Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 26th from 11:29 to 23:26:

• Come Fly With Us – View this image ›
  For the past six months, while we’ve been building out BuzzFeed’s new bureau in San Francisco, I’ve had to keep one of its most exciting…
• The Web of Alexandria – Bret Victor / May 24, 2015
  Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945 —
  Vannevar Bush’s “library of a million volumes, compressed into one end of a desk” may sound…
• The Web of Alexandria (follow-up) – Bret Victor / May 26, 2015
  A follow-up (disambiguation? expansion?) regarding The Web of Alexandria.
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  In The Web of Alexandria, I suggested that some very…
• Deutsche Bank Ignored Its CDS Problems Until They Went Away – Today the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Deutsche Bank $55 million for accounting misstatements relating to some crisis-era credit derivatives, and…
• MAME and the New Emulation Reality – I’m sorry all my weblog entries seem to be variations of emulation, Internet Archive, Archive Team and Vintage Computing, but that’s kind of all my life is…
• Case Studies – WordPress.com VIP – Tell us about GovLoop – what audience does this site serve?
  GovLoop primarily serves federal, state, and local government employees, but we’re open to anyone…
• about – I talk to people. I try to talk to anyone and everyone: CEOs, artists, entrepreneurs, criminals, gangsters, pirates, mothers, scientists, conspiracy theorists,…
• Links 5/15: Link Floyd – Links 5/15: Link Floyd | Slate Star Codex
• Jonathan Ive promoted to Chief Design Officer as two new execs step in to lead design departments – Alan Dye, Jony Ive, and Richard Howarth
  Apple’s Jony Ive has served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Design for several years now, but Apple has…