It’s a beautiful day in the nation’s breadbasket which means the commute home will be deadly. Fortunately I’ll be hopping the express to 69th Street with these links to occupy the time.
Yahoo! is looking to acquire Tumblr. Remember that time it bought GeoCities for $3.6 billion?
Jason Gross interviews Torsten Schmidt and Piotr Orlov about the Daily Note and corporate sponsored longform writing.
Damien Walter explores the “challenge of writing about lives lived via computers.”
Apparently taking the day off, Stuart Kelly asks if “this” is the end of the genre fiction wars. What’s “this?” An introduction to a new edition of M John Harrison’s Climbers penned by Robert Macfarlane.
Mark Fisher paints a depressing picture of modern labor, where the entrepreneurial spirit knows no bounds, “Being exploited is no longer enough. The nature of labour now is such that almost anyone, no matter how menial their position, is required to be seen (over)investing in their work.”
Scott McConnell has a different reaction to the Jaron Lanier interview at Salon.
Greg Sandoval explains how Google beat Apple to the golden goose of streaming music.
Read Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling criticize the press.
Damon Lindelof says that for a Justice League movie to succeed it needs Man of Steel to lay the groundwork for a cinematic DC universe with the right “tone” for all of its characters.
Casino Royal’s opening scene in Lego form.
that jaron lanier piece is painfully hard to read. so dang poorly written.Report
The Mark Fisher piece was painful, but for another reason. I had to learn about bukkake.Report
i guess it made a splash?Report
“Yahoo! is looking to acquire Tumblr. Remember that time it bought GeoCities for $3.6 billion?”
I don’t care how many Yahoo employees might have been slacking off at home, they weren’t wasting $3.6 billion. This is the sort of behavior which kills companies, tossing a year’s gross income down the toilet. If anybody wants to know why Yahoo is failing, just look at the people running it.Report
typo: “REMEBERING” – upon correction, feel free to delete this comment along with my confession that I watched the entire Lego Casino Royale thing.Report
Lindelof is damned right about the Justice League movie. It’s to late for his advice to have any effect, and I rather strongly suspect that Warner Brothers hasn’t followed it.
The first Iron Man movie set out to create a world that was bigger than Tony Stark from the very beginning: Cap’s shield was on a workbench. Coulson and his fellow agents of Shield show up. And that’s before the after-credits sequence.
Marvel, of course, had an easier job. So many of the Avengers are directly tied into the military industrial complex: Iron Man and Hulk started as weapons designers, Cap was designed as a weapon, Black Widow is a spy, as is Hawkeye in most adaptations. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are reformed terrorists.
Thor is the odd one out. And Marvel spend a lot of screen time forging connections between Asgard and the rest of the marvel universe.Report