AngryJournalist.com - Why are you angry today?
Anonymously share what makes you mad as hell and why you’re not going to take it any more. If this site didn’t exist, David Simon would have to create it after The Wire finishes.
Samuel Adams hop sharing program
The price of hops has gone through the roof due to increased demand and worldwide shortages - to help out micro and craft breweries, Sam Adams is selling 20,000 pound of hops at cost! I’m not a huge Sam Adams fan, but this is awesome.
There’s a setting just below ‘cotton’ and just above ‘wool’ that works pretty well. ‘Silk’ is also a really good setting.
—Stephen Weir, Contra Costa County (California) registrar, on ironing primary ballots so that they’ll be machine readable. This, in the greatest democracy in the world.
Given that the ‘open here’ information not normally visible prior to opening - is its purpose to re-assure the user that they have made the right choice?
Computer Administrative Debris
“One of the challenges of interface design is to reduce computer administrative debris while maintaining a high standard of usability.”
New York Times won’t unite digital and newspaper staffs for Newspaper Guild
Digital staff to be treated differently until at least 2011 if this holds true
Harpers takes a look at Google’s addiction to cheap power. Worth it for the data center blueprint alone.
Interesting New York Observer article on the future of the LA Times
Still worth a read even thought the LA Times just announced Russ Stanton, former innovation editor, as the new editor in chief. I’ve met and even interviewed with Russ before, he’s a smart guy who will serve the paper well.
For all your Clay Davis remixing needs…
Someone with more time than I please remix this. “Money laundering? They gonna come talk to me about money laundering? In west BALTIMORE? Sheeeeeeeit.”