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If you disallow affiliate links, publishers will find a store that allows them. A piece of their traffic, especially for digital downloads, comes from referral links in contextual …

It's not much of a stretch to say that it's useful to the creator, as he stakes his livelihood on it. The constitution does not specify to whom the art must be useful.

Look, can we all agree that giant, centered text, and huge flexible-width paragraphs pretty much scream "I am a crazy person/conspiracy theorist/tinfoil hat enthusiast"?

You are being too PC. "Men" suffices for both genders.

Are you fuckers smoking crack again? Movies are preposterously expensive to make. Canon, Nikon, Red, et. al are driving down the cost by making the means of production accessible t…

"Periodically pulling stunts like this" is certainly a grim view of an acceptable collective bargaining platform. I can tell you're not trying to defend FxC but to get an objective…

An intelligent machine has the distinct advantage that its entire consciousness is duplicable and transferrable. You could turn the machine off and on again and it would be just as…

Most of the time, that's true. But sometimes you'll get an unexpected or flagrant lowball, and it's important to demonstrate how out-of-place their offer is. That can mean walking …

It's chronological with exposition interspersed. How would you prefer it was written, in a frame narrative? Cut-up? In five acts? There's nothing remotely Joycean or even modernist…

Man, this is awful. And awesome. I like that their website is really ugly, it sort of makes it seem less evil.

Do you go to art galleries and complain about the pointlessness of, let's say, pointillism, too?

The 24 projector thing is awesome. For the hologram part, they (and everyone else) are still using tech from 150 years ago. Probably because it looks amazingly convincing when exec…

Kill yourself.

If you're trying to share galleries on dropbox but not to the whole internet, you should try views.fm: http://www.views.fm

If you find a "hack" like this on a music website, keep it to your self. If you post about it, they'll try to fix it or obscure it but who knows if some guy at soundcloud will revo…

UCC Coffee? http://www.amazon.com/UCC-Original-Coffee-Milk-11-3-Ounce/dp...

SoundManager2 does this as well. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

Interesting. Seems like a less flashy version of instant.fm: http://instant.fm/p/90

You've implied that you believe the number of poor people not working is so high because we skew their motivation toward "couch surfing" through aid programs. I am arguing that man…

The flaw in your analysis, and your linked article, is following the fallacy of Homo Economicus, which is "an arbitrary definition of man, as a being who inevitably does that by wh…

The flickr homepage really is awful. What's worse, though, is that if I click on a photo, the sidebar is still populated with the mixed-content photostream. If I want to browse, I …

Fake polaroid photos aren't real! Yeah, well digital photos aren't real either. They're just zeros and ones representing photos. Furthermore, photos aren't real things, they're jus…

Wow, they couldn't have found a more gracious accidental celebrity.

I share your feeling in terms of being circumspect about the claims of "justice" and cynical about our leaders' motives. But I have to think it's better that he wasn't taken alive.…

"Some type of 2yr contract" is actually easier to understand than whatever they were going to put there...