Link Post - Get Out Your Tinted Sunglasses
Comics for the weird kids come back.
Polygon - Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis are both bestselling authors with multiple movies and TV adaptations under their belts, Grant Morrison has done runs on X-Men, Superman, and Batman, and Garth Ennis' Preacher is a cable show. When they were all writing genre changing/defining comics in the 90's at Vertigo, they cast a huge . . .
Link Post - Personality By Instrument
Mcsweeney's - Their output has been less consistent as of late, but this was hilarious.
Link Post - FCC Faked DDOS To Drum Up Support
Federal Agencies Versus TV Comedians
Techdirt - Considering the frequency and veracity of the government lying, this might not rank highly on people's lists. On the other hand, this is pretty much exactly what you'd expect from people dismantling something rather popular. Considering the overall lack of competition in the telecom space, paired with the weakness of . . .
Link Post - Vintage Spook PSAs
Internal Posters From The NSA
Ars Technica - In addition to being a fun timeline of design trends in posters, this collection of internal PSAs at the NSA shows you what the agency was most concerned about. Their flair for pop culture references in the 70's is particularly odd.
Link Post - Pop Music Monoculture
Proving Music Sucks Now, With SCIENCE!
The Pudding - Breaking down how music has evolved since the dawn of modern pop through musical trends and instrumentation, this article shows how the advent of digital editing has made it so that music is able to quickly produced and is fairly disposable. Also, nearly half of the popular songs are written by the same people. It's pretty . . .
WWDC Craig's Notes
Like Live Tweeting, But Almost Twelve Hours Later
Though it's been a few years since I covered WWDC in earnest, I still make a note to catch the keynote every year. Work has been pretty busy, so taking two hours in the middle of the day to catch the stream isn't practical. It was rainy, so I watched the stream while I sat on the exercise bike and took notes. This isn't a . . .