Bookmarks for June 3rd from 12:44 to 23:03
by danhon
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 June 3rd from 12:44 to 23:03:
- The Sign Language Interpreter of the Rappers – On an overcast Chicago afternoon in August 2013, hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar sauntered out onto Lollapalooza’s Bud Light stage. As thousands of…
- Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991 – I, Cringely – One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer — Hewlett Packard.…
- On Great Email Newsletters – I think the ongoing renaissance of email newsletters is quite fascinating. I subscribe to quite a number that I’d describe as not only original and different,…
- What Twitter Can Be. – Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds…
- Making Victoria’s Secret Pay For Keeping Staff ‘On Call’ – The controversial form of scheduling locks staff into shifts that can be canceled at the last minute, with no pay. A class action lawsuit initiated by former…
- …And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes – .
Seen on Tumblr, along with associated discussion: Yellow:
People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good.
Nobody… - Salad days: the gentrification of the self – Gen X was never supposed to get older. But a pair of recent essays by Tim Carmody and Choire Sicha show that the second third Greatest Generation is not immune…