversial science of transgender athletes in combat sports" http://pjblack.me/14ft9v4
• "Is It Legal To Sell Your Old MP3s?" http://pjblack.me/WL3U0m #lwn117 #lws008 #lwb486
• "A surprising map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners" http://pjblack.me/11opEOn
• "Death Wish coffee: World’s strongest coffee has ’200 per cent’ more caffeine than normal cuppa" http://pjblack.me/Zvg2kF
• "Apple’s Jony Ive Said To Now Work Closer With iOS Interface Team, Is Pushing For ‘Flat’ Design" http://pjblack.me/11ocQaM
• "The future of Twitter is robots tweeting at each other" http://pjblack.me/14ftj5D
• a line has begun forming at the supreme court in washington for next week's arguments in the two gay marriage cases http://pjblack.me/10xfgow
• a good read: "Ladies’ Night —Circling the Bases on Okinawa" http://pjblack.me/11szcaZ
• "72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don’t Think Their Students Deserve Credit" http://pjblack.me/10vwCSM #highered
• "What Is the Business of Literature?" http://pjblack.me/10vszpF
• "Gears of War writer Tom Bissell on video games and storytelling" http://pjblack.me/ZvgdfL
• "A ‘Sexy Book’ Editor Unveils Porn’s History" http://pjblack.me/11o0ejV
• "Meet the Most Suspect Publishers on the Web" http://pjblack.me/14ftlur
• which countries own more cats or dogs and who’s treating them to the priciest meals: "Animal Planet" http://pjblack.me/11nZvPy
• letter written 60 years ago finally shows up: "A special delivery: A letter from the past" http://pjblack.me/11knY8z
• lol unbelievable: "Panda porn shown in attempt to get two to mate" http://pjblack.me/10vdF2F
• "Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil 'Indicted' for Lying in Weather Prediction" http://pjblack.me/10uYiXR
• "Star Wars Family Tree" http://pjblack.me/ZWNteO
• "Who Is Guccifer, the Hacker Who's Terrorizing Politicos?" http://pjblack.me/ZIr2KG
• "Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American" http://pjblack.me/ZIr0SY
• "Bikini waxes and Brazilians 'behind rise in STI warts'" http://pjblack.me/ZIr6tD
• "Guess what happens in an Internet minute?" http://pjblack.me/ZMI8qP #lwn117
• "You Can’t Taste Wine Nearly As Well As You Think" http://pjblack.me/13e0yXy
• "The new rules of the hyper-social, data-driven, actor-friend, super seductive platinum age of television" http://pjblack.me/ZIriJz

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Daily Twitter Links for Thursday and Friday 21-22 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted yesterday and today was:

• wow this amazing: "The Mother of All Rooftopping Photos, On Top of the Tallest Building in the World" http://pjblack.me/ZIr2u7

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about:

• women should wear red in their online dating profile: "I See Red: The color you need to wear on your dating profile" http://pjblack.me/14ftfmz
• "This guy is selling RSS.com for $200,000 to capitalize on Google Reader’s shutdown" http://pjblack.me/11o8Hn3
• from the @guardian: "Australians don't know how lucky they are" http://pjblack.me/10qQUg7 #auspol
• a nice write up from the travel section of the @nytimes: "36 Hours in Brisbane, Australia" http://pjblack.me/10qBg4C
• "Behold Google's Stunning Street Views from the Top of the World" http://pjblack.me/XmSN9R
• "Wisconsin Closes Nude Beach Due to Sex and Drugs" http://pjblack.me/161Kvty /cc @twinkslut
• "Everything you need to know about Moleskine ahead of its IPO" http://pjblack.me/161Kvto
• "CNN's Jake Tapper looks beyond the Beltway in new show" http://pjblack.me/YKX4Gv
• how depressing: "The N.R.A. Wins Again: Assault Weapons and Background Checks" http://pjblack.me/161KvtB
• "Why are many academics on short-term contracts for years?" http://pjblack.me/10fdGHK#highered
• three wars that will define america's future: "Silicon, Iron, and Shadow" http://pjblack.me/161Kwxw
• "How The Military Is Controlling Online Speech — By Embracing It" http://pjblack.me/161Kvti
• "How the Secret Service Almost Shot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" http://pjblack.me/WL3R4q
• "WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don’t Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App" http://pjblack.me/ZEQFMo
• why would you bother?: "Scientists Resurrect Bonkers Extinct Frog That Gives Birth Through Its Mouth" http://pjblack.me/YJnh8x
• "Minnesota file-sharing case finally ends after six years—$222,000 ruling stands"  http://pjblack.me/XWfsQd #lwn117 #lws008 #lwb486
• "Fixing the Worst Law in Technology: Aaron Swartz and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" http://pjblack.me/143ZKDH #lwn117
• this is cool: "The Walls Have Eyes: Abandoned Spaces Given Graffiti Facelifts" http://pjblack.me/ZIrjxd
• "Congress hears options for asteroid defense: Pay now or pray later" http://pjblack.me/ZMyRyV
• "Wall Street Journal bribery in China: When can reporters get busted for paying a source for information?" http://pjblack.me/161KxBx
• "Bringing Iconic London to Burning Man 2013" http://pjblack.me/ZIrdFB
• controversial: "Bolshoi Ballet 'a giant brothel', former dancer claims" http://pjblack.me/161KuWi
• "Google and Adidas Unveil a 'Talking Shoe' at SXSW" http://pjblack.me/YiNueI
• "Apple is Losing The War – Of Words" http://pjblack.me/YiPTGd
• "Your Guide to Japanese Capsule Hotels" http://pjblack.me/XMqO6X
• "Watch this, friends: Netflix already built and killed an amazing social network" http://pjblack.me/YBISfK
• "Blood, Sweat and Sex: My Hard Life in Porn" http://pjblack.me/ZWMNWU
• "The First Movie About Apps Might Be The Worst Movie Of All Time" http://pjblack.me/ZIreJE
• a guide from @TheEconomist: "Airline charges: Optional extras" http://pjblack.me/ZMzdFG
• "Reinventing The Condom" http://pjblack.me/161Kvtp
• wow this amazing: "The Mother of All Rooftopping Photos, On Top of the Tallest Building in the World" http://pjblack.me/ZIr2u7
• "How Beer Gave Us Civilization" http://pjblack.me/YjvuAU
• "This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today" http://pjblack.me/13bnMgQ
• this is interesting: "Is Amazon providing CIA up to $600 million in cloud computing?" http://pjblack.me/161KvK3
• regulation lags way behind technology: "Drones over US soil: the calm before the swarm" http://pjblack.me/161KxBA
• "What It Takes to Protect Obama on a Middle East Trip" http://pjblack.me/ZIr45g
• "From student to spy, and back again" http://pjblack.me/ZoeUza
• this is awesome: "The 49ers’ plan to build the greatest stadium Wi-Fi network of all time" http://pjblack.me/ZIZ01x
• cuts to queensland health see the closure of the brisbane sexual health clinic in roma street http://pjblack.me/13dLKrR #qldpol
• "In Mississippi, the Mysterious Murder of a Gay, Black Politician" http://pjblack.me/16DRgCT
• "What it’s like to die" http://pjblack.me/158aWv4
• do we have one of the most brutal political cultures in the democratic world?: "Australia's coup culture" http://pjblack.me/ZMih26 #auspol
• "Indicted journalist's lawyer says prank doesn't merit prison" http://pjblack.me/YjvSzn
• "Evolution of the New York Driver’s License" http://pjblack.me/YjvKje
• "IMDb Lawsuit: Actress Suing IMDb Plans to Have Nine Other Actors Testify at Trial" http://pjblack.me/Yjtitg #lws008
• "Ricky Gervais brings his British Office character back to life on YouTube" http://pjblack.me/YiOBeu
• "From Sleeping Beauty to Lady Gaga: A New Generation of Modern Heroines?" http://pjblack.me/YIX9um
• "Foursquare Aims At A Moving Target As It Tries To Close Another Round Of Funding" http://pjblack.me/YJ2QIR
• "The Internet is a surveillance state" http://pjblack.me/YjvQaP
• "Gang behavior on the Internet" http://pjblack.me/Y9jGOz
• i don't think i need any more caffeine in my day: "Wrigley's New Chewing Gum Packs a Dose of Caffeine" http://pjblack.me/XMqLbd
• "Living With Less. A Lot Less." http://pjblack.me/YiMxmE

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 20 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• Channel Seven wins injunction to stop Mel B moving to Nine Network for new Australia's Got Talent series" http://pjblack.me/11ea08i #lws008

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "At CPAC, The Marriage Fight Is Over" http://pjblack.me/YjFnyB via @feedly
• is this gender divide significant?: "Justices split on gender lines over tenor of cleric's letters" http://pjblack.me/YKWnNu #lwb242
• "How Bitcoin is revolutionizing Reddit's karma system" http://pjblack.me/YiLLpC
• using facebook to serve defendants: "Judge: Don't Fear Facebook" http://pjblack.me/YKwI7v #lwn117
• "The Iraq War Timeline As Told Through Front Pages" http://pjblack.me/ZIqXqk
• "Channel Seven wins injunction to stop Mel B moving to Nine Network for new Australia's Got Talent series" http://pjblack.me/11ea08i #lws008
• a smart move from vimeo: "Vimeo on Demand launches to let creators charge for videos" http://pjblack.me/YiOwHM
• "Universal Settles 'Fifty Shades' Porn Parody Lawsuit" http://pjblack.me/YKxQYT #lws008 #lwb486
• "Netflix, Facebook, and Social Sharing" http://pjblack.me/YjtfNY
• sports fans are less prone to depression and alienation: "One Way to Cheer Up - Cheer Harder" http://pjblack.me/YIZNAn
• "10 Crazy Gun Laws Introduced Since Newtown" http://pjblack.me/158aWeJ
• anyone use @inkymail?: "Inky takes a different approach to the future of email" http://pjblack.me/YiQ04E
• "How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'" http://pjblack.me/XMqJ33
• some interesting data: "Teens and Technology 2013: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project" http://pjblack.me/YiLqTW
• "11 entertainers who found creative ways to make a living" http://pjblack.me/YIXWeF
• "Five myths about Iraq" http://pjblack.me/16HWFZE
• "Andrew Auernheimer hacker prison: Weev might be a jerk. But that doesn't make him a computer criminal." http://pjblack.me/ZIrbxD #lwn117
• "How To Make $10 Million On YouTube" http://pjblack.me/Z7ZleG
• "The music industry has irreversibly changed — the labels have not" http://pjblack.me/YiLHqa #lwb486 #lws008
• "Why it’s still hard to discover new music online (and how we can fix it)" http://pjblack.me/YiL9jU
• "Apps Help Find Lawyers, And Keep an Eye on Them" http://pjblack.me/YIWWHC
• "Reality TV may have a right to be fake" http://pjblack.me/YIZsxx #lws008 #lwb480
• "Is this the world's smallest book?" http://pjblack.me/Yhom81
• this is concerning (and shows how dangerous these laws are): Police admit bungle in teen's consorting charge" http://pjblack.me/137DjhQ #auslaw

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 19 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Big Breaks for Blowjobs: The Dark Underbelly of the Miss USA Pageant" http://pjblack.me/YiNmMp

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Text Is a Weapon: Why Celebs Leak Their Own" http://pjblack.me/YKB9zj
• "Kevin Rudd backers 'could make move in days' as leadership speculation looms" http://pjblack.me/137Ak94 #auspol
• "Happy 28th birthday to the Internet's first domain name" http://pjblack.me/158aZXP
• The Rare Disease Search Engine That Outperforms Google" http://pjblack.me/Zof2P2
• can we trust google?: "Google Keep's Already Shaky Ground" http://pjblack.me/Yobrhx
• a link for the drinkers: "Superaged spirits: How old is too old for whiskey, gin, and chartreuse?" http://pjblack.me/XW1KdY
• "The Republican Party Wants To Become An App" http://pjblack.me/XW1LhT
• "The 35 Least-Watched Shows On TV" http://pjblack.me/YiNw6h
• "What Did 1988 Los Angeles Think 2013 Los Angeles Would Look Like?" http://pjblack.me/WtZpFQ
• "15 Geeky College Courses You Won't Believe Actually Exist" http://pjblack.me/YiNaN7 #highered
• "The privacy bargain: Is the digital age taking a toll on privacy?" http://pjblack.me/YiQbNi
• "50 Quotes From The Indiana Jones Movies, In Order Of Awesomeness" http://pjblack.me/YKD4nt
• this can't be right: "61% of men around the world say their phone is the first thing that people notice about them" http://pjblack.me/Z1vi5o
• "Big Breaks for Blowjobs: The Dark Underbelly of the Miss USA Pageant" http://pjblack.me/YiNmMp
• this is cute: "Penguins Allowed To Enjoy 'Obsolete iPad'" http://pjblack.me/YBIPAP
• "Tina Fey Won't Take Over Saturday Night Live. And That's Fine." http://pjblack.me/113Hi9S
• how bizarre: "Penis Snatching on the Rise -- Africa’s Genital-Stealing Crime Wave Hits the Countryside" http://pjblack.me/YKFLp3
• "Justice Kennedy: Cameras at Court Would Be ‘Insidious’" http://pjblack.me/YKxp0J
• "The Pirate Bay€'s Oldest Torrent is 'Revolution OS'" http://pjblack.me/YBIQom #lwn117 #lwb486
• "The 25 Most Creative People In Tech" http://pjblack.me/YIXZaq
• "Is Darth Vader the world's favorite 'Star Wars' character?" http://pjblack.me/158aYDa
• "The science of love" http://pjblack.me/158aWeE
• "Should We Be More Worried About Nuclear Sushi?" http://pjblack.me/YBINZH
• do we really need this?: "An Anti-Social Media App Tells You How To Avoid Crowds" http://pjblack.me/YJ1sG1
• a smart post from @marcoarment: "Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader" http://pjblack.me/YiOjUW
• too harsh or fair?: "Greek soccer player gets lifetime ban for apparent Nazi salute" http://pjblack.me/Zof2hW

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Daily Twitter Links for Monday 18 March 2013

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Grumpy Cat shows claws, vows to sue infringers" http://pjblack.me/Yj8wK5 #lwb486 #lws008 #lwb480

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• a profile of the man behind tweetie and letterpress: "Loren Brichter, a High Priest of App Design" http://pjblack.me/YiNSdf
• "Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects" http://pjblack.me/YIXMnR
• "At NBC, a Struggle to Revive the Morning Magic" http://pjblack.me/YiKFu2
• "Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions" http://pjblack.me/YIUcKl
• "New studies offer 5 ways publishers can capitalize on mobile trends now" http://pjblack.me/YiKbUO
• "Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+" http://pjblack.me/YiKaA8
• as do universities everywhere: "UK universities 'face online threat'" http://pjblack.me/YiK7oe #highered
• "ACMA blasts Groupon for spamming" http://pjblack.me/YK6Ngf #lwn117
• "No, The Death Of Google Reader Doesn't Mean 'Free' Doesn't Work" http://pjblack.me/Yld8fS #lwn117
• hear, hear!: "It's Not RSS's Fault, It's Google's Fault." http://pjblack.me/YGYFwX
• "Creative Commons Announces 'School of Open' with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness" http://pjblack.me/YiK5MS #highered #lwb486 #lwn117
• "Americans Sure Do Yak a Lot While Driving" http://pjblack.me/ZI6wIv
• screenwriter budd schulberg's unlikely collaboration with nazi propagandist leni riefenstahl: "Budd and Leni" http://pjblack.me/YhETsQ
• a profile of gina rinehart in the @NewYorker: "The Miner's Daughter" http://pjblack.me/YJLewr
• would reforms be unconstitutional?: "News Ltd boss Kim Williams urges government to rethink media reforms" http://pjblack.me/Yj9ru7 #lwb242
• "Grumpy Cat shows claws, vows to sue infringers" http://pjblack.me/Yj8wK5 #lwb486 #lws008 #lwb480
• "This 2004 Unaired Amy Poehler Pilot Had A Comedy Dream Team" http://pjblack.me/Yhd9Vd
• food scooters are where it's at: "Food Trucks Are Stale. Line Up for Food Scooters" http://pjblack.me/ZI6bW3
• the writer loses his brother to suicide: "My brother’s life, unraveled" http://pjblack.me/YGw9LX
• "'We Gained Hope.' The Story of Lilly Grossman’s Genome" http://pjblack.me/YhF2wg
• justice heydon rants about his fellow judges: "Great dissenter takes a swipe at 'closed minds' of the bench" http://pjblack.me/YJeOC0 #lwb242
• "Washington's Creepiest Cartoonist Is Actually a Sweet 73-Year-Old Texan Retiree: Meet the man behind Daily Drawings" http://pjblack.me/ZI6NuW
• this is an amazing read: "The Informant" http://pjblack.me/YhFbjt
• "The men of TV and a media regulation stitch-up" http://pjblack.me/YIFKlo #lwb480 #auspol
• how walking shapes our minds: "Rats In A Maze" http://pjblack.me/ZI6ctl
• good question: "What's the Difference Between Climate Change and Global Warming?" http://pjblack.me/ZI6ccI
• "Danse Macabre: A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet" http://pjblack.me/YGx27m
• "How To Hire An Assassin On The Secret Internet For Criminals" http://pjblack.me/YGply4
• "Feedly Has Best Day Ever, Adds 500,000 Users From Google Reader Exodus"  http://pjblack.me/10YVelD
• should we resurrect extinct species from dna?: "The Narcissism of De-Extinction" http://pjblack.me/ZI6ccL

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 16-17 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Digital etiquette: What your email sign-off says about you" http://pjblack.me/YpnqOe

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Apple TV 2013 (A1469) Short Review: Analysis of a New A5" http://pjblack.me/YGhYGI
• "The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever" http://pjblack.me/Yh3MES
• "Feeding cities: The case for carnivores, how to make meat more efficient and why you should find a female butcher" http://pjblack.me/ZI6bW2
• this is awful: "Art That’s Literally Shit: Copywriter Eats Colored Food, Documents His Poop" http://pjblack.me/ZI6Qqv
• "Why Secrecy in Patent Cases Is Out of Control — and What to Do About It" http://pjblack.me/YEXiPl #lwb486
• haha this is funny: "So Long Google Reader, and Thanks for the Memories" http://pjblack.me/ZI6aBI
• "For the First Time in Nearly 3 Decades, Water Defeats Soda as America’s Favorite Beverage" http://pjblack.me/Y9jKhl
• "Qwerty keyboards: Time for a rethink?" http://pjblack.me/158b4Ld
• autumn is the time of year most associated with bumper crops of new babies: "Even for sperm, there is a season" http://pjblack.me/16ntxH3
• this is bizarre: "Porn Without the Porn: Sex-Free Photos Delve Into Fetish Fortress' Wacky Past" http://pjblack.me/YBDP1Y
• "See Fey, Rudd, Poehler Reenact John Hughes Films" http://pjblack.me/YfiD2P
• "My father, the hate preacher: Nate Phelps on escaping Westboro Baptist Church" http://pjblack.me/Y9jLBK
• "How Your Moral Decisions are Shaped by a Bad Mood" http://pjblack.me/YrO74M
• "Why Your Brain Like Art That Looks Back At You" http://pjblack.me/Y9jQpc
• i like this idea: "The Movie Set Museum" http://pjblack.me/WmNPMU
• "Welcome To Facebook's Midlife Crisis" http://pjblack.me/Y9jGhj
• "To Avoid Wearing Seat Belts, Chinese Drivers Wear Shirts Like These" http://pjblack.me/ZI6ct6
• i can't see it replacing foxnews: "New Conservative Cable News Network Aims to Feature 'Intelligent, Healthy Debate'" http://pjblack.me/YuW35p
• it's hard not to enoy this: "How Revenge-Porn Publisher Hunter Moore Suffered $250,000 Worth of Payback" http://pjblack.me/Yan2Rc #lwn117
• "New York Year, Time-Lapse Film Featuring a Year in New York City" http://pjblack.me/YrLDn4
• this is an interesting idea: "To Place Graduates, Law Schools Are Opening Firms" http://pjblack.me/Yfmz3y
• "What It's Like Being The Jon Stewart Of The Arab World" http://pjblack.me/Y9jRt3
• good question: "What Are Sprinkles Made Of?" http://pjblack.me/YrFlUw
• some amazing photos: "A Trip to Iran" http://pjblack.me/WmNOsn
• it was fun while it lasted: "Formspring is shutting down" http://pjblack.me/YBpEKk
• "The time a billionaire bought his son a starring role in a Superman comic" http://pjblack.me/WmNOZf
• "Google Fiber: What Do You Do With the World’s Fastest Internet Service?" http://pjblack.me/WmNPfG
• it looks good: "Inside the New York Times' web redesign" http://pjblack.me/YpnnC2
• "Digital etiquette: What your email sign-off says about you" http://pjblack.me/YpnqOe
• this is a bit melodramatic: "How Getting Engaged Ruined Facebook For Me" http://pjblack.me/Ypnrl9
• "Dropbox acquires email app Mailbox" http://pjblack.me/YeYnhw
• "Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?" http://pjblack.me/YpntcW
• remember all the hype surrounding groupon?: "Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?" http://pjblack.me/Ypnu0d
• some interesting ideas: "Reinventing the Airline Industry" http://pjblack.me/YpnvBp
• "Gum Helps You Think" http://pjblack.me/Yb4dR8

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Daily Twitter Links for Thursday and Friday 14-15 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted yesterday and today was:

• "Teacher shames student by projecting his tweets in class" http://pjblack.me/10kqSxh

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The 'iPhone 5S' problem" http://pjblack.me/Y9jS09
• "Leaked video provides what may be our first look at Google Now for iOS" http://pjblack.me/Yb9SGQ
• "Barcelona by Night - Seen through the Lens of Social Media-information" aesthetics http://pjblack.me/Yan3EZ
• "News Limited to close The Punch" http://pjblack.me/YdcP9W
• i'm not sure if i'm nervous or excited: "Danny Boyle to make Trainspotting sequel with original cast in middle age" http://pjblack.me/YwIt1a
• these snails are unbelievable: "Footlong Snails Are Taking Over the World" http://pjblack.me/Z3GzoN
• "What It's Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison" http://pjblack.me/Yb4fbL
• "Japan Erects Massive Sculpture of the Last Standing Tree from a Forest Destroyed by the 2011 Tsunami" http://pjblack.me/13T2Cn4
• "BuzzFeed's 'Happiest Facts of All Time' Were Mostly Plagiarized from Reddit" http://pjblack.me/YKXa0z
• "If Superheroes Were Sponsored By Brands" http://pjblack.me/YoUHWK
• "Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia" http://pjblack.me/Y1yYYB #lwn117
• "QUT backs assignment to help LNP bring down Rudd" http://pjblack.me/Yw3fOK #highered #auspol
• "NSW keeps close eye on Finks bikie chapter ban" http://pjblack.me/YvAgdL #lwb242 #auscon #auspol
• "Finks bikie gang loses High Court bid to tame criminal organisation laws" http://pjblack.me/YvAce7 #lwb242 #auscon #auspol
• "The Great Cyberscare: Why the Pentagon is razzmatazzing you about those big bad Chinese hackers." http://pjblack.me/Ypnj5c
• "Apple's iWatch Will Measure More than Time" http://pjblack.me/YrDiQ9
• "What Are Twitter Line Breaks Good For?" http://pjblack.me/ZP85YG
• and it's excellent news says @marcoarment: "Google Reader shutting down July 1" http://pjblack.me/YvuVTR
• "Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)" http://pjblack.me/YcFGLx
• "Of course, your bill is high. Here's why..." http://pjblack.me/ZCSPxQ
• good question: "Why do people use 'nope' even though 'no' is shorter?" http://pjblack.me/15GACkL
• first veronica mars, next firefly?: "Joss Whedon On Kickstarter And Firefly: 'It Doesn't Just Open The Floodgates.'" http://pjblack.me/YuWcG1
• more on this: "Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, readies standalone music app" http://pjblack.me/YcpKZI
• "Game-changer as Foxtel offers subscriptions on the Go" http://pjblack.me/150T2KL
• "Breaking news: Australian startup bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum" http://pjblack.me/150SrJd
• "As Google Reader goes offline, those living under censorship lose vital news source" http://pjblack.me/YuPMGF
• good question: "Why Did Google Reader Die? What Free Web Service Will Be Next?" http://pjblack.me/1533cuq
• hashtags coming to facebook?: "Why Facebook Might Rip Off Twitter's Most #Annoying Feature" http://pjblack.me/ZrULqW
• this has me excited: "We're Building A Reader" says @digg http://pjblack.me/XMqB3O
• "What Happens When You Post Revenge Porn?" http://pjblack.me/Y1yVMm
• it's the battery: "The iPhone's biggest flaw" http://pjblack.me/12GkfGZ
• a very concerning report: "Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams" http://pjblack.me/12GCIU2 #lwn117
• a fascinating look at lipreading: "Seeing at the Speed of Sound" http://pjblack.me/Zq90OM
• are media and advertising becoming voluntary?: "Voluntary media" http://pjblack.me/YmlKBX
• "How We'll Live in a Future Where Cities Have Become Forests" http://pjblack.me/WPDCpg
• "New pope, Jesuit Bergoglio, was runner-up in 2005 conclave" http://pjblack.me/Ypnpd9
• very interesting: "Left, right: The brain science of politics" http://pjblack.me/Yp8lJi
• "Richard Engel Reveals a Diary of His Syrian Kidnapping—and How His Captors Terrorized Their Victims" http://pjblack.me/12BGCgR
• "The glass-ceiling index: Where is best to be a working woman in the rich world" http://pjblack.me/12BGAWm
• "Bill Ackman, Dan Loeb, Carl Icahn, and Herbalife: The Big Short War" http://pjblack.me/Zq8S1N
• australia should follow suit: "Bill would allow iPad use from takeoff to landing" http://pjblack.me/Yp8egV
• "Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock" http://pjblack.me/YKL2N0
• cool or creepy?: "Meet Memoto, the Lifelogging Camera" http://pjblack.me/YmmmYd
• "Why Americans—and everyone else—will want drones in the skies" http://pjblack.me/12BGEFx
• "The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble" http://pjblack.me/YKwkFI
• "The comprehensive, fully caffeinated guide to coffee at work" http://pjblack.me/YEyh6D
• "The Memex in Your Pocket: How technology is expanding our minds." http://pjblack.me/Y1yVfA
• "The Speech Chain: A Vintage Illustrated Guide to the Science of Language" http://pjblack.me/12BGzS5
• idina menzel is coming to brisbane: "Idina Menzel in Concert" http://pjblack.me/Yql9Cd
• "Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adoption" http://pjblack.me/YmmW8p
• "Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism" http://pjblack.me/YKLGdq
• some interesting research: "Do Less and Focus Hard: If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong" http://pjblack.me/1093zml
• "Teacher shames student by projecting his tweets in class" http://pjblack.me/10kqSxh
• "A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013" http://pjblack.me/1093san
• "Saudi Arabia may stop beheading due to swordsmen shortages" http://pjblack.me/YmHXQq
• argh this is very sad, very frustrating: "Google closes the book on Reader, announces sunset" http://pjblack.me/Yam3DT
• i'm surprised it is this high: "Each Facebook Post Seen by One-Third of Friends, on Average" http://pjblack.me/12GAgwS
• will google glass be a flop?: "Messages From the Future: The Fate of Google Glass" http://pjblack.me/16ntvig
• "Who Owns The Right to Filter Your Feed?" http://pjblack.me/12Gwa7P
• this is fascinating: "How To Build A 2,073-Foot Skyscraper" http://pjblack.me/X0pCZK
• "How Twitter Knows So Much About You Before You've Even Signed Up" http://pjblack.me/15JH1f6
• "How to Build and Preserve a Vinyl Collection in the Digital Age" http://pjblack.me/12GvvTU

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 13 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't" http://pjblack.me/Zr2301

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• good question: "Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business?" http://pjblack.me/XmkqoU #lwn117 #lws008
• "HBO making all original series available internationally one week after US broadcast" http://pjblack.me/YKGF4K #lws008
• from the @nytimes: "How Grindr Is Changing the Way We Connect" http://sco.lt/94uoxV
• hear, hear!: "Why The European Plan To Ban Porn Is A Bad Idea" http://pjblack.me/X2oUeN#lwn117 #openinternet
• why would anyone want to buy this ebooks?: "E-book porn flourishes on Amazon's Kindle" http://pjblack.me/1093NtA #lwn117 #lws008
• "The Case Against Free" http://pjblack.me/12OgjEj /via @luketkal #lws008 #lwn117
• "Speaker will not ban tweets by MPs" http://pjblack.me/12OeQOe #lwn117 #auspol
• "Every day 4,200 Chinese media censors take a break during the evening news" http://pjblack.me/10kqyyC
• smart move: "SoundCloud launches simplified, cheaper Pro plans and embraces brands with Pro Partner accounts" http://pjblack.me/XFjKcb
• a good video and explanation: "What is the internet of things?" http://pjblack.me/13GbQCY
• "Jayant Patel Found Not Guilty Of Manslaughter" http://pjblack.me/12O8yOz
• "Why I Hacked Donkey Kong For My Daughter" http://pjblack.me/10zeEx9
• "7 Amazing Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI" http://pjblack.me/Y7tF6V
• "American Airlines Calls For Innovative Pitches On Paper Napkins" http://pjblack.me/12BGA8H
• "Alfred C. Hobbs: The American who shocked Victorian England by picking the world’s strongest lock" http://pjblack.me/XDWDyT
• "The Art of Browsing: New Shows Focus on Books" http://pjblack.me/12Gvyz6
• "Low-key Conroy proposals are media reform lite" says @flew http://pjblack.me/12Nyb1Z #lwb480 #auspol
• "The 11 Greatest Computer Supervillains in Film" http://pjblack.me/10kqzmf
• "What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't" http://pjblack.me/Zr2301
• "Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music" http://pjblack.me/YmqPtW #lwb486 #lws008 #lwn117
• how come none of my vines made the list?: "More Than Just Cats: 14 Clever Six-Second Vine Movies" http://pjblack.me/WPDDtd
• this is a fun legal question to think about: "If A Driverless Car Crashes, Who's Liable?" http://pjblack.me/VPZjti
• "So Long, Apps: How Hardware Took Over South By Southwest" http://pjblack.me/Y1yVvT
• "The history of Facebook as told through its ever-expanding list of profile fields" http://pjblack.me/10kqOO9
• "Inside out: Google launches indoor maps" http://pjblack.me/YhMXJ1

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 12 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "An incredible map of which countries e-mail each other, and why" http://pjblack.me/YEynep

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Developer of popular Instapaper app says 'open' has very little to do with anything Google does" http://pjblack.me/Yp7xE8 #lwn117
• just a publicity stunt?: "Seattle dive bar becomes first to ban Google Glass" http://pjblack.me/Y1yVMn
• "Australian Recording Industry Continues To Fight The Technology That Is Saving It" http://pjblack.me/YmoXl4 #lws008 #lwn117 #lwb486
• "Bibliocide: They were mouldy, unread and long out of date. So why did I feel so bad about burning my Britannicas?" http://pjblack.me/12BGBcN
• "The Outlaw Life of a Train Hopper" http://pjblack.me/Zk7nCr
• even a communal kitchen with an "equipment library": "Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever" http://pjblack.me/12GxS9c
• "Seriously, Facebook, What Is Up With These Obnoxious, Sexist Ads?" http://pjblack.me/12GCH2l
• "The Deluge: We Are Entering a New Era of Fossil Fuels" http://pjblack.me/Zq9RPE
• a powerful read: "Growing Up In The World's Deadliest City" http://pjblack.me/WPDCpb
• "Is It Racist To Prefer Australian Call Centres?" http://pjblack.me/XF2hAE
• "With Spotify Web Expansion Coming, Rdio Opens Its Web-Based Music Streaming Service In 7 New Markets, Now At 24" http://pjblack.me/13T2wfj
• i'm not sure about this: "LovePalz, The Real-Time Virtual Sex Toy For Long-Distance Couples, Will Launch On March 29" http://pjblack.me/YmBW6f
• "The Case for Big Brother: A little government monitoring can be a good thing." http://pjblack.me/12BGE8w
• "Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling" http://pjblack.me/WPDcPE
• "Revenge porn site founder loses $250k defamation suit" http://pjblack.me/YmrawL #lwb480
• "An incredible map of which countries e-mail each other, and why" http://pjblack.me/YEynep
• "Police intimidation: no way to work with community" http://sco.lt/6UObhp
• "Absolutely everything you need to know about the papal elections" http://pjblack.me/16ntxXF
• "Actors reveal challenges of stage nudity" http://pjblack.me/1093y1H
• "The Internet according to The Oatmeal" http://pjblack.me/XXbpzi
• it is impossible to keep up with everything i am interested in: "The guilty truth: There's too much content" http://pjblack.me/12GvnDL
• can zucker turn around cnn?: "CNN: Jeff Zucker's Charismatic News Network" http://pjblack.me/YmmzL6
• "When you've stopped laughing, Arthur's decision does make sense" http://pjblack.me/13SFbu9 #cricket
• "Cricket suspensions shouldn't be public: Maxwell" http://pjblack.me/YowXSA #cricket
• "This is the Modem World: The dark side of Google Glass" http://pjblack.me/1093uPD
• "Labor caucus signs off on new media laws" http://pjblack.me/12JUTIs #lwb480 #auspol
• this is a pity (but understandable): "Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS" http://pjblack.me/12GCpse
• karina carvalho to host the 7pm news on abc1: "ABC media release on Queensland TV newsreader position" http://pjblack.me/12JRtWc
• "14 Infographics to Help Organize Your Kitchen" http://pjblack.me/13Q9PV0
• "Olympian Becomes First Woman to Sign an Exclusively-Male Modeling Contract" http://pjblack.me/ZpY4AN
• this is a little sad: "Disney turns away from hand-drawn animation" http://pjblack.me/XXbrHe
• "Plagiarism and the link: How the web makes attribution easier — and more complicated" http://pjblack.me/12Gw9Rd
• "Tournament of Books Organizers Pick the Winners of 12 Classic Literary Beefs" http://pjblack.me/1093PBJ
• "States' grip on gang laws could scupper federal clampdown" http://pjblack.me/12Jm1Hy #lwb242 #auspol #auslaw
• an interesting letter from professor kane race: "Police intimidation: no way to work with community" http://pjblack.me/Yo9bpL
• "The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Shows" http://pjblack.me/YmlNgW
• "Judge Invalidates Bloomberg’s Soda Ban" http://pjblack.me/12JjFIH
• another good read from the @NYTMag: "Nora Ephron’s Final Act" http://pjblack.me/Zq9X9Z
• "If Symptoms Persist, Text Your Doctor: Ninety percent of Americans have never emailed or texted with their doctor" http://pjblack.me/YmnCdQ

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Daily Twitter Links: busy week edition (Tuesday 5 March to Monday 11 March 2013)

Last week was very busy for work, and so I haven't posted any Daily Twitter Links since last Monday.  So here is a bumper edition of all the links since last Tuesday:

• a good read: "How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'"http://pjblack.me/YKDABI
• still it would be cool: "Voice of Roger Rabbit Says Mickey Mouse Team-Up ‘The Stooge’ Is Only Rumor" http://pjblack.me/12BGA8A
• "Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace" http://pjblack.me/XXbtiq
• "Terrifyingly plausible ways the human race could go extinct that never occurred to you" http://pjblack.me/1093n6t
• "The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million"http://pjblack.me/YKCTIo #lwn117 #lwb486 #lws008
• this is clever: "Google Glass app identifies you by your fashion sense" http://pjblack.me/12BGDkO
• do we really need this?: "Why 'Hater' App's Founder Wanted a Negative Alternative to Social Media" http://pjblack.me/12GCYCi
• "How Google Cars Could Change The Car-Buying Game" http://pjblack.me/Zk7m1m
• what wonderful research: "Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We’ve Wiped" http://pjblack.me/YKwA7O
• "Whoa! Stanford Student Solves Rubik's Cube While Juggling" http://pjblack.me/12GxE1N
• "Style Icons x Food Porn" http://pjblack.me/12BGCgM
• "How Twitter won the social media battle for journalism" http://pjblack.me/YKLlY4
• "Beware of broken glass: the media's double standard for women at the top" http://pjblack.me/10kqr69
• "Tweet-to-shoot paintball gun makes social media messy" http://pjblack.me/YKdG0N
• "Roger Ailes on His Looming Death, Whether God Is Partisan, and the Mementos He’s Collected to Leave His Son" http://pjblack.me/1093tuU
• "The father of all men is 340,000 years old" http://pjblack.me/1093peO
• in 2013? really?: "Interracial Sex Still Taboo for Many Porn Stars" http://pjblack.me/13GbTib
• wow this amazing: "You spend 23 days a year on your phone, survey says" http://pjblack.me/XXbrqL
• the oldest surviving person from the 1939 classic: "Meet Ruth Duccini, a Munchkin From ‘The Wizard of Oz’" http://pjblack.me/WPDCFS
• "A photographic guide to the world’s embalmed leaders" http://pjblack.me/YKkPhw
• "Apple executives and a long history with watches" http://pjblack.me/YKchaE
• Why, again, isn’t there an iPad-optimized Instagram app? http://pjblack.me/YHUMaL
• "If You Stop Updating Facebook While Traveling, Your Loved Ones May Assume You're Dead" http://pjblack.me/XuIwvL
• "More Than Gimmicks: How Obama's Tech Tools Are Shifting the Debate" http://pjblack.me/13GbQCZ
• "Seven, TEN object to media reforms" http://pjblack.me/YmrlYX #lwb480
• "MeCam Could Be The Perfect High-Tech Accessory For Narcissists" http://pjblack.me/Ymr0Fy (perfect for @canecutter90 @IannCox @mooreandrew90)
• "Spear-phishers targeted Reserve Bank in 2011" http://pjblack.me/12GAuUL #lwn117
• "World’s Greatest Armchair Automatically Refills Your Beer From the Bottom Up" http://pjblack.me/YGi2pA
• "The 10 Greatest Heists in History" http://pjblack.me/ZmT7Xb
• "My impressions of Facebook’s news feed redesign & what it means" by @om http://pjblack.me/YmmKWP
• "Ten Years Ago David Bowie Predicted Copyright Would Be Dead - But This Is Just The Beginning Of The End" http://pjblack.me/YmmE1a #lws008
• "Pew: Twitter is more liberal & more conservative than public opinion" http://pjblack.me/12GvzmJ
• a strange tale: "It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Lost 98 Pounds And Fell In Love By Dating Escorts" http://pjblack.me/ZmSTj3
• "Down goes the dictator! A visual history of statue vandalism" http://pjblack.me/ZmSXzd
• interesting united states interactive: "Compare Your Commute To The Nation's Longest" http://pjblack.me/ZmT0ef
• "Incredimail Email Client Lands on iPad" http://pjblack.me/XZsJBC
• "20 Hit Songs Meant For Other Singers" http://pjblack.me/YBldik
• "Here's Why Your IT Department Hates Dropbox And Evernote" http://pjblack.me/YahiGa
• beautiful but not very practical: "Serbian Home Balances on a Rock For 45 Years" http://pjblack.me/WPDE0g
• "Doppelganger: Desperately seeking my lookalike" http://pjblack.me/1093uiz
• "Facebook changes led users to reveal more, study finds" http://pjblack.me/13GbVGR
• what about australian eggs?: "Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa" http://pjblack.me/ZmSU6r
• "Ex-Model, 79, Sues Over Appearance in 'Mad Men' Title Sequence" http://pjblack.me/YahncY #lws008
• a provocative question: "Is Porn Any Different From Regional Beauty Pageants?" http://pjblack.me/14od69H
• well said: "Travel Is All About the Profoundly Local Moments That Can't be Replicated" http://pjblack.me/Z6aw8D
• "The meanest PSA ever?" http://pjblack.me/ZXRfVZ
• "What Could Apple Buy With Its $137 Billion? About 18 Homes Each for Every Yahoo to Not Work At, and More!" http://pjblack.me/ZXRL6a
• "Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple" http://pjblack.me/ZXRikG
• "The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer: Inside the military's culture of sex abuse, denial and cover-up" http://pjblack.me/XNxb9r
• i can't wait: "David Cross: Arrested Development on Netflix is going to redefine what TV can be" http://pjblack.me/XNiOlH
• "How Future Cameras Will See In The Dark" http://pjblack.me/1658xou
• "Calm down, Marco: micropublishing is about more than just The Magazine" http://pjblack.me/YlUxlH
• "Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV" http://pjblack.me/ZXRtw6
• bizarre: "State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment" http://pjblack.me/1658tF4
• "Climate change flow chart: How to win any global warming argument" http://pjblack.me/Z4PqHL
• this is interesting: "Experts wary of e-cigarettes as test run looms" http://pjblack.me/Yahl51
• "We Can Thank Chevy Chase for the Funny Side of Brian Williams" http://pjblack.me/YahmG1
• lol this is funny: "Appeal Of 'How I Met Your Mother' Finally Explained" http://pjblack.me/Z6arBU
• "Miami Heist: The Brink's Money Plane Job's Messy Aftermath" http://pjblack.me/WCLv19
• very clever: "Project Amy merges Apple’s Messages app with App.net" http://pjblack.me/Z6aBcC
• bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes: "Neanderthals May Have Died Out Because of - Bunnies?" http://pjblack.me/Zq3ITu /cc @jeramax
• hmm i'm not sure: "Would You Dine in this Public Men’s Urinal Turned Cafe?" http://pjblack.me/10kqGOL
• is this fair for a late night tv show host?: "7 examples of cowardice on 'The Daily Show'" http://pjblack.me/XtyjzH
• a graph of the share of direct government funding the university of sydney has received since 1950 http://pjblack.me/YKwmO7 #highered
• "High court divided on freedom of speech" http://pjblack.me/YKw5dL #lwb242 #auslaw #auspol
• "Apple: No, the App Store Is Not a Monopoly" http://pjblack.me/1093uz2 #lwn117
• would you drink a 2.8% breakfast beer called "Cold Turkey Breakfast Beer"?: "Breakfast beer causes controversy" http://pjblack.me/WPDG8r
• "Lego Spill Shuts Down Section Of West Virginia Highway" http://pjblack.me/1093sqM
• "Why Bill Clinton Signed the Defense of Marriage Act" http://sco.lt/8roYcL
• more wearable tech: "Bracelet Lights Up When You Get a Text or Email" http://pjblack.me/XNjjMB
• "The Commonwealth in a legal vacuum" http://pjblack.me/WCMBtO #auspol #auslaw #lwb242
• "Five features iOS should steal from Android" http://pjblack.me/WCyk05
• "Layover Here: 10 Awesome Airports Redefining How We Travel" http://pjblack.me/14odchn
• remember when i live tweeted my broken ankle? http://pjblack.me/YK1KMv ... well this guy has done one better http://pjblack.me/Zpk9zC
• it's hard to imagine this, but it is probably right: "Even Google won't be around for ever, let alone Facebook" http://pjblack.me/WCuMv1
• "21 Domain Names That Sound Really Inappropriate" http://pjblack.me/XNjW8I
• which drinks have the highest number of calories?: "The world’s most fattening drinks" http://pjblack.me/ZXRJeC
• "German Copyright Law Targets Google Links" http://pjblack.me/XNjRBS #lwn117 #lwb486
• "Photographer's Pictures Of His Girlfriend Leading Him Around The World Go Viral" http://pjblack.me/WCxNLC
• "The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies" http://pjblack.me/WCvuIx
• "What a pig, a goat and an eagle can tell us about the decline of traditional media" http://pjblack.me/WCvsk3
• a fascinating experiment: "Three weeks in, it may be time for Andrew Sullivan to tweak The Dish’s metered paywall" http://pjblack.me/XNhRK0
• a nice looking service: "Dispatch’s redesign allows for beautiful, email-free collaboration. Well, mostly email-free" http://pjblack.me/XNiJOK
• "The economics of Somali piracy" http://pjblack.me/ZXRMHh
• but you still seem to need the old media foundation: "Platforms expand for 'brand' journalists" http://pjblack.me/YrDK0A
• impressive: "iTunes U Hits a Milestone As International Use Grows" http://pjblack.me/WCxPmZ
• "Vimeo teams up with Vivoom to add snazzy filters & effects to your videos" http://pjblack.me/XNjI1q
• "A Devastating 26-Word Challenge to President Obama's Leadership" http://pjblack.me/YEynv5
• "Twitter Still Doesn’t Have A Patent On Pull-Down-To-Refresh, But It’s About To" http://pjblack.me/X1uu6w #lwn117 #lwb486
• "Disney calls for extended copyright in international trade agreement" http://pjblack.me/XuHpfp #lwn117 #lwb486 #lws008
• "Yes, the president can kill Americans on U.S. soil" http://pjblack.me/ZmT3qw
• "This Research Paper Explains How To Predict The Next Arab Spring, Cyber Attacks" http://pjblack.me/XTAicW
• "Newspapers go all-in for copyright fight against clipping service" http://pjblack.me/WCymoY #lwn117 #lwb486 #lwb480
• "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Wants Its 'Harlem Shake' Video Removed From YouTube" http://pjblack.me/XNknQD
• "The Science of Sleeplessness" http://pjblack.me/XTAysh
• i can't help but find this really sad: "Japan’s Lonely Youth Turns to Rent-a-Friend Services" http://pjblack.me/Yahi9b
• the cubicle is dead: "HUB, a New Kind of Workspace" http://pjblack.me/12qJdKp
• "8 TV mashups almost as good as the originals" http://pjblack.me/XNhgbl
• a fascinating infographic: "How the Internet Has Changed the World" http://pjblack.me/WCwwnV
• good question: "What Is an Act of Cyberwar? - Room for Debate" http://pjblack.me/WCuRyK #lwn117
• "Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving"http://pjblack.me/12qJhKd #lws008 #lwb486
• this is so true: "Browsing the web on an iPad stinks–and Apple likes it that way" http://pjblack.me/XNiqng
• "The Future of War: FP polls the world's top military thinkers on everything from cyberwar to shrinking budgets" http://pjblack.me/YpQhl2
• a ghostwriter for "Sweet Valley High" tells her story: "The Ghost Writes Back" http://pjblack.me/XNx4ux
• is twitter a good gauge of public opinion?: "Why Twitter misses the mark" http://pjblack.me/YrDXAM
• "Inside Microsoft's house of the future" http://pjblack.me/1658zwA
• "The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet" http://pjblack.me/XNhSO2
• "Amazon May Seem Unstoppable, But Google Is Powering the Counterattack" http://pjblack.me/XNhj6O
• "Jon Stewart Taking Summer ‘Daily Show’ Hiatus To Direct First Film And “Challenge” Himself, John Oliver To Sub" http://pjblack.me/ZmSXPE
• "Facebook’s Revamped News Feed Aspires To Be A Personalized Newspaper" http://pjblack.me/14zcw94
• "Hate Valet? Not to Worry; Help Is at Hand: Automated Parking Garages For the Car-Obsessed" http://pjblack.me/Z47zpa
• "Snapchat Founders Sued by Classmate Who Claims They Took His Idea" http://pjblack.me/XNjWpl #lwn117 #lwb486
• "New App Will Help You Forget Pointlessness Of Life That Other Apps Always Remind You Of" http://pjblack.me/13DVx9U
• "21 Completely Unconventional Cover Songs" http://pjblack.me/XNhKye
• final report from committee recommends referendum on sep 14 for #localgov recognition in the constitution http://pjblack.me/YB2lzY #lwb242
• "ISPs Finally Explain How 'Six Strikes' Anti-Piracy Program Will Work" http://pjblack.me/WCxssr #lwn117 #lwb486
• this is cool: "Harrison Ford is Coming Back in a Big Way, Now with 'Anchorman 2'" http://pjblack.me/14odkh0
• hollywood marketing 2.0: "Girls Rising Documentary: Social Media Marketing Phenomenon" http://pjblack.me/WCoknQ
• "Are unis more Liberal or Labor?" http://pjblack.me/WCT87V #auspol #highered
• "PeopleBrowsr v. Twitter: PeopleBrowsr Wins in Federal Court and is Awarded Costs Including Attorney Fees" http://pjblack.me/Zeg69h #lwn117
• "26-Year-Old NYC Cab Driver Tells All On Reddit: Sex In The Backseat, Craziest Passengers, And More" http://pjblack.me/WCxQXT
• from legally weird: "Florida Man Arrested for Attacking Teen with a Burrito" http://pjblack.me/YsflI9
• "Council jumps on mobile food bandwagon" http://pjblack.me/YzR3vT
• "Is Girls' Adam a Creep or a Good Man in Training?" http://pjblack.me/YqOsV3
• very clever: "Now this is how you announce a new product: WePay gets creative with its iOS launch" http://pjblack.me/WCwAUR
• "How emoji conquered the world" http://pjblack.me/YahsO0
• "How Modern Technology Is Destroying Your Posture At Work" http://pjblack.me/WCvb0g
• optimists face an increased risk of illness and mortality: "Pessimists live longer, study shows" http://pjblack.me/XNDAla
• "The Naysayers are Wrong: Mobile Will Monetize Better Than Desktop" http://pjblack.me/XNhb7x
• "Claim Costello's Lobby Group A Conflict Of Interest With Audit" http://pjblack.me/ZbaoVv#qldpol
• "The TweetDeck App: 2008 - 2013" http://pjblack.me/12qJsVX
• "Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly" http://pjblack.me/XNhzCW
• it's pretty awesome: "Is This The Greatest Cover For 'Fahrenheit 451' You've Ever Seen?" http://pjblack.me/ZXRkc7
• "U.K. MOOCs Alliance, Futurelearn, Adds British Council To Its Free Higher Education Roster" http://pjblack.me/XTAs3Z
• "The annotated wisdom of Louis C.K." http://pjblack.me/Z6aDB9
• "Does 'Harlem Shake' on a Plane Fly With the FAA?" http://pjblack.me/XTAwkp
• i am intrigued by fitbit: "Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation" http://pjblack.me/XTAzg7
• "Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion?" http://pjblack.me/WCnreU 
• "CopyrightX: a massively open online course on copyright from Harvard's Terry Fisher" http://pjblack.me/12qJgpC
• "Are we spending too long at uni?" http://pjblack.me/WCThrW #highered
• do i really want to know?: "TimeRabbit Measures How Long You're on Facebook" http://pjblack.me/WCwqMY
• "Mining tax unconstitutional, court told" http://pjblack.me/Z9WVxh #lwb242 #auslaw #auspol
• then 24 hours after @tomandalex http://pjblack.me/Z9GH7a, the fun really begins with my constitutional law lecture #lwb242 /cc @TomCBallard
• for some reason tomorrow, alex from @tomandalex will be giving a lecture at qut: "Jazz Flute Lovers Unite!" http://pjblack.me/Z9GH7a
• "There's Something About Western Sydney" http://pjblack.me/13DVJWA #auspol
• "Justice Keane completes the new-look High Court" http://pjblack.me/13DVNWt #auslaw #lwb242
• "Keane sworn in as 50th High Court judge" http://pjblack.me/12qJsoU #auslaw #lwb242
• in defence if eating horsemeat: "Horse Meat at Ikea? Delicious." http://pjblack.me/1658AAD
• "Physicist gives girlfriend nerdiest proposal ever" http://pjblack.me/XNcrii
• this does seem a little strange: "Medieval animal trials: Why they’re not quite as crazy as they sound" http://pjblack.me/XNbINT
• "Is Shyness Holding You Back at Work?" http://pjblack.me/XNimUo
• "TIME Turns 90: All You Need to Know About Modern History in 90 Cover Stories" http://pjblack.me/WCnabP
• from a british perspective, but still useful: "Twitter users: A guide to the law" http://pjblack.me/XNcj2a #lws008 #lwn117
• "One Month Into Zucker's Reign, CNN Sees Ratings Dip; All Cable News Down From 2012" http://pjblack.me/XN6Acw
• social media too tough on political incorrectness?: "Twitter’s unstoppable humor police: We’re all hate-watchers now" http://pjblack.me/XNcafg
• "The Origins of 10 Great Insults" http://pjblack.me/XNbsOV
• this is such a nice story: "Donations Pour In For Homeless Man Who Returned Ring He Got By Mistake" http://pjblack.me/XNbkyV
• "We Found Our Son in the Subway" http://pjblack.me/XNbsyz
• "Music Industry Sales Rise, and Digital Revenue Gets the Credit" http://pjblack.me/XNbdU1 #lwn117 #lws008 #lwb486
• i can't wait: "Apple CEO promises investors 'great stuff' to come" http://pjblack.me/WCm1B4
• "Ruling for Paramount Upheld in 'No Country for Old Men' Case" http://pjblack.me/Z5I1rN #lws008
• "Shock jocks survive their social media maulings" http://pjblack.me/YrEgvE #lwb480
• "Southern Cross, Nine merger must comply with law, says Stephen Conroy" http://pjblack.me/Z5HqpS #lwb480
• "Sports rule in a shifting media game" http://pjblack.me/YrE2V2 #lwb480 #lws008
• no harlem shake on planes?: "FAA Cracks Down on the 'Harlem Shake'" http://pjblack.me/XNjsPW
• "Prostitutes, Pimps And Pedophiles: The Dark Side Of Twitter" http://pjblack.me/XNjdEC
• is anyone using pheed?: "Pheed The Future Of Social Media? Already Outranking Facebook And Twitter On iTunes" http://pjblack.me/WCwLPZ
• a good storify on the elections in kenya: "#KenyaDecides, 140 Characters at a Time" http://pjblack.me/YrBaYl
• an unexpected twist in the latest meme: "'Harlem Shake' Becomes Middle East Protest Anthem" http://pjblack.me/WCvRmw
• "‘Girls Gone Wild’ Files Bankruptcy to Fight Vegas Debt" http://pjblack.me/XNb82D
• "How To Erase Your Horrible Evil Saved Searches From Facebook" http://pjblack.me/WClKy5
• "Future Fund drops tobacco: should fossil fuels be next?" http://pjblack.me/XNaNwQ
• congratulations to @spencerhowson and @612brisbane - still number one at breakfast in the brisbane radio ratings http://pjblack.me/Z4VbVT
• "Chief Justice Roberts' Long War Against the Voting Rights Act" http://pjblack.me/XNaP80
• is beer being watered down?: "AB InBev Overstates Alcohol in Budweiser, Lawsuit Claims" http://pjblack.me/XN92Qp
• "Movie studios target mobile apps for copyright infringement" http://pjblack.me/XN8N83 #lws008 #lwn117 #lwb486
• "Amanda Palmer Wins TED" http://pjblack.me/WCjff1 #lwn117 #lws008
• "Netflix’s Content-Marketing Secret Sauce Is Wrapped Up In ‘House Of Cards’" http://pjblack.me/WCj2Zn
• kimmel would be great (but so would fallon, colbert or fey): "Jimmy Kimmel said to be Oscars host frontrunner" http://pjblack.me/XN8hH2
• "Professor pays for 'polite' graffiti" http://pjblack.me/Z4atKK #highered
• "Six unis make world's top 100 in Times Higher Education rankings" http://pjblack.me/YpRQQ4 #highered
• "Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and Air versions of TweetDeck" http://pjblack.me/YpNYyD
• "Is Jay Leno Facing Another NBC Coup in Favor of Jimmy Fallon?" http://pjblack.me/YpxNRD
• "How Airline Ticket Prices Fell 50% in 30 Years (and Why Nobody Noticed)" http://pjblack.me/WCiItA
• a fascinating read: "In the Footsteps of a Killer" http://pjblack.me/XN8dHi
• what a way to test a marriage: "How to get along for 500 days alone together" http://pjblack.me/WCizX4
• "6 Reasons It's So Hard To Buy Concert Tickets" http://pjblack.me/WCioLr
• quickflix is currently a pale imitation of netflix: "Streaming service to renegotiate studio deals" http://pjblack.me/YplIvN #lws008 #lwn117
• "In Silicon Valley, Sitting Is the New Smoking" http://pjblack.me/WCiuTi
• wow: "The most shocking photo of Beijing air pollution I’ve ever seen" http://pjblack.me/XN7Yfj

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The Drum 5 March 2013

Last night I was on The Drum on ABC News 24 discussing the news of the day, including visas for foreign workers, a funding boost for the aged care sector and should there be limits to executive pay?

The Drum 5 March 2013 from Peter Black on Vimeo.

Daily Twitter Links for Monday 4 March 2013

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• this is awkward: while checking for horsemeat, "Iceland tests find meat pies contain no meat at all" http://pjblack.me/Y6vrV4

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Two of Australia’s most noted newspapers go tabloid: Will the content follow suit?" asks @niemanlab http://pjblack.me/XNJhzt
• seems pretty generous to me: "‘Tooth Fairy’ Average Gift is $2.42 a Tooth" http://pjblack.me/WCiiUe
• i don't think that is right: "Google's Sergey Brin Calls Smartphones 'Emasculating'"http://pjblack.me/XN7So9
• "The Price of Public Violence" http://pjblack.me/WCgkD4
• "Medal for cyber troops draws jibes, dismay and 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's" News http://pjblack.me/WCg9Yq
• "The Top Ten Most Controversial Action Figures of the Modern Era" http://pjblack.me/WnLX8Q
• "The Fishy History of the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish Sandwich" http://pjblack.me/WnLXFV
• "Is Internet Addiction Real?" http://pjblack.me/WAKzua
• i don't think i like this idea: "Watch This Bartending Robot Pee Ingredients Into the Perfect Cocktail" http://pjblack.me/Y6vsbw
• "What Coke Contains" http://pjblack.me/WnLV0y
• "Face Shapes and Blood Types: Wading into the World of Online Dating in China" http://pjblack.me/Y6vsbm
• "Compliments of the House: Is it all right to snag soufflé cups, or am I just from a family of petty pilferers?" http://pjblack.me/VRSOVn
• this is gold: "Nate Silver Offers Up a Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship" http://pjblack.me/XavjIf
• "Union warns court rules could hurt new media" http://pjblack.me/WCwNr3 #lwb480 #auslaw
• "Abbott's working group mulls online learning" http://pjblack.me/XNj4B6 #highered #auspol
• "Not So Fast: No, Apple Isn't Censoring Your Dirty Emails" http://pjblack.me/WCwnku
• "Take a Look at Facebook’s Redesigned Timeline" http://pjblack.me/YZZsKq
• "Nudity Clause: From Jayne Mansfield to Seth MacFarlane, A Brief History of Hollywood's Breast Anxiety" http://pjblack.me/Y6vrnK
• murdoch really is embracing new technology: "Rupert Murdoch is on Tumblr, and the photos are kind of amazing" http://pjblack.me/WnLWSk
• "Sharks at risk of extinction from overfishing, say scientists" http://pjblack.me/WnLTFV
• some of these are very strange: "Top 10 weird wine ingredients" http://pjblack.me/WnLZ0h
• "The Many Hats of Dr. Seuss" http://pjblack.me/Xipt7Q
• sometimes a photo really does tell a thousand words: "Obama and Boehner: A History of Hate, in Awkward Photos" http://pjblack.me/WnLZgP
• "Apple censoring iCloud emails and attachments" http://pjblack.me/WAMdMj
• this is cool: "You Can Reach Into This Monitor And Touch The Interface" http://pjblack.me/WnLWl6
• this is awkward: while checking for horsemeat, "Iceland tests find meat pies contain no meat at all" http://pjblack.me/Y6vrV4
• funny or just creepy?: "Man Lurks Facebook, Replicates Peoples Profile Pics Then Sends Friend Request" http://pjblack.me/WnLVgY
• it's all getting a bit much: "The ever-expanding smartphone screen: how supersized became everyday" http://pjblack.me/WnLYcK
• i hope so: "Jay Leno's Days Hosting 'Tonight' Are Numbered" http://pjblack.me/WnLUJW

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 1-3 March 2013

The most-read link I tweeted this weekend was:

• "'How's Hot Gym Boy?' Why Girls Make Up Names for the Guys They Date"http://pjblack.me/WnmdUG

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about this weekend:

• "Rap Genius responds to Heroku’s call for ‘respect’ amid allegations of fraud" http://pjblack.me/Y6vqAl
• for yesterday: "Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! 9 Ways He Was a Secret Bad-Ass" http://pjblack.me/Y6vsbj
• "The 23 Best Goat Remixes On The Internet" http://pjblack.me/XavkvC
• "Study Says Dudes With AOL Email Addresses Most Likely to Visit Strip Clubs" http://pjblack.me/VRSSo7 /cc @spencerhowson
• "Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity" http://pjblack.me/XKvaaW
• "The Drunky Problem: Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Use" http://pjblack.me/XjEMLX
• "Marissa Mayer has made a terrible mistake—working from home is great for employees and employers" http://pjblack.me/XjEJzA
• "A surprising map of the world’s national holidays (only two countries have no national day)" http://pjblack.me/XavpQ0
• the average human has sex 1,000 times in their life: "Human sexuality is naturally promiscuous, primarily amorous" http://pjblack.me/VRSOoq
• "Photographer as Witness: A Portrait of Domestic Violence" http://pjblack.me/XjEG6W
• "Let's roll through the Virtual Toilet Paper Museum" http://pjblack.me/VRSSV6
• "Abbott wants universities to move online" http://pjblack.me/YN33ey #highered #auspol
• haha very clever: "Pepsi Vending Machine Rigged to Sell $3 Malt Liquor in DC Neighborhood" http://pjblack.me/Wvti5K
• well said @joshgnosis: "The NBN isn't a copyright boogeyman" http://pjblack.me/YN32r6 #lwb486 #lwn117
• i doubt it: "'There’s a Web for that'"—will Firefox OS bring about the end of the app?" http://pjblack.me/YN3eqk
• "Arrested Development's Will Arnett, Mitch Hurwitz on Netflix Big Data" http://pjblack.me/Wy1ltX
• "Why the concept of working from home has become an urban myth" http://pjblack.me/Wy2wtx
• this is very sad news: "Vale: Peter Harvey" http://pjblack.me/XJ24M8
• "Discrimination is a bigger reason to complain about ads than sex for the first time" http://pjblack.me/13sUVnv #lwb480
• "How New York City Might Do to Government what Obama Did to Campaigning" http://pjblack.me/13sUSrP
• are any australian politicians using vine yet?: "How Politicians Are Using Vine, Twitter's New Video Service" http://pjblack.me/XKv2Iw #auspol
• "EU Court to Determine if People Googling Themselves Have the Right to Censor Search Results" http://pjblack.me/YavGBb #lwn117
• "The Case Against Working at Home" http://pjblack.me/XKv2rY
• "Stephen Colbert Stumps For His Sister In South Carolina" http://pjblack.me/YN2TE1
• "Who Dares Run Against Hillary?" http://pjblack.me/XGSHNh
• "How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy" http://pjblack.me/XKuW3M
• "Six Writers Take Very Short Voyages" http://pjblack.me/YN2RMs
• "What Does Your T-Shirt Say About You?" http://pjblack.me/XGSHwu
• "Your TV Guide to 2013's Wild New Pilots" http://pjblack.me/13sUOs6
• this seems a little dramatic: "Study: Google is making grandparents obsolete" http://pjblack.me/YN2NMw
• a pretty mixed review: "Pebble Smart Watch Tells When Phone Calls, Emails Arrive" http://pjblack.me/XjETa7
• "Scientific Sculptures of the Evolution of Human Faces" http://pjblack.me/VRSPsr
• "The Huffington Post to delay Australian launch" http://pjblack.me/YavIci
• "Hillary Clinton's Unwritten Memoir The Talk Of The Publishing World" http://pjblack.me/YN2UIf
• "Yes It's True: Spielberg Is Jury President of the 66th Festival de Cannes" http://pjblack.me/XGSFET
• "This Is Where the Twitter Vortex of 'Wow' Ends" http://pjblack.me/XKuXVh
• "Six things you probably didn’t know about 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy" http://pjblack.me/YN2MZ6
• "Ten confirms Boland hire" http://pjblack.me/XGJbcJ
• "Guardian hiring reporters and back office staff in Australia" http://pjblack.me/WviPqV
• "'Masterly inactivity' just the ticket" http://pjblack.me/XGIMXY #highered #auspol
• "From Sloppy Slouchers to Discreet Leaners: What’s Your Desk Posture?" http://pjblack.me/WtiC7A
• "Don’t Be a Stranger: Social media keep old friends close, but the Web used to be for strangers" http://pjblack.me/WtfyYZ
• "US stopping use of term 'Negro' for census surveys" http://pjblack.me/XEzxHJ
• "The first cola wars began in the 1700s—long before Coke and Pepsi" http://pjblack.me/Wnmirs
• "'How's Hot Gym Boy?' Why Girls Make Up Names for the Guys They Date" http://pjblack.me/WnmdUG
• "'Al Qaeda': What’s in a Name?" http://pjblack.me/Wnmhnj
• "So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz" http://pjblack.me/WnmbvX
• "How to Make A Kill-List" http://pjblack.me/WnmcQB
• "Sergey Brin’s brilliant strategy to make Google Glass seem normal: Never take them off" http://pjblack.me/X71Ajw
• "Instagram makes its way into North Korea after mobile data services are opened" http://pjblack.me/XEz3RN 
• "Can You Think Up Two Cool Words? Congratulations,You're Trademarked" http://pjblack.me/WteGnq #lwb486 #lws008
• "The Weird Philosophy of Bob Woodward" http://pjblack.me/XEyLur
• "Marco Arment’s digital magazine and the paywall vs. sharing problem" http://pjblack.me/WteiVN
• "Here comes the 'International New York Times' — NYT rebrands the Int’l Herald Tribune" http://pjblack.me/XEyGH7
• "6 descriptions of what horse meat actually tastes like" http://pjblack.me/15M45uC
• why doesn't my workplace look like this?: "Inside the Amazing New Google Offices in Tel Aviv"http://pjblack.me/15S5XC8

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday and Thursday 27-28 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Play by your own rules: 

A little over a year ago I joined Facebook as a Product Manager. I work with the Pages, Location, and Events teams. After a decade of being the founder of three different companies, this has been a year of change for me. Along the way I’ve piled up a supply of stories (and lessons learned) I somehow feel compelled to document — but the reality is I'm crap at journaling. I just need to start where the story is fresh and close at hand.

Today that means it's easiest to talk about Gowalla, a startup at least a handful of you are familiar with. We built a few amazing things. We also had our fair share of disappointments. Of course, you might surmise that our disappointments ended up outnumbering our amazing things. I won't argue with that. It's part of the game we play in Startup Land, fighting against the gravity that's always working to pull our ideas brutally back to the ground.

I would like to believe that these stories aren't just applicable to startup life, but to product creation in general. But since I'm no longer running my own company, I've gotta believe that, right?

So here goes…

2. Napster: the day the music was set free: 

In the first weeks of 2000 the founders of Napster were in their office above a bank in San Mateo, California, considering dizzying numbers. Figures scrawled on a whiteboard told how many people around the world had installed their file-sharing application and were using it to download music from each other's computers. As recounted in Downloaded – a documentary soon to premiere at the SXSW film festival, telling the story of a piece of software that came and went and whipped up a new digital music industry in its slip – Napster had 20 million users at the time. Some way from San Mateo, in suburban London I had just become one myself ...

... I was part of the web-straddling generation. The internet, when it came in our teens, was welcome, exciting and fathomable, but it changed things briskly and sometimes bewilderingly. Music was something you bought after protracted debate with friends in the aisles of Our Price, and then, suddenly, songs were accessible from home. They didn't cost anything. We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.

3. Online Reputation Ruin: A Victim's Memoir: 

A lawyer friend recently told me there were two ways to exact revenge in the 21st century: The rich and powerful use the legal system. For the rest of us, there’s the Internet.

James Lasdun’s memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, is his true account of just how horrible an Internet vendetta can be. 

And the most-read link I tweeted over the past few days was:

• "3 Kinds of Twitter Fools And The Mistakes They Make" http://pjblack.me/pd7os2

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about yesterday and today:

• "Google, Facebook and Twitter ordered to remove pictures claiming to show James Bulger killer"http://pjblack.me/XED0pC
• horse meat in ikea meatballs? (but not in australia): "Ikea Withdraws Meatballs in More Than 20 Countries" http://pjblack.me/WteuVa
• "Can U.S. Embassies Be Safe Without Being Unsightly?" http://pjblack.me/XjERiz
• "The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K." http://pjblack.me/XjETal
• this is strange: "The App That Lets You Fake A One Night Stand" http://pjblack.me/15k7EH8
• "Socialcam Improves Video Quality On iPhone App To 720p, Adds Video HDR And Redesigned Visual Effects" http://pjblack.me/Ws89cr
• "Why I’m Not Complaining About Seth MacFarlane’s Jokes" http://pjblack.me/XFQvCh
• some nice hotels here: "Sydney hotels: 7 stays for 7 different travelers" http://pjblack.me/13TKSmT
• what you can tell about a person by how they cross the street: "Crossing The Street" http://pjblack.me/13T0EhK
• i've often wondered if i need a second mobile: "Launch of Nokia's $20 phone begs question: Is one mobile enough?" http://pjblack.me/Wo5GzU
• oops: "Pocket-Dialing Leads to Drug Bust in New Jersey" http://pjblack.me/XysiRq
• "Iceland's Plan to Ban Porn Is Impossible" http://pjblack.me/Wo1ct8 #openinternet
• some good advice from @jackshafer: "Unsolicited advice for Jeff Zucker, CNN’s new boss" http://pjblack.me/Wm1Jvw
• easy to say, harder to do: "Play by your own rules" http://pjblack.me/WlP4IW
• "The Science of Nudity: The Skinny on Showing Skin" http://pjblack.me/YurYPQ
• "Online Reputation Ruin: A Victim's Memoir" http://pjblack.me/WlNKpu
• "When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo" http://pjblack.me/Wc8h5e
• "Debating ‘House of Cards’: What the Show Gets Right and Wrong About Journalism" http://pjblack.me/WlMVwY
• both julia gillard and campbell newman will be at @QUT today: "QUT’s Science and Engineering Centre opens" http://pjblack.me/1401Q2X
• i can't wait to see: "What will Netflix do next?" http://pjblack.me/WlMkeH
• "38 Maps You Never Knew You Needed" http://pjblack.me/XvPRdD
• "On the Enduring Appeal of ‘Die Hard’" http://pjblack.me/XvPP5A
• "Why 'I Don't Have Time For Technology' Is No Longer Excusable" http://pjblack.me/XvPn7u #highered
• "How to Get Hit By a Subway Train ... Without being killed." http://pjblack.me/XVjSQl
• "There Is an Algorithm for Everything, Even Bras: Bra-Selling Web Site Uses Algorithm to Determine Fit" http://pjblack.me/XvOoEq
• "A History of Future Cities: The Rise of New Shanghai" http://pjblack.me/XVjRfl
• a fascinating look at the gowalla versus foursquare checkin battle: "Play by your own rules." http://pjblack.me/WlP4IW
• "60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom" http://pjblack.me/XvMMKB #highered
• "Welcome To The Year Of The Hack" from @buzzfeed http://pjblack.me/Wc8lBN
• "How Google Stole Apple's Thunder And Became Everyone's Favorite Tech Company Again" http://pjblack.me/WlI6DS
• "3 Kinds of Twitter Fools And The Mistakes They Make" http://pjblack.me/pd7os2
• i want to write something on today's high court decision http://pjblack.me/13hVbFI #lwb242
• this looks pretty cool: "Het Arresthuis: A Dutch Prison Turned Into a Luxury Hotel" http://pjblack.me/Wc8lBY
• this is an interesting perspective: "Social media shows privacy argument ‘fails’" http://pjblack.me/XvsT6A #lwn117
• some good apps here: "Top 10 Must Have Apps for real Coffee Lovers" http://pjblack.me/Wlere5
• this is interesting: "This Company Will Only Accept 'Twitter Resumes' For A Six-Figure Job" http://pjblack.me/Wle7vQ
• "LinkedIn : Clean up mobile UI for the legal profession" http://pjblack.me/XvgAao
• "Don't recall sending that message? Maybe you're 'sleep texting'" http://pjblack.me/Xv2vcZ
• was it @instapaper or @pocket?: "The first read-later service" http://pjblack.me/WkPpeQ
• "Napster: the day the music was set free" http://pjblack.me/XtKvjh #lwn117 #lwb486 #lws008

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 26 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Ad-free Social Platform App.net Goes Freemium With Free, Invite-Only Plan: 

App.net, the project that emerged from founder Dalton Caldwell’s desire to build a social platform that wasn’t driven by advertising, is adding its first free option today.

Given Caldwell’s emphasis on creating a product that people are actually willing to pay for, this might seem like a step backwards, or one of those infamous startup “pivots.” However, Caldwell told me that this actually isn’t a change of plans, and to back that up he pointed to his initial blog post announcing the project back in July. The post didn’t explicitly say that that there are going to be both paid and free tiers, but the two positive examples of non-advertising companies that Caldwell cited are Dropbox and particularly GitHub, which both offer free services and then charge for additional features.

As for why he’s launching the free tier now, Caldwell said that he wanted to be careful about growth. 

2. Is it Crazy To Charge People To Send You Email?: 

The short version is that a sender must pay to send mail, while a recipient can set the price. Of course, this notion provokes angst: What happens to poor but worthy people? What about friends? Won’t it be confusingly complex? The answer is twofold. First, the recipient can decide what to charge, and set different prices (or no price at all) for different people or categories, and can even forgive the charges retroactively. Second, there will be services to handle it all for you. The basic service sets a single price, but higher-end services offer (and charge for) as much complexity as anyone could want. Or, if you want to avoid making a lot of decisions, you could select from a set of defaults. (And if you eschew commercializing your time, you could give the money to a charity.)

But the main question is why anyone should pay to send e-mail when they can do so for free. Isn’t it unfair to cut off access?

In the end, people are paying to get someone’s attention. You can go on sending free e-mail, but if you want to get the attention of certain busy people, you pay. Isn’t that more democratic than having to join a club or undergo an interview with their assistant to meet them?

3. Free Speech in the Era of Its Technological Amplification: 

A letter to John Stuart Mill about the limits of what may be shown or said on the Web. 

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars' Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night" http://pjblack.me/YwAMJb

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Could Hillary Turn Texas Blue in 2016?" http://pjblack.me/Wl6XYr
• "Tweeting in the age of condemnation" http://pjblack.me/Xymdod
• this is a little creepy: "LivesOn: Twitter ghost keeps tweeting when you're dead" http://pjblack.me/WkNaIC
• "Developers Lead When It Comes To The Future Of iOS User Interface Design" http://pjblack.me/Wls4tC
• probably ... but i still like this idea: "Is it Crazy To Charge People To Send You Email?" http://pjblack.me/XtUEfI
• @eannblack @robblack i thought you'd be interested to know that the bolt report is returning this weekend http://pjblack.me/XyzZah
• "Ad-free Social Platform App.net Goes Freemium With Free, Invite-Only Plan" http://pjblack.me/Wo799r
• "5 Things We Want to Know About That Oscar Show" http://pjblack.me/XyxW6i
• "Vodafone faces multimillion-dollar class action" http://pjblack.me/XywmkX
• do you have a good handshake?: "The most powerful handshake in the world" http://pjblack.me/XtzIp4
• each american drinks 23 gallons a year of coffee, down from 48 gallons in 1946: "America’s coffee cup is half full" http://pjblack.me/Xtzuyc
• education with balls: "Teachers ditch student desk chairs for yoga balls" http://pjblack.me/Xtznmr
• "In Defense Of Email" http://pjblack.me/Wj9CBW
• someone should do a list for australia: "The Digital 50: The 50 Hottest People In Online Politics" http://pjblack.me/Xtv76q #auspol
• "Guy Fieri Parody Shows Why You Should Secure Your Domain Name" http://pjblack.me/Wj8G0c#lwn117
• "Like Elephants, Search Engines Never Forget" http://pjblack.me/Wj8AWD
• "A letter to John Stuart Mill about the limits of what may be shown or said on the Web." http://pjblack.me/Xtuhqo
• i could really go a massage about now: "Academic's research grants used for massages" http://pjblack.me/13cozNy #highered
• "Rethinking the online education revolution" http://pjblack.me/XttQw0
• "Spotify's Daniel Ek wants to turn you on to new music" http://pjblack.me/XtswcP
• "Say whatever you like, but it's a sorry day for freedom of the press" http://pjblack.me/13c6z6b #lwb480
• "Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars' Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night" http://pjblack.me/YwAMJb
• "Tumblr Gets Into Music Discovery" http://pjblack.me/XtpULT
• "‘Arrested Development’ Will Only Have One Season on Netflix" http://pjblack.me/13bD8AW
• "The Princess and the Trolls: Heartrending Legend of Adalia Rose, the Most Reviled Six-Year-Old Girl on the Internet" http://pjblack.me/Xtpt4f
• a fascinating read: "Death in Singapore" http://pjblack.me/Wj0GMN
• a look at the american health system: "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us" http://pjblack.me/XtmOYi
• "Deep Inside - A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars" http://pjblack.me/XtmJE6
• "Twitter Now Reducing Some Tweets To 117 Characters" http://pjblack.me/XtmB7w
• it makes sense now! this year's oscars producers also produced "chicago": "Oscars Review: Guys, It's Not About You" http://pjblack.me/Xw92nN

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Daily Twitter Links for Monday 25 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Eat Bray Love: The corruption of Anthony Bourdain, the return of Emeril Lagasse, and the state of food television: 

With no way to serve us an actual steak, the Food Network rebranded itself in desperate search of sizzle. The hyperactive appetite of television — for youth, for spark, for drama more genetically modified than a tomato in December — is far more demanding than any mere gastronome. And so the TV part of the equation began to outweigh the food. Legit cooks like Mario Batali and Michael Chiarello also went out the door. The rise of the hubris-devouring succubus that is The Next Food Network Star — and the long-term cheap replacement labor it provided — meant that their expertise was expendable, easily sacrificed on the altar of accessibility. Cooking isn't all that difficult, but cooking well absolutely is. And so the second generation of Food Network shows focused on making everything as easy as humanly possible, an interchangeable cavalcade of shortcuts and time-savers and "healthy alternatives," an endless slate of chipper idiots demonstrating idiotproof ways to successfully make sandwiches. The rest of the schedule was given over to a series of increasingly ludicrous competitions: The honorable Japanese Iron Chef begat a tarnished American version. Cupcake Battles escalated into Halloween Wars. Newer shows promised to reveal — and humiliate — the Worst Cooks in America. There's the even more execrable Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off, which revels in subhuman incompetence.

2. How to Stop the Bullies: 

The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online—precipitating threats, fights, and a scourge of harrassment that parents and schools feel powerless to stop. The inside story of how experts at Facebook, computer scientists at MIT, and even members of the hacker collective Anonymous are hunting for solutions to an increasingly tricky problem.

3. I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates: 

But I walked away convinced that this wasn’t just one of Google’s weird flights of fancy. The more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it. If the team had told me I could sign up to have my current glasses augmented with Glass technology, I would have put pen to paper (and money in their hands) right then and there. And it’s that kind of stuff that will make the difference between this being a niche device for geeks and a product that everyone wants to experience.

After a few hours with Glass, I’ve decided that the question is no longer ‘if,’ but ‘when?’

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "25 Oscar GIFs That Deserve Their Own Award" http://pjblack.me/XvtFAA

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Why Marissa Mayer Told Remote Employees To Work In An Office ... Or Quit" http://pjblack.me/Xv8luX
• "Risk Averse: Will iOS Become Apple's Windows XP?" http://pjblack.me/Xv23eL
• "Ghost of Mitt Romney, Hanging Around Since November, to Appear at CPAC" http://pjblack.me/Wj0soY
• "Spotify integrates with Ford’s SYNC AppLink to offer voice-activated music control in more than one million cars" http://pjblack.me/XvUowF
• should i apply for the big brother house this year? http://pjblack.me/XvPW13 #bbau
• "If we weren’t so busy calling a horse race how might we cover health in the run-up to the federal election?" http://pjblack.me/WlIemI #auspol
• i find that @salon publishes some unusual stuff: "Slideshow: Vibrators, a history" http://pjblack.me/XvM8wF
• "Arrested Development Season 4 Will Feature Guest Stars Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig" http://pjblack.me/XtmngC
• "The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t: How China’s Communist Party tried to compete with Google, and failed" http://pjblack.me/XL2aBT
• "How to Stop the Bullies" by @emilybazelon http://pjblack.me/13pJ8kZ
• is there anything coffee can't do?: "This car runs entirely on coffee, just like you" http://pjblack.me/XL2cJY
• "Why Snacking at Night Is Bad For You" http://pjblack.me/YmorHe
• it doesn't sound pretty cool: "I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates" http://pjblack.me/XL3i8C
• "Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy?" http://pjblack.me/YmorqQ
• this is interesting: "It’s not you Facebook, it’s me — okay, it’s partly you: Why I unfriended almost everyone" http://pjblack.me/WiPkZh
• was he really that bad?: "What They're Saying About the Worst Seth MacFarlane Oscar Jokes" http://pjblack.me/Wlveh6
• "Study: Parents Are Better Off Not Admitting They've Tried Drugs" http://pjblack.me/XL3bKc
• "25 Oscar GIFs That Deserve Their Own Award" http://pjblack.me/XvtFAA
• "Oscar Win Is a First for Kickstarter-Funded Film" http://pjblack.me/XvusBp
• just yellow: "Why the School Bus Never Comes in Red or Green" http://pjblack.me/XL3btI
• "The Skeletons in Benedict's Closet: A guide to the sex abuse scandals under Pope Benedict XVI's watch." http://pjblack.me/XL29Ok
• well this could be awkward: "This Dress Knows You're Horny" http://pjblack.me/13pJ70u
• the aec has accepted julian assange's enrolment for the victorian seat of isaacs: "Assange electoral boost" http://pjblack.me/WloNue #auspol
• this isn't good: "Survey Finds That Fish Are Often Not What Label Says" http://pjblack.me/XrD2Bl
• "Anatomy of a stoning – How the law is applied in Iran" http://pjblack.me/13pJfgo
• "Hollywood dubbing: The German Bruce Willis and other invisible stars" http://pjblack.me/13pJ8S1
• "Ten Bond Cars You Can Afford" http://pjblack.me/13pIVhN
• "The Big Question: What day most changed the course of history?" http://pjblack.me/13pITXk
• "US winery experiments with aging wine in ocean" http://pjblack.me/13pJmJ7
• "Are Apps Making Your Child A Gambling Addict?" http://pjblack.me/13pIW5t
• norway's version of my kitchen rules?: "In Norway, TV Program on Firewood Elicits Passions" http://pjblack.me/WgP1hE
• "Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion" http://pjblack.me/12MfHy2
• "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food" http://pjblack.me/WgKyvr
• "Eat Bray Love: The corruption of Anthony Bourdain, the return of Emeril Lagasse, and the state of food television" http://pjblack.me/15wh2Zp
• this would be fun for australia too: "What are the Weirdest Constitutional Arguments Ever Asserted in Court?" http://pjblack.me/XrmrNY

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 23-24 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The 50 Most Bizarrely Funny Movie Ratings: 

The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), chiefly known as the beneficent agency responsible for rating films and fighting film piracy, has never exactly been popular among filmmakers, film critics, filmgoers, or, basically anyone who enjoys film. Its rating system has been criticized as inconsistent, reactionary, pedantic, secretive, and irrelevant. Roger Ebert, among others, has repeatedly attacked the association’s tendency of “sidestepping ethical judgments by falling back on the technicalities of its guidelines.”

We will not debate the merit or accuracy of the MPAA’s ratings today. Instead, we will let them stand alone in their utterly insane and idiotic glory.

Since the early 90s, the gravely pious agency has not only determined a film’s rating (R, PG-13, G, etc.), but provided a short explanation of what caused it to earn its particular assignation. These MPAA descriptions are unintentionally funny for a variety of reasons. For starters, there is an almost schizophrenic discrepancy amongst them, as the MPAA seemingly never quite decided whether they wanted to make their descriptions of adult content exactingly specific or more broadly generalized. As a result, they sound kind of ridiculous doing either: they are funny when they are excessively detailed (i.e., 1995’s The Skateboard Kid II is “Rated PG for brief mild language and an adolescent punch in the nose”) and they are funny when they are cryptically vague (2010’s At Jesus’ Side is “Rated PG for some menace”).

2. How 'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' Ruled The Internet: 

Four Canadian film students were assigned a project: Create a YouTube hoax video that gets 100,000 views. They got nearly 42 million instead. Here’s the definitive behind-the-meme look at how — and why — their homework snowballed into one of the most popular and rapidly spread videos ever.

3. Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut: 

How scenes from five of the nine best picture nominees were reassembled to promote the films.

And the most-read link I tweeted this weekend was:

• "The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor" http://pjblack.me/WgGmvw

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about this weekend:

• "Rich theatre on judgment day in High Court's Gong Show" http://pjblack.me/XtH10b #auslaw #lwb242
• a behind-the-meme look at a viral video: "How 'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' Ruled The Internet" http://pjblack.me/WjesPv
• "Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building" http://pjblack.me/Xtpqp8
• "Cramped Apartments in Hong Kong Shot From Directly Above" http://pjblack.me/UOqF2j
• "Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked documents show fractured Vatican full of rivalries" http://pjblack.me/WjmZ59
• "‘Crash’: The Most Loathsome Best Picture Of Them All" http://pjblack.me/Wjeozc
• "The Oscar for Best Fabrication" http://pjblack.me/XtuIAV
• "James L. Brooks on His 'Simpsons' Journey, from 'Tracey Ullman' to the Oscars" http://pjblack.me/XtucTn
• "Armstrong’s Cheating Won Record Riches of More Than $218 Million" http://pjblack.me/15wh1o4
• "Come into my igloo: online dating as an 8-year-old" http://pjblack.me/15wh5nQ
• "Freakshow: World of Wonder is Hollywood's Nuttiest Production Company" http://pjblack.me/WgIpQi
• world press photo 2013 image alteration controversy http://pjblack.me/15wh6YX
• "The favorite films of every modern president" http://pjblack.me/13pJet2
• "The 2013 Hater's Guide To The Oscars" http://pjblack.me/YmotyY
• from nate silver: "Oscar Predictions, Election-Style" http://pjblack.me/XL369m
• "How to Sound Smart During the Oscars: A Cheat Sheet" http://pjblack.me/Xtdu6Q
• "'You Like Me, You Really Like Me!': a Supercut of People, Cartoons and Puppets Botch Sally Field's Oscars Speech" http://pjblack.me/Ymot1R
• "What 18 Children Wore to the Oscars" http://pjblack.me/Ymoser
• a clever idea: "Anti-Date Rape Straw" http://pjblack.me/XrkcKk
• "Ironically, a Man's Face Can Tell You If He's Likely to Act Racist" http://pjblack.me/13pITqn
• "A Dozen Watches That Cost More Than Your House" http://pjblack.me/13pIUKF
• "The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor" http://pjblack.me/WgGmvw
• "The 50 Most Bizarrely Funny Movie Ratings" http://pjblack.me/WgFrLE
• "Romancing the drone: how America's flying robots are invading pop culture" http://pjblack.me/152o5b7
• "Who Supplies Apple? (It’s Not Just China): An Interactive Map" http://pjblack.me/12XuaqC
• "Science Analyzes the Academy Awards Speech" http://pjblack.me/WgOWdJ
• "No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg" http://pjblack.me/13pJeZV
• "Star Wars fans feel the force at lightsaber class" http://pjblack.me/13pJ58N
• two beer companies own 200 brands in 41 countries: "Beer Map: Two Giant Brewers, 210 Brands" http://pjblack.me/WgHXl5
• "JustMigrate Launches To Move Posterous Blogs To Tumblr Just As Posterous Announces Imminent End" http://pjblack.me/XriSr6
• "How the Harlem Shake went from viral sideshow to global phenomenon" http://pjblack.me/Xric51
• "10 Radically Experimental (And Cozy) Cabins, Cocoons, And Shacks" http://pjblack.me/VwZJ8R
• should i do this in #lwb242?: "Half-Naked Ivy League Prof Opens Quantum Physics Course with 9/11 Footage, Hitler" http://pjblack.me/WgRLLX
• this is interesting: "Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut" http://pjblack.me/XtwmRV
• "How to Feel When Your Ex Is Nominated for an Oscar" http://pjblack.me/WgMQdQ
• from @theawl: "Here’s Who Will Win The Oscars (And Why)" http://pjblack.me/12MfDOO
• "Facebook’s Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does" http://pjblack.me/WgzH4B
• "The Best Gadget Designs In Tech History" http://pjblack.me/WgyBG5
• "A farewell to @Pontifex, the Pope's retiring Twitter" http://pjblack.me/XrbX16
• "Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil. But so is installing seats that recline in the first place." http://pjblack.me/WedoMV
• "25 Unappetizing Menu Typos" http://pjblack.me/WecvUC
• "Can You Learn To Like Music You Hate?" http://pjblack.me/WPsVX3
• "'Do Not Adjust Your Set': The Children's Show That Launched Monty Python" http://pjblack.me/WeacRw
• "Four Amazing Mini Libraries That Will Inspire You to Read" http://pjblack.me/XoVx9h
• why some of the best writing is to be found on the internet: "Net Wisdom" http://pjblack.me/XoVrPc
• are introverts being left by the sidelines in a world increasingly geared toward extroverts? http://pjblack.me/We94gI
• "Group: Internet voting poses risk" http://pjblack.me/We8n6Z
• a smart piece from @murpharoo: "Kevin 13?" http://pjblack.me/Xq63gu #auspol
• "Is the problem the leader or the leadership agenda?"" http://pjblack.me/Xq63gu #auspol
• but not in australia yet: "Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing" http://pjblack.me/13pJgB2
• "Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish" http://pjblack.me/Wfh1SL
• "What Your Culture Really Says" http://pjblack.me/13pJpoj
• "Design at Vine: Everyone needs an editor" http://pjblack.me/WebWdr

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New copyright-free birthday song revealed after contest judged by law prof

A New Jersey radio station has sponsored a competition for a new “Happy Birthday” song—one that doesn’t require payment of a licensing fee.

The winner, “It’s Your Birthday,” was selected by a panel of judges that included Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, Bloomberg Law reports. Radio station WFMU teamed with the Free Music Archive to replace the copyrighted song with one in the public domain.

“Happy Birthday to You” was registered for copyright in 1935, though it was first published in the 1800s by two sisters who taught elementary school, Bloomberg Law says. The copyright, which won’t expire until at least 2030, is now held by Time Warner, which acquired the copyright in 1998. The song reportedly brings in $2 million per year in licensing fees for films, TV shows and advertisements, Bloomberg reports.

Above the Law isn't impressed with the winner. "Larry Lessig picked this?" the blog says. "He may need a hug."

The Free Music Archive also lists second and third place winners.

via www.abajournal.com

Daily Twitter Links for Thursday and Friday 21-22 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1.  Gay sex too much for Australian film censor:

A feature film that includes explicit scenes of gay male sex has been banned by the Classification Board. I Want Your Love, written and directed by young American filmmaker Travis Mathews, was due to screen at queer film festivals around Australia.

Mathews recently collaborated with actor James Franco on Interior: Leather Bar, an official selection at Sundance this year. It was a re-engagement with the controversial 1980 Hollywood movie Cruising, which starred Al Pacino.

Festival films are granted exemptions from the classification process. Festivals provide synopses of the works they are screening; the board can then ask to see individual films.

Melbourne Queer Film Festival director Lisa Daniel says that in her 15 years at the festival, I Want Your Love is the first film that has been refused an exemption. It has been seen in many festivals around the world, and its distributors have told her this is the first time it has been banned. Mathews is a well-known filmmaker, and the decision is an embarrassment for Australia, she says.

2. Oscars: Rob Lowe's Snow White Shares Untold Story of Nightmare Opening: 

Once upon a time -- March 29, 1989, to be exact -- a 22-year-old aspiring actress named Eileen Bowman thought that all her dreams were about to come true. She was very wrong.

By all accounts, a global debut on ABC's telecast of the 61st Academy Awards should have been an auspicious launching pad. Instead, playing Snow White alongsideRob Lowe in a musical debacle, she instantly found a place in Oscar infamy.

3. Bruce Willis's Career Arc: 

The original Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp. He'd seen The Towering Inferno, and then the story came to him in a dream: German terrorists, led by one Anton "Little Tony" Gruber, seize the L.A. headquarters of the Klaxon Oil Corporation and run afoul of retired New York cop Joe Leland, whose daughter is among the hostages. The novel was called Nothing Lasts Forever; the persistence of theDie Hard franchise suggests an alternative viewpoint. "How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?" wondered Bruce Willis's Detective John McClane, way back in 1990'sDie Hard 2: Die Harder. If only he'd known.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Radio magic gone, as India’s bullies shut down Jim Maxwell" http://pjblack.me/WdY1nw #cricket

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about yesterday and today:

• "15 Restaurants with Hilariously Unappetizing Names" http://pjblack.me/XiR7O2
• "Can a news org publish someone’s Twitter photo?" http://pjblack.me/We8Q98 #lws008 #lwb480 #lwb486
• symmetry does not exist in nature: "Exploring Symmetry in Mirrored Imagery" http://pjblack.me/XoU2Iq
• "Methopoly lets you play Breaking Bad at home without ruining your entire life" http://pjblack.me/13pJtnU
• "Radio magic gone, as India’s bullies shut down Jim Maxwell" http://pjblack.me/WdY1nw #cricket
• a film by travis mathews, "I Want Your Love" has been banned: "Gay sex too much for Australian film censor" http://pjblack.me/We7Bqt #lws008
• "Galaxy: Gillard versus Rudd in Queensland" http://pjblack.me/XoSMEX #auspol #qldpol
• "The Faces Of New York's Subway Commute" http://pjblack.me/12U8iwG
• "Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex" http://pjblack.me/W7L26M
• "Oscars: Rob Lowe's Snow White Shares Untold Story of Nightmare Opening" http://pjblack.me/13ipeIQ
• "'Star Wars' Needs a New Approach to Gender—Not Just More Women" http://pjblack.me/12MfGds
• "New Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera, and voice translation features" http://pjblack.me/15wh6Zb
• "Joe Roth Goes for Win in $50 Million 'Anger Management' Lawsuit" http://pjblack.me/Xklkj3 #lws008 #lwb486
• "Mom Hires Strippers for Son's 16th Birthday, Gets Arrested" http://pjblack.me/Xkl0ka
• "Growth in international students tipped to be flat or worse in 2013" http://pjblack.me/13cOu31 #highered
• "Bad News: A Brief History Of Media Controversies And The Auto Industry" http://pjblack.me/12XufdV
• how did a 30-year-old bartender turn into one of the great american movie stars?: "Bruce Willis's Career Arc" http://pjblack.me/VBf741
• "BuzzFeed uniques up 47% as New York Times profiles Editor Ben Smith" http://pjblack.me/W2E8oN
• "Inside the Conclave: Finding a New Pope" http://pjblack.me/152o5aY
• "Meet the Meteorite Hunter" http://pjblack.me/W2E0pn
• oh no i love oysters: "Ocean acidification and oysters: Shellfish are already suffering" http://pjblack.me/WT1UST
• "What The Hell Is A Next Generation Video Game?" http://pjblack.me/WT1VpH
• "Why no one is talking about Yahoo’s—or anyone else’s—new homepage" http://pjblack.me/15wh3wn
• "Raising Adam Lanza: Who Was Nancy Lanza" http://pjblack.me/VwZE59
• i'm surprised this isn't higher: "Kids Will Spend One Quarter Of Their Lives Watching Screens" http://pjblack.me/W7L1ju
• this is fascinating: "Before fingerprinting" http://pjblack.me/W7L7Y9
• i find this a little troubling: "Raising the Bar on Nominating for the 2013 Federal Election" http://pjblack.me/YHNZvc #auspol
• "Rudd’s leadership push creates a dilemma for ambitious Shorten" http://pjblack.me/XmrjDR #auspol
• 19 degrees of separation: "Any Two Pages On The Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks Or Less" http://pjblack.me/154bB2E
• becoming as senile as denny crane?; "William Shatner Now Just Arguing With People on Reddit" http://pjblack.me/XtwrFf
• "University of New England to offer web courses for credit" http://pjblack.me/12K3Xfj #highered
• how was the first black president portrayed in popular culture before obama?: "pre-Obama black presidents in comedy" http://pjblack.me/13ceg7I
• this is really quite interesting: "The new United States of Booze" http://pjblack.me/12JRnwL
• "Have Trekkies taken over the voting on the naming of Pluto’s new moons?" http://pjblack.me/12JRkRw
• "How to Tie a Bow Tie" http://pjblack.me/12JR8BO
• "Apple's Podcast Disaster: Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture?" http://pjblack.me/XfFnPB
• "Can you see me now? Video messaging and the future of communication" http://pjblack.me/1300OUb
• "'Is She Ignoring My Sext?' Ephemeral Messaging Apps Leave You Hanging" http://pjblack.me/12Ak2nK
• "The Fight To Keep YouTube Online in Egypt" http://pjblack.me/12ZZWPx #lwn117
• smart move from opera: "Opera buys Skyfire in bid to become mobile media middleman" http://pjblack.me/12ZZT66

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday and Wednesday 19-20 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. 'Arrested Development' is George Sr.’s death row fantasy: 

Let’s assume the following about Arrested Development:

Everything from the beginning of the pilot episode till the main act break, when the SEC raids the Bluths’ boat party and arrests George Sr., actually happened.

From there, George Sr. is rightly convicted of treason (for aiding Saddam Hussein, as revealed in later episodes of the show) and receives a death sentence.

George Sr. is held prisoner in the awful conditions afforded to an enemy of the United States who is awaiting execution.

George Sr. is psychologically unprepared for this kind of horror, and suffers a mental breakdown.

From there the rest of Arrested Development is a fantasy George Sr. plays out in his mind fulltime, to avoid facing his own guilt and his own mortality.

Now here’s 10 ways the whole series makes a lot more sense in this scenario ...

2. Tumblr Is Not What You Think: 

Tumblr actually became huge because it is the anti-blog. What is the No. 1 reason that people quit blogging? Because they can’t find and develop an audience. This has been true of every blogging platform ever made. Conversely, blogs that do find an audience tend to keep adding that type of content. This simple philosophy boils down to the equation: Mo’ pageviews = mo’ pages.

But Tumblr does not conform to this calculus, and the reason is that a large percentage of Tumblr users actually don’t WANT an audience. They do not want to be found, except by a few close friends who they explicitly share one of their tumblogs with. Therefore Tumblr’s notoriously weak search functionality is A-OK with most of its user base.

Tumblr provides its users with the oldest privacy-control strategy on the Internet: security through obscurity and multiple pseudonymity. Its users prefer a coarse-grained scheme they can easily understand over a sophisticated fine-grained privacy control — such as Facebook provides — that requires a lot of time and patience. To quote Sweet Brown, Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Tumblr proves that the issue is less about public vs. private and more about whether you are findable and identifiable by people who actually know you in real life.

3. Is ‘House of Cards’ a success? Social TV has the answer: 

Netflix’s “House of Cards” made TV history, simply by being referred to as a TV show. The Kevin Spacey political drama has catapulted binge-watching from a TV junkie’s obsession to a major form of normal TV consuming. Traditional TV critics were forced to cover this show differently. The Six Stages of “House of Cards” Grief replaced the weekly episodic review. After all the hoopla around the midnight, entire season launch, was House of Cards actually a success? Netflix says yes, but isn’t revealing the numbers. Social TV on the other hand paints a very clear picture.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• this is clever: "Simplcase Is a Minimalist iPhone Case Designed for Travelers" http://pjblack.me/XfzVw3

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• this is tragic: "Mother furious after cops use hidden Facebook feature to inform her of son's death" http://pjblack.me/XtwhNU
• "University of New England to offer web courses for credit" http://pjblack.me/12K3Xfj
• "Tweetbot and the updated Twitter Display Guidelines" http://pjblack.me/12KtOnE
• "Why it's really possible to fall in love online" http://pjblack.me/12ZZtgb
• "Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network" http://pjblack.me/12AiBWB
• "The Decline and Fall of the Top 10" http://pjblack.me/12Absp6
• this reasoning seems a little silly to me: "How Facebook, Vine and Snapchat Make Us Cheat" http://pjblack.me/12ZQ4VV
• this seems strange: "Fidgeting 'helps men in interviews'" http://pjblack.me/12Zqfp0
• "A dreadful pall of predictability envelops the 2013 election" writes @tcookAU http://pjblack.me/12ZpV9C #auspol
• "16 Fascinating Facts About Jell-O" http://pjblack.me/YzeL9e
• but is this good or bad for consumers?: "How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories" http://pjblack.me/XhmzfI
• congratulations to @kim_weatherall: "New appointments to Advisory Council on Intellectual Property" http://pjblack.me/YFsL17 #lwb486
• "Why Beef Is Becoming More Like Chicken" http://pjblack.me/12w1R2P
• i hope she does: "Hillary Clinton Is Running for President, OK?" http://pjblack.me/XR4V5B
• apparently in chicago, "Cops Allowed to Work 'Half Drunk'" http://pjblack.me/Xh5WTm
• "Danger of death!: How you are unlikely to die" http://pjblack.me/12mqy1l
• "The Greens are a symptom of Labor's disease" says @tcookAU http://pjblack.me/13cXbuh #auspol
• this actually makes some sense: “'Arrested Development' is George Sr.’s death row fantasy" http://pjblack.me/Xdx4Ul
• "Julia Gillard, the great appeaser" says mungo maccallum http://pjblack.me/13cpN70 #auspol
• "Unis vow to fight teaching cut-off" http://pjblack.me/12K1H85 #highered #lwb242
• do MOOCs offer opportunities for the australian sector?: "Do the maths - MOOCs break the mould" http://pjblack.me/13cqc9h #highered
• "I Love Your Ballot, Baby: Members of your own political party are more beautiful" http://pjblack.me/12Zpcp5
• "Benefits of precincts 'a mystery'" http://pjblack.me/12zOQ8p #highered
• "Guardian's Oz team building its numbers" http://pjblack.me/YB7LZv
• it seems early for a tweet about bourbon: "Maker’s Mark learns a painful social media lesson, won’t dilute bourbon" http://pjblack.me/XiR7O5
• "Steve Martin first-time dad at age 67" http://pjblack.me/12zOlLz
• "The 20 Coolest Tech Toys From Toy Fair 2013" http://pjblack.me/12AbjSP
• "What Ockham really said" http://pjblack.me/12mqTkL
• a nice bit of stunt casting: "Prince Michael Jackson Named 'Entertainment Tonight' Correspondent" http://pjblack.me/Xlp54z
• "Is ‘House of Cards’ a success? Social TV has the answer" http://pjblack.me/12AybBr
• "What to Wear: Apps for Managing Your Closet" http://pjblack.me/12Abm0W
• this is clever: "Simplcase Is a Minimalist iPhone Case Designed for Travelers" http://pjblack.me/XfzVw3
• "Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Strangest Unsolved Mystery of the Last Century" http://pjblack.me/Xh5UuK
• how ridiculous: "Neil Clark Warren, eHarmony Founder, Says Gay Marriage 'Damaged His Company'" http://pjblack.me/12ZQfAs
• this is interesting: "Tumblr Is Not What You Think" http://pjblack.me/12EbfBm
• a profile of jeopardy legend ken jennings: "America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All" http://pjblack.me/135MsBI
• "Labor-Greens alliance dead, says Milne" http://pjblack.me/15qUwkx #auspol
• much ado about nothing?: "Julia Gillard's links to Federal Court candidate Bernard Murphy 'not revealed'" http://pjblack.me/XhweGl #auspol
• "Bang With Friends Aims To Become Facebook's 'Klout for Banging'" http://pjblack.me/Yz3HsA
• "The GOP Primary: Where Are They Now?" http://pjblack.me/Xh5WCQ
• "A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked" http://pjblack.me/12mqDlG
• "Telstra kicks off AFL season with mobile, tablet app" http://pjblack.me/12Aet92
• "The Tweet Hereafter Memorializes Famous Last Tweets" http://pjblack.me/Xh619E
• "The newsonomics of zero and The New York Times" http://pjblack.me/XhmEjn
• qut eprints has been ranked as the number one repository in australia: "Ranking Web of Repositories" http://pjblack.me/135ErNb #highered
• unfortunately i think micro-management is a sector wide problem: "Don't micro-manage research funds: experts" http://pjblack.me/12EFvMp #highered
• "CRC result disappoints" http://pjblack.me/135B48Y #highered
• "Media Watch: You wouldn't Tweet about it" http://pjblack.me/135k9Do
• "Georgia Lawmaker Wants To Make It Illegal To Photoshop People's Heads Onto Porn Stars" http://pjblack.me/XR4Sqh
• "Prehistoric pornography: Chinese carvings show explicit copulation" http://pjblack.me/12mqBuj
• "Anatomy of a heroin ring" http://pjblack.me/Xdrp0H
• "Scandals of Classic Hollywood: In Like Errol Flynn" http://pjblack.me/12mqKxI
• "18 Bad Guys Who Were Way Too Easy to Defeat" http://pjblack.me/Xh60lX
• this is a pretty good list: "15 Celebrities You Must Follow on Instagram" http://pjblack.me/XhmCbn

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Daily Twitter Links for Monday 18 August 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction: 

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, and turning Bob and Harvey Weinstein into giants. How did Quentin Tarantino, a high-school dropout and former video-store clerk, change the face of modern cinema? Mark Seal takes the director, his producers, and his cast back in time, to 1993.

2. When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?: 

Joseph Hall, an abused and neglected 10-year-old, was convicted last month of murdering his father, a neo-Nazi leader. His sentencing is scheduled for this week — but who do you punish when a child becomes a cold-blooded killer?

3. Protect Kids, Get F*cked: 

We were one day away from having 7 million dollars in the bank, but then the whole deal fell apart and millions of children were suddenly at risk.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• from @salon: "The 'labia pride' movement" http://pjblack.me/YyAnma

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• from @politico: "Why John McCain turned on Chuck Hagel" http://pjblack.me/XfFcnj
• nice pivot: "Marco Rubio Has Sold More Than 3100 Water Bottles, Raising $100,000" http://pjblack.me/YB7KVm
• "Search for missing diabetic teen Connaire Daniels who vanished after heading for South Bank" http://pjblack.me/YB3EMP
• "Google hints at possible “X Phone” with long battery life, wireless charging, and an unbreakable case" http://pjblack.me/12mrkeR
• this is fun: "How Well Do You Know '90s TV Theme Songs?" http://pjblack.me/YyAWfu
• "The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Mediocre People" http://pjblack.me/XcVEEW
• "They love horse meat in France, so why do we turn our noses up?" http://pjblack.me/YyADBq
• from @salon: "The 'labia pride' movement" http://pjblack.me/YyAnma
• "Young Artist Creates Portraits from Thousands of Chewed Pieces of Gum" http://pjblack.me/YyAcqT
• "An analysis of gender on Twitter" http://pjblack.me/Yyzj1v
• a description of the various different so-called black days out there: "Black Day" http://pjblack.me/YxoBbI
• this is a great read: "Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction" http://pjblack.me/YxkJaG
• who is frank talking to, and what does that make the audience?: "House of Cards’s fourth wall" http://pjblack.me/XbtXfP
• the man who killed osama bin laden leaves the navy and returns home to an uncertain future: "The Shooter" http://pjblack.me/Xbp1HQ
• surely they see the irony?: "The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement" http://pjblack.me/1301etG #lwn117 #lwb486
• "The Enduring Power of Radio in the Digital Age" http://pjblack.me/12Ab4qK
• "The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'" http://pjblack.me/XcUOrR
• "When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?" http://pjblack.me/YxkOee
• a short piece of fiction about the people behind corporate twitter accounts: "Four Million Followers" http://pjblack.me/Yyx66d
• an interesting perspective: "Social Media Has Been a Mixed Blessing for the Arab Spring" http://pjblack.me/YyySEj
• "Twitter Itself Will Soon Decide the Value of Your Tweets" http://pjblack.me/15lWkLB
• "Eat the Affogato Before It Melts Away" http://pjblack.me/Yx0Znw
• "RIOT gear: your online trail just got way more visible" http://pjblack.me/12YWC7b
• "YouTube Files Suit Over Russian Content Law" http://pjblack.me/XdEozx #lwb486 #lwn117
• lol dear me: "Chubby Checker sues over penis-measuring app" http://pjblack.me/XR4Te4
• "Autism Inc.: The Discredited Science, Shady Treatments and Rising Profits Behind Alternative Autism Treatments" http://pjblack.me/YxkQD9
• "The Five Stages of Grief Should Be Changed" http://pjblack.me/XcTRje
• "The Feminine Mystique at 50" http://pjblack.me/Yyz8TK
• "Protect Kids, Get F*cked" http://pjblack.me/XbtFWj
• "Influence, vanity metrics and other internet astrology" http://pjblack.me/YxeT99
• "'Gatsby? What Gatsby?': Discovering Fitzgerald's Most Elusive Character, in the Novel and the Movies" http://pjblack.me/YyzWbe

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 16-17 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets: 

I hit the pause button roughly one-third of the way through the first episode of “House of Cards,” the political drama premiering on Netflix Feb. 1. By doing so, I created what is known in the world of Big Data as an “event” — a discrete action that could be logged, recorded and analyzed. Every single day, Netflix, by far the largest provider of commercial streaming video programming in the United States, registers hundreds of millions of such events. As a consequence, the company knows more about our viewing habits than many of us realize. Netflix doesn’t know merely what we’re watching, but when, where and with what kind of device we’re watching. It keeps a record of every time we pause the action — or rewind, or fast-forward — and how many of us abandon a show entirely after watching for a few minutes.

Netflix might not know exactly why I personally hit the pause button — I was checking on my sick son, home from school with the flu — but if enough people pause or rewind or fast-forward at the same place during the same show, the data crunchers can start to make some inferences. Perhaps the action slowed down too much to hold viewer interest — bored now! — or maybe the plot became too convoluted. Or maybe that sex scene was just so hot it had to be watched again. If enough of us never end up restarting the show after taking a break, the inference could be even stronger: maybe the show just sucked.

2. Musical theatre is dead. Long live musical theatre.:

The cinematic success of Les Miserables will herald the rejuvenation of musical theatre as quickly as it was written off in the first place. And all the times before that.

Many will argue there hasn’t been a good musical written since Les Mispremiered on the West End in 1985. Or none better, at least. But the imminent death of the form is always greatly exaggerated.

That the two creative (and increasingly uneconomical) hubs of musical theatre — New York and London — are entirely geared towards family tourist dollars, with endless revivals, jukebox shows and more bankable movie adaptations, has been the case for some time. Now it seems we’re at the end of an era, waiting patiently for someone to come along and reinvent the musical.

3. How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?: 

Years later, after Andre Thomas had been convicted of killing his estranged wife, his 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter in the most bizarre case in Grayson County history, after he had received a death sentence and been told that it would be imposed at the appropriate future time, after he had been dispatched to Texas' death row to wait his turn with the other condemned men and women, the prosecutors were still talking about "the eyeball issue."

And the most-read link I tweeted this weekend was:

• umm kinky: "Threesome Ends With Stabbing Over Refusal to Switch Positions"http://pjblack.me/Yv9Wxv

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about over the weekend:

• "Why Mozilla Matters And Won’t Switch To WebKit" http://pjblack.me/Yz6fqN
• "Chris Jones column about sex onstage: Why sex onstage rarely works" http://pjblack.me/YyzZUx
• but leno doesn't have "actual feelings" apparently: "Jimmy Kimmel: Jay Leno a Smart Politician and Smart Guy" http://pjblack.me/YyzRVb
• this is fascinating - netflix has so much data on our viewing habits: "How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets" http://pjblack.me/XdEh6P
• "Comic Relief: David Cameron appears in One Direction video" http://pjblack.me/XdCO0x
• "Plagiarism Pays: Jonah Lehrer Gets $20,000 for Speech" http://pjblack.me/Yz8ZUY
• "Netflix Says 'House of Cards' Is Its Most-Watched Program" http://pjblack.me/Yz8zxU
• "Teachers back university cap to lift standards" http://pjblack.me/YyxFx0 #highered
• "10 things science (and Buddhism) says will make you happy" http://pjblack.me/Yx6uCv
• eww this is gross: "Portland Dog Kissing Contest Will Leave a Bad Taste in Your Mouth" http://pjblack.me/YyAfTG
• "How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?" http://pjblack.me/Xbp2v8
• "The Most Important Restaurants in America" http://pjblack.me/XAxb8I
• "From rotary to Siri: How the phone numbering system came and went" http://pjblack.me/WJM6l3
• one can dream: "How to Travel Like a Billionaire: All That Money Can Buy" http://pjblack.me/X9afBn
• "Why Do Russians Film Their Car Accidents? Where are all those meteor videos from and how did we get them?" http://pjblack.me/XcTW6k
• this is very disappointing: "ABC not to cover Australia’s tour of India" http://pjblack.me/XcSHUI #cricket
• cnn loves aussies: "Michael Holmes Named Co-Anchor Of CNN’s ‘Newsroom International’" http://pjblack.me/XcSBN9
• @TrainingSophist also have you seen this post from @wrothnie?: "Myriad wins Down Under" http://pjblack.me/YyxyBq #lwb486
• "The forthcoming adventures of Geert Wilders Down Under" http://pjblack.me/XcS3GW #auspol
• "The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play" http://pjblack.me/YxnCIt
• "The hubris and folly of Darth Vader at Hoth" http://pjblack.me/XcRJYK /cc @DesignMitch
• "DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared" http://pjblack.me/X99ZlV
• "Gender, sexuality and cybersecurity: an online tale" http://pjblack.me/YvamUB
• "Shooting in the Dark: Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games" http://pjblack.me/X99xns
• "The 18 year old whose smartphone watch could beat Apple’s iWatch to market" http://pjblack.me/WJM64N
• "74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs" http://pjblack.me/YvdZtE
• "Rahm Emanuel Toying With 2016 Presidential Run, Sources Say" http://pjblack.me/Yxi0xG
• "Leaked: Labor plan to sandbag 25 seats at election" http://pjblack.me/YxyupN #auspol /via @tim_chr
• "Vimeo Gets Its Own GIF App by Buying Echograph" http://pjblack.me/Xb7QpK
• i knew this day was coming but it's still sad: "R.I.P. Posterous" http://pjblack.me/Xb0r9U
• "Emma Thompson’s Favorite Movies, From ‘Mary Poppins’ to ‘Life of Brian’" http://pjblack.me/Yvah3s
• "Fear Of Cantaloupes And Crumpets? A 'Phobia' Rises From The Web" http://pjblack.me/Yvacwt
• umm kinky: "Threesome Ends With Stabbing Over Refusal to Switch Positions" http://pjblack.me/Yv9Wxv
• it is pretty good: "The SurfacePad Is Pretty Much The Best iPhone Case Ever. Even If You Hate Cases" http://pjblack.me/X93dMP
• "SA Senator Nick Xenophon in custody in Malaysia over meetings with pro-democracy MPs" http://pjblack.me/YwQXmo #auspol
• "Cupid's Arrow Fail: Top 5 Weird Valentine's Day Arrests" http://pjblack.me/Yv9cbH
• "Decoding the Art of Flirtation" http://pjblack.me/ZeksPM
• "Cyber Attacks Against Journalists Are On The Rise, Says Advocacy Group" http://pjblack.me/X92Vpm #lwn117
• "Young, Married, and Incarcerated: Prisoners Find Romance Behind Bars" http://pjblack.me/Zekt6r
• "Musical theatre is dead. Long live musical theatre." writes @thetowncrier http://pjblack.me/Yv8xXO
• a good interview by @joshgnosis: "Turnbull promises transparent, business-like NBN Co" http://pjblack.me/X92bAq #auspol
• "Gleeson named Solicitor-General" http://pjblack.me/XcGz2W
• "Reality TV Drama Is More Realistic Than You Think" http://pjblack.me/Yurn16
• “Cigarettes will kill you: The High Court of Australia & plain packaging of tobacco products” by @DrRimmer http://pjblack.me/Yusr5j #gtconf13

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The Drum 14 February 2013

Tonight I was on The Drum on ABC News 24 discussing the news of the day, including the Coalition's leaked plan for 100 dams across Australia, Wayne Swan's refusal to rule out an income tax rise, and how far does the British royal family's right to privacy extend?

The Drum 14 February 2013 from Peter Black on Vimeo.

 

Daily Twitter Links for Thursday 14 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. You Are Gay,' 'Fax Me,' 'Let's Read,' and 17 More Amazing Retired Sweetheart Candy Sayings: 

The Sweetheart is 147 years old. But not all of its cute little sayings have enjoyed quite the same sesquicentennial longevity. The folks from NECCO, the confectionery company that sells 4 million pounds of their traditional heart-shaped candies in the 6 weeks before Valentine's Day, sent me the full list of their most notable retired sayings.

1. DIG ME
2. HOT CHA
3. SAUCY BOY
4. GIRL POWER
5. OH YOU KID
6. WHY NOT
7. GROOVY
8. COOL DUDE
9. MY, SUCH EYES
10. FAX ME
11. HEP CAT
12. TELL ME HOW
13. YOU ARE LATE
14. 1-800 CUPID
15. [PEACE SYMBOL]
16. YEAH RIGHT
17. OH BOY
18. YOU ROCK
19. LET'S READ
20. YOU ARE GAY

This year's batch includes: UR HOT, TEXT ME, and LOML [that's: Love of My Life].

Amazingly, NECCO told me that they once toyed with a saying like PUCKER UP. But the industrial machine had a habit of printing Ps that looked a little to much like Fs. So, yeah. That was one Sweetheart that didn't make it to market.

2. Down for the Count: All the Deaths in Quentin Tarantino’s Movies, Charted: 

Quentin Tarantino and violence go together like elderberry wine and arsenic—they’re made for each other. He’s certainly not the first director to kill off a few characters, and his movies aren’t slasher flicks, where violence is the entire point. Nevertheless, the ratio of body count to body of work is certainly impressive. So, just for fun, let’s appreciate the sheer numerical accomplishment of Tarantino’s mass cinematic bloodbath: in eight films, 560 people die on-screen.

3. The psychology of why cyclists enrage car drivers:  

Something about cyclists seems to provoke fury in other road users. If you doubt this, try a search for the word "cyclist" on Twitter. As I write this one of the latest tweets is this: "Had enough of cyclists today! Just wanna ram them with my car." This kind of sentiment would get people locked up if directed against an ethic minority or religion, but it seems to be fair game, in many people's minds, when directed against cyclists. Why all the rage?

I've got a theory, of course. It's not because cyclists are annoying. It isn't even because we have a selective memory for that one stand-out annoying cyclist over the hundreds of boring, non-annoying ones (although that probably is a factor). No, my theory is that motorists hate cyclists because they think they offend the moral order.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "The psychology of why cyclists enrage car drivers" http://pjblack.me/VdopR4 /cc @robblack

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Massive challenge beckons with MOOCS" http://pjblack.me/YsXT3R #highered
• "Retiring ‘Fox News Sunday’ EP Marty Ryan On The Evolution Of Fox News" http://pjblack.me/YsXzSK
• international education has fallen in value for the fourth consecutive year: "Value of education falls again" http://pjblack.me/X6Qf2d #highered
• "Want sex? Study economics, professor says" http://pjblack.me/X6QCtw #highered
• "Down for the Count: All the Deaths in Quentin Tarantino’s Movies, Charted" http://pjblack.me/X6tAmG
• "The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley" http://pjblack.me/X6rl2E
• a real world speed scenario: "This Guy's Car Got Stuck at 125mph—for an Hour" http://pjblack.me/X6raUU
• "7 Months After Acquiring it, Kwaga Sells Boxcar to ProcessOne" http://pjblack.me/X6emOu
• "NYU's campus failure rings alarm bells" http://pjblack.me/Yq1NKP #highered
• "Twittelator Neue Finally Ditches Annual Charge For Push Notifications" http://pjblack.me/YskCNv
• "Kevin Rudd social media campaign gearing up on twitter, Facebook and YouTube" http://pjblack.me/YsCl7i
• this is a bit of fun: "A Map of Dirty Place Names" http://pjblack.me/YpnWsA
• "Porn Isn't Just For Men! Why Women Love Watching" http://pjblack.me/X6rOyI
• "'You Are Gay,' 'Fax Me,' 'Let's Read,' and 17 More Amazing Retired Sweetheart Candy Sayings" http://pjblack.me/XAxb8F
• election reform in america: "Will the Bauer-Ginsberg Election Reform Commission Improve Our Dismal Election System?" http://pjblack.me/X4qrDU
• cute idea: "Pay-by-tweet service offered by Amex" http://pjblack.me/X3uVup
• "Papal Primer: History's 10 Most Intriguing Popes" http://pjblack.me/VdoV1J
• "The psychology of why cyclists enrage car drivers" http://pjblack.me/VdopR4 /cc @robblack
• that's a lot of coke: "Woman Drank Herself to Death with Coca-Cola" http://pjblack.me/X6rNuy
• "When does Facebook take rape threats seriously?" http://pjblack.me/YpnXg4 #lwn117
• this seems unnecessary: "Cutting-Edge Canines: The World of Dog Plastic Surgery" http://pjblack.me/VdoSmr
• not like chicken apparently: "What Does Horse Meat Taste Like?" http://pjblack.me/15aCZNl
• apparently the cosby sweater is back with a vengeance: "Bill Cosby Schools Us About Those Crazy Sweaters" http://pjblack.me/YpnTwY

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Download This Show: Zach Braff, Wearable Technology, Ecomobility

Today I was a guest on Radio National's technology show, Download This Show.  Host Marc Fennell chatted to me and Jen Dudley-Nicholson, the national technology editor for News Limited, about the Zach Braff, Wearable Technology, Ecomobility:

Death by internet: Just imagine waking up one day, turning on your computer to find out that you are dead, or at least that's the story spreading around the world thanks to a bogus news story. Comedian, star of the TV show Srcubs and world-class nerd Zach Braff on what it's like to be killed off by the web, the power of social media and how people in the public eye should use the internet.  Plus, why put your phone in your pocket when you it could be on your wrist? We look at the future for wearable technology.

Download the audio here.

You can also listen to previous episodes here.

Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 13 February 2013

The most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Every Apple Product Supposedly In The Works" http://pjblack.me/X27x0h

 

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "A Warm Welcome From the Gentleman Scholar: Introducing a new advice column for the modern man." http://pjblack.me/X4slo1
• can you imagine a world without flirting?: "Stop That Skirt-Chaser! The Movement to Outlaw Flirting in the 1920s" http://pjblack.me/15aCPWd
• "Treating the Internet as a mythical country makes us dumber" http://pjblack.me/14RdCPG
• "Online Privacy: The Opt-Out Revolution Is Almost Here" http://pjblack.me/XxRTK3
• "Re-enabled: iOS’s impact on those with impairments isn’t just a marketing slide; it’s profound" http://pjblack.me/15aCL8W
• "Fighting Words: I didn’t come here for an ungument" http://pjblack.me/X6rEaz
• "When E-Mail Turns From Delight to Deluge" http://nyti.ms/WYhyZn
• "Every Apple Product Supposedly In The Works" http://pjblack.me/X27x0h
• it looks amazing: "A Sashimi Dish That Took 7 Years To Design" http://pjblack.me/YnGHwI
• "The Global Mail: insiders speak on Graeme Wood's philanthropic venture" http://pjblack.me/X3Kke6
• "Profile tool will highlight weakness" http://pjblack.me/X3PB5n #highered
• "No one happy with fragile student fee system" http://pjblack.me/Yq2xzE #highered #auspol
• have academics been living in a fool's paradise, assuming their autonomy was sacrosanct? http://pjblack.me/Yq1FLd #highered
• "Seven New Yorkers share their best and craziest dating stories" http://pjblack.me/11Clu9M
• "The Fresh Wars: How the five-letter word became a fast-food mantra" http://pjblack.me/11ClvdL
• "Scientists Study How Drinking Alcohol Affects Sleep Quality" http://pjblack.me/X1gNlo
• "Critics question Telstra's motives on P2P throttling" http://pjblack.me/X1nlk4 #lwb486 #lwb117
• "Meet Cody Keenan, Lead Speechwriter on Obama'€™s 2013 State of the Union" http://pjblack.me/YpnTgl
• "Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace" http://pjblack.me/YnqDem #highered
• "Should This Doctor Have Slammed Her Patient on Facebook?" http://pjblack.me/YnndYU /cc @katblack86
• "More Than 100,000 Vine Videos Were Posted to Twitter This Weekend" http://pjblack.me/YnmtTy
• "At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life" http://pjblack.me/X1gEhL
• "Why a stream of consciousness will kill off websites" http://pjblack.me/X1gxmi
• "Catch a Nostalgic Glimpse of Geocities on Tumblr" http://pjblack.me/YnjMS4
• how fucked is the beautiful game?: "Match-Fixing in Soccer" http://pjblack.me/VOaBtC
• "Why Apple Is Working on an iWatch and Not iGlasses" http://pjblack.me/Ynp9AE

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 12 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Ex-Benedict: Will he still be infallible? Will he get a pension? All your papal questions, answered: 

Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world today by announcing his resignation from the papacy, effective Feb. 28. He will be the first pope to step down since Gregory XII in 1415. His resignation raises several questions that the Explainer will endeavor to answer—even though the near-unprecedented nature of Benedict’s decision means that in several cases, we’ll just have to wait and see.

2. 7 Things Democrats Would Have Freaked Out About If Bush Had Done Them: 

Obama's national security policy has continued some of the most controversial moves of the Bush administration. Silence from much of the left.

3. The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed: 

For the first time, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells his story — speaking not just about the raid and the three shots that changed history, but about the personal aftermath for himself and his family. And the startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled warriors carry on with their lives.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Watching porn is bad for your smartphone" http://pjblack.me/X1dY3O

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The State of Our Union Is Always Strong" http://pjblack.me/X1kffL
• "Experts: Top 5 picks for the next pope" http://pjblack.me/11ClzKs
• "Watching porn is bad for your smartphone" http://pjblack.me/X1dY3O
• blecch! ew! sheesh! i'll take a crab juice: "Mountain Dew introduces a breakfast drink" http://pjblack.me/11Clw1e
• a look at chrissie swan's smoking admission: "Tears, shame, smoking and PR" http://pjblack.me/X1cvuf
• i approve: "Four 'no-kids zone' airlines putting business travellers first" http://pjblack.me/YnimqL
• "Grattan promises to bridge academia and journalism" http://pjblack.me/Ynicjb #highered
• "Watch: All Of The Nominees For The Best Animated Short Film Oscar" http://pjblack.me/XnIvbM
• "Benedict XVI Resigns: A New Path for the Papacy?" http://pjblack.me/14ORdCn
• "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed" http://pjblack.me/X0QNXr
• controversial: "Maker’s Mark waters down its bourbon to meet rising demand" http://pjblack.me/X0PPKG
• "Roger Ailes' Border War: Can the Fox News CEO make his network more Latino-friendly?" http://pjblack.me/14OGSGL
• "Bing and Fox News launching State of the Union site with continuous five-second polling" http://pjblack.me/X0PhEF
• "The bizarre stories of the four other popes to have resigned in the last 1,000 years" http://pjblack.me/14OG9VP
• "Facebook Being Sued Over Like Button" http://pjblack.me/14OCvLK #lwb486
• "7 Things Democrats Would Have Freaked Out About If Bush Had Done Them" http://pjblack.me/X0Kxik
• "Future travel: The hotel room that is a giant tablet" http://pjblack.me/X0KfYQ
• "10 things dating sites won’t tell you: The risks and rewards of looking for love online" http://pjblack.me/X0yEc3
• "Google – and everyone else–wins by High Court decision" http://pjblack.me/WcXdBf #lwn117
• "Knitting PM hopes web strategy is a pearler" http://pjblack.me/WZ4x4L #auspol
• "The 50 Ugliest College Campuses" http://pjblack.me/X0TqZa #highered
• "ABC rules out early start to election broadcasting period" http://pjblack.me/14MISzj #lwb480 #auspol
• "Good research goes missing" http://pjblack.me/14MGh8v #highered
• "18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained Simply" http://pjblack.me/WYCRx0
• "Illegally Uploaded Movies Crop Up Again on YouTube" http://pjblack.me/WYCzGt #lwb486 #lws008
• "'FarmVille' coming to television in animated series produced by Brett Ratner" http://pjblack.me/14MwvTC
• "Loose Thoughts on Youth and Age, Music and the News" http://pjblack.me/14Mwqj1
• "The Most Stressed Out Generation? Young Adults" http://pjblack.me/14MwqPS
• "Ex-Benedict: Will he still be infallible? Will he get a pension? All your papal questions, answered." http://pjblack.me/X0xq0s

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Daily Twitter Links for Monday 11 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College: 

Can you go to college on your computer? Some say yes, and others respond with a resounding no. But one thing is for sure: there is a boatload of public money to be vacuumed off an overcrowded, underfunded educational establishment desperate for at least the appearance of a quick fix.

Enter Udacity, the foremost provider of Massively Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Does what's above look like college to you? Or rather, is this how college should look now?

They've been described as "a relentless force that will not be denied," revolutionary, "the single most important experiment in higher education." Also MOOCs are getting a drubbing from academics and others who believe there's more to higher education than can be provided via "distance learning."

Now California state universities are set to begin enrolling students in MOOCs for credit. 

2. When will Aussies get to watch 'House of Cards'?: 

House of Cards stars Kevin Spacey, and is a remake of a British TV show of the same name — a look at the seedy underside of politics and the people who work in it. So far, critics have been praising the show, which debuted on Netflix on 1 February.

Because it's a Netflix production, the video-on-demand service is both the creator and distribution platform. It's allowed the company to do some interesting things, such as release the entire run of the first 13 episodes all in one go.

But it does create a conundrum for Australians (and anyone else outside of the US, Canada, Latin America, the UK, Sweden, Finland and Norway): when do we get to see this apparent masterpiece?

3. The bad seeds: 

The grainy CCTV footage of toddler James Bulger being led away to his death by two older boys has been seared into the memory of all who saw it. Now, 20 years after the two-year-old's murder, Jane Cornwell returns to Liverpool to see how some of those affected – not to mention the reputation of an already much-maligned city – have fared.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• how ridiculous: "R18+ fail: Qld bans God of War: Ascension" http://pjblack.me/14MBaVP #qldpol#auspol

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Shirtless Justin Bieber tries to upstage Grammys, takes down Ustream instead" http://pjblack.me/WcW3FW
• "11 High-Tech Adult Toys to Help Valentine's Day Go With a Bang" http://pjblack.me/14MvX0f
• how ridiculous: "Twitter Adds ‘Cat’ To Language Translations – Making The Twitters A Happee" http://pjblack.me/14MvcEs
• when can you tweet spoilers?: "House Of Cards, one week later: Spoiler alerts and the DVD question" http://pjblack.me/WYBfDu
• "Telly (Formerly Twitvid) Is Hoping To Give Vine A Run For Its Money" http://pjblack.me/WYB3UF
• 20 years after the murder of james bolger: "The bad seeds" http://pjblack.me/14MsQFC
• "Facebook Might Jump On The Social TV Bandwagon With TV Check-Ins" http://pjblack.me/YjzKfZ
• "New Jersey Fire Fighters Sworn In On iPad Bible App" http://pjblack.me/W9WlgN
• a long but good read: "Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College" http://pjblack.me/W9RLiA #highered
• "Short on Valentine's Day ideas? Here are 10 apps to help" http://pjblack.me/WYCrqy
• "Labor talking to states over mining tax tweaks" http://pjblack.me/WcX4hl #auspol #lwb242
• "Drone Home: What Happens When Drones Return to America" http://pjblack.me/W9Rnkf
• "Booze Study Links Binging to Drinking Age" http://pjblack.me/WVapw2
• "From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow" http://pjblack.me/YNYak0
• the road to an australian republic: "An Exercise In Creative Constitutionalism" http://pjblack.me/14MFOmK #lwb242 #auspol
• "When will Aussies get to watch 'House of Cards'?" http://pjblack.me/14MP2iV
• "Taylor, Murphy confirmed to join Guardian" http://pjblack.me/WYQb4v
• "A Six Year Old's Imagination Becomes Adorable Viral Short Film" http://pjblack.me/W7TUv4
• "Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This" http://pjblack.me/XYeKfR
• "How The Weather Channel Took Storm Names Away From The Government" http://pjblack.me/WW72oq
• "AOL Is The Weirdest Successful Tech Company In America" http://pjblack.me/XiOONK
• how ridiculous: "R18+ fail: Qld bans God of War: Ascension" http://pjblack.me/14MBaVP #qldpol #auspol
• how was seven able to air james packer saying "fuck" in the 7pm timeslot?: "Packer drops the F-Bomb -twice." http://pjblack.me/14MB8gG #lwb480
• and i thought i had a coffee addiction: "Couple Addicted to Coffee Enemas, Up to Four Times a Day" http://pjblack.me/14MwlMf
• "9 Beautiful Pics of New York City Covered in Snow" http://pjblack.me/WX4Ddd
• could it be the new dubai?: "Azerbaijan Is Rich. Now It Wants to Be Famous." http://pjblack.me/W6foss
• "How to Save College: Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken" http://pjblack.me/11vD4MH #highered
• "Confessions Of A Modeling Agent" http://pjblack.me/14HRuqS
• i do love monopoly: "The Economics Behind the Monopoly Board Game" http://pjblack.me/WV1ASS
• "World's Most Traveled Man: The Contenders" http://pjblack.me/WV1fzy
• "Ron Paul Files International Trademark Complaint Against His Own Fans" http://pjblack.me/YNYbEl #lwb486
• "The world is drinking more coffee, but it’s the cheaper, nastier kind" http://pjblack.me/W7TTr7

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 9-10 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors: 

When the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company kills a flavor, it's treated with respect — including a burial in the company's "Flavor Graveyard."

"I think we've got the best, and the not-best, up here," Sean Greenwood, Ben and Jerry's Grand Poobah of Publicity, says from the cemetery in Waterbury, Vt.

"Flavors like Wild Maine Blueberry. It's been decades since we made this flavor, but we used to have the trucks back up here with truckloads of blueberries," he says, "and everyone would pitch in and unload the blueberries, and make it while the blueberries were fresh."

In what may be a nod to the current zombie fad, Ben and Jerry's also offers customers a chance to make the case for resurrecting a favorite flavor.

But that doesn't mean every flavor should be brought back. In particular, Greenwood cites "the dreaded Sugar Plum" ice cream, a mix of plum and caramel that he says should remain six feet under.

2. Fitness Instructors are the New DJs: 

Fitness companies are increasingly getting into the music business. The move comes with the waning impact of traditional radio on the music-buying public, and the rise of boutique exercise classes, particularly yoga, Zumba and indoor cycling.

Fitness entrepreneurs say they are investing hours in training instructors to create compelling playlists that will help generate loyal student followings—and online buzz. Music labels are pitching their emerging talent to instructors and cutting deals with fitness chains. And exercise businesses are trying to cut licensing deals with music companies in order to package and sell workout songs in much the same way that film and television executives do with soundtracks.

3. Waxing our way to the ER: 

Just in case you still haven’t read your December issue of Urology, here’s the best piece of advice you’ll get today: Don’t drink and shave your pubes. You’re welcome.

A new study from the University of California-San Diego reveals that “Emergency room visits due to pubic hair grooming mishaps,” including oh my God no no noooo“lacerations,” increased fivefold between 2002 and 2010, sending an impressive 11,704 pube-scapers to the E.R. The culprits? Scissors and hot wax did some of the damage, but plain-old non-electric-razors accounted for the lion’s share, at 83 percent. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be under my desk, rocking slowly back and forth and crying as I think about this.

The study also revealed that below-the-belt grooming isn’t just for adult ladies anymore – men accounted for 43.3 percent of the injuries, and almost 30 percent of them were girls under the age of 18. To avoid becoming yet another harrowing grooming gone bad statistic, the researchers advise hair removal aficionados to “Pay attention to where you’re placing that razor. Invest in a non-slip bath mat. And don’t shave while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.” Yeah, don’t do that. For the love of God don’t do that.

And the most-read link I tweeted over the weekend was:

• "Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes" http://pjblack.me/WUUqhu

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about over the weekend:

• "The Smitten Word: The awkward art of writing about sex" http://pjblack.me/XYeJbU
• "The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses" http://pjblack.me/WUWiXx
• "Pirate Bay documentary TPB:AFK ready for download" http://pjblack.me/XYeMo7 #lwn117 #lws008 #lwb486
• "Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again" http://pjblack.me/11vDen8
• behind the scenes of editing a dictionary: "When does ‘wrong’ become ‘right’?" http://pjblack.me/W5QnO2
• are writers happy they became writers?: "Elizabeth Gilbert Versus Philip Roth: Is Writing Torture?" http://pjblack.me/W5PbKk
• "Monologue: A Farewell Speech From the Monopoly Iron" http://pjblack.me/WUUtcZ
• "Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes" http://pjblack.me/WUUqhu
• "Batmobile Lawsuit: Warner Bros. Wins Against Maker of Vehicle" http://pjblack.me/W5OJvI #lws008 #lwb486
• "Why Using Creative Commons Licensed Materials Is Not As Easy As It Looks" http://pjblack.me/WSYUVP #lwb486 #lws008
• "Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications" http://pjblack.me/W2mTAw
• why do people keep pressing the elevator “call” button: "Lift" http://pjblack.me/WSTav7
• "London real estate anticipates US tech expansion into Europe" http://pjblack.me/W2m36Q
• "Father Gives Daughter $200 to Quit Facebook for Rest of School Year" http://pjblack.me/WT2SO6
• the road to network hell paved with too-cool-for-school intentions: "Is 'House Of Cards' Netflix's Bridge To Nowhere?" http://pjblack.me/WUUNsg 
• "Twitter's Vine Is Perfect for Fashion Week" http://pjblack.me/14HRuXX
• "A Photographic Guide to Looking Concerned While Meeting with the President" http://pjblack.me/WVizoa
• dear me: "Waxing our way to the ER: Grooming accidents are exploding. When did we start hating pubes?" http://pjblack.me/11vD6UO
• sydney and melbourne are pretty expensive: "Tokyo drift: The cost of living around the world" http://pjblack.me/WUZDWG
• "Drone Strike Out: The Obama administration's drone strike memo is unconstitutional" http://pjblack.me/WSToT8
• "Justice Clarence Thomas's comment during oral arguments sparks court reporter tiff" http://pjblack.me/W6fY9w
• "Can Fox Be Both the Least Trusted Name in News, and the Most Trusted? Apparently, Yes." http://pjblack.me/WSHOre
• "Jon Stewart Takes on the Entire Internet Over the New Monopoly Cat" http://pjblack.me/14HRrey
• "Fitness Instructors are the New DJs" http://pjblack.me/W1UDxS
• "Insiders Ask: Can Jeff Zucker Change the Cheapskate Culture of CNN?" http://pjblack.me/WSDp7E
• this is interesting: "What's So Bad About Copying? An Art Gallery Scrutinizes Unoriginality" http://pjblack.me/WSDnMS #lws008
• i'm really excited about this prospect: "The Apple iWatch" http://pjblack.me/WV1hr7 /via @Priest
• "How the Gun-Control Movement Got Smart" http://pjblack.me/14HRyH0
• "Bush's Art Forces Liberals to Contemplate Bush's Soul" http://pjblack.me/WUYH4B
• "Dick Morris’s Fox Exit Latest Fall—and Rise?—of a Political Survivor" http://pjblack.me/W1Qjia
• "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us": "Netflix, House of Cards, and the Golden Age of Television" http://pjblack.me/WSAtI0
• is being stuck in the second row really grounds for launching a lawsuit?: "Squeezing One More in Fashion’s Front Row" http://pjblack.me/WSzkjK
• no surprises here: "Heavy drinking, 'incompatible' drinking tied to divorce, study says" http://pjblack.me/W1LLIM
• "Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media" http://pjblack.me/WSvR4D
• "The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors" http://pjblack.me/W1FL2v
• "There is a double standard over student poverty: union" http://pjblack.me/W1BagT #highered
• a good profile of aaron swartz: "Aaron Swartz: He wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?" http://pjblack.me/WSsdaW
• it was such a fun film: "How Wreck-It Ralph recruited Sonic, Pac-Man and Bowser" http://pjblack.me/WSYq1W
• "McDonald’s Testing Table Service with Actual Forks & Knives" http://pjblack.me/WSxjEf
• "22 Important Things You Should Know About Yoda" http://pjblack.me/WSvTJL

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Daily Twitter Links for Friday 8 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?: 

Never before has the pressure to perform on high-stakes tests been so intense or meant so much for a child’s academic future. As more school districts strive for accountability, standardized tests have proliferated. The pressure to do well on achievement tests for college is filtering its way down to lower grades, so that even third graders feel as if they are on trial. Students get the message that class work isn’t what counts, and that the standardized exam is the truer measure. Sure, you did your homework and wrote a great history report — but this test is going to find out how smart you really are. Critics argue that all this test-taking is churning out sleep-deprived, overworked, miserable children.

But some children actually do better under competitive, stressful circumstances. Why can Jacob thrive under pressure, while it undoes Noah? And how should that difference inform the way we think about high-stakes testing? An emerging field of research — and a pioneering study from Taiwan — has begun to offer some clues. Like any kind of human behavior, our response to competitive pressure is derived from a complex set of factors — how we were raised, our skills and experience, the hormones that we marinated in as fetuses. There is also a genetic component: One particular gene, referred to as the COMT gene, could to a large degree explain why one child is more prone to be a worrier, while another may be unflappable, or in the memorable phrasing of David Goldman, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health, more of a warrior.

Understanding their propensity to become stressed and how to deal with it can help children compete. Stress turns out to be far more complicated than we’ve assumed, and far more under our control than we imagine.

2. Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an Algorithm: 

Don’t let the name fool you. Coca-Cola’s (KO) Simply Orange juice is anything but pick, squeeze, and pour. That cold glass of 100 percent liquid sunshine on the breakfast table is the product of a sophisticated industrial juice complex. Satellite imagery, complicated data algorithms, even a juice pipeline are all part of the recipe. “You take Mother Nature and standardize it,” says Jim Horrisberger, director of procurement at Coke’s huge Auburndale (Fla.) juice packaging plant. “Mother Nature doesn’t like to be standardized.”

3. My Rosa Parks moment in Sydney 2013: 

Earlier today I had what I like to think of as my own Rosa Parks moment on a Sydney bus travelling through the inner-west from Marrickville to Stanmore.

It culminated in a woman, in the presence of her two school-aged kids, calling me a "black c***". She told me to go back to my "own country", and threatened to drag me off the bus as she raised her fist to my face.

The entire encounter lasted about 15 minutes, and is one of the most confronting instances of abuse I have experienced recently.

I am absolutely sure this episode isn't unique or even rare.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Roxon appointments were her saving grace" http://pjblack.me/W1JSeY #auspol #auslaw

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Why Everyone Hates Couples" http://pjblack.me/W1AoAy
• "Aggregation isn’t evil. Doesn’t mean it’s good [Business Insider edition]" http://pjblack.me/WSYRJA
• "Instagram brings its feeds to desktop users" http://pjblack.me/WSXzhL
• "Drone Strikes Test Legality Of War On Terror" http://pjblack.me/WSMzRA
• "Breakfast with Henry leaves a bad taste" http://pjblack.me/WSLmK4
• "Wes Anderson’s Worlds by Michael Chabon" http://pjblack.me/W1kKFe
• "Binge Programming: How Netflix's 'House of Cards' Changes the Game" http://pjblack.me/WQKtkY
• "Facebook Broke the Internet" http://pjblack.me/W22ED0
• "Why Digital Natives don’t like newspapers" http://pjblack.me/VYx7So
• "Shazam Expands Catalog Through Deal With Online Dance Store Beatport" http://pjblack.me/WSHh8H
• "Film Criticism in the Age of Twitter: Should Film Critics Tweet From Screenings?" http://pjblack.me/VYxzjK
• "My Rosa Parks moment in Sydney 2013" by @JezFernandezABC http://pjblack.me/WSC0Ov
• "Katter Party asks pro-gay candidate to exit" http://pjblack.me/W1OhP6 #auspol
• a little creepy?: "Twitter Attempts to Capture Previously Inactive Users by Asking Their Friends to Welcome Them Back" http://pjblack.me/W1NjlX
• "John Brennan and the Truth About Drones" http://pjblack.me/W1MCJt
• "Roxon appointments were her saving grace" http://pjblack.me/W1JSeY #auspol #auslaw
• "ACCC gets a lesson in practicality" http://pjblack.me/W1Ju05 #lwn117
• "Mobile blackout a bane for lawyers" http://pjblack.me/W1Inxo #auslaw
• "7 things CBS won't let you wear to the Grammys" http://pjblack.me/W1G39Q
• mark dreyfus is a strong advocate for constitutional reform: "Indigenous focus of Constitution revamp" http://pjblack.me/W1EY1I #lwb242 #auspol
• interesting idea: "Apple Should Embrace Netflix's Latest Move And Make It Their Own" http://pjblack.me/VYx0q4
• "Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an Algorithm" http://pjblack.me/WQJAZZ
• "Happy Valentine’s Day, I Hate You" http://pjblack.me/VIkqi6
• "Revenge porn is 'just entertainment,' says owner of IsAnybodyDown" http://pjblack.me/WQB3Gq #lwn117
• "Love Is a Battlefield: Are the Taliban using sex to fight America?" http://pjblack.me/VDQA92
• "FYI: Do Zombies Experience Consciousness?" http://pjblack.me/WQD59t /cc @Kosta_K7
• "Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?" http://pjblack.me/WQJS2T
• "Whither Slate?" asks @dylanbyers http://pjblack.me/WQFKzM
• "Google's win reflects internet-friendly High Court" http://pjblack.me/VYlpr6 #lwn117 #auslaw
• "How White Male Tech Writers Feed the Silicon Valley Myth of Meritocracy" http://pjblack.me/VIkqhQ
• gillard is no longer the right person to lead labor, says @johnquiggin: "Eddie, obeyed" http://pjblack.me/WQxe3S #auspol
• "Why Amazon wants its own currency" http://pjblack.me/X1IrOU

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Daily Twitter Links for Thursday 7 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Edward Muybridge: Grandfather of the GIF: 

The coin of the realm in today’s techno-visual culture is the GIF, a file that supports brief animations repeating endlessly. GIFs had a moment of particular resonance last summer, when extraordinary displays of athleticism from the Olympics were converted from full video into short loops, recurring endlessly, devoid of meaning aside from the aesthetic. Then came the presidential election, with its loops of the candidates at their most ill-at-ease; and after the Academy Awards, reaction shots of every unsuccessful nominee will probably appear. For its power to reveal through repetition, the GIF has became a medium unto itself. The Oxford English Dictionary named “GIF” the 2012 word of the year.

This is the legacy of Edward Muybridge, an English-born, late nineteenth-century photography pioneer famous for his study of a horse in motion. You’ve probably seen it at some point: a jerky film of the animal running. Muybridge devised the image to help settle the question of whether the four feet of a horse ever rise off the ground at the same time while trotting. (They do.) He went on to document all manner of motion, ending his career with often openly sexual nudes. Trotting horses and black-and-white bodies may seem far from the varied nature of contemporary photography and film. But moving images stripped of narrative context—a medium Muybridge mastered more than a century ago—are the visual currency of the moment. Muybridge broke down motion in order to help his contemporaries understand it; today we break down motion to understand a little more about the ephemeral details of life.

2. Apple’s war on porn is a front for its battle against Android: 

Did you know that the Web is crawling with porn? Horrible, filthy stuff clutters the wonder that is the Internet, with sites like YouPorn guzzling 950 terabytes of data transfer each day, according to this incredibly interesting yet totally safe-for-work report from ExtremeTech. And hey, if you don’t believe me, justlisten to this song or get the creepy trenchcoat-wearing guy in Google Chrome’s incognito mode to share some secrets.

There is one place that isn’t filled to the brim with pornography: the App Store. Apple’s policies for what is and isn’t allowed into its app marketplace have created a nanny state of software, where anything resembling pornography is banned and anything that could even show pornography, like a Web browser, is slapped with a 17+ rating and has to display an “[App name here] contains age-restricted material” warning. You know, for the children.

But how much of a difference does adding an “age-restricted material” warning make to someone who is, say, 16? Clicking or tapping on “OK” no matter what a modal window says and lying about your age are two of the first things you learn when you start using technology. A whole bunch of early teens and even pre-teens can install the app no matter how many warnings Apple puts in front of their eyeballs. The only difference is that Apple gets to say that it’s doing everything it can to create a family-friendly experience — and can point at other operating systems as ignoring those values.

3. "We Ask That You Do Not Call Us Professor": 

Karen Gregory is an adjuct professor at CUNY, and the syllabus for her introduction to labor studies course includes a section on what being an adjunct means, means, exactly. Her full explanation is below, but to start, here’s a fact from Inside Higher Ed: If an adjunct teaches four courses per semester, they will make “$21,600 annually, compared to starting tenure-track salaries that average $66,000, according to data from the American Association of University Professors.” Highlights from Gregory’s syllabus:

• “CUNY presently employs 6,541 full-time faculty, counselors, and librarians. Despite record breaking enrollment, that is 4,512 fewer of such positions that it provided in 1972.”

• “Adjuncts are not regular members of the faculty; we are paid an hourly rate for time spent in the classroom. We are not paid to advise students, grade papers, or prepare materials or lectures for class. We are paid for one office hour per week for all of the classes we teach. We are not paid to communicate with students outside of class or write letters of recommendation. Out of dedication to our students, adjuncts regularly perform such tasks, but it is essentially volunteer labor.”

• “To ensure that we remain conscious of the adjunctification of CUNY, we ask that you do not call us ‘Professor.’ We are hired as adjunct lecturers and it is important that you remember that. You deserve to be taught by properly compensated professors whose full attention is to teaching and scholarship.”

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "5 rules for taking #selfies on Instagram: A long-overdue treatise for snapping self-portraits" http://pjblack.me/XcEYJD

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "When Joseph Gordon-Levitt Turned the Tables on the Paparazzi" http://pjblack.me/VYhRoL
• "The Online Dating Game: How Technology is Changing Love and Marriage" http://pjblack.me/WQzuYR /cc @lukewarmed @Brodhe
• some of these are amazing: "The Mind-Warping Animated GIF Art of Paolo Čerić" http://pjblack.me/VCVpzj
• "Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook" http://pjblack.me/YPXnmq
• "Mixing Alcohol With Diet Soda May Make You Drunker" http://pjblack.me/WQgDxh /cc @ryyder
• "Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals" http://pjblack.me/14Fioj9 #lwb486 #lwn117
• "14 Signs You’re Not As Young As You Used To Be" http://pjblack.me/14EUeW1
• "Edward Muybridge: Grandfather of the GIF" http://pjblack.me/Y6uLPM
• "How the Ancient Greeks Viewed Weapons" http://pjblack.me/WpBVjI
• "5 rules for taking #selfies on Instagram: A long-overdue treatise for snapping self-portraits" http://pjblack.me/XcEYJD
• "All the Struggle of Being an Artist, in a Video Game" http://pjblack.me/VCVpze
• "Apple’s war on porn is a front for its battle against Android" http://pjblack.me/VIU3Zn
• "Can Fox News break its fatal embrace with the Republican party?" http://pjblack.me/VIXCPc
• "9 Things We'd Change About Vine" http://pjblack.me/VIXzCR
• "We Ask That You Do Not Call Us Professor" says sessionals/adjuncts http://pjblack.me/VUq1hN #highered
• "Don’t like television? Then you’re not going to like the future of Twitter very much" http://pjblack.me/WNP6fH
• "How MOOCs will shape the future of higher education" http://pjblack.me/WNOXJ6 #highered
• "Google Introduces 'Find Your Way To Oz' HTML5 Chrome Experiment In Collaboration With Disney And Unit9" http://pjblack.me/WNOjvs
• this is on tonight in the valley - is anyone keen to check it out?: "Street Food Australia launches at IMA" http://pjblack.me/WPRUJi
• "Apple app advantage eroded as Google narrows iPhone lead"  http://pjblack.me/WvrwCZ
• "World's Tiniest Car Is Terrifying, Fantastic, Makes You Look Like a LEGO Astronaut" http://pjblack.me/WNFTnM
• 61% of facebook users say they have voluntarily taken a break from using the site: "Coming and Going on Facebook" http://pjblack.me/WNFgL0
• 12%  of people have had their passwords, bank account numbers, or sexy photos leaked by an angry ex http://pjblack.me/VSMkVe
• so true: "How social media is becoming as important a live event as the live event itself" http://pjblack.me/WNF5PF
• "The Most Shoplifted Food In The World? That's Right, 'Cheese.'" http://pjblack.me/VSAFWd
• "After Its Porn Problem, Twitter-Owned Vine Adds 17+ Age Rating To Video Sharing App" http://pjblack.me/VUoEzG
• good question: "How Will We Know If Netflix’s House of Cards Was a Hit or a Failure?" http://pjblack.me/VT6Jt7
• "Monopoly reveals newest game token (and the one kicked out of the box)" http://pjblack.me/VUlwUm

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday 6 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office?: 

Want to send a letter to Talkeetna, Alaska, from New York? It will cost you fifty dollars by UPS. Grabenhorst or Lipscomb can do it for less than two quarters: the same as the cost of getting a letter from Gold Hill to Shady Cove, Oregon, twenty miles up the road. It's how the postal service works: The many short-distance deliveries down the block or across the city pay for the longer ones across the country. From the moment Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general in 1775, the purpose of the post office has always been to bind the nation together. It was a way of unifying thirteen disparate colonies so that the abolitionist in Philadelphia had access to the same information and newspapers as the slaveholder in Augusta, Georgia.

Today the postal service has a network that stretches across America: 461 distribution centers, 32,000 post offices, and 213,000 vehicles, the largest civilian fleet in the world. Trucks carrying mail log 1.2 billion miles a year. The postal service handles almost half of the entire planet's mail. It can physically connect any American to any other American in 3.7 million square miles of territory in a few days, often overnight: a vast lattice of veins and arteries and capillaries designed to circulate the American lifeblood of commerce and information and human contact.

2. New Monty Python Movie Announced...With Robin Williams: 

The comedy team of Monty Python–which gave the world five years of BBC television as well as five movies–is reuniting for a new film. Their newest creation will be a science fiction film. The Pythons will be playing aliens who grant wishes to humans, just to see what happens.

Well, not all Pythons. Eric Idle has yet to climb aboard this crazy train, and Graham Chapman died in 1989. But John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin are all in, as is Terry Jones, who will be directing.

Robin Williams will be joining them in a role as a talking dog. That’s right: Robin Williams and Monty Python.

3. The Wacky World of Authoritarian Regimes on Social Media: 

For many authoritarian states, social media can present the ultimate threat: anti-regime discourse and dissent from the party line. In some cases governments have taken extreme measures to clamp down on online freedoms, like Egypt’s countrywide Internet blackout in 2011, Iran’s ongoing censorship of Western social sites, and, in the most extreme case, North Korea’s neutered state-sanctioned Intranet, accessible to only a fraction of the population.

This hasn’t stopped many despots from taking to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Radio Free Europe has a roundup of some authoritarian leaders who have taken to social media over the past several years. Whether for straight propagandizing purposes, like the Ayatollah Ali Khomeini’s mysterious Facebook page that appeared this past fall, or occasionally sharing yoga updates, à la Uzbek First Daughter Gulnara Karimova, these pages offer an unexpected, paradoxical glimpse into the minds behind repressive regimes.

Sifting through these updates, it seems that, in spite of the state of free speech in their countries, many of these authoritarian leaders possess relatively uncensored social media personas — more so than American politicians with armies of staffers to work online documentation. 

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "11 words you're probably mispronouncing" http://pjblack.me/XdHroY

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Slowly, slowly: Same-sex Marriage in the UK and at home" writes @richardksawyer http://pjblack.me/VHM8LU
• "How a ‘Free WiFi for All!’ Myth Was Born" http://pjblack.me/VSvOUY
• "Bang With Friends: The Beginning Of A Sexual Revolution On Facebook?" http://pjblack.me/WNw5ds
• "The Wacky World of Authoritarian Regimes on Social Media" http://pjblack.me/UUl09H
• "Thought-provoking year in High Court" http://pjblack.me/XdNcDi #auslaw #lwb242
• "Copyright law online ‘blocking’ courses" http://pjblack.me/UU7WRL #lwb486 #highered
• "Never Eat Alone Again With the Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl" http://pjblack.me/UU78MI
• i still haven't really got into vine: "Why Vine's Going to Grow Into Something Huge" http://pjblack.me/XdIe9F
• "11 words you're probably mispronouncing" http://pjblack.me/XdHroY
• "Why Donald Trump is Likely to Lose a Lawsuit Against Bill Maher" http://pjblack.me/VSOyUD
• this is exciting!: "New Monty Python Movie Announced...With Robin Williams" http://pjblack.me/VT2hdU
• "Can Jeff Zucker turn CNN's saccharine output into the sweet smell of success?" http://pjblack.me/XdJ6ef
• "Testing the Science of Sharing at the Super Bowl: Can Viral Ads Be Manufactured?" http://pjblack.me/XdIy8b
• "Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office?" http://pjblack.me/XdHnFW
• "A murder in Riverside Park changed the lives of a group of Columbia undergrads. Did it change literature as well?" http://pjblack.me/XdHiSF
• the greens are australia's best educated politicians, followed by the coalition and then labor http://pjblack.me/WNwfS0 #highered #auspol
• "Gay marriage: MPs vote in favour, leaving Cameron adrift from Tories" http://pjblack.me/VSwp9n
• "Steven Soderbergh on Quitting Hollywood, Getting the Best Out of J-Lo, and His Love of Girls" http://pjblack.me/UU4DKd
• very interesting: "Janet Napolitano: A woman to watch for 2016" http://pjblack.me/UU443j
• "Childish behaviour as parents worsen cyber-bullying"  http://feedly.com/k/YyI1yH
• "This Incredible Soundboard Website Has Pretty Much Every Sound You'd Ever Want to Hear" http://pjblack.me/Y6rpwc
• "How to Use Humor on the Internet" http://pjblack.me/XcEXFF
• "Why Facebook will never make a significant profit" http://pjblack.me/XcEW4A
• "How Do You Stop Racism on Twitter?" http://pjblack.me/11dftQI
• "Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online Education" http://pjblack.me/XdnmiC #highered

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 5 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The Best And Most Surreal Photographs From The Power Outage At The Superdome: 

The power outage tonight in the Superdome created 34 minutes of awkward televisionand some truly dreamlike sports photography. We've collected the best from the Associated Press and Getty.

2. Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties: 

A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen. It is a culture committed to freeing information, insisting on privacy, and fighting censorship, which in turn propels wide-ranging political activity. In the last year alone, hackers have been behind some of the most powerful political currents out there.

3. Drowned in a Stream of Prescription: Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction: 

Medications like Adderall can markedly improve the lives of children and others with the disorder. But the tunnel-like focus the medicines provide has led growing numbers of teenagers and young adults to fake symptoms to obtain steady prescriptions for highly addictive medications that carry serious psychological dangers. These efforts are facilitated by a segment of doctors who skip established diagnostic procedures, renew prescriptions reflexively and spend too little time with patients to accurately monitor side effects.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "Exclusive! The Words That Journalists Overuse" http://pjblack.me/WErkmj

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The Earliest Adopters" http://pjblack.me/WqdVyH
• hear, hear!: "Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties" http://pjblack.me/Wqe0Ta
• this looks amazing: "Canada's Magical Ice Hotel Inspired by Jules Verne" http://pjblack.me/XQjl1S
• a great interactive tool: "The secrets of Grand Central Terminal train station" http://pjblack.me/XcEXoX
• "Dating 2.0: Crowdsource your smalltalk" http://pjblack.me/VFINg5
• "Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer" http://pjblack.me/XdcKQJ /via @bengrubb
• i like most of this art: "They Paid What?! Top 10 Absurd Paintings that Sold for Millions" http://pjblack.me/12lqqyQ
• "Drowned in a Stream of Prescription: Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction" http://pjblack.me/Xk2nJb
• "Coco Brown In Training To Be First Porn Star In Space" http://pjblack.me/Wj6APM
• "Man Explains Why He Slept with WoW Guild Members" http://pjblack.me/WqdWCX
• "The Best And Most Surreal Photographs From The Power Outage At The Superdome" http://pjblack.me/WqdWTq
• "The International Olympic Committee Has Already Staked A Trademark Claim On The Number '2014'" http://pjblack.me/11hVbQw
• "In Order To Live With People, Canines Evolved To Love Carbs" http://pjblack.me/XRlZnU
• "Exclusive! The Words That Journalists Overuse" http://pjblack.me/WErkmj
• on the anti-discrimination laws: "Backdown on bill comes too late to spare the blushes" http://pjblack.me/XcqLhy #auspol
• "Unhappy Grattan quits Age to join academe" http://pjblack.me/XcGUUq #highered 
• "Chris Wallace Confronts NRA Leader" http://pjblack.me/UT1NFy
• "The Operation of Caretaker Conventions" http://pjblack.me/XcbP3g #auspol #lwb242
• "President Obama Eyes New Oval Office While the White House Undergoes Renovations" http://pjblack.me/URqemw
• this is cool: "Netbot, One Of The Great App.net Apps For iOS, Is Now Free" http://pjblack.me/UQyQKk
• "Brothel Patrons Have No Legal Expectation of Privacy, Judge Rules" http://pjblack.me/UQyy6e
• "From grains of 'Oatmeal,' big things for cartoonist" http://pjblack.me/UQy1Ry
• "Sandstone Academics Up Against The Wall"  http://feedly.com/k/YNKZ68 #higherd
• again? why would labor do this?: "Rudd's support for a challenge edging closer" http://pjblack.me/XbK9LS #auspol

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Daily Twitter Links for Monday 4 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The Story Behind Banksy: 

When Time magazine selected the British artist Banksy—graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose provocateur—for its list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010, he found himself in the company of Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Lady Gaga. He supplied a picture of himself with a paper bag (recyclable, naturally) over his head. Most of his fans don’t really want to know who he is (and have loudly protested Fleet Street attempts to unmask him). But they do want to follow his upward tra­jectory from the outlaw spraying—or, as the argot has it, “bombing”—walls in Bristol, England, during the 1990s to the artist whose work commands hundreds of thousands of dollars in the auction houses of Britain and America. Today, he has bombed cities from Vienna to San Francisco, Barcelona to Paris and Detroit. And he has moved from graffiti on gritty urban walls to paint on canvas, conceptual sculpture and even film, with the guileful documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Pest Control, the tongue-in-cheek-titled organization set up by the artist to authenticate the real Banksy artwork, also protects him from prying outsiders. Hiding behind a paper bag, or, more commonly, e-mail, Banksy relentlessly controls his own narrative. His last face-to-face interview took place in 2003.

While he may shelter behind a concealed identity, he advocates a direct connection between an artist and his constituency. “There’s a whole new audience out there, and it’s never been easier to sell [one’s art],” Banksy has maintained. “You don’t have to go to college, drag ’round a portfolio, mail off transparencies to snooty galleries or sleep with someone powerful, all you need now is a few ideas and a broadband connection. This is the first time the essentially bourgeois world of art has belonged to the people. We need to make it count.”

2. 'The Wheel of the Devil': On Vine, gifs and the power of the loop: 

When Vine launched last week, a new format for looped media was born. While visual loops have been in existence for centuries, they have arguably enjoyed special attention over the last hundred years. In this essay I want to consider the purpose and power of the loop. I also intend to propose that the reign of the loop is greatly empowered by digital media, and that today loops have enriched culture while offering new perspectives on the nature of reality.

3. Monitor, Police, Control: Australian Attorney-Generals’ war on the Internet: 

Australia’s two most recent Attorneys-General distinguished themselves during their tenure by demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics of the modern Internet; seeking to monitor, control and contain it at all costs. Now they’ve both announced plans to quit politics. Will our next chief lawmaker do any better?

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "How Oreo Got That Twitter Ad Up So Fast" http://pjblack.me/X8AZQi

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The Story Behind Banksy" http://pjblack.me/UQvN4H
• "A brief history of drone-kind's influence on humanity" http://pjblack.me/X8mpIl
• "It’s not just bullying & porn: kids are equally upset by violence online" http://pjblack.me/UQvxms
• this is exciting: "Watch out, Atlantic — the New Yorker is gunning for you" http://pjblack.me/X8lTKr
• lol oops: "Don't Fire An Employee And Leave Them In Charge Of The Corporate Twitter Account" http://pjblack.me/UQuYJd
• this is interesting: "Where Kim Dotcom and Mega have the edge on Dropbox and Box.net" http://pjblack.me/UQuHWN
• "Deleting abusive tweets swiftly may help avoid prosecution, says DPP" http://pjblack.me/UQuD9z #lwb480 #lws008
• let's hope so: "Is the Internet tired of Lady Gaga?" http://pjblack.me/UQuumi
• "Interactive currency-comparison tool: The Big Mac index" http://pjblack.me/XcEQKi
• "'The Wheel of the Devil': On Vine, gifs and the power of the loop" http://pjblack.me/Uk0cuw
• "8 Government Conspiracy Theories (And How They Could Be Right)" http://pjblack.me/WH5L4u
• "How Oreo Got That Twitter Ad Up So Fast" http://pjblack.me/X8AZQi
• should we be concerned about path or not?: "The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law" http://pjblack.me/WH5KxD
• lol dear me: "SOS Condom App Delivers a Great Package" http://pjblack.me/Y3PgMO
• "A Brief History Of Nerds In Pop Culture" http://pjblack.me/WH5Oxq
• "You’re Not Loren Brichter" http://pjblack.me/UOpb6S
• from @delimiterau: "Monitor, Police, Control: Australian Attorney-Generals’ war on the Internet" http://pjblack.me/UQxbV0 #auspol #lwn117
• why is gridiron only popular in america?: "America’s Game" http://pjblack.me/WH5Kxy
• "Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs" http://pjblack.me/WH5O0e
• "The real reason PM announced resignations" http://pjblack.me/VDHjmK #auspol

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Daily Twitter Links holiday edition

Over the past two weeks I have been on holiday, so there haven't been any Daily Twitter Links blog posts.  However, I have still been tweeting.  These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about over the past few weeks:

• "Equal political broadcast time 'starts now'" http://pjblack.me/UOt8Zg #auspol #lwb480
• there is something to this: "Suzanne Venker’s recipe for a lasting union: “Just be nice, cook, and have sex!”" http://pjblack.me/UNVItL
• "More on surviving legal publishing" http://pjblack.me/UNVxyN
• very powerful: "Why Newtown victim Noah Pozner had an open coffin" http://pjblack.me/UKo1JH
• "4 Tech Trends That Will Make Colleges and Universities Better Teachers" http://pjblack.me/14vOQVO #highered
• no it's not - i really agree with this piece: "Is the Lecture Dead?" http://pjblack.me/VvBRSR #highered
• "Check Off Another Check-In Company: Dijit Buys Miso" http://pjblack.me/11u6W6i
• "In the platform wars, open is ultimately more valuable than closed, says Betaworks" http://pjblack.me/WBn6f5
• "The Original Endings of 10 Famous Films" http://pjblack.me/X6WQ8I
• "6 Truths About Using Twitter that Traditionalists Might not Want to Hear" http://pjblack.me/WsY6GS
• "A Century Of Hollywood Publicity" http://pjblack.me/WYCtMz
• "A short-tempered history of the 'curmudgeon'" http://pjblack.me/W3K511
• has twitter lost its charm and become overwhelmed by snark?: "Why I hate Twitter" http://pjblack.me/UDmvsH
• "Newsweek/Daily Beast Changes Name to NewsBeast" http://pjblack.me/UKk9Z7
• "Scene Kids Cry As Streaming Site Stickam Shuts Down" http://pjblack.me/XtaxAB
• "Six reasons why Vine is a killer news tool" http://pjblack.me/WQj1BQ
• a weekend link: "Why You Always Wake Up Early After a Night of Drinking" http://pjblack.me/WBD5tt
• poor hillary: "Hillary: The Most Poisoned Baby Name in U.S. History" http://pjblack.me/WBD88H
• "'30 Rock,' race, and identity politics" http://pjblack.me/W3K39x
• this makes me angry: "The NRA vs. America" http://pjblack.me/UIMq29
• "Facebook Graph Search Still Doesn't Speak Human" http://pjblack.me/WNMDjn
• "Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?" http://pjblack.me/W3Kgti
• "One Week In, Vine Could Be Twice As Big As Socialcam" http://pjblack.me/14Bak3K
• "Apple in talks to bring HBO Go to Apple TV, says Bloomberg" http://pjblack.me/11bzcQS
• "How Facebook Survived 34 Intense Days Of 'Lockdown' To Build Graph Search" http://pjblack.me/Vogu2l
• "People Don’t Take Smoke Breaks Anymore, They Take Facebook Breaks" http://pjblack.me/WtHoXN
• "Coughing in classical concerts 'twice as likely'" http://pjblack.me/XUMo54
• "A Brief History of Racist Soft Drinks" http://pjblack.me/VogwXX
• a great read: "Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy on 'Star Wars,' 'Lincoln' and Secret J.J. Abrams Meetings" http://pjblack.me/WBD8Wc
• "The Short, Strange Life Of An Original Viral Star" http://pjblack.me/YvrGhV
• "This Engineer Saved Facebook" http://pjblack.me/WBD8FJ
• "Did The Optus-NRL Legal Case Ruin The Cloud For Everyone?" http://pjblack.me/UFB3YU #lwb486 #lws008
• "RIM renames itself BlackBerry: Here’s how that name came to be" http://pjblack.me/WBD2hc
• "Mary Poppins Is A Timelord And Other Unprovable Pop Culture Theories" http://pjblack.me/1180YxC
• "Apple Has Been Granted A Trademark For Its Retail Store Design" http://pjblack.me/XkMzYe #lwb486 #lws008
• "The International Olympic Committee Has Already Staked A Trademark Claim On The Number '2014'" http://pjblack.me/11hVbQw #lwb486 #lws008
• dreadlock theft is a real problem in south africa apparently: "Dread thieves cut and run" http://pjblack.me/TWZ0No /cc @suziblack @Kosta_K7
• "App.net moves beyond its ad-free Twitter alternative, adding 10 GB of storage to share" http://pjblack.me/14vP9QE
• this is probably right: "Analysis: Why Netflix must rethink binge viewing" http://pjblack.me/WtkI9U
• a fascinating interview: "Newsweek Interview with Facebook's Lars Rasmussen" http://pjblack.me/11ezsZx
• "The ways of Warne: Test great calls for Fleming as coach" http://pjblack.me/X8lyWl #cricket
• "If They’ve Said He’s Negative Once, They've Said It 433 Times Mobile" http://pjblack.me/TXHCrW /via @tomjkenny #auspol
• "50-Over and Out?" http://pjblack.me/UDkD3b #cricket
• but is it too late?: "BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry 10 Review: A BlackBerry Catches Up with the Competition" http://pjblack.me/XjatTT
• "Obama vs. Fox News -- behind the White House strategy to delegitimize a news organization" http://pjblack.me/XisbXI
• "As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To A Trickle" http://pjblack.me/UBeCEi #lwb486 #lws008
• "Twitter Has 3 Servers Just For Justin Bieber Tweets" http://pjblack.me/WNHms0
• "Steve Kroft's 'Softball' Obama Interviews Diminish 60 Minutes" http://pjblack.me/UBdMXW
• "The Crazy Economics Of Mining Asteroids For Gold And Platinum" http://pjblack.me/X0yVJy
• very interesting, very smart: "PM announces election for September 14" http://pjblack.me/Wvy2KW #auspol
• "A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic?" http://pjblack.me/111ZWgQ
• "Is Paul Clement Trying to Throw the DOMA Case?" http://pjblack.me/11anfFs
• this is fascinating: "Spin Cycle: The Social Realm of the Laundromat" http://pjblack.me/VhcJ21
• "128GB iPad: from myth to reality in 24 hours" http://pjblack.me/WMAzyM
• "Chris Cuomo Exits ABC News for CNN" http://pjblack.me/WrAan5
• "How 3 Oscar Contenders Misled Audiences" http://pjblack.me/118jxfm
• so true: "5 Things Foreign Policy Officials Believe But Will Never Say" http://pjblack.me/Wry6vj
• "Watch Porn Stars Act Out Your Favorite Memes" http://pjblack.me/UAaB2P
• "How We Lose Our Virginity Shapes Our Entire Sexual Life" http://pjblack.me/UAax3h
• "Twitter's Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate" http://pjblack.me/WsY8yv
• "Girl drinks: For the Cosmoplitan’s 25th anniversary, a complete history of sweet cocktails for ladies" http://pjblack.me/UQrftY
• "The Goofy Physical Ways We Interact With Digital Technology" http://pjblack.me/WsBZR8
• "How To Game Your Dating Profile" http://pjblack.me/XG7bIS
• well there you go: "Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar is Wrong" http://pjblack.me/10P7rwc
• there is something to this: "Why We Should Memorize Poetry" http://pjblack.me/14o5w0u
• this is cool: "What Twitter Really Looks Like" http://pjblack.me/XGqIZG
• a good read from the @nytimes: "Successful and Schizophrenic" NYTimes.com
• encouraging research: "Global Warming Not As Bad As We Thought Apparently" http://pjblack.me/115mstO
• "Things To Consider When Submitting To Write For A Late Night Show" http://pjblack.me/WmjgX4
• "Site Lets Ad Professionals Share Their Deepest, Darkest Work Secrets" http://pjblack.me/10P7xUF
• "Is Argo Now the Front-Runner for Best Picture?" http://pjblack.me/111bocE
• "Netflix’s House Of Cards Could Be The Best Show You Won’t See On TV" http://pjblack.me/Yvs7Jb
• i did not know this: "There are 90 Seconds in a Moment" http://pjblack.me/10P7Oa1
• "Victims of Revenge Porn Mount Class Action Suit Against GoDaddy and Texxxan.com" http://pjblack.me/VhcILF #lws008
• "The West Wing: President Bartlet's First Term Approval Ratings" http://pjblack.me/WmkcdM
• "Just As Many Musicians Say File Sharing Helps Them As Those Who Say It Hurts" http://pjblack.me/XG8Uh4 #lwb486 #lws008
• let's hope so: "Was Sarah Palin just a fad?" http://pjblack.me/X5xEkr
• this is awesome: "New iPad 4 Rumored To Have 128 GB" http://pjblack.me/1117kJu
• vine gets removed from the app store? ridiculous!: "Apple Has A Porn Problem, And It's About To Get Worse" http://pjblack.me/10ZebmF
• "My fake college syllabus" http://pjblack.me/X52B8y #highered
• "You Will Not Stop Watching Vinepeek" http://pjblack.me/14o5w0z
• a little premature, i think: "Obama Becomes A 'Great' President" http://pjblack.me/VhcJPu
• "So Long, Lance. Here Comes 21st-Century Doping." http://pjblack.me/WGM4Yp
• intriguing: "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: He might be a she in Man of Steel" http://pjblack.me/14o5uFY
• "Paul Cambria, the Porn Industry's Go-To Lawyer, Takes On Measure B" http://pjblack.me/VhcGU0
• hear, hear!: "Facebook, Twitter, Stop Fighting!" http://pjblack.me/X0Aoj4
• it looks good: "Twitter Made The Most Exciting New App We've Seen In Months" http://pjblack.me/10QFO1e
• this could be good: "It's Official: George Lucas Hands Star Wars to J.J. Abrams" http://pjblack.me/WYEWXl
• "The Man Who Won The First Ever Software Patent" http://pjblack.me/Yuhsys #lwb486
• "Science Creates The World’s First Alcoholism Vaccine" http://pjblack.me/10NMTzx
• "Our flag should not be girt by British history" http://pjblack.me/10MTUAx
• "Feeling Sick? Tweet It And Help Track Outbreaks" http://pjblack.me/WlGzjS
• it's a good thing i was cool: "Remember That Dork You Were in High School? You're Still the Same Person Today." http://pjblack.me/WlFWXJ
• i've had dates from twitter and facebook but not instagram (yet): "How I Turned Instagram Into A Dating Service" http://pjblack.me/Yt4zod
• "Tracking The Travel Patterns Of Secretaries Of State" http://pjblack.me/Yt4pgG
• "The History Of Parking Meters" http://pjblack.me/WlEvbP
• "If Cooties Were Real, What Disease Would They Be?" http://pjblack.me/WlEcgW
• "Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media?" http://pjblack.me/WVGbGD
• "Hollywood So Desperate For Ideas It's Making Movies Based On Deviant Art Drawings" http://pjblack.me/WVxJaz
• "Porn Fans Aren’t What They Used To Be" http://pjblack.me/WjWqj3
• "Great Movies, As Seen Through Google Street View" http://pjblack.me/WTv0yj
• how ridiculous: "The Lonely Existence Of A Men's Rights Advocate" http://pjblack.me/WjVDP3
• "Goodbye, Liz!: 30 Rock Wraps Up Seven Iconic Seasons" http://pjblack.me/YruigI
• "How Republicans Plan To Rig The Electoral College And Steal The White House" http://pjblack.me/WjWwHl
• this show sounds awesome: "Matt Damon Kidnaps Jimmy Kimmel, Takes Over 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'" http://pjblack.me/YsyaxY
• "Why Did Men Stop Wearing High Heels?" http://pjblack.me/YsvMaA
• "Smokers Who Quit Before Age 40 Have Lifespan Almost As Long As People Who Never Smoked" http://pjblack.me/10GOWVU
• could this actually work?: "What We Can Expect From A J.J. Abrams 'Star Wars'" http://pjblack.me/10GMgb2
• "How Larry Page Engineered A Beautiful Revolution" http://pjblack.me/10EjlEo
• "Access to broadband internet is the new access to ports, rail, and electricity" http://pjblack.me/Wg4e5c
• "Feelings, nothing more than feelings: The measured rise of sentiment analysis in journalism" http://pjblack.me/10vSaLW
• "How Much Spam Has Declined In One Chart" http://pjblack.me/YqwWDF
• "Sorry, Porn Industry, But Americans Are Just Fine With Condom Sex, Study Says" http://pjblack.me/Wg5ghO
• "Social media 'investigators' tainting court evidence" http://pjblack.me/10vSOsJ
• "How To Take A Picture In A Restaurant Without Looking Like A Jerk" http://pjblack.me/Whb3nf
• "A Resurgent Netflix Beats Projections, Even Its Own" http://nyti.ms/VsDFYV
• "NBC's Parks and Rec Churns Out Digital Content" http://pjblack.me/10hIzIC
• "Social network sex offender ban ruled unconstitutional by US appeals court" http://pjblack.me/Wg4jpE
• "Report: You Do Not Use Facebook Nearly as Much as You Think You Do" http://pjblack.me/UEIY7I
• "Is PTSD Contagious?" http://pjblack.me/10hSuxK
• a very good read: "An Open Letter to the Girl I Pretended To Have a Crush On in Eighth Grade" http://pjblack.me/10hQnds
• "Tumblr Blog 'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Goes Viral" http://pjblack.me/WLtmi7
• "What Happens If You Become Seriously Ill During A Flight?" http://pjblack.me/WfAQMp
• "Arnold Schwarzenegger To Appear In Terminator 5" http://pjblack.me/WfAMwc
• "Android Is Popular Because It's Cheap, Not Because It's Good" http://pjblack.me/WfAhSW
• "A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age" http://pjblack.me/Wfwvcd #highered
• "Facebook Graph Search Australian Hands-On: So Creepy I Might Just Quit" says @lukehopewell http://pjblack.me/10sy4lF
• "What Do You Pack When You Basically Live In The Air With Hillary Clinton?" http://pjblack.me/YiR7mL
• "30 Of The Most Powerful And Popular Images From Flickr" http://pjblack.me/10hGFI3
• january 21 is supposedly the most miserable day of the year: "Does 'Blue Monday' Really Exist?" http://pjblack.me/YixdZ6

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Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 19-20 January 2013

This evening I fly to Europe for a much-needed holiday.  While I am sure that I won't be able to stop myself from occasionally tweeting links, I will not be posting any Daily Twitter Links until I return to Brisbane on Sunday 4 February 2013. 

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about this weekend:

• "Why oh why, Gen Y, are you so nauseatingly conservative?" http://pjblack.me/10GBkQb
• "Trendy Cafe Serves Kitties With Every Cup A new..." http://pjblack.me/10GBnLK
• go coffee!: "Graph: How Coffee Drank Soda's Milkshake" http://pjblack.me/U7RKff
• "Go for the Throat!: Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party" http://pjblack.me/Xn5QH8
• "Jonathan Coulton Publicly Shames Fox For Copying His Arrangement In Glee" http://pjblack.me/10GBqat #lws008
• "'My God, What Have We Done?': White House Staffers React to Insane Online Petitions" http://pjblack.me/WNuPD2
• lobsters and crabs can feel pain: "Be kind to your seafood, study urges" http://pjblack.me/U7RJYQ
• "How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal" http://pjblack.me/WNuPmD
• "The Most Expensive Product Recalls" http://pjblack.me/WNuTmk
• i had wondered this: "Eye-rolling: Why do people roll their eyes when they’re annoyed?" http://pjblack.me/Xjbr1k
• big changes to seven news in brisbane: "Fresh news faces in Seven heaven" http://pjblack.me/Xm0WKJ
• "Guess The Surprising Real Names Of These Pop Stars" http://pjblack.me/10DFYyp
• very interesting: "Hands On With Kim Dotcom's New Mega: This Service Could Dismantle Copyright Forever" http://pjblack.me/WNuq3j #lwb486
• "One in three American adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition" http://pjblack.me/XjaRk2
• "YouTube’s Reign Threatened by a Spotified Revolution, and Other Reel Truths for Video in 2013" http://pjblack.me/Xj7A4r
• "Twitter's 'Oscars Index': Tracking Academy Awards Social Sentiment" http://pjblack.me/Xj6Iga
• "News outlets improperly used photos posted to Twitter: judge" http://pjblack.me/Xj6Goz#lws008 #lwb480
• this is cool: "Foursquare’s New Interactive Map Plots Its Evolution From Local Check-In Site To Global Utility" http://pjblack.me/10DAzHH
• "Inside the Overstimulated, Underregulated Caffeine Industry" http://pjblack.me/YcrRPd
• this is interesting: "Survey: Users trust social media as news source" http://pjblack.me/Xj3Vnc
• "How unrealistic is murder on television?" http://pjblack.me/YcrWlV
• "Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes" http://pjblack.me/XjaWUN
• "Joan Rivers Wins Privacy Dispute at Appeals Court" http://pjblack.me/Xj3hWH #lwb486 #lws008

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Daily Twitter Links for Friday 18 January 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. Read a Lawyer's Amazingly Detailed Analysis of Bilbo's Contract in The Hobbit" 

Ordinarily I don’t discuss legal issues relating to fictional settings that are dramatically different from the real world in terms of their legal system. Thus, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien’s Middle Earth, etc. are usually off-limits because we can’t meaningfully apply real-world law to them. But the contract featured in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was just too good a topic to pass up, especially since you can buy a high-quality replica of it that is over 5 feet long unfolded.

First, it seems fairly clear (to me, anyway) that Tolkien wrote the Shire (where hobbits live) as a close analog to pastoral England, with its similar legal and political structures. For example, the Shire has amayor and sheriffs, and there is a system of inheritance similar to the common law. The common law fundamentals of contract law have not changed significantly since the time that the Shire is meant to evoke, so it makes sense that the contract would be broadly similar to a modern contract (and likewise that we could apply modern contract law to it).

So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

2. The Best '30 Rock' One-Liners: 

For seven seasons, 30 Rock has shown that a sitcom about the entertainment industry isn't all inside baseball. It's truly absurd in a way that workplace comedies on network TV rarely are, with running jokes about werewolf bar mitzvahs and a cast of freaks that make it all that more humanizing. Tina Fey's TV magnum opus has seen its ups and downs plot-wise, but one thing that has stayed consistent – and perhaps even improved – are one-liners so distractingly funny, they steal scenes. In honor of 30 Rock's series finale on January 31st (and our new cover story), we reveal the show's 20 best one-liners.

3. 'We're being screwed': photographers and designers vent over 'stolen' images: 

How's this for frustrating: you're an Australian graphic designer and you find your work used without permission on a billboard to advertise an art exhibition in China.

This is what happened to graphic designer Karena Colquhoun – and she's not alone in feeling robbed.

A story last week about the duping of a Newcastle artist's photo, without permission, onto thousands of T-shirts to be sold at menswear giant Lowes, prompted emails from dozens of angry artists with similar stories.

They reported having their images stolen from the internet without their permission and placed, sometimes with small modifications, on T-shirts, websites, cigarette cases, stickers, phone covers, posters promoting nightclubs, CD album covers and even hardcover books.

But fighting copyright infringements was fraught with difficulty, they said: offenders often pleaded ignorance, refused to compensate them and wouldn't pull the infringing content.

They said those that were contrite offered very little compensation – unless sued.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• some good tips here (if only i drank wine): "How to Fake Like You Know About Wine" http://pjblack.me/X9IdBm

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "The Age of Obama: Timelapse of President Barack Obama over four years in office" http://pjblack.me/13JWLNZ
• we don't teach this in law school: "Attorney had affair with divorce client, billed her for time they spent having sex" http://pjblack.me/XjbCK2
• "Why the Guardian is launching a digital edition in Australia" http://pjblack.me/Xj7mtQ
• i am excited about this: "Guardian News & Media to launch digital Australia edition" http://pjblack.me/Xj6xRT
• "Read a Lawyer's Amazingly Detailed Analysis of Bilbo's Contract in The Hobbit" http://pjblack.me/Xj65Dj
• "Aaron Swartz memorial law proposed by Silicon Valley congresswoman" http://pjblack.me/YcrXpR
• "Law Professor James Grimmelmann Explains How He Probably Violated The Same Laws As Aaron Swartz" http://pjblack.me/Xj4AVr
• "Gillard hopeful of debates commission agreement" http://pjblack.me/Xj2Zz6 #auspol
• "The Best '30 Rock' One-Liners" http://pjblack.me/XiFiH4
• "Corn of Ill Repute: How Butterkist Helped Make Movie Popcorn Respectable" http://pjblack.me/W72VCt
• some good tips here (if only i drank wine): "How to Fake Like You Know About Wine" http://pjblack.me/X9IdBm
• "11 Days When Americans Watch the Least Pornography" http://pjblack.me/S37sZj
• "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Dustin Diamond…but Were Afraid to Ask Screech" http://pjblack.me/W72Xua
• "Big Cannabis: Growing the Next Great American Industry" http://pjblack.me/W72ZC8
• i'm not sure about the "Crazy Blind Date" app: "OkCupid Finally Comes Up With Worst Idea Ever" http://pjblack.me/W7309i
• different parts of america wear very different kinds of glasses: "A Nation Divided (By Hipster Glasses)" http://pjblack.me/W72Yy8
• "'We're being screwed': photographers and designers vent over 'stolen' images" http://pjblack.me/10CUCG4 #lwb486 #lws008
• the OP cut offs for law in Queensland: UQ 2; QUT 5; Griffith; USQ 11; CQU 12; JCU 15 http://pjblack.me/10CSTR3 #highered
• "Golden Globe win worth millions more than Oscar victory" http://pjblack.me/W72WX3
• "We forget a face, but not a Facebook post" http://pjblack.me/S37u3x
• "New report shows Congress’ favorite BitTorrent downloads" http://pjblack.me/X9IcgM
• "Churro Waffles are Quite Possibly the Best Thing to Happen to Breakfast, Ever" http://pjblack.me/X9IaW8
• "Twitter’s Social Impact Can’t Be Measured, But It’s The Pulse Of The Planet" http://pjblack.me/XgymdB
• "Facebook Graph Search: for when stalking people is too difficult" http://pjblack.me/W72Y15

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Daily Twitter Links for Wednesday and Thursday 16-17 January 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The Surreal Story Of A Football Star's Fake Dead Girlfriend: 

Here is what we know about Manti Te'o: He is an exceptional football player. He's a projected first-round NFL pick. He finished second in the Heisman voting, and he won a haul of other trophies: the Walter Camp, the Chuck Bednarik, the Butkus, the Bronko Nagurski. In each of his three seasons as a full-time starter, he racked up at least 100 tackles.

We also know that Te'o is a devout Mormon. When asked why he picked Notre Dame over Southern California, the school he had supported while growing up in Hawaii, he said he prayed on it. "Faith," he told ESPN, "is believing in something that you most likely can't see, but you believe to be true. You feel in your heart, and in your soul, that it's true, but you still take that leap."

We know, further, that Te'o adores his family. Te'o's father said that Manti had revered his grandfather, who died in January 2012, since the day he was born. He ran his sister's post-graduation luau. And he loved his late maternal grandmother, Annette Santiago. (Here's her obituary.)

But that's where the definite ends. From here, the rest of Te'o's public story begins to grade into fantasy, in the tradition of so much of Notre Dame's mythmaking and with the help of a compliant press.

Assembling a timeline of the Kekua-Te'o relationship is difficult. As Te'o's celebrity swelled, so did the pile of inspirational stories about his triumph over loss. Each ensuing story seemed to add yet another wrinkle to the narrative, and details ran athwart one another. 

2. Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search: 

For years now, Facebook watchers have wondered when the company would unleash the potential of its underpowered search bar. (Nobody has feared this day more than Google, which suddenly faces a competitor able to index tons of data that Google’s own search engine can’t access.) They have also wondered how a Facebook search product might work. Now we know. Graph Search is fundamentally different from web search. Instead of a Google-like effort to help users find answers from a stitched-together corpus of all the world’s information, Facebook is helping them tap its vast, monolithic database to make better use of their “social graph,” the term Zuckerberg uses to describe the network of one’s relationships with friends, acquaintances, favorite celebrities, and preferred brands.

3. I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too.:

IT is for Americans and their elected representatives to determine the right response to President Obama’s proposals on gun control. I wouldn’t presume to lecture Americans on the subject. I can, however, describe what I, as prime minister of Australia, did to curb gun violence following a horrific massacre 17 years ago in the hope that it will contribute constructively to the debate in the United States.

And the most-read link I tweeted yesterday and today was:

• the most popular cafe in australia according to @Beanhunter is in brisbane!: "Most Popular Cafes of 2012" http://pjblack.me/XcWlu7

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about yesterday and today:

• this is big: "Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US" http://pjblack.me/10BjduW
• "Are We Ready For More Extreme Weather?" asks @beneltham http://pjblack.me/10B87WK #auspol
• "I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too." writes john howard for the @nytimes http://pjblack.me/10AMR3w
• "Twitter in talks with PM's office on bullying protocols" http://pjblack.me/10AiFp5
• "The Surreal Story Of A Football Star's Fake Dead Girlfriend" http://pjblack.me/X9I3tD
• "Swartz Death A Tipping Point" http://pjblack.me/10y4X64
• "Is Ira Glass Becoming Too Famous for This American Life?" http://pjblack.me/XcqycS
• the entertainment industry is not going to like this: "BitTorrent set-top box" http://pjblack.me/10w3sWc #lwb486 #lws008
• "Dennis Kucinich Joins Fox News" http://pjblack.me/10AeVnE
• "Casting Directors: When Will Oscars Recognize the Impact We Have on Films?" http://pjblack.me/10vS9gO
• unbearable: "'Proposal Concierge' Firm Helps New Yorkers Pop the Question" http://pjblack.me/10vQyr2
• silicon prairie?: "Google's ultrafast internet internet draws startups to Kansas City" http://pjblack.me/Xa8fVI
• "Negligence Claims Against Twitter Won't Last" http://pjblack.me/10vRPOS
• "The Fed Killed Trillion-Dollar Coin" http://pjblack.me/Xa8hwO
• "'Life of Pi': Profitability Is as Stunning as Its Oscar Splash" http://pjblack.me/XaaW9N
• "The searchers" http://pjblack.me/10w7GNx
• "A disconnect between violence and television" http://pjblack.me/10vQbgc
• and i'm pleased my favourite coffee shop on the gold coast @canteencoffee made the list: "Most Popular Cafes of 2012" http://pjblack.me/XcWlu7
• the most popular cafe in australia according to @Beanhunter is in brisbane!: "Most Popular Cafes of 2012" http://pjblack.me/XcWlu7
• umm tasty?: "Bear meat: How I ended up with 60 pounds of it, and cooked it all." http://pjblack.me/XcLr7O
• "Digital Reading Rises Among Children, Scholastic Study Shows" http://pjblack.me/Xa7LyR
• "Twitter Storytelling: See Tweets Transformed Into Haunting Works Of Art" http://pjblack.me/10vPHqv
• "Living by the Numbers" http://pjblack.me/Xa6LdT
• "Why Scientology Helped Tom Cruise Fight His Ex-Wives" http://pjblack.me/V6avm4
• "The problem with BuzzFeed’s sponsored posts" http://pjblack.me/Xa59kz
• this is pretty cool: "Delta's New iPad App Shows Off The World Below Your Plane" http://pjblack.me/10vNo6I
• this is awesome: "Fred Armisen hosts This American Life as Ira Glass" http://pjblack.me/10vW8Kh
• "Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search" http://pjblack.me/XcqZ71
• "Prime Minister’s media release on social networking sites 16 January" http://pjblack.me/10xWCzl #auspol #openinternet
• "Howie Kurtz accused of interfering with story to protect Anderson Cooper's sexuality" http://pjblack.me/Xa50NO
• this is a little grim: "Supreme Court Justice Death Calculator" http://pjblack.me/Xa4uPY
• "FreshNeck Is Netflix for Ties, Makes Sure Your Formalwear Is Never Boring" http://pjblack.me/Xa4aAU
• "How Intermittent Fasting Might Help You Live a Longer and Healthier Life" http://pjblack.me/Xa477Z
• "Basically ... anyone interesting is a felon. The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment." http://pjblack.me/X9O9uJ
• an oldie but a goodie: "Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period." http://pjblack.me/V5w1qW
• "Deliberating the history of the filibuster" http://pjblack.me/Xa3Wtl
• "How we lost 20 years on climate change action" http://pjblack.me/10vMg3c

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Daily Twitter Links for Tuesday 15 January 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The End of Courtship?" http://pjblack.me/Xa8GiQ

Women in their 20s these days are lucky to get a last-minute text to tag along. Raised in the age of so-called “hookup culture,” millennials — who are reaching an age where they are starting to think about settling down — are subverting the rules of courtship.

Instead of dinner-and-a-movie, which seems as obsolete as a rotary phone, they rendezvous over phone texts, Facebook posts, instant messages and other “non-dates” that are leaving a generation confused about how to land a boyfriend or girlfriend.

“The new date is ‘hanging out,’ ” said Denise Hewett, 24, an associate television producer in Manhattan, who is currently developing a show about this frustrating new romantic landscape. As one male friend recently told her: “I don’t like to take girls out. I like to have them join in on what I’m doing — going to an event, a concert.”

2. The End of the University as We Know It: 

In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.

3. How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz--and Us: 

Defenders of the prosecution seem to think that anyone charged with a felony must somehow deserve punishment. That idea can only be sustained without actual exposure to the legal system. Yes, most of the time prosecutors do chase actual wrongdoers, but today our criminal laws are so expansive that most people of any vigor and spirit can be found to violate them in some way. Basically, under American law, anyone interesting is a felon. The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment.

Today, prosecutors feel they have license to treat leakers of information like crime lords or terrorists. In an age when our frontiers are digital, the criminal system threatens something intangible but incredibly valuable. It threatens youthful vigor, difference in outlook, the freedom to break some rules and not be condemned or ruined for the rest of your life. Swartz was a passionate eccentric who could have been one of the great innovators and creators of our future. Now we will never know.

And the most-read link I tweeted today was:

• "10 Reasons Why 2013 Will Be The Year You Quit Your Job"  http://feedly.com/k/11qkJ25

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Google ordered to reveal identity of anonymous bloggers in Australian defamation suit" http://pjblack.me/XanXjE #lwb480
• a very unfair, negative reaction from andrew sullivan: "Jodie Foster Stops Lying" http://pjblack.me/10vXTXR
• a good piece from tim wu (@superwuster): "How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz--and Us" http://pjblack.me/X9O9uJ
• "Twitter can help people lose weight" http://pjblack.me/10uYF7m
• "Porn Industry Uses Free Speech to Fight California's Condom Law" http://pjblack.me/X7tBTC
• "First NZ three-strikes copyright case to be heard" http://pjblack.me/10tE6s4 #lwb486
• "We the People: Is the Death Star Petition a model for legislative change in Australia?" http://pjblack.me/10tCZIO #auslaw #auspol
• "In Defence Of Compulsory Voting" http://pjblack.me/X7p4Ay #auspol #lwb242
• "Jodie Foster Kicks Open the Closet Door - What It Means for Gays in Hollywood" http://sco.lt/5jVf73
• "Tributes flow for former CAPA president John Nowakowski" http://pjblack.me/Xa9c0f
• this is a good list - i love "hush" and "once more with feeling": "The 5 Best ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Episodes" http://pjblack.me/X6Z3S1
• has hookup culture killed the date?: "The End of Courtship?" http://pjblack.me/Xa8GiQ
• "uNu iPhone 5 Battery Case Doubles Your Battery Life" http://pjblack.me/10t6H0w
• i was very sad to hear today of the tragic and premature death of @janek85: "Vale John Nowakowski" http://pjblack.me/Xa7njU
• peter is not in the top ten but mo, bertie and gus are?: "The top baby names of 2013" http://pjblack.me/Xa568k
• there is something to this: "Never mind iPhone 6 and iPads next, in 2013 it's all about iOS 7 and iCloud" http://pjblack.me/X6Kyxt
• this seems to be a common trend: "After 199 Checkins, 41 Photos, And 18 Badges I Quit Foursquare – Here's Why" http://pjblack.me/X6Im9b
• maybe i need this: "Gym Shamer Shames You Into Going To The Gym" http://pjblack.me/10t3PRe
• i am loving the new digg: "New Digg owners claim the 'Digg effect is back', user base doubled in 5 months" http://pjblack.me/X6IdCB
• "Justice Thomas speaks" http://pjblack.me/10vyr4D
• "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing" http://pjblack.me/VXXDd1
• "'Drinking Mirror' app aims to show how alcohol ages you" http://pjblack.me/VYJkFh 
• "Public Influence: The Immortalization of an Anonymous Death" http://pjblack.me/VXNAol
• "Visionary voting reform ... if it works in your favour" says mungo maccallum http://pjblack.me/10vnJLy #lwb242 #auspol 
• links to the stories i discussed on @612brisbane this morning http://pjblack.me/10tHzH4
• "Aussie avalanche in MBA competition" http://pjblack.me/X9yZWc #highered #qut
• "Online Pick-Up Artists Have Infiltrated Snapchat" http://pjblack.me/VSg0me
• "10 Reasons Why 2013 Will Be The Year You Quit Your Job"  http://feedly.com/k/11qkJ25
• "Newsweek unveils animated cover. But what if its old issues were animated too?" http://pjblack.me/X5b2zn
• desktop search is down: "Google's Core Business Is In The Middle Of A Fundamental Shift" http://pjblack.me/VWvhQz
• "Wikipedia launches travel site Wikivoyage on January 15" http://pjblack.me/VXNTQ3
• "Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down?" http://pjblack.me/V1FYWq
• "A Quiet Killer: Why Video Games Are So Addictive" http://pjblack.me/X4fvCh
• "The End of the University as We Know It" http://pjblack.me/VT5A3k #highered
• "Clarence Thomas Breaks Half-Decade Silence During SCOTUS Arguments" http://pjblack.me/10uRMmC

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