http://taptaptap.com/blog/10-million-cameraplus-copies-sold/ OK, the photo accompanying “Swipe to hear….” is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all month.

This is the right direction for thinking about e-mail interfaces I think. Tempts me to go back to Thunderbird for a while. http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/lovebird-is-ready-for-beta-testing/

From Jason Lee Byas at C4SS: “One Reason Not to Build the Keystone XL Pipeline: Justice” “. . . Since beginning to plan Keystone XL, TransCanada Corporation has used eminent domain to steal more than a hundred tracts of land in Texas alone. If it gets the green light, the pipeline will run up through the plains like a burglar on a spree. Of course, the company does initially offer those who have what they want a chance to make the transaction voluntarily. When that doesn’t work, though, unsuspecting landowners receive letters like the one Julia Trigg Crawford got, saying ‘If Keystone is unable to successfully negotiate the voluntary acquisition of the necessary easements, it will have to resort to the exercise of its statutory right of eminent domain.’ . . . Whatever justifications are offered for a hypothetical, peacefully acquired pipeline do not justify the real world pipeline. At least no more than justifications for a hypothetical parking lot would justify one built by taking a wrecking ball to Nick Gillespie’s home. If the title ‘libertarian’ is to mean anything, it must mean a defense of justice. It cannot, and must not, mean endorsing feudalism whenever ‘it’s good for the economy.'” http://c4ss.org/content/17368

Q. Under anarchy, who will protect the innocent from predators and criminals? A. http://eyzmaster.blogspot.com/2011/05/comicpanelsoftheweek-justice-league-of.html

From Jesse Walker: “Info on my upcoming book, from the next HarperCollins catalog.”

Here’s the creepiest bit of dystopian legal language for the day: “mental hygiene warrants” “Real Time Crime Center” Keep in mind that one of the main activities of the “Real Time Crime Center” at this time, is to track down, arrest, imprison and force psychiatric treatment on, people who specifically *are not accused of committing any crime*. This bit of overtly totalitarian “mental-health” fascism has been brought to you by the New York Police Department. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scoop_the_nuts_TujGFMPDFLCfDgxDqmjHIL

Your afternoon Western Swing (+ blue yodel). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGe_13mtPY Alternative selection for those who don’t like blue yodel: a very smoothly harmonized version on guitar, harmonica and human beat-box from the Mills Brothers, shot in the early 1930s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruLIkHIIuwE

To-day at the Fair Use Repository: “For the McKinley Monument,” a proposal from FREE SOCIETY IX.20 (May 18, 1902).