links for 2009-08-21

• Epson V500 Photo Scanner | PhotographyBLOG
  recommended for neg scanning
  (tags: epson perfection v500 scanner negatives slides medium-format wishlist)

links for 2009-08-17

• Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.COM
  Great analysis of the problems facing newspapers in the US and (I think) in Sweden.
  (tags: newspapers business journalism media analysis news advertising content)

links for 2009-08-10

• REVISED: How to fix the Vista KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) | LogBlog
  Might have to do this on sis-in-law's machine
  (tags: computer windows ksod black troubleshooting)

links for 2009-08-08

• Michael – The New York Review of Books
  Great article about MJ and black gays
  (tags: Michael.Jackson queer culture media celebrity pop gay)

links for 2009-08-07

• Dery and Lecter do Italy – Boing Boing
  Best thing I've read on BB for ages
  (tags: italy essay culture usa exile)

links for 2009-08-04

• LensHoods.com – Official Site for Lens Hoods
  need a hood for my Shitma zoom
  (tags: photography gear lens-hoods wishlist)
• THEORY OF GAMES AND ECONOMIC MISBEHAVIOR – Edge 295
  Early English finance
  (tags: finance economics tally-sticks Exchequer money history tl;dr)

links for 2009-08-01

• The Paranoid Style in American Politics
  to read later
  (tags: tl;dr paranoia politics usa conservatism conspiracy)
• Iran-Iraq Alliance? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast
  Fascinating backgrounder on the MEK, an Iranian organisation who supported Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war and who some in the US now view as a "tame terrorist" org in the fight against the Islamic republic.
  (tags: iran iraq MEK terrorism war-on-terror realpolitik)
• Pickman's Model – Wikisource
  H.P Lovecraft novel
  (tags: horror weird hp.Lovecraft novel online wikisource)

links for 2009-07-10

• Holocaust: The Ignored Reality – The New York Review of Books
  About the mass extermination in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in Poland and Belarus.
  (tags: holocaust nazism soviet memory history jews ww2 nyrb europe belarus poland)

links for 2009-07-09

• Jeb Bush on Obama – New Jeb Bush Interview – Esquire
  TL;DR but looks like a good interview
  (tags: usa politics interview republican Jeb.Bush esquire)

links for 2009-07-08

• Ruins of the Second Gilded Age | MetaFilter
  MeFi exposes photoshoppery in NYT Mag feature, pics are taken down. Potentially huge impact for the pphotographer
  (tags: photography fake manipulation photoshop mefi metafilter looks-shopped-to-me Edgar.Martins)