links (because wherever one is in the world, there are tabs to be dumped):

Kris Ligman, on internet self-esteem.

vi's comic about Tintin.

myz_lilith on moving to London.

...I'll just leave this here with no comment, how about that.

From the 'Why would the future be different?' files: Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots.

From the 'well duh' files; immigrants living in squalid conditions in West London and not being able to return home.

Banksy, on advertising:

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy.

Daisy fills you in on the whole Girl Scout Cookies transwank so I don't have to; I bought NINE BOXES on account of this; love the new lemony ones, yay.

Washington Post - A million-dollar mortgage goes unpaid for years while couple fights foreclosure:

“When a bank does all it can to save itself, that’s good business,” Keith said. “When a homeowner does the same thing, he’s called a deadbeat.”

^this. Individuals who made money off the bubble but then got left holding the baby are being treated way less cushily than banks that did the same; the moral hazard is unevenly distributed. In a bubble, everyone becomes a speculator, and moral hazard arises when some of them get rewarded for it. The rest of us all get screwed, though.

Bloomburg via SubprimeJD - Let Them Eat Cake.

“I wouldn’t want to whine,” Schiff said. “All I want is the stuff that I always thought, growing up, that successful parents had.”

^yeah, dude excerpted the most choice comments on this, LOLOLOLOL.