Links and Thoughts 9: 16 May 2014
The Knife – Heartbeats
Good Morning.
What?:
https://www.google.com/search?q=giant+amazon+locker
A giant, mysterious Amazon locker has appeared right in the middle of downtown San Francisco : The Verge
Amazon leaves mysterious giant orange locker in downtown SF : c|net
Mysterious giant Amazon locker appears in San Francisco for Friday event : GeekWire
My guess would be that it’s an Amazon Delivery Van (minivan) inside; amazon will announce their own, branded delivery service. (alongside an extended roll out of their locker program?) but Business Insider says it’s just another promotion with Amazon and Nissan.
Web:
“Pinterest has a vision of solving discovery and helping everyone find things they’ll love. This new investment gives us additional resources to realize our vision.”
Pinterest Raises A $200 Million Warchest To Do Battle With Google : ReadWrite
Indeed, the only way to beat Google is not to copy them (they do what they do too well) but to revolutionize and leave Google copying you (…a pursuit where Google has an abysmal track record). I don’t know if Pinterest has what it takes, though — maybe in a niche, like online shopping, but then you run into Amazon… we’ll just have to see.
Science:
“Wildfires are sweeping through drought-addled Southern California, a massive ice sheet that holds 10 feet worth of sea level rise is resigned to thaw in Antarctica, and top military officials are warning that rising temperatures are leading to global conflict. What else do you need? If climate change were a disease, it’d be thick in the bloodstream, and the symptoms of our carbon-stuffed atmosphere are being felt by Americans every day.
“Just last week, the White House unveiled a deeply researched scientific work that outlined the many ways that global warming is already impacting the nation. This week, we lived them.”
The Week Climate Changed Everything : Motherboard
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Riffing off that first link, and Amazon’s mystery box, Today’s Book Recommendation is The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and just to show I have a sense of irony: here’s the link to the Amazon Kindle edition. There Is No Escaping Amazon.
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Diary entry for 16 May:
I could write yet another diatribe on Amazon, but I feel I’m done with that. I’ve already written too much, perhaps, as a quick google search handily illustrates. It’s not that I’m opposed to writing more, or that my opinion of Amazon has substantially changed, but I just can’t keep fighting it. Personally, the stakes have changed as well.
If I had to pick one article to take the place of today’s essay, it’d be the most recent, The Book Utility Co.
That’s it for today; I think I’ll start working on tomorrow’s. —M.
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