assorted sweets #152003.09.20

FastCompany on where power lies:

Today, everywhere you look, business is being gripped by the power of negative thinking. [...] But our real romance lies with the dark side. We love to taste the salt of our tears. Organizations encourage at least half of their people to be masochists and the other half to be sadists.

Something I should have mentioned ages ago: In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement.

CityCreator has a new city to play with. I'm so excited.

Geekbox: some really great tech thinking. Go. Read.

BMO gets the Stupid Company of the Week thunk on the head. Sadly, this may turn into a daily award given the sheer number of companies in the running...

An amusing article on DRM, the RIAA and Canadian law. Some perspective here: (via BoingBoing)

While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may make it illegal to share copyright material in America, the Canadian Copyright Act expressly allows exactly the sort of copying which is at the base of the P2P revolution.

Absolutely gorgeous site on the Valley of the Kings (Egyptian archaeology is a passion of mine). Sad that it doesn't valdiate though - this kind of site just screams to be made over in valid XHTML+CSS.

I love finding labor-of-love vertical extravaganzas like this.

Horrifying 1995 design, but copyright 2003. Did you hear me? Copyright 2003. No, seriously. Copyright 2003. We must have laughed about this site for a good ten minutes at work one day. I actually remember the Welcome to the Internet signs - a good friend of mine back in 1995 actually had them on his site.

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