Yay! 2013 4th of July Fireworks!
Cabel Sasser’s yearly roundup of batshit insane fireworks packaging.
Key Moments in Egypt’s Transition From Mubarak to Morsi
Good summary of major events.
Egyptian army suspends constitution and removes President Morsi
So, that happened. Live updates from The Guardian.
Ok, one more link from kottke. Watch at least until she sings.
•William Shakespeare's Star Wars (PDF sample)
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Disruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online
“This is a watershed time where we are moving away from photography as a way of recording and storing a past moment,” said Robin Kelsey, a professor of photography at Harvard, and we are “turning photography into a communication medium.” (via)
The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire
Project Traveller: Gang sweep search warrant documents to stay secret until Aug. 27
Mark that date in your crack tape calendar.
If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
“The camera never falls over during a scene. Actors are always in frame. The film runs at a steady 24 frames per second with very few frame drops.”
Lockdown
Marco expands on the thoughts in this piece by Jeremy Keith:
<blockquote> <p>Google Reader is just the latest casualty of the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own everything […] <span class="caps">RSS</span> represents the antithesis of this new world: it’s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself […] That world formed the web’s foundations — without that world to build on, Google, Facebook, and Twitter couldn’t exist. But they’ve now grown so large that everything from that web-native world is now a threat to them, and they want to shut it down. “Sunset” it. “Clean it up.” “Retire” it. Get it out of the way so they can get even bigger and build even bigger proprietary barriers to anyone trying to claim their territory.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Well, fuck them, and fuck that.</p> </blockquote>
A Soaring Condo Market in Toronto Ignites Fears of a Crash
Article in the New York Times about Toronto’s condo boom.