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LinkMachineGo http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego UK based, Daily Link Blog. This is Lima Mike Golf. Shall we blog? Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:15:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Finland, Pick Two, Armageddon http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/finland-pick-two-armageddon/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/finland-pick-two-armageddon/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:14:44 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10894 Meanwhile, In Finland … Pick Two … Armageddon]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/finland-pick-two-armageddon/feed/ 0 Jack Kirby Was The 20th Century http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/jack-kirby-was-the-20th-century/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/jack-kirby-was-the-20th-century/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:21 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10890 Jack Kirby Was The 20th Century …

He was the existential loner outcast from society who sought solace by riding the waves (the Silver Surfer). He was the military industrial complex (Nick Fury). He was the hippies who rejected the Cold War consensus, and wanted to create their own counterculture (the Forever People). He was the artist who tried to escape his degrading background (Mister Miracle). He was feminism (Big Barda). He was Nixon and the religious right (Darkseid and Glorious Godfrey).

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/11/jack-kirby-was-the-20th-century/feed/ 0 Malcolm Tucker on Bloggers http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/10/malcolm-tucker-on-bloggers/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/10/malcolm-tucker-on-bloggers/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:20:56 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10856 ‘I read all the blogs because I’m an under-employed fat fucking loser with nothing better to do with my time than sit in my bedroom like a fat space hopper in a tracksuit reading inconsequential, un-spellchecked shit, fabricated by other fat fucking losers.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/10/malcolm-tucker-on-bloggers/feed/ 0 “Max, what do you want for dinner?” “JUSTICE!” http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/max-what-do-you-want-for-dinner-justice/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/max-what-do-you-want-for-dinner-justice/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:59 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10879 Little Kid Does Worlds Best Batman Spoof … “Max, what do you want for dinner?” “JUSTICE!”]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/max-what-do-you-want-for-dinner-justice/feed/ 0 In Praise of Online Obscurity http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/in-praise-of-online-obscurity/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/in-praise-of-online-obscurity/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:37:32 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10873 In Praise of Online Obscurity … ‘In 2007, [Maureen Evans] began a nifty project: tweeting recipes, each condensed to 140 characters. She soon amassed 3,000 followers, but her online life still felt like a small town: Among the regulars, people knew each other and enjoyed conversing. But as her audience grew and grew, eventually cracking 13,000, the sense of community evaporated. People stopped talking to one another or even talking to her. “It became dead silence,” she marvels. Why? Because socializing doesn’t scale…’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/09/in-praise-of-online-obscurity/feed/ 1 First Review Of Dan Clowes’ New Comic Wilson http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/08/first-review-of-dan-clowes-new-comic-wilson/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/08/first-review-of-dan-clowes-new-comic-wilson/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:41:29 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10863 Wilson … Tom Spurgeon produces the first review of Wilson – Dan Clowes latest comic … ‘It’s Clowes being Clowes, and Wilson all by itself makes 2010 a pretty good year for comics no matter what happens from here on out.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/08/first-review-of-dan-clowes-new-comic-wilson/feed/ 0 Steven Levy On Google’s Search Algorithm http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/steven-levy-on-google%e2%80%99s-search-algorithm/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/steven-levy-on-google%e2%80%99s-search-algorithm/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:51:53 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10794 How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web … Steven Levy is given an interesting look behind the scenes into Google’s search engine …

Indeed, [Microsoft] the company that won last decade’s browser war has a best-served-cold approach to search, an eerie certainty that at some point, people are going to want more than what Google’s algorithm can provide. “If we don’t have a paradigm shift, it’s going to be very, very difficult to compete with the current winners,” says Harry Shum, Microsoft’s head of core search development. “But our view is that there will be a paradigm shift.”

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/steven-levy-on-google%e2%80%99s-search-algorithm/feed/ 0 Underskin, Braniac Has No Time For Love, Superhero Headquarters http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/underskin-braniac-has-no-time-for-love-superhero-headquarters/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/underskin-braniac-has-no-time-for-love-superhero-headquarters/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:31:20 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10830 Underskin – A Map Of The Human Body … Brainiac has no time for love … Superhero Headquarters]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/05/underskin-braniac-has-no-time-for-love-superhero-headquarters/feed/ 0 Veni, Vidi, Blog. http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/04/vini-vidi-blog/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/04/vini-vidi-blog/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:33 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10660 Ten Years Of Link Blogging … Ten years and 5407 posts to be exact – I did it. As we say on the internets: OMFG! w00t! FTMFW!

Ten Years Later...

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/04/vini-vidi-blog/feed/ 13 ‘Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who’s dreaming who?’ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/sometimes-you-wonder-in-an-interconnected-universe-whos-dreaming-who-2/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/sometimes-you-wonder-in-an-interconnected-universe-whos-dreaming-who-2/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:55:38 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10841 ‘What’ll it be next? Choice extracts from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations? Trotting out the Nietzsche and the Shelley to dignify some old costumed claptrap? Probably. Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who’s dreaming who? — Grant Morrison.]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/sometimes-you-wonder-in-an-interconnected-universe-whos-dreaming-who-2/feed/ 0 ‘Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind?’ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/nothing-happens-in-the-world-are-you-out-of-your-fucking-mind/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/nothing-happens-in-the-world-are-you-out-of-your-fucking-mind/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:45:24 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10837 ‘Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There’s genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ’s sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can’t find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don’t know crap about life.’ — Robert McKee in Adaptation. ]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/nothing-happens-in-the-world-are-you-out-of-your-fucking-mind/feed/ 0 Benign Delusions And The Utility Of Compulsions… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/benign-delusions-and-the-utility-of-compulsions/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/benign-delusions-and-the-utility-of-compulsions/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:01:45 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10831 ‘The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.’ — Scott Adams, Crazy or Disciplined?]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/benign-delusions-and-the-utility-of-compulsions/feed/ 0 ‘PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ALONE ARE OMNIPOTENT.’ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/persistence-and-determination-alone-are-omnipotent/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/persistence-and-determination-alone-are-omnipotent/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:56 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10822

On page 39 of California Living magazine I found a hand-lettered ad from the McDonald’s Hamburger Corporation, one of Nixon’s big contributors in the ‘72 presidential campaign: PRESS ON, it said. NOTHING IN THE WORLD CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF PERSISTENCE. TALENT WILL NOT: NOTHING IS MORE COMMON THAN UNSUCCESSFUL MEN WITH TALENT. GENIUS WILL NOT: UNREWARDED GENIUS IS ALMOST A PROVERB. EDUCATION ALONE WILL NOT: THE WORLD IS FULL OF EDUCATED DERELICTS. PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ALONE ARE OMNIPOTENT. I read it several times before I grasped the full meaning.

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/03/persistence-and-determination-alone-are-omnipotent/feed/ 1 Google, God and your Search History… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/01/google-god-and-your-search-history/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/01/google-god-and-your-search-history/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:20:08 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10770 God Watches You Google … a religious blog poses the question of how we should feel about the morality (or lack of) displayed in our search requests …

This woman goes from searching about pregnancy, to realizing that the father does not want to keep the baby, to researching abortion clinics, to researching whether she can, according to her faith, choose abortion, to dealing with a miscarriage. And at the end of it all, life goes on and she seems ready to be married.

What is so amazing about these searches is the way people transition seamlessly from the normal and mundane to the outrageous and perverse. They are, thus, an apt reflection of real life. The user who is in one moment searching for information about a computer game may in the next be looking for the most violent pornography he can imagine. Back and forth it goes…

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/03/01/google-god-and-your-search-history/feed/ 0 Meg Pickard On Ten Years Of Blogging… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/02/28/meg-pickard-on-ten-years-of-blogging/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/02/28/meg-pickard-on-ten-years-of-blogging/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:58:15 +0000 Darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=10805 The Power Of Ten … Meg Pickard celebrates 10 years of blogging. Congratulations Meg!

… ‘A decade feels like a long time in so many ways – when I look back at my early posts and think about what I was doing back then and where I was in life, I am amazed how far away it feels. But throughout those ten years there have been very few of the 3692 days (more or less) when I haven’t written something on the blog, or scribbled something in draft, or at very least thought about it and felt guilty for not having sufficient time to devote to doing it.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2010/02/28/meg-pickard-on-ten-years-of-blogging/feed/ 0