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Interesting Things on the Internet: July 27th 2015

• Web Design: The First 100 Years. Maciej's talks are always excellent, and this is no exception. "Fixing the world with software is like giving yourself a haircut with a lawn mower. It works in theory, but there's no room for error in the implementation."
• The Violence of Algorithms.
• Is innovation faltering - or is GDP? Some serendipitous background to my tweet the other day.
• Fairly Random Thoughts on Ashley Madison & the Swiftly Moving Line. Rather than the web-we-lost, this is the web-we-built-and-the-huge-gaping-problems-in-that.
• Here’s the solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems — and no one will like it, and digging into that in more detail there's also . The how-companies-are-accountable-to-their-workforce (or the *handwave* not really a workforce, they're private contractors, honest) part needs more development, but there are some interesting ideas in there worth exploring further.
• The Verge's web sucks. I'm sure it's not just the Verge, but downloading 9.5MB and hitting over 20 different sites for ads, tracking, etc. in order to read a sinlge article is crazy and bloated.
• "If you think about it in that light, it makes the achievements of the socialist bloc seem pretty impressive: a country like Russia managed to go from a backwater to a major world power with everyone working maybe on average four or five hours a day. But the problem is they couldn’t take credit for it." Interesting perspective on the morality of work.
• The Art of the Car Chase. Fantastic supercut of movie chase scenes. Jason is right, the Indiana Jones/Alex Foley segment is sublime.