• Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 -video – melkoista Surfacen ja kavereiden juhlaa. mutta miksi vaikkapa e-paper-sanomalehdessä juttu avautuu näyttävän mutta hitaan animaation saattelemana? (via twitter.com/s_constantine)
• The Stanford Daily – Web site’s online Facebook raises concerns (September 22, 1999) –
• Paul Grahamin 13 ohjetta startupeille – sopinevat yrittäjille yleensä
• James Surowiecki selittää, miksi palkat eivät laske vaikeinakaan aikoina (New Yorker) – Oil and wheat prices may rise and fall instantaneously to reflect supply and demand, but wages are “sticky”: even when the economy goes bad, it takes a lot to make them fall. — In a 1997 study of almost two hundred employers, the economists Carl Campbell and Kunal Kamlani found that the threat of losing their best employees was a major reason that bosses didn’t cut wages.
  Even more important is the impact of wage cuts on morale. — Of course, layoffs don’t exactly help morale, but, as one of the bosses that Bewley interviewed coldly put it, they “get the misery out the door.” Cutting wages keeps the misery around.
• Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongues (NYRB) – Voice adaptation is still the original British sin. Monitoring and exposing such citizens is a national pastime, as popular as sex scandals and libel cases. If you lean toward the Atlantic with your high-rising terminals you're a sell-out; if you pronounce borrowed European words in their original style—even if you try something as innocent as parmigiano for "parmesan"—you're a fraud. If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal. Voices are meant to be unchanging and singular. There's no quicker way to insult an ex-pat Scotsman in London than to tell him he's lost his accent. We feel that our voices are who we are, and that to have more than one, or to use different versions of a voice for different occasions, represents, at best, a Janus-faced duplicity, and at worst, the loss of our very souls.

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• Miten Disney maksimoi voitot (Fortune) – samasta franchisesta rahat pois monella tavalla: "Cars" may be exhibit A of Disney's franchise machinery at work. Three years after the movie came out, sales of licensed merchandise are running at more than $2 billion annually. A "Cars" sequel is in production. Disney will soon launch an elaborate Cars virtual world. But the biggest bet on "Cars" is Cars Land, a 12-acre stretch of Disney's California Adventure theme park set to open in 2012.
• Mirror's Edge 2D – näemmä Fancy Pants Adventuren jatko-osa lisensoitiin Mirror's Edgeksi
• From a Carrier, Another View of America’s Air War in Afghanistan (NY Times) – “If it was positively identified as hostile in Iraq, you took it out,” said Commander Luchtman, who also flew missions over Baghdad in 2003. “Here, just because it’s positively identified as hostile, you’ve still got to mitigate the other things around.”
• Annotated Girl Talk – An incomplete list of sampled tracks is included under each song. However, the CD includes a list of source material, listing both the song and the artist.[9][10][11] Each track is named after a lyric contained in one of the songs it samples.
• PolarClock screen saver – OS X & Windows

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• Twitter Friends Network Browser – very cool thingiewiggly
• My TweetStats –
• Starcraft Theory and Strategy -kurssi – This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft. There will be lecture on various aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conducted. Calculus and Differential Equations are highly recommended for full understanding of the course.
• My story: 'Movies made me' by Mark Cousins (Prospect) – But cinema, at its best, is an art, and art matters. It is also a multibillion dollar business, and money certainly matters. In a fuzzier sense, movies seem to shape aspiration and desire. Some would say that they were 20th-century America’s most striking export, an exertion of its soft power. Certainly they seem responsive to national psychology. Movies tell us what we are scared of. I have argued before that they function like Freudian parapraxes.
• Depeche Mode: Wrong (YT) – the new single
• Kiwi Abroad -blogi – Matt Kennedy-Good followed his heart to Finland

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