On the internet as a source of news:

"People will not assume that what they read on the internet is trustworthy or that it carries any particular assurance or accuracy; it need be no more than one person's view. There is none of the notional imprimatur or kitemark which comes from being the publisher of a respected broadsheet or, in its different style, an equally respected mass circulation tabloid."

 - Lord Leveson, 2012 (p.737)

Dilbert: a Dilbert from 2003 on the inherent ambiguity in systems of meaning - http://goo.gl/wKuP4

Webcomic: how to annoy a millennial - http://goo.gl/aZPvN

(Sticky Comics; via Laughing Squid)

How to participate in any market: 

"The main problems with people as economic beings are that they have irrationally boundless expectations, zero patience, zero tolerance for embarrassment, the conviction that they are smarter than everyone else, and the belief that repeated observation validates anomalies, even when the anomalies are cray.

Basically, the trick to participating in any market is to think 'What would Kanye do?' and then do the opposite."

 - Molly Young

Typography: an iOS shortcut that gets you em dashes —

Gangsta. twitter.com/H_FJ/status/27…
— Hoefler&Frere-Jones (@H_FJ) November 21, 2012

Video: after selling PayPal, Elon Musk set up a space exploration company which now delivers to the International Space Station. He talks about the future of energy and transport in a speech at Oxford.

(1h26m; HD version here: http://goo.gl/hmd7v)

Article on the user interface of Windows 8:
"The Roman god Janus; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; even Batman's arch-foe Two-Face — human culture is fascinated by duality. We can now add Windows 8 to this list." - http://goo.gl/15sKc

(2700 words; Jakob Nielsen; via Technologizer)

Tweet:

Please back my Kickstarter to go through the entire web changing every occurrence of "ironically" to "coincidentally".
— Avery Edison (@aedison) November 19, 2012

A collection of brand identity style guides, including the Barbican - http://goo.gl/qgVWx

(source: Logo Design Love; via @khoi; see also twitter logo usage guidelines, below)

Retweeted:

RT @mckaylamaroney Did I just do the Not Impressed face with the President..? // Yes. twitter.com/whitehouse/sta…
— The White House (@whitehouse) November 17, 2012

Actual playing cards which are a "physical pixel-for-pixel recreation" of the cards from Solitaire in Windows 98 - http://goo.gl/hQ29u

($20, Evan Roth; via BoingBoing)

Kickstarter put together a pretty cool "Meet the team" page: http://www.kickstarter.com/team
(via Andy Baio)

Article: a refresher on the term "overdetermination" - http://goo.gl/IMBQV
Summary: not straight cause and effect
(650 words, David F. Ruccio)

Politics: Ron Paul used a part of his farewell speech in the House of Representatives to ask a series of 32 normally unspoken questions, including:

"Why haven't we given up on the drug war since it's an obvious failure and violates the people's rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can't even keep drugs out of the prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?...

Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central banks get bailed out in 2008 and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?...

Why is there so little concern for the Executive Order that gives the President authority to establish a "kill list," including American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?"

 - Ron Paul

(transcript, video (48m47s), 14th November 2012; via The Atlantic)

Animation: organic underwater jewels - http://vimeo.com/53207270



(3m00s, Tetsuka Niiyama)

Is it possible to map prejudice? Answer: sort of. Floating Sheep have put together a map of US states shaded by relative number of post-election racist tweets.

(source, interactive map; geotagged tweets only, adjusted for twitter usage by state; via)

Posters of things clients say to designers: 

(source) 

About MailOnline: so you try not to feed the internet's biggest troll, but remind me again, what exactly is wrong with the Daily Mail? Here's a video and two articles.
Summary: the Daily Mail is hypocritical, unethical and cultivates fear.



(21m32s, contains swearing; via BoingBoing; article via; see also: oncological ontology)

Tweet:

Waiting for an elementary school parent/teacher meeting, saw this 2nd grader’s poem on the corridor wall. twitter.com/kjhealy/status…
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) November 6, 2012

Video: In answer to the question "Why doesn't MTV play music videos anymore?" - http://youtu.be/9ysyZF-DZFY


(3m43s; Quora version)