The Wee Beastie is 3 years old today! Hurrah!<\/p>\n
Salon’s Hack List<\/a> is marvellous this year – each entry written in the style of the hack it is honouring<\/p>\n Charlie Stross wants bitcoin to die in a fire<\/a> Minimalist circular city maps<\/a><\/p>\n Superhero spankings<\/a><\/p>\n A big assault on the selfish gene metaphor<\/a> (there have been replies to this, of course, but I haven’t read any of them yet)<\/p>\n BuzzFeed article generator<\/a><\/p>\n The full stop (aka the period) – now it means “I am angry with you!”<\/a><\/p>\n Via John Fouhy, and also in the field of internet linguistics, I can’t even<\/a><\/p>\n Interesting discussion of the word of Norman Rockwell<\/a>. I’ve always had a huge soft spot for Rockwell because I grew up with a big coffee table book of his work in the front room.<\/p>\n Pianist up on stage before large audience. The orchestra begin. But they are playing a different concerto to the one she prepared for. What happens next?<\/a> (Well, she conquers, of course.)<\/p>\n Via Georgios, a lunchbreak romance
\nThe weird mechanics of a bitcoin heist<\/a>
\n(less controversially, Stross also hates Microsoft Word<\/a>)<\/p>\n
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