Links tagged with “via:oblinks”
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YouTube - Band of Brothers (BOB) gets Pwned in Alliance Trounament 4
I’d never seen commentary on a game before. I have no idea what’s going on, but it’s still somehow thrilling. (via Oblinks)
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)
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“You Don’t Understand Our Audience” by John Hockenberry
“…a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the ‘emotional center’ of the American people.” (via Oblinks)
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What bugs me is not identity fraud but who will be watchdog to BBC’s Watchdog
Funny piece by Toby Young about Watchdog’s Facebook identity theft scare mongering. (via ObLinks)
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Stewartlee.co.uk - reviews and writing - English Hecklers in New Zealand - May 2005
“In the 90s, Baddiel and Skinner let the thugs have our comedy. And then Oasis and The Happy Mondays let the thugs have our music. Now there are lads at indie rock gigs and lads at comedy. Where is our space? What belongs to us?” (via Oblinks)
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Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English
I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).