Some tuesday links
Here are some media-related links for your amusement:
1. “Journalist escapes death by machetes” — Best headline ever.
2. If you’re a police officer and decide to arrest a guy who is holding a camera and/or a reporter’s notebook, you better make sure you’re arresting him for a good reason. Because that guy is likely a journalist, which means he can open up a whole can of worms if you screw up.
3. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species. xkcd wrote The Origin of Ron Paul Supporters.
4. Oh look, Google has come up with another idea for how to squeeze as much creative juice out of its employees as possible.
5. In yet another sign that the sex industry is going mainstream, Adult Entertainment Expo seminars will be open to porn fans for the first time this week in Las Vegas.
6. I agree with James Fallows. Bill Kristol’s first op-ed at The New York Times is so bland, uninteresting and badly written that I couldn’t even begin to get angry at the actual content of the piece.
7. The New Yorker, my favorite magazine, has a new publisher because of a shake-up at Conde Nast.
8. This is pretty cool. It’s a blog written by a long-dead soldier, the entries written exactly 90 years ago.
9. Speaking of The New Yorker, they published a long feature article this week about how Google is trying to strengthen its influence in DC.
