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A few recent links:

• mltshp faq - mltshp is mlkshk reborn! I'm pb over there.
• Remembering Chris Cornell... - John Roderick writes about Chris Cornell just before the world discovered him.
• JSON Feed - RSS alternative. But is there enough interest in syndication?
• New paint colors invented by neural network - This cracks me up. Sign me up for future machine learning comedy. (See also.)
• Download 200 Free Art Books, Courtesy of the Guggenheim - Information still wants to be free.
• The Guardian: How physical exercise makes your brain work better
• The Interconnected: Redefining Web Brutalism - Makes me wonder if this site could be defined as brutalist.
• The Washington Post: FCC votes to start rolling back landmark net neutrality rules
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js - Nice intro to the web native data visualization library.

And in other news:

• Time: Washington AG: President Trump’s Aggression Will Be His Undoing - "Ferguson is an internationally rated chess master and the attorney general for Washington State."
• New York Times: The Election Is Over, but Trump Can’t Seem to Get Past It

It's link time.

• Brand New: New Logo and Identity for Oregon State University by Pentagram
• Stack Overflow Trends - A new service from Stack Overflow that charts the number of questions about a particular technology over time.
• Prune - Looks like a beautiful mobile game about growing a tree.
• The WordPress.com Blog: Inclusive Illustrations, By Design - John Maeda inteviews Alice Lee about designing inclusive illustrations for WordPress.
• Ask MetaFilter: Finding Beautifully Designed, Practical Objects
• Kottke: When introversion collides with the desire to connect - It me.
• George Lakoff: The Public's Viewpoint: Regulations are Protections

I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to keep up with our sinking ship of state. If you haven't been watching, here are some links that will help (?):

• Lawfare Blog: The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him
• New York Times: Who Will Save the Republic?
• New York Times: After Comey, Here Are the Options for an Independent Russia Inquiry
• Politico: Behind Comey's firing: An enraged Trump, fuming about Russia
• NBC: Trump Hires Law Firm to Fight Suggestions of Russia Business Ties
• CNN: CNN exclusive: Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation
• Talking Points Memo: They're Trapped in His Lies
• Marie Claire: How the AHCA Is Bad for Women - Trumpcare Targets Women
• @drvox: Thread on Trump Theory of Mind - Terrifying follow-up to this pre-election article: The question of what Donald Trump “really believes” has no answer. (And here's a non-tweetstorm version: We overanalyze Trump. He is what he appears to be.)

I'm off to rearrange some deck chairs.

A few Sunday links in at buzzer here in Pacific time:

• Financial Times: Macron uses grandest of backdrops for entrance on world stage
• OPB: Solar Eclipse Or Bust: Small Oregon Towns Grapple With How To Prepare For Thousands
• The Washington Post: Every Republican who voted for this abomination must be held accountable
• NPR: The Purdue - Kaplan Deal Raises Questions
• The Atlantic: Rural Economies and College Towns (See also: OSU president tells Bend crowd his school needs more money)
• Pentagram: Oregon State University - OSU has a new institutional identity with a new logo by Pentagram.
• Dan McKinley: Deploying Often is a Very Good Idea - Slides from a talk that should be given.
• Revenge of nerdview - De-jargoning language.
• Regulating English with retext-mapbox-standard - De-jargoning with computers.
• Google Dev: Getting Started with Headless Chrome
• Running Mastodon - Nice tutorial about running your own Mastodon instance.

Quite a few links in my pile of links to share. Here they are in no particular order:

• The Register: 'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering' - Oregon has laws against pointing out flaws.
• Mic: Inside the elite meme wars of America's most exclusive colleges
• Google Research: Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel - What if phones but too many night pictures averaged together?
• First Round Review: Fralic's 7 Rules for Making Memorable Connections
• Sarah Kendzior: The tale of the dictator’s daughter and her prince
• SSH Port - come gather round the terminal and hear the story of how one core service got its port.
• BBC: Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either - Get woke on sheep, sheeple lemmings.
• New York Times: Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics
• Salon: Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter? - The push for success starts early.
• The Atlantic: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - Another take on the failure of Google Books.
• Maciej Cegłowski: Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance - A talk about strategies for ethical progress in tech.
• What city is the microbrew capital of the US? - Fun use of IP geolocation to personalize the headline.
• Waxy: The Flagpole Sitta Lip Dub Turns 10
• How To Host Your Own Private Git Repositories