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• DD4D Conference Best-Of Coverage – infographics galore
• Manu Dibangon suhde Michael Jacksoniin? "Ma-mako, ma-ma-ssa, mako-makossa" (New Yorker) –
• Amazon yrittää vallata Kindlellä koko kirjantuotantoketjun, myös printtipuolella (Fast Company) – Amazon's first move when it introduced the Kindle was to foist its $9.99 price on publishers. But while Apple ends up with pennies from each song it sells (after paying for bandwidth and infrastructure), Amazon actually loses money on many titles, with publishers earning between $12 and $13 per e-book. You might think that because publishers profit from this arrangement — they don't have to pay for paper, ink, manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation or suffer debilitating returns — they would be pleased. They aren't. Amazon is creating a sticky price in consumers' minds and redefining the cost of a "book" just as Apple did with music. In fact, on Amazon there is a protest movement afoot as more than a thousand users tag for boycott any Kindle book listing for more than $9.99. If book buyers join forces with Amazon on price, publishers would inevitably lose.
• Introducing The Computer of 2010 (Forbes vuonna 2000) – teran massamuisti ja 100 GHz prossu
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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• Pakolaisleirien arkkitehtuuri (NYT Mag) – The people who live there are refugees, noncitizens confined to ad hoc cities, perhaps the purest form of a growing and global phenomenon: makeshift architecture, last-ditch living, emergency urbanism.
• Mitä vankilat tekevät, miksi, ja voisiko asiat tehdä toisin? (NYT Mag) –
• As of 2012 the MTA will add the name Barclays to the Brooklyn station currently known as Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street (NY Times) – Hartwall-areenan jälkiä seuraten
• Kootkaa kaveriporukka, jossa jokainen vuorollaan on kasvissyöjä yhtenä päivänä viikossa – ei pöllömpi idea
• Barack Obama, supersankari (YT) – sinänsä melkoisen hiano animaatio

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• Jari Sarasvuo: "Antakaa meidän olla" –
• Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian) – More Songs About Feelings and Women (NYT Mag) –
• World's Worst Person Decides To Go Into Marketing (The Onion) –
• NeoOffice: Printers stop working after installing Apple system update + fix –
• Mattokauppa nimeltään Going Out of Business tekee tinkimisestä taidetta Teksasissa (WSJ) – In the West, an astronomical price tag is often a fiction; slashing it is a way to let buyers believe they're getting a discount. Price tag or not, it's the sellers who always know where a rug comes from, how old it is, how good it is, and how much it cost them. Except for connoisseurs, the only thing most buyers know is what they "love." A seller can size up a buyer and decide what he's likely to pay.

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Tyhjennän hyllystä kaksoiskappaleita ja kelvottomia tapauksia. Pari isompaa settiä, joista tahtoisin 8 euroa, kiitos:

• X-Men Collection, eli osat 1 & 2 (R1, English subs, 4 dvd)
• Fitz ratkaisee, 1. kausi (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi, 3 dvd)
• Yes Minister / Kyllä, herra ministeri, 1. kausi (R2, English subs)

Sitten ne tavalliset, eli 4 eur / leffa + mahdolliset postikulut:

• Steamboy (R2, English subs, 2 dvd + kirjanen + kortteja)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (R2, English subs, 2 dvd)
• Mission: Impossible 3 (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Spider-Man (R2, English subs, 2 dvd)
• Spider-Man 2 (R1, English subs, 2 dvd)
• Master & Commander: Far Side of the World (R2, English subs, 2 dvd)
• Brokeback Mountain (R2, English subs)
• The Boondock Saints (R2, ei tekstitystä)
• Gangster No. 1 (R2, English subs)
• The Prestige (R2, English subs)
• Total Recall – Unohda tai kuole (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Sexy Beast (R2, English subs)
• The Big Lebowski (R2, English subs)
• Million Dollar Baby (R2, English subs)
• Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O. (standuppia, R1, ei tekstitystä)
• Lost in Translation (R1, ei tekstitystä)

Lisäksi on muutama muukin kaksoiskappale, nimittäin cd-levyjä (4 eur):

• Chris Cornell: Euphoria Morning
• Coldplay: Viva la Vida

ja sarjakuva (4 eur!):

• Matti Hagelberg: Kova länsi

• The watch is an interesting product category through which to examine the function of style, because mere time-telling isn’t a very powerful selling point these days – Counterfunctionality is precisely what makes such things effective identity markers. Berger hit upon the category’s appeal while looking into “product abandonment” — that is, the way that certain consumers drop trends when certain others pick up on them. Those particularly interested in expressing difference might be drawn to something the masses are less likely to “poach” — even if that’s because it’s annoying or inconvenient. “Most people want a watch that tells time, and they want to be able to see indoors,” Berger continues. “So to do the opposite is a good way to separate yourself from the masses.” In other words, it’s not that a watch with one hand, or no hands, has no value. It’s that the value it has is unrelated to the telling of time.
• Salling Clicker + Spotify –
• Neljä viikkoa International Herald Tribunea ilmaiseksi –
• Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 1 – Stefanin projekti: "With 293 RSS feeds and only 24 hours in my day, I desperately need to trim this sucker down. I used to be able to “hit zero,” also known as reading all my RSS items, but lately it has been impossible. I could have done this in private, during my own time, but one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. By going through my entire list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds a day, I hope that I can point you to some new sites and services you may have never heard of."
• Yo! That Kern Is Tight! -t-paita –

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Noudettuna 4 euroa kappale, postitettuina postikulujen verran enemmän. Myymisen syy: olen ostanut useimmista hd-versiot.

• Syriana (R2, English subs)
• Kill Bill 1 + 2 (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Requiem for a Dream (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Batman Returns (R2, English subs)
• Reservoir Dogs (R1, ei tekstitystä)
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (R1, English subs)
• Lost Highway (R2, ei tekstitystä)
• Casino Royale (R3, English subs)
• Lantana (R2, English subs)
• Kaïro (R3, English subs)
• Out of Sight (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Nikita (R2, English subs)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi)
• Drabet (R2, tekstitetty suomeksi & English subs)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (R1, English subs)

Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 1)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 2)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 3)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 4)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 5)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 6)
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 7)

ja vielä vastauksia lukijakysymyksiin.

• Buenos Aires kärsii kovasta kolikkopulasta (New Yorker) – The government has fined banks thousands of pesos for refusing to hand over coins, and, in October, the city’s subways became temporarily free when the booths ran short of change. For the average Bonaerense, everyday transactions now entail a complicated calculation of where coins can be acquired and when they will be needed.
• The musician Vuk's take on unauthorized downloading –
• John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner (YT) – Mutta pärjääkö se Colbertin taannoiselle esitykselle?
• Wired Disruptive Business Conference –
• LibraryThing lisäsi Collections-ominaisuuden, yay! – nyt voi siis olla yksi collection omille kirjoille, yksi kirjastosta lainatuille, yksi pitäisi lukea -kirjoille jne.

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• Satunnaisia lahjoja asiakkaalle = uskollisempi asiakas (Consumed) –
• Shoptalk: Polaroid’s Quirky Films (Lens Blog) –
• Seitsemän neuvoa kriisialueella työskentelevälle sotavalokuvaajalle (Lens) –
• Ed Kashin triptyykkikirja esitellään videossa –
• Robottipingviinejä (YT) – no siis miksei

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• Jonah Lehrer: Don’t! The secret of self-control (The New Yorker) –
• Stephen Colbert oli Newsweekin päätoimittajana yhden numeron verran – I know what you're thinking: "Isn't the Iraq War over?" That's what I thought, too. I hadn't seen it in the media for a while, and when I don't see something, I assume it's vanished forever, like in that terrifying game peekaboo. We stopped seeing much coverage of the Iraq War back in September when the economy tanked, and I just figured the insurgents were wiped out because they were heavily invested in Lehman Brothers.
• Q&A With the Author of The Wikipedia Revolution – kiinnostavia huomioita mm. eri maiden Wikipedioiden kulttuurieroista, käyttäjämäärien kehityksestä
• Deadline – Post-It stop motion animation –
• Miltä rahat näyttävät? –

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