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I have some friends who aren't on Facebook. Do they even have birthdays?

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 29, 2014

• YouTube: Dave Rawlings Machine - Going to California (Live at Georgia Theatre)
  I added this to my favorites at YouTube.

• Manual for iPhone
  oooh, neat. William Wilkinson (who takes great photos) made an iPhone App for taking great photos.

Worried that the song Van Halen by Nerf Herder is going to be stuck in my head permanently. That is some pharmaceutical grade earworm.

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 19, 2014

• Quiet Babylon: What We Talk About When We Talk About...
  "This is an era of networked wealth, going to scale, first mover advantage, positive feedback loops, virtuous cycles, high concentration, and high disparity. These are some of the intolerable conditions of the time we call (with subversive hope) Late Capitalism." [via anil]
• Quinn Norton: Context Collapse, Architecture, and Plows
  "[Technical separation] lets the trolls and the normal society stay safe, but it also prevents those two from ever running into each other, from ever having that chance to understand each other. I don’t know how to let the trolls and straights run into each other in a productive way, but it’s one more thing we should think about."

@xoxo The pictures I tweeted during the conference are here: https://t.co/RKzO0jboex

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 16, 2014

• Apple: Untrustable « random($foo)
  Leonard has a great summary of the Apple security problem: "Either Apple’s security was so incompetent or negligent that they have not been aware of what was going on, or they knew, but actively ignored the issue and decided that it was not worth fixing."

• YouTube: Chip Ross Park Fire Aftermath
  I added this to my favorites at YouTube.