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10 new hi res photos every 10 days. All free to download and use. Just about every one would make a beautiful desktop picture.

jackcheng:

These Days is being featured in a Tomely e-book bundle that includes a load of great fiction and nonfiction, like Robin Sloan’s Annabel Scheme and Patrick Rhone’s enough. Pay what you want, and you can opt to donate a part of your contribution to the Australian Literacy & Numeracy Foundation, too.

Buy this please.

There are only a few days left to take advantage of this great deal. Pay more than $10 and it will get you four extra books including my book, enough. I would argue that These Days by Jack Cheng is worth that price all by itself. A wonderful book. Seriously, grab this now.

Hell is Other People is an experiment in anti-social media. Using FourSquare, this site will track your “friends” and calculate optimally distanced locations for avoiding them.

Interesting new list app with built in sharing and Mac, iOS, and Web clients.

We might consider erecting a statue of him in every lobbyist’s office, a reminder to all of us that we’re ultimately responsible for what we make, that spinning to defend the status quo hurts all of us, and most of all, that we have to balance the undeniable benefits of progress, innovation and industry with the costs to all concerned.

Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading.

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Good list.

Yep. Just like every other day.

What I tell my law clerks is that we write these so that they are accessible to regular people. That doesn’t mean that there’s no law in it. But there are simple ways to put important things in language that’s accessible. As I say to them, the beauty, the genius is not to write a 5 cent idea in a ten dollar sentence. It’s to put a ten dollar idea in a 5 cent sentence.

The whole of law should be written this way.