Hello.

The IT Crowd is coming back for a final episode, tonight
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd

Molly Crabapple: Passing time in Gitmo
https://medium.com/the-nib/6076fd7f2500

“Can we please stop being racist when we objectify women?”
http://jezebel.com/racists-being-hella-racist-because-miss-america-isnt-w-1323360259

The story behind @horse_ebooks
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/horse-ebooks-and-pronunciation-book-revealed.html

The rise of the tech intellectual
“They aren’t trying to get review-essays published in Dissent or Commentary. Instead, they want to give TED talks that go viral.”
“…most of these aspiring pundits are doing their best to scramble up the slope of the statistical distribution, jostling with one another as they fight to ascend, terrified they will slip and fall backwards into the abyss. The long tail is swarmed by multitudes, who have a tiny audience and still tinier chances of real financial reward.”
“… Unsurprisingly, the books are neither interesting nor good. Jarvis is a technology intellectual only in the sense that he fills a particular sociological niche. … Jarvis, however intellectually unappealing, is not the real problem.”
[That would be some of that jostling you mentioned then?]
“The difficult part is figuring out how genuinely contrary and interesting intellectuals can support themselves in a tacit economy that seems geared either to co-opt them or turn them into professional controversialists.”
http://www.democracyjournal.org/30/the-tech-intellectuals.php?page=all

Needs more jpeg
http://needsmorejpeg.com

Visualisations that make no sense
http://wtfviz.net

This is not an insight
http://thisisnotaninsight.tumblr.com/

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds