Link Archive 5/4/13 – 5/13/13

Google Wallet The internet just gained a level. HUZZAH!   Why Star Trek is great An absolutely awesome article for all the Trek fans.   Dredd is actually a really good action movie.  

The evil engineer's guide to patents

Software patent law is broken. Exploit it for personal gain - be a munchkin IRL   Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown "The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive"   Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathing Article title is, as always, greatly exaggerated. You'd need to keep getting injections every 30 min, and carbon dioxide would eventually build up in your blood to lethal levels. Still - 30 min without needing to breath? Yes pls.  

Depression Part Two

 It's a bit disheartening how many of my friends have shared this with words akin to "YES! THIS!!" Reminds me of what Hideaki Anno (reportedly) said when interviewed about the popularity of Evangelion. "I think it's the most terrible thing I've ever heard. That so many other people feel like I do? It is awful." (paraphrased, hearsay, and clouded by over a decade of memory, so take the quotation marks with a grain of salt)

MILLENIALS AREN’T LAZY: THEY’RE FUCKED As our tech gets better, we need less and less people to work in order to keep society running. What do we do with those people in a work = right-to-live society?   Imagine A Flying Pig: How Words Take Shape In The Brain An extremely brief summary. Words are mind-control magic.   Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain? It should be. But as we already know - because the copyright laws have been gamed.   Government Assault on the Chinatown Bus Industry Fueled By Bogus Federal Study /sigh  

I won't give Zach Braff one dime

Reserve Kickstarter for those who don't already have the attention of powerful producers/funders?   Keanu Reeves is awesome