Gleanings: Spiked Shakes, ROI and Unhappy Endings.

• Sales of new (not used) vinyl records are up 25% this past year. 

• Netflix's fatal error (Paid Content). 

• ROI is about a lot more than revenue. 

• In-and-Out Shake. With a shot of bourbon. 

• What's your favorite unhappy movie ending? (AV Club). 

Gleanings: Report Cards, Connections and Public Parks on Twitter

• Found report cards from the 1920s and what they tell us (Slate).

• Oral history of the Uptight Citizens Brigade (NY Mag). 

• Scholarly publishing's business model is all about keeping the general public out. Can this last? (Guardian UK). 

• The documentary "Connected" is pretty damn good. Now playing 

• The Highline in New York City is on twitter (@highlinenyc). 

Gleanings: Ice, Wellness, Replacements.

• The 7 Iconic Patents That Define Steve Jobs (TechCrunch). 

• HBO Documentary on Gloria Steinem runs this fall (LA Times). 

• Whole Foods to open members-only wellness clubs. (Brand Channel). 

• "Unsavory Elitism and Culinary Politics" (NY Times). 

• Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson discuss the possibility of a Replacements reunion (Rolling Stone).

• Leadership Lessons from Burning Man (Fast Company). 

• There's a thing called 'Texasism' (Salon). 

• 10 Big Ideas From DJ Spooky's ‘The Book of Ice’ (PSFK). 

• Wired Magazine online has a "This Day In Tech" feature if you're into that sort of thing.

Gleanings: Monsters, Wrestlers and Spoilers.

 

• Pixar to release Monster's Inc prequel in 2013. (LA Times). 

• Could their be a "Spotify For the Performing Arts?" (via Arts Journal). 

• Paul Simon's landmark album "Graceland" is 25 years old (N+1). 

• The original Muppeteers. Where are they now? 

• Taxonomy of professional wrestling names (via Steve Rubel). 

• Do we actually like movie spoilers more than we admit?

Gleanings: Metadata, Dropping Dead, Outcasts and Historic Toilets.

I'm recapturing the links I post on twitter each day here for those who prefer to get them this way. 

• Can a Newspaper Think like a Startup? (GigaOM). 

• Why Metadata will Define the Future of Television (Mashable).  

• Rolling Stone to Music Industry: Drop Dead. 

• On the Trail of George Orwell's Outcasts. (BBC).

• 9 Great Reads by David Foster Wallace at Byliner.  

• Who Stole The Mona Lisa? Geat tale of theft of famous painting from Louvre in 1911 (Slate). 

• Wikipedia entry of "List of Worst Films ever Made." 

• Photoshoot with Francis Bean Cobain who is now 18 years old. 

• Art of the Menu (Brand New). 

• 6 Famously Terrible Movies That Were Almost Awesome (Cracked). 

• Historic Toilets of the World (Lonley Planet). 

• 20 Great Guy/Gal Musical Pairings Right Now (Paste Magazine). 

• ‘Stand By Me’ Was Released 25 Years Ago Today (Slashfilm). 

• The Completely Unecessary Footloose remake Trailer (The Week). 

• On the 4th year of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Festival which is this weekend. (SFgate). 

Gleanings: There Might be Meetings, There Will be Change, They Might be Giants

• Paul Graham: People who love meetings v. those who hate them
  Who am I? Still deciding...
  (tags: business timemanagement paulgraham meeting culture work leadership collaboration management)

• The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices: Slate Magazine
  via Publishing 2020 Blog
  (tags: publishing reading ebooks amazon business)

• Powell's Q&A with author Richard Russo
  Recently accused of misogyny and assorted crimes...
  (tags: richardrusso author interview books)

• Round up of large file sharing apps on TechCrunch
  Jeez, ever tried emailing a movie to someone? You need one of these.
  (tags: media storage filesharing technology)

• An Appreciation of "The Iron Giant" on its 10th Anniversary: Wired
  What a great, underrated animated movie. (via Kottke.org)
  (tags: movies film cinema anniversary irongiant bradbird)

Gleanings: Hapiness, Qwittering and Fantastic Mr. Fox

• Change: Are You Initiating or Avoiding? Booksquare.com
  Brilliant.
  (tags: business publishing change future trends)

• Is New York still the city for the young, aspiring artist?
  Hmmm good question. (via Arts Journal)
  (tags: culture arts nyc newyork cities artists)

• Flickchart - A game To Rank The Best Movies Of All Time
  A black hole with no bottom. (via David Dylan Thomas)
  (tags: movies film cinema recommendations flickchart)

• The case against iPhones in the bedroom | Boing Boing Gadgets
  Agreed. (via Derek Powazek)
  (tags: iphone relationships etiquette)

• Six things I like and don't like about my new Kindle: Otis Chandler on GoodReads
  (tags: books reading kindle ebooks technology goodreads)

• The three biggest reasons music magazines like Vibe and Blender are dying: Slate Magazine
  (tags: music magazines business media journalism)

• DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content - Ars Technica
  via Waxy
  (tags: business media journalism drm copyright businessmodel newspapers ap)

• Qwitter: Service that alerts you when you lose Twitter followers
  via Murketing
  (tags: qwitter unfollow web2.0 socialmedia twitter)

• Trailer for Wes Anderson's new movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox" based on the Roald Dahl classic
  via Booksoup
  (tags: roalddahl wesanderson trailer movie film books animation adaptation)

• The Challenges Facing the Modern Music Festival: NY Times
  via Largehearted Boy
  (tags: music festival musicfestivals business recession)

• Track Your Happiness: An iPhone app to, eh track your happiness
  via PSFK
  (tags: iphone happiness apps)

Gleanings: Critics, Theatres, Light Cycles

• Gizmodo 79: A series on the technological leaps of 1979
  via Micropersuasion
  (tags: 1979 gizmodo 70s technology computing gadgets retro history nostalgia)

• What happened to the American Space Program? Tom Wolfe in the NY TIMES
  via AL Daily
  (tags: technology history space nasa tomwolfe)

• Flynn Lives: Trailer to sequel of Tron. Set for release in 2010
  via Laughing Squid
  (tags: 80s movie film tron tron2 trailer technology)

• National Book Foundation Blog honoring 60 years of National Book Award winners
  via The Elegant Variation
  (tags: reading blog books nationalbookaward)

• On the 10th Anniversary of The Blair Witch Project: Moving Image Source
  I remember that summer well.
  (tags: film movie cinema blairwitchproject anniversary)

• Wes Anderson Essay on his meeting with legendary film crtiic Pauline Kael: This Recording Magazine
  via Subtraction.com
  (tags: kael wesanderson movies film cinema reviews criticism)

• The Los Angeles Theare Center: A new conservatory and arts complex in downtown LA
  Neat! (via Cinema Treasures)
  (tags: la theatre conservatory arts culture)

Gleanings: Snobbery, Literary, Pecuniary...

• James Wolcott on Cultural Snobbery: Vanity Fair
  
  via George Kelly
  (tags: trends fashion snobbery culture)

• Give Struggling Authors a Chance: The Atlantic
  via Book Soup
  (tags: publishing books authors writers writing)

• How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck
  
  via Murketing.com
  (tags: spending paycheck budget money economy economics finances work)

• Inside The Arts: A blogging network about arts and culture
  (tags: arts culture blogs)

• American Book Review's Current Issue is all about the teaching of creative writing
  via New Pages
  (tags: writing teaching academia americanbookreview magazine)

• Is the university destined for the ashcan of history? Edge Magazine
  via Bookforum
  (tags: university trends scholarship learning future)

• Unfinished Nabokov Novel To Be Published By Playboy
  No kidding? (via Arts Journal)
  (tags: nabakov novel playboy publishing magazine)

• The Living Room Problem: Or why watching movies on your TV became such a confusing mess: Koh Vinh
  Amen.
  (tags: tv television movies technology design)

Gleanings: Moving, Mulching, Missing

• How to move to San Francisco
  via Derek Powazek                                                                                                                          

• The Artistic Value of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
  via 37Signals
  (tags: music thriller michaeljackson album art creativity)

• Gobs of data missing From The National Archives from the 1990s
  Whoops! Looks to be a hard drive gone AWOL from the Clinton Era (via Original Signal)
  (tags: government storage cloudcomputing nationalarchives archives data)

• What makes for a great place to work? CNN Money
  Being treated like a human being tops my list (via Kottke.org)
  (tags: business work jobs careers employment)

• Laserium finds home at Vine Theater on Hollywood Blvd. - Los Angeles Times
  Let the "Laser Rush" smoking out begin! (via Cinema Treasures)
  (tags: laserium hollywood hollywoodblvd music lasers)

• Growing your own food has never been easier, especially in a big city: Salon.com
  (tags: food sustainability urban agriculture urbanfarming gardening)