Links for 2004-11-20

Posted November 20, 2004 12:15 AM.

• Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut who frankly deserves a hagiography
  "We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on."
  (categories: america beautiful coldturkey conservative corruption cynical drugs fossilfuels kurtvonnegut liberal politics president terrible whitehouse)
• Music piracy 'does hit CD sales'
  "The study contradicts a previous report, conducted in 2002, which said swapping songs online had no negative effect on music sales."
  (categories: audio cds copyright corporate downloading drm itunes mp3 music recordcompanies rights rightsmanagement sales statistics)
• Matt Biddulph writes about deli.cio.us for XML.com
  Del.icio.us and tag-based structures like Flickr are still interesting the hell out of me - mainly because of the possibility of the sudden creation of a completely new layer of information worth mining and manipulating.
  (categories: api article delicious design developer development ethnoclassification folksonomies folksonomy mattbiddulph platform socialsoftware software tagging tags technology web)
• Flash interface for insanely detailed 2 gigapixel photo
  An extraordinarily high-quality digital image that allows you to zoom in to a ludicrous extent. It's a bit of a shame that the place they took pictures of is so banal, but hey...
  (categories: camera dorky flash gigapixel industrial industrialpark interface pan photography photos stitching zoom)
• Photographs of President Reagan
  "There was this odd moment where Mrs. Reagan and President Reagan were having this little private chat and right in the middle you see Michael Jackson."
  (categories: 1980s 80s america american culture kitsch michaeljackson photograph photography politics popculture president ronaldreagan strange whitehouse)
• Lorry rescues car from sea - with hilarious consequences
  If it's real of course, which it might not be. And then of course if no one got hurt in the process. Which they very well might have been. Still, pretty awesome visuals...
  (categories: calamity car catastrophe dock humour image lorry photography pictures sea)
• The Apple Store Regent Street Preview Gallery
  Pictures of the new Apple Store to open tomorrow morning on Regent Street in London. There are apparently 250 grab bags with a value of over £700 for sale for under half that price, if you're prepared to wait outside for six-ten hours to get them...
  (categories: apple applestore architecture computers imac ipod ipods mac photography retail storefront windowshopping)