A Better Course

"Feminism is no use if it’s just about the girls and women reading the Guardian."

"The user goes to MegaUpload. The screen is filled with static like an old television. Then it looks like the screen is flipping through different TV channels. They’re all static. Finally, you get to a channel with a retro-looking message: “Seized by the FBI”. The retro part here probably plays to your design strengths."

Elephants are great

This is a wonderful piece of writing about a videogame I would not play, even if it came to the DS: "So let’s walk through this again: 50 Cent is refused money, but is instead granted a tangible symbol of his humanity. It gets taken. 50 Cent recognizes that this is something worth ending untold numbers of lives over. Once he’s touched it, he never wants to let it go."

"I gotta tell you, I just think to look across the room and automatically assume that somebody else is less aware than me, or that somehow their interior life is less rich, and complicated, and acutely perceived than mine, makes me not as good a writer."

I can't believe this interesting and thoughtful article is on Techcrunch: "Plancast and other social event sharing applications are rooted in an idealistic notion that people would feel confident inviting themselves to their friends’ events if only they knew about them. But the informational need here is not only one of event details (such as what’s going to happen, when, where and with whom). People often also need to know through a personal invitation that at least one friend wants them to join."

"Finding clothes that fit shouldn't be so hard. Add your measurements here to find out which high-street sizes are best for you."

"When things start to go wrong, it doesn't help to discount the comments or question the motivation of backers giving critical feedback. When shipping deadlines are going to slip, be open and explain the hows and whys and reset expectations as soon as possible"

"Be reassured in your belief that a good honest Greggs pasty is a fine lunch. I wish Greggs lived in my house and fed me via some kind of hatch and funnel system."

"This 360 image was captured at the top of the Shard London Bridge, 330m above London, on the night of the student protests in November 2010. You can see the police helicopters hovering over London above the demonstration."

"We communicate with expressions and body language, with our choice of vocabulary and grammar and rhetoric, with our use of emoticons or lack of same, with variations in vocal tone, with length or shortness of paragraphs, with the kind of manners we choose to employ [...] To assume that the spoken language is not only the primary language but the only one is to make a major mistake."

"Most erotica authors stay within the genre, so Sharazade was surprised Cruz had ventured into horror. Amazon lets customers click inside a book for a sample of text and Sharazade was impressed with how literate it was. She extracted a sentence fragment, googled it, and found that Cruz had copy and pasted the text from Bram Stoker's Dracula."