“Who We Are: #3 Neanderthals | West Hunter
Gratuitous, but fun:
Ernst Mayr, a prominent figure in biology had opined that hybridization was an unimportant factor in evolution, as far as I can tell for no particular reason at all. For equally mysterious reasons, people paid attention to him.
From a thread on Hackernews
I have a sneaking suspicion that if tomorrow Apple or Google just subscribed everyone to 99% Invisible and waited, FM radio would be dead in a year.
Sweet thought, but unlikely.
IndieWeb generation 4 and hosted domains | Manton Reece
Owning your content isn’t about portable software. It’s about portable URLs and data. It’s about domain names.
Cannot say this often enough.
Crazy Walls
Thanks to Adactio for the link.
Chris Aldrich on Twitter: "@jgkoomey @judell This is the general idea behind the #indieweb movement: https://t.co/NG6ELqxCHC For the price of registering your own domain and some hosting, you can run your own website and still interact with other websites in an open and distributed manner."
Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races
This is the question that underscores all the subsequent ones:
[S]hould we be trying to appease Google?
Also, I hope I'm not the only one to be grateful that the article is from Anil Dash.