• 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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