Link Post - Snow Crash On Sale for Two Bucks
If you haven't read the Cyberpunk classic, grab it for two bucks today.
h/t Boing Boing
Link Post - Further Thought On Laptops
Riccardo Mori - The current complain of the day is that somehow Apple has made everyone make light laptops and consumers want to game and edit video on those thin laptops. This all stems from performance problems on the new Macbook Pros, which actually was a firmware bug.
Mori has some good points about that there are plenty of . . .
Link Post - The History Of Commodore
Link Post - HST on Letterman
Boing Boing - Considering Letterman's interview style was based in being awkward, and Hunter Thompson was awkward enough on his own. The first three are from around the time of Generation of Swine, and the final interview in 97.
Link Post - LA’s Hidden Oil Industry
The city of glamks literal greasy underbelly.
99% Invisible - Though best known for the movie industry LA, was an oil boom town. 99PI has an article detailing how the remaining wells and pumps are disguised to blend in with the city.
Link Post - iOS Deafult Apps
You can’t call the iPad a laptop replacement with letting me change the default email client.
Link Post - Antique Bowie
The recording quality makes this sound like a recording from the Beyond.
Mental Floss- I was never a big fan of Bowie’s stuff pre-The Man Who Sold The World. However, this little snippet of Beatles-pop is still a nice find. It’s likely this old single will end up rolled into a new boxed set.Unless some obsessive collector buys the tape and locks it up somewhere. Either way check out ten seconds of unheard Bowie.
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