(I don’t think I’ve shown my face on this blog since I made the move to WRG! Hiii! This is me!)
Hello hello, and welcome to yet another instalment of Thissss Week In Linkssss! If I seem altogether to peppy to be posting today, it’s only because TWIL = Friday = Weekend-fun-times. Plus I have loads of things to share no thanks to last weeks faulty internet connection. AND I’m about to embark on a cross continental road trip to shoot a documentary for the UN, but that excitement is for another post!
I’m not going to bombard you with all of last weeks links, but here are the best ones:
One of my favorite fashion bloggers with a brain (they are fewer and farther between these days…) wrote up a great piece about the Slut Walk movement. Its one of the only voices I’ve heard condemning the events. A really interesting read. [link]
Last week Apple brought introduced us to what could be the future of computing : iCloud aims to take all the programs off your computer and put up in The Cloud. A novel approach to saving time and space, but the impact that this system will have on illegal software installations will turn industries on their heads (don’t act suprised.) [link]
One of the best industrial designers that has ever lived, Dieter Rams, was profiled in the NY Times last week. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, take a look at whatever Braun appliance you have lying around. If it was made before 1995, chances are it was designed by him. [link]
Dan Harmon, creator of one of my favourite TV shows, Community, talks about what it’s like working with women in comedy. His opinion on having ladies present in the workplace is really refreshing, even if it did only develop thank to the quota of women he had to hire. [link]
And now to what this weeks web scouring yielded:
CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award winners Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler, sat down with National Post writer Derek McCormack to talk about all things fashion. Theses boys are, by far, my favorite contemporary designers.[link]
In other fan-girl news, Bitch Magazine (my favorite english feminism publication!) did a quick profile on Kartina Richardson, who if you don’t know, is quite an amazing writter and blogger. When she’s not typping up a witty review on the newest film to hit theaters, she blogs short stories, thoughts and her ever charming ‘public beverage enjoyment’ photos. [link]
In keeping with the feminist theme, after everything that’s been going on in the Arab world, not much has been said about the role women have played in the uprisings. Mother Jones explores what they’ve specifically done and how it has changed things. A particularily interesting read when you consider how structured women’s roles actually are in the region. [link]
In geek news, Bit.ly Pro is now open for some free business. Yep, the go-to link shortening site is letting users sign up their short domains, register for tracking statistics, and check how their content is performing on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, for the hefty prices of nothing! [link]
Finally, something particularily indicative of the times: a constitution being drafted on the internet! The Icelandic government hopes to get its citizens to chime in through social media, a far cry from the days when the document was drafted by a bunch of men, alone in a room, cut off from the world. [link]
Happy Friday!

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