• Ben Yagoda: In Defense of Common English – Such is the dilemma of the linguist, or at least the linguist who has any desire to reach anyone outside their — excuse me, his or her — discipline. A sizable group of people is partial to attending discussions and reading books about language. But what this group wants to hear is antithetical to what scholars of this subject want to say.
• The Wingnut explains why conservatives fear gay marriage (Salon) – "Ask a Wingnut" is written by a real live conservative and former Bush official who chooses to remain anonymous. Each week "Glenallen Walken" will bridge the cultural divide and answer questions from liberals about why conservatives think and do what they think and do.
• Google News Timeline – vinkeä vekotin
• Mike Skinner Twitters His Music Away – Mike Skinner is using his Twitter account to give away music. On April 13th, Skinner wrote: “I am going to tweet 3 new songs this week. I can’t be bothered with all this trying to sell you music. It wastes valuable time.” He kept his word and posted three new songs by The Streets: “I Love My Phone,” “Trust Me,” and “David Hassles,” all of which are still available. Last Thursday, Skinner promised his followers three more tunes this week.
• Ohjeet ylisuuren Parallels-levyn kutistamiseen, jos Disk Compact ei toimi – testaus kesken, mutta olisi parempi toimia (14 gigaa vs 4,5 gigaa)
• Peter Singer: To defame religion is a human right – While attempts to stir up hatred against adherents of a religion, or to incite violence against them, may legitimately be suppressed, criticism of religion as such should not be.

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• Time Traveler Essentials -t-paita –
• Parlamentaarikkohuumoria Yhdysvaltain malliin (NY Times) – The barbed-tongued Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, silenced a Republican House colleague who had complained that he did not know what was inside a proposed bill: “This bill is five and a half pages — even the gentleman from Texas could have read it by now.”
• Shai Agassi haluaa mullistaa sähköautot (NYT Mag) – Agassi’s grand plan is to kick-start the global adoption of electric cars by minimizing one of the biggest frustrations with the technology: the need for slow and frequent recharges. The robot is the key to his solution. Unlike most electric-car technologies, which generally require you to plug your car into a power source and recharge an onboard battery for hours, the Better Place robot is designed to reach under the chassis of an electric car, pluck its battery out and replace it with a new one, much the same way you’d put new batteries in a child’s toy.
• Roju haastattelee Ville Rantaa sarjakuvamuodossa – aiheina feminiinisyys vs maskuliinisuus, taide vs viihde ja prosessitekeminen
• Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will – WSJ.com – "If you love it, you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby."

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• Andrew Sullivanin henkilökuva (Intelligent Life) – He was the first well-known writer to become a blogger—and played a key role in smelting the form. Just as Michel de Montaigne played a crucial role in developing the modern essay, Andrew Sullivan will be remembered as pioneering the form of the blog. The now-ubiquitous blog style—short, pithy, personality-inflected posts, offered often—was begun by him. “How many writers in their lifetime stumble across a new medium like this?” he asks excitedly. “Here you are, present at the creation.”
• Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic? – Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called "serious writers" or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?
• Manifesto of a Comic-Book Rebel – Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s ‘Drifting Life’ (NY Times) – Mr. Tatsumi began drawing manga as a child, but he quickly rebelled against the form’s aesthetic limitations. Manga was aimed largely at children, and its emotional and intellectual palette was circumscribed. Along with a cohort of young writers and illustrators, Mr. Tatsumi introduced in the late 1950s a bolder form of manga he called “gekiga” — darker, more realistic, often violent. The name stuck. And he became one of Japan’s most important visual artists.
• The Wrong Brand – logo ja nimi ei sovi yhteen
• Siistejä lepakkovideoita –
• De La Soul – Making of 3 Feet High – pitkä haastattelu

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• Laman aikaan firmojen kandee laittaa lisää pökköä pesään – When hard times hit, most companieshunker down, cut spending, and wait for good times to return. They make fewer acquisitions, even though prices are cheaper. They cut advertising budgets. And often they invest less in research and development. They do all this to preserve what they have. But there’s a trade-off: numerous studies have shown that companies that keep spending on acquisition, advertising, and R. & D. during recessions do significantly better than those which make big cuts.
• EPVote – track the votes at the European Parliament – ensimmäinen askel?
• Monty Python Star Sign – piti ihan Internet Archivesta kaivaa
• Manic Street Preachers coveroi Rihannan Umbreallan (video) –
• Garry Trudeau: The Tweets Of Roland Hedley (Shouts & Murmurs) – En route U.K. Just re-upped membership in 1st class Mile High Club. O.K., I was by myself, but I was thinking of one of the flight attendants. 2:45 P.M. Mar 30th

  Disregard that last tweet from a staffer. 2:47 P.M. Mar 30th

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• SeekingArrangement.com yhdistää köyhät nuoret naiset ja rikkaat vanhat miehet (NYT Mag) – Seeking Arrangement is a down-and-dirty marketplace where older moneyed men and cute young women engage in brutally frank transactions. They’re not searching for longtime soul mates; they want no-strings-attached “arrangements” that trade in society’s most valued currencies: wealth, youth and beauty. In the cheesy lexicon of the site, they are “sugar daddies” and “sugar babies.”
• 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs – via pni
• Do Parents Matter? (SciAm) – In 1998 Judith Rich Harris, an independent researcher and textbook author, published The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out The Way They Do. The book provocatively argued that parents matter much less, at least when it comes to determining the behavior of their children, than is typically assumed. Instead, Harris argued that a child’s peer group is far more important. The Nurture Assumption has recently been reissued in an expanded and revised form. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Harris about her critics, the evolution of her ideas and why teachers can be more important than parents.
• Mitens 1800-luvun merirosmous toimikaan? (NY Times) – The pirates worked for a government. The Barbary rulers commissioned them to rob and pillage and kidnap, and the rulers got a cut. It was all official. And open. It was truly state-sponsored terrorism. And the Western nations’ response was to pay “tribute,” a fancy word for blackmail.
• Paavo Lipponen: Pääsiäisäksyilyblogi – miten olisi juomapeli, jossa napataan huikka jokaisen kaunan kohdalla? (via Kasa)

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• NYT Mag editor Gerry Marzorati on the future of long-form narrative –
• Nambu, a Twitter/Friendfeed client for OS X – näyttää kätsyltä
• How to eject stuck cd from Mac OS X – seuraavaa kertaa varten muistiin
• Onion A.V. Club haastatteli Alan Moorea vuonna 2001 –
• Five tips on charging for content from Alan Murray of WSJ.com (Nieman Journalism Lab) – 1. The best model is a mix of paid and free content. 2. You can’t charge for exclusives that will just be repeated elsewhere. 3. Don’t charge for the most popular content on your site. 4. Content behind a pay wall should appeal to niches. 5. The narrower the niche, perhaps the better.
• Sasha Frere-Jones kirjoittaa U2:n suosion luonteesta – Yes, the band’s most famous member is the least technically gifted, and the most influential, the guitarist David Evans, a.k.a. the Edge, is the least likely to pipe up in public. For all his limitations—he’s one of the last vocalists you can imagine making a solo record—Bono is the only singer who could possibly make U2’s music succeed. The band has done relatively few cover versions, a tacit acknowledgment that its gift is peculiar and limited, despite its potency. Bono’s voice can sound strained fairly quickly and isn’t in the same league of instruments as that of Michael Stipe or Robert Plant, men with rich, deeply textured voices. Bono’s gift is the ability to sound utterly immersed in and committed to whatever his band is proposing. He backs down from nothing that the band starts. That is how the band has held its place while teetering for decades on the cusp between self-righteous (perhaps the most common insult hurled at it, and at Bono) and euphoric.
• Almost Perfect – The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation –

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• How the Internet got its rules (NY Times Op-ed) – the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments
• TVnetti.fi – Kaikki kotimaiset netti-TV-ohjelmat –
• Every ep of ST Voyager playing at the same time in a grid – a two minute excerpt
• Geography of Buzz (kartta) – Below are maps from a study, called “The Geography of Buzz.” The authors, Elizabeth Currid, an assistant professor in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and Sarah Williams, the director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, mined thousands of photographs from Getty Images that chronicled flashy parties and smaller affairs on both coasts for a year, beginning in March 2006. The maps show the density of different types of cultural events in New York and Los Angeles.
• Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You? (New York mag) –

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• How to watch BBC iPlayer shows outside the UK | Cherie's blog – Tor + Foxyproxy (vanha ohje, mutta näyttäisi toimivan)
• Two Tales of Successful Strategic Evolution in the Finnish Music Industry (pdf) – englanninkielinen lisuri Pokon ja Fazerin kehityksestä
• Vinyl vision – Vinyl vision is the ability to see groove patterns in vinyl recordings and correctly identify musical recordings without the benefit of identifying labels. Only one person is on record as having this amusing ability: Arthur B. Lintgen, M.D.
• Think auttaa keskittymään yhteen ohjelmaan kerrallaan (OS X) –
• Area Man Finds Headline Amusing But That's About It – zinggg! (via Mike Pohjola)

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• Obaman limusiini ei mahdu kääntymään Downing Street 10:n edessä (video) – amerikanlaiva olisi varmasti näppärä pysäköidä taskuun
• Why laid-off American workers stay off the streets while Europeans protest? (NY Times) – David Kennedy, a Stanford historian and author of “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945,” says that America’s individualist streak is a major reason for this reluctance to take to the streets. Citing a 1940 study by the social psychologist Mirra Komarovsky, he said her interviews of the Depression-era unemployed found “the psychological reaction was to feel guilty and ashamed, that they had failed personally.” Taken together, guilt, shame and individualism undercut any impulse to collective action, then as now, Professor Kennedy said.
• Puujalkain merkityksestä – “Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.”
• Interiew with the Star Trek Remastered Crew –
• Jacob Weisberg listaa yleisesti totena pidettyjä asioita, jotka saattavat sittenkin olla pielessä (Slate) –
• James Earl Jones recites the alphabet (YT) – what the…
• Fox Cancels Joss Whedon – tsihihi

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• Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter (McSweeney's) – Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide.
• Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale (The Onion) – so say we all (spoilereita)
• Vintage Afro Beat – linkit kahteen hillittömään mageeseen mixtapeen
• Hannu Karpon legendaarinen tv-lupa-aprillipila 1966 –
• Vuoden muotokuvat 2009 –
• Wiredin kansia 1991–1998 –

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