for future reference

"Yes, there’s also a QR code. Stop having a knee-jerk reaction right now and think carefully. Some of those URLs are quite long, and one day, Pinboard might not exist to click on them from. Do you want to type them in by hand? No, you don’t, so you may as well use a visual encoding that you can scan with a phone in the kind of environment you’d read this book: at home, in good lighting. It is not the same as trying to scan marketing nonsense on the tube."

"Bookmachine takes your Pinboard links and makes paperback books of them: one 6"x9" book a year."

"This is the first time in history that most people are creating a detailed record of their lives in a shared space. We've always relied on one-time, narrow surveys of a small number of people to understand ourselves. With Facebook's data we have an incredible source that's so different from existing data we can gather, it makes it possible to answer questions we've never been able to before."

"Someone's written a chrome extension that encrypts and decrypts the content of messages on a Facebook group, but only if:

the person viewing the group has the appropriate extension for chrome
they have the correct crypto key shared within the group (outside of Facebook, natch)

All anyone else see if they don't have the correct key is a load of jumbled text like so:"