Coco Solid: Heaven’s Gate – a music video documentary made about The Fafswag Ball, a South Auckland scene that celebrates Polynesian fa'afafine (transgender) culture through fashion, vogue and dance battles.

utf8mb4 for the win?

When is UTF-8 not UTF-8? When it's used in MySQL, apparently.

Play Slap Kirk.

Fa-fa-fashion!

tobi.com dresses you up.

Look, sakana!

Google Sheep View.

Fossielvrij – a dutch documentation about divestment with an impressive appearance by a long-time friend of mine.

Maria Picassó i Piquer, Illustration – Barcelona.

Krugman, Piketty and the New Gilded Age.

Anil Dash: How to look at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

“No matter how good their intentions, the net result of most such efforts has typically been neutral at best, and can sometimes be deeply destructive. The most valuable path may well be to simply invest this enormous pool of resources in the people and institutions that are already doing this work (including, yes, public institutions funded by tax dollars) and trust that they know their domains better than someone who’s already got a pretty demanding day job. That may not be as appealing to the cult of disruption within the tech echo chamber, but would be exactly the kind of brave and unexpected move that might offer Max a great example of how to engage with the real world that the rest of us live in.” (Via says.com.)

Is austerity due to a spreadsheet error?