{ "date":"2010-01-21", "top10": [ { "title":"White & Nerdy ", "link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/21/white-american-baske.html", "body":"The All-American Basketball Alliance, a basketball league that only allows white American-born players, will start in June. The commissioner, Don Lewis, is reported as saying something along the lines of “I’m not racist, but I’m tired of the way that those fucking niggers, spics, and towelheads play basketball. What if they pull out a gun and rape your daughter in the middle of the game? That would be terrible.” His opinions as to cotton-fields are as-yet unvoiced.", "category":"General Racism" }, { "title":"Fu-fu-fu-fu-flickr Face, Fu-fu-fu-fu-face", "link":"http://code.flickr.com/blog/2010/01/21/people-in-photos-the-api-methods/", "body":"Flickr’s new faces API allows you to see who’s in a picture, and see pictures of a specific person. Very simple, too. ", "category":"Programming" }, { "title":"Plastic Guitar Problems ", "body":"Apparently, people are getting sick of having three thousand plastic music gubbins in their living rooms, and the Rhythm Music genre is not selling as well as it used to. To anybody who did not see this coming thousands of miles away, I award you a condescending pat to the head. ", "link":"http://performancetrap.org/2009/10/28/decline-of-guitar-hero-and-rock-band/", "category":"Gaming" }, { "title":"Carbon Dioxide Pushes Your Breasts Up ", "link":"http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/corset-reacts-to-carbon-dioxide-levels-in-the-air/", "body":"In the world of wearable tech, a prototype corset gets tighter in response to air-quality, paradoxically making it even harder to breathe. ", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Freelance ", "link":"http://freelanceswitch.com/tag/freelance-freedom/", "body":"So, I found this comic about freelancing. Today. It’s been going on for a while. It’s not hilarious, but it is … recognizable, I guess? So just read the whole archive, have a few chuckles, and get on with your day.", "category":"Design" }, { "title":" AP AP BAP BAP BA ", "link":"http://www.wastedtalent.ca/index.php?view=442&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WastedTalentRss+%28Wasted+Talent+RSS+Feeds%29&utm_content=Google+Reader", "body":"I always wonder how a comic called “Wasted Talent” is about a talented and consistently improving cartoonist who is also a field engineer and married to a software developer, and they’ve purchased an apartment in the downtown core? I mean, that seems like a pretty efficient use of talent.", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"Robot Sex Slave Blues ", "link":"http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/20/Saturn-s-Children", "body":"Okay, so, I’m not going to lie, I was just pulled in by the name of this article by Tim Bray. Seriously, isn’t that a pretty good pull? With a title like that, you’ll read anything that he wants to write. You have no choice. Apparently it’s a book review? I might have to buy this book now. ", "category":"Books" }, { "title":"Monetizing Print", "link":"http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/the-monetization-paradox-or-wh.html", "body":"Okay, so, yesterday, I cut an article from the Top 10, one where the New York Times was going to put up a “paywall” to try to make a little bit of money_ off of the internet - because ‘new distribution models’ (i.e. free everything) are cutting traditional newspapers’ KNEES off. It didn’t make the cut, but it’s relevant to today’s link - the author of Saturn’s Children (the book about which the above article ‘Robot Sex Slave Blues’ was written) wrote a long article about how he don’t make no monies from the intarwob.\n\nWhich is interesting, but people have been writing the same article for years now. Now that everything on the internet is free, how the heck are we going to make money off of it? \n\n.. _money: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/new-york-times-plans-to-charge-for-articles/ \n", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Web Security ", "link":"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/14/web-security-primer-are-you-part-of-the-problem/", "body":"Okay, okay, by now, any web professional knows everything there is to know about Web Security. It doesn’t hurt to read it one more time, just to keep things straight in your head. It was even recommended by Bruce Schneier!", "category":"Programming" }, { "title":"CRAP ", "link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/21/ridiculous-gut-busti.html", "body":"Making fun of food advertising? I love it. ", "category":"Misc" } ] }