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Global Guerrillas: LINKS: 16 MAY 2010

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, caught offering the personal data of Facebook users to a friend, calling people that trusted him with their info "dumb f**ks."

via Global Guerrillas: LINKS: 16 MAY 2010.

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I started building http://bit.ly/dkgs2o last week because it sounded like something @warrenellis would like/use. My poor brain.Sun May 16 19:19:37 via EchofonPhil Nelson
philnelson

Testing Windows Live Writer Again

Because I'm a masochist, obv.

Links for 2010-05-15

Op-Ed Contributor – Flying with the Dragon Lady – NYTimes.com
"The U-2 is nicknamed the Dragon Lady for good reason. You never knew what to expect when you took it into the air, no matter how seasoned a pilot you were. This was an unfortunate consequence of its design. The trade-off of a plane built light enough to fly above 70,000 feet is that it is almost impossible to control. And 13 miles above the ground, the atmosphere is so thin that the ?envelope? between stalling and ?overspeed? ...

I linked S3FM up when they first went live. The other day...

I linked S3FM up when they first went live. The other day, its creators noted "there's definitely something in it (but) we need to work out exactly what it is." I tend to agree. The very idea demands something wonderful.

Earth 101 Briefing

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@tomcoates in the Valley in year 4523, iBrains will move about the brushed aluminum city by impelling the fleshbags they beguiled long ago.Thu May 13 22:54:14 via webBen Cerveny
neb

LIFT 10

Streaming video from the recent LIFT 10 conference.  I particularly recommend the Jamais Cascio and Russell Davies pieces, which you can select from the slider immediately below the video frame.

Station Ident: This Is Friday

This is warren ellis dot com. This is a skip week at FREAKANGELS. This is from a set of images by Myke Amend that are available for a stupidly cheap price. This is… half-one in the afternoon. I'm off to the pub.

Want/Get/Do

Someone just wrote to me with the following question:

The problem I encounter every single time I try to write something is that I have a brilliant idea, but I have absolutely no clue as to how to make a proper story out of it. Bits and pieces will come to mind, but finding the whole story is typically a feat… do you know of a way to overcome this issue?

And this was my very quick response, which it occurs to me might be worth sharing, as one avenue (of many) that can be taken to solve this:

I...