How many links must a man dump, before they call it a post?

[yendi]

I know that Homer said "eight" (and then changed his answer to "seven,"), but i'm going for ten. And it's not even getting me close to closing the legion of open tabs that are haunting me.

1. How the NY Times Paywall is working better than the WSJ one (via kizlj).

2. Anne Hathaway raps about paparazzi.

3. Why most people don't finish video games. As I've noted before, the only games I can recall finishing in recent years are the two Portals and the first two Disgaeas. I've finished some small casual games (like Army of Darkness Defense on my iPad), but few games keep me interested after twenty plus hours, and as with some of the folks mentioned in the article, my time to seriously play games is pretty limited.

(Of course, I still do play a ton of Kingdom of Loathing.)

4. Marvel has released a free audio edition of Daredevil #1. As I mentioned the other week, this is the best single issue of anything that Marvel's released in years, and it's well worth grabbing. The audio's not ideal -- these aren't pro voice actors -- but it's still worth listening to.

5. I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- to learn that AT&T was lying about their merger with T-Mobile being good for anyone but AT&T.

6. I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- to learn that Rick Perry is either a liar and sleazebag or a fool.

6.5 As if there was any doubt, Molly Ivins confirmed which it was years ago. Hint: Ignorance is something pitiable, and I've got no pity for the man.

7. Tom Spurgeon (of The Comics Journal and The Comics Reporter fame) on his brush with death.

8. Going back to the subject of scum, there's nothing new in this article about how horrible and misguided the RIAA and MPAA are, but it's a damned fine article nonetheless.

9. An open letter to those who condemn looting.

10. The State of the Internet 2011.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Ah those socialists with their lovely apologetics for criminals based on the fact that the socialists are rich and the criminals are poor and the socialists can't seem to see any action taken by a poor person that's not completely justified.

Kind of wish that I could find a nuanced article about the riots instead of these kneejerk "they are poor and therefore justified in robbing store owners who are also poor but not as poor as the poor people that we like to defend."

This is the kind of thinking that leads to people convincing themselves that Mumia is innocent.

The rest of the articles were pretty cool.

[yendi]

The opposite jerked knee -- that the looters are purely pondscum causing destruction for no good reason -- gets old even faster (although it's nothing compared to the US right wing blogosphere, which recast this entirely as an example of why the lack of a second amendment in the UK is so awful). It should also go without saying that I think you're oversimplifying in your response (particularly this one, which is not a blanket "none of the middle-class storeowners should complain" statement at all).

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

i have about a 50% completion rate with games. Im at the very end of Portal 2 now.

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

Yoinking Rick Perry link for Failbook rant.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I'd condemn looting but I play D&D...

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, and then you get law and morality questions after capturing nonhuman prisoners...

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a Molly Ivins column, not long before she died, in which she said re: GWB, "next time I tell you not to let someone be president, LISTEN TO ME." She is reaching out to us from beyond the grave.