Even now, there is only one right answer to this question.
Re: Flickr, not entirely true. The desertion was a two-way street. Sure, they fucked up some of the product management, but everyone left Flickr the second Facebook and Instagram became a thing. I’ve been a Pro Flickr user for years and I think the product’s better now than it ever has been.
Re: Delicious, they almost closed it. Then AVOS bought it and it’s still very much alive. (It’s what I used to keep track of bookmarks.)
As for the other two, it appears that Yahoo is trying to better integrate their functionality into other things. So while that name and that version of the product is gone, it still exists somewhere in the Yahoouniverse. (Not that I think it’s OK.)
Here’s a radical idea: How about not relying upon online products where “bootstrapping”, “venture capital”, and “acquisition” are part of its strategy? This is how we lost the web, to borrow a phrase.
Because this is going to keep happening again and again. We put our faith and feelings into companies that have no problem disposing of them quickly when it’s financially convenient.
Buy some hosting space. Get a domain name. Install something open source. Learn how to use basic markup. People will always be able to find your home on the web, even if the flavor of the moment shrivels up. These are things you could be doing right now instead of complaining about a Tumblr acquisition.
(BTW, would it be so terrible to have a woman like Marissa Mayer in charge of Tumblr? Think about all the trolling and harassment that goes on here.)
(Source: the-quiet-place-project)
RoadToWeeWaa is uploading short videos leading up to daft punks official launch of their new album Random Access Memories! Which will be held in WeeWaa Australia May 17th!
Okay, where do I get one of these masks? Asking for a “friend”?
And why, you ask, am I showing you this photo of a Melody Maker reviews page from May 1, 1993? Simple.
It’s well-established lore that Daft Punk got their name from a review in MM of a song by the band Darlin’, which consisted of Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Laurent Brancowitz, the latter of whom went on to help form Phoenix. A reproduction of the text of the actual review — which was on a multi-band double 7” called Shimmies in Super 8, released by Stereolab’s Duophonic label and featuring that band as well along with Colm and Huggy Bear — has circulated widely and is understandably well known. Hey, the name of one of the most famous bands in the world emerges almost fully formed, why not capture where?
However, as the image I’ve linked shows, what’s circulated is a cleaned-up scan of the original review but nothing more — Melody Maker singles review pages were just that, a full page of nothing but the singles chosen and written by whoever had the job that week. Thus, no name attached to that review as it has circulated.
So earlier today Simon Price, on an Facebook group for veterans who wrote for MM, asked if anyone remembered exactly who wrote that. I’d noticed the conversation and volunteered that it might be Ian Gittins, though it turns out he was in Siberia (literally) at the time.
One thing I’m secretly fond of is my collection of just about every MM issue I ever bought, mostly running from three years from summer 1991 to sometime in fall 1994. It’s a great portrait of a time and I’ve delved into it every so often to dig up reviews and things upon request, though I’ve had to scrounge my brain every so often. Happily the general time period of the review was already known so it was just a matter of checking through a few issues, and behold!
So at long last it can be confirmed that the person who gets the credit for naming Daft Punk thanks to his quick aside is Dave Jennings, stalwart Wedding Present fan of MM among many other things. This was from the May 1, 1993 issue of MM, with the cover stars being Ozric Tentacles, other features including St. Etienne, Aphex Twin and No-Man, and the lead album reviews being New Order’s Republic by Simon Price and Cranes’ Forever by David Stubbs. Also number one in the official charts that week were George Michael and Lisa Stansfield doing Queen covers in the singles charts (eh, whatever) and Aerosmith’s Get a Grip in the album charts (seriously, WHY?) Also, Ian Gittins did the letters column so maybe he’d just returned.
Meantime, as you can see among the other singles reviews — Drugstore and Utah Saints get a nod, while he trashes Hothouse Flowers, Kingmaker, Rage Against the Machine (I approve) and Depeche Mode (NOW WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE) — his two full choices that week were the mighty fine Voodoo Queens and Bleed, who I only know the name of and who I kept confusing at the time with Breed.
Also, as an example of fine MM fettle, allow me to quote from the Kingmaker review at the start:
The amazing thing about Kingmaker is the way they manage to adopt all the most infuriating traits of other bands from their peer group, while unerringly avoiding incorporating any of the same bands’ redeeming features.
And that’s how you do a review. And name a famous band while you’re at it.
Is it bad that my main takeaway from this is reminding me of Kingmaker and how much I hated them? They were so, so bad. Like, think of the most whiny and obnoxious kid you know and give them a weak tea backing band. Bleurgh.
So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.
Is it just me, or does Matt Smith look WAY more like an alien now than he does as the Doctor?
from cleolinda’s recaps
This is more or less what I say whenever we see Dr. Lecter making or serving anything, regardless of how tasty it looks.
Recap gifs! Bless.
If y’all are not reading Cleolinda’s Hannibal recaps, you should check them out.
(Source: vorobey008)
I’ll be over here if anybody needs me. Forever.
So long as I can take the next aisle over.
When I was a kid, my family’s basement looked like this. My mom probably went through 5 books a week. I loved it.
(Source: yukbon)
