-At Iconoculture, we still believe It Sucks to Fly, but trip planning might suck a little less since Expedia has dropped its fee for booking flights over the phone. Broadband-challenged consumers can now save a few bucks and spend some quality time on hold.
-What happens when blind justice stumbles into the ethereal abyss we call the Web? That is, Can The Rule of Law Exist in the Virtual World? Well … can it?? This is about more than forcing bloggers to reveal their advertising alliances, people.
-This interactive map shows voter turnout by block. Love thy neighbor, track thy neighbor, shame they neighbor, whatever.
-2010 is prophesied to be the year of the woman. Some evidence to the contrary: Women are voluntarily shrink-wrapping themselves in spandex to make for a $750 million market! Christina Hendricks et al wear actual girdles for up to 17 hours. I believe her when she says they’re “superuncomfortable” but at least she’s getting paid for it.
-”There is no reason to keep pretending that the Copyright Wars involve matters of morality or principle—they don’t and never have. The Copyright Wars and their predecessors have always been about one thing and one thing only—a fruitless effort to resist, to the end, the very nature of capitalism, which is a dynamic, creative force by which new innovations and business models replace old ones.” IP is so 2003.
-Kids’ books. Xers. Bad parenting. Rage. Helicopter parents.
-We’ve covered vertical gardens, upside-down gardens, roll-out-a-mat-and-just-add-water gardens … These crocheted containers bring the, erm, spoils of the garden inside and if you’re handy with a hook they’d be a good holiday gift in the spirit of deconsumption.
