- Make your own Android apps (Via Engadget).
- Lawsuit over Apple’s AT&T lock-in, App Store moves forward.
- Harry Reid and Sharron Angle’s fair-use fight.
- Radley Balko interviewed about police-recording arrests.
- Update: YouTube now supports 4096p video.
Tag: links
Linkwad (updated).
Wrongheaded.
Slate’s The Wrong Stuff blog has long, expansive interviews with Ira Glass and Tony Bourdain about being wrong.
And here’s You Are Not So Smart, a blog about… well, being wrong.
And here’s TV on the Radio’s “The Wrong Way,” because it’s a great song!
Linkwad.
- “When your business manager marries a stripper, that’s a tell.” (Via @brendankoerner)
- Slate’s take on Red Dead Redemption, AKA “GTA in the old west.”
- Another Slate piece, this time on “sin taxes.” No mention of cigarette taxes, though.
Here’s a cell phone photo of The National playing “Lemonworld” at the Electric Factory:
I’d also recommend National Mechanics in Philly. Nice space, good bar food, and a respectable selection of beer.
Linkwad and an update.
- A two-part WaPo piece on a spate of murders in DC.
- Like everything else, porn is an early mover in 3D. Quote: “I need something dramatic to justify replacing my TV.”
- One of the flotilla victims, an American living in Turkey, was shot in the head four times. Good luck explaining how that was necessary. Bonus: Fast-roping 101! (HT: Andrew Sullivan)
Updated: “Responsiveness and responsibility” with a link to the full “Leroy Stick” interview.
Linkwad.
I often hold onto links I intend to blog about, but there are always a few that I don’t get to and are a bit stale.
- Most Political Action Committees, or PACs, spend over 60% of the money they raise to party with lobbyists and raise more money.
- People don’t mind being unemployed as much if they have unemployed friends (This isn’t surprising–you see it with obesity, too). However, this makes them less likely to look for another job (or attempt to lose weight).
- John McIntyre, whom I perpetually confuse with John McEnroe, is back at the Sun: “‘My father,’ she said, looking me up and down, ‘wore a seersucker suit and a boater in the summertime too.’ [Pause.] ‘Of course, he was born in 1898.’”
- I just started re-watching Breaking Bad, with hopes of getting caught up before the season ends, so here’s an interview with series creator Vince Gilligan. On main character Walter White: “A guy who would…become a criminal—perhaps has more on his mind than simply making money for his family.”
- A theory of why it’s good to be a single man in DC.