Links for 2006-09-20

Posted September 20, 2006 1:17 AM.

• Weird BBC puff piece for a new and rather unfunny Onion-rip-off I'm a bit puzzled by this one. The BBC normally takes such enormous care to not be seen to be endorsing or advertising other people's products.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is looking for a Sr. Interaction Designer You have to be a temple-worthy church going and have five years web experience. That might be limiting the field a bit, so I thought I'd give them a hand. Thanks to Matt Jones for showing me the path.
• Stormhoek Pinotage has won an award for quality of flavour as well as novelty of marketing I'm actually really glad about this - it's nice to see that the marketing wasn't the sole distinguishing factor, and that it isn't only bad products that explore unorthodox or new engagements with the internet...
• Awesome Daily Show clip from yesterday on Gays in the Military Apparently a large proportion of gay men drink each other's urine. Difficult to argue with that, really.
• Techcrunch on the flickrization of your business cards Some interesting commentary and responses around the MOO/Flickr Minicards launch...
• Death of the Author Wikipedia has a pretty decent article on Roland Barthes arguing for the death of the author and the various responses and implications to and of that initial postulation, including Foucault's much more interesting commentary...
• The Cathie Marsh Centre is doing a survey on webloggers and their attitudes to privacy It might be worth your while contributing to this if you find it interesting, although obviously they're likely to get a pretty skewed survey with this kind of selection metrics...
• David Gregory vs Bush on the so-called 'Torture Bill' A decent question is asked, a reply with almost no substance is returned. Hideous little weasel.