I’ve watched the latest episode of Doctor Who and the ending still confuses me. Would anyone like to put my brain at rest???
This is so freaking awesome, the possibilities are endless.
Fabrican Ltd on the Discovery Channel (by fabricanltd)
Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional planet Tatooine. It’s massive structures now stand like ancient ruins long since forgotten.
Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing
First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize.
But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:
WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED
- David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
- Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power.
- Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
- They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.
WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP
- If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
- If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
- If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
- If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
- If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
- If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.
ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE
- Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
- Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.
Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.
- Hank
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Reblogged from Hank’s Tumblr
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Hogwarts Houses and each landscape
(via renmir)
I would love to have one of each, however at the price they are charging it’s a little out of my price range at the moment
Available here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/11c1/
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I notice a couple of them this morning when I was scrolling through Tumblr (I have a lot of DC, Marvel, Geeky type blogs followed) and then more and more they appeared so I scrounged them all together from various blogs and stuck them in one post so anyone can see the awesomeness of them. That, and I was hoping someone out in the great wide world of Tumblr might know where I could purchase them… Turns out they are concept art for clothing from a deviant art user - now that I have found out I should amend my blurb underneath.
Young Justice Hoodies
I had never seen these hoodies until today, and in just one day I have seen this collection come up on my Tumblr feed at least a dozen time,
I can tell you I want the entire collection and I just have to track them down now. If anyone can give a heads up as to where I can get them that would be greatly appreciated.
I have just been informed by the friendly bloggers of Tumblr that they are only concept pieces from a deviantART user who goes by the name seventhirtytwo. If this is the kind of incredible work that he is producing I hope he can get noticed by some bigwigs and they will take him and his art through to production.
