links for 2011-06-29

Jason Gross argues that CSS3 and modern browsers offer a way out of the locked-in navigation patterns we have grown used to on the web.

*sigh*

This Reddit thread has given a new lease of life to my 2009 post: "How accurate was 'Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey' about the future"

My advice, if you are going to write a 2,360 word personal attack on someone, don't update it with the weasel words "In no way did I intend these words as a personal attack".

Matthew's post is inconclusive, and also neglects to decide whether Tumblr is the death and/or saviours of newspapers

Glad to have found out about Knackeredmotherswineclub via this piece by Liane Katz

"Robert Krulwich in a recent commencement speech likened this approach to sneaking into Troy. Rather than besieging the city, or waiting to be thrown a key, you build a horse. You get on with it. You write because you love it. You report because it is something that you are compelled to do. You do it in your own terms – you decide which tools you want to use, what writing style you want to use. You build a community of “horizontal loyalty” with those around you and you buoy each other up."