Random links
- After the Shock Is Gone: Pity the poor artist trying to get a rise out of an audience today
- Ah ... modern art: "Once the problem was, as Mr. Rushdie puts it, that shock wears off. But things are so far gone that shock rarely registers in the first place. This is the natural result of decades—the better part of a century, really—of artists using up the public's reservoir of indignation. And if transgressive art can't shock, what does it have to offer? After all, once you've seen Duchamp's 'Fountain' and gotten the joke, is there anything worth revisiting in it?"
- Office walls are closing in on corporate workers
- The byline: "Businesses used to provide 500 to 700 square feet of work space per employee, but the average is down to 200 square feet — and shrinking. The recession and an emphasis on teamwork accelerated the trend, and younger staffers prefer less."
- Pakistan doctor arrested on suspicion of blasphemy
- His crime: "throwing away a business card of a man who shared the name of Islam's prophet, Muhammad"
- Google’s Newest Patent: The Browser Search Highlight Button
- Google patents highlighting all instances of a word in a document. Another example of how software patents are crippling innovation by all by big firms with a large preexisting set of patents.