Linkfarm: 1.15.08
January 15, 2008 - 6:14 pm
- “Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship?” Tom Hodgkinson of the Guardian weighs in on the politics behind Facebook and the commodification of relational ties.
- Diane Keaton says “Fuck” on Good Morning America. Why is the word fuck so inherently dreadful that we have to invent cutsie-isms like ‘F Bomb’ to substitute on television. Which is mildly ironic, because really, shouldn’t the word ‘bomb’ be much, much scarier than the word ‘fuck’?
- RulesOfThumb.org. A compendium of the world’s rules of thumb. One from my childhood on the frozen tundra: one inch, keep away; two inches, one may; three inches, small groups; four inches, O.K. (how to verify if ice is safe to walk or skate on).