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 July 21st from 23:36 to 18:04:

• Crowdfunding an Ubuntu phone that doubles as your PC – Boing Boing – aka the "terminal" from Iain M. Banks' Culture series
• Orange behind the scenes – 2007 Orange ad campaign
• The (alleged) 13-inch iPad and the triumph of thin clients | strat?chery by Ben Thompson – "PCs are like Humpty Dumpty; they are being broken into pieces and won’t be put back together again." – specialised thin clients
• A First Look at LifeScan’s OneTouch VerioSync, A New iPhone Compatible Blood Glucose Meter | diaTribe –
• All My Exes Live in Texts: Why the Social Media Generation Never Really Breaks Up – The Cut –