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Though the social media giant is begging off the decision saying that the agency does not appreciate the scope of the competition its properties face, the consumer advocacy watchdog, the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) in Bonn has ruled that Facebook cannot aggregate, bundle user data and cannot seed or otherwise inform the demographic model it maintains on each by profile drawing on information it collects from the boutique outlets it has absorbed. This anti-trust verdict demonstrates how the platform abuses user-data through pooling and will hopeful propagate further through the network’s ecosystem, remedying to an extent the regrettable decision to surrender and suborn some genuinely useful applications to the media empire, and moreover shows that the courts and like organisations are capable of catching up.

a fifth of beethoven

Though our favourite Line Rider doodle remains Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, we also enjoyed very much the intricate slalom to Ludwig von Beethoven’s Opus 67, via Pasa Bon! The familiar and establishing long-long-long-short conceit represents Fate knocking at the door and was suggested by the composer’s amanuensis, Anton Schindler.

ideophone

We enjoyed very much indulging in this discussion on sound symbolism and phonosemantics that attempts to triangulate humans’ first vocalisations through the focus of what strikes as intuitive.
Though rarer in Western languages—though there’s zigzag, yo-yo, tick-tock, and Charivari to name a few examples—bearing structure and quality through words is universal and the opening exercise in the essay that consisted of choosing the traits that Japanese ideophones described was illustrative and immediately recalled these gourmet and phenomimic chocolates we encountered a few years back.

6x6

don’t seem to rouse themselves for anything besides the birth and death days of idolised rock stars: a Stasi guide of negative-decadent youth subcultures in East Germany

backboard: neglected community basket ball courts revived and rehabilitated as canvases for monumental paintings

sandbox: the development of electronic music owes a debt to songs aimed at a very young demographic

what pedantry is this: more questions and answers from the Chicago Manual of Style—via Coudal Partners

i’ll be waiting for you on the dark side of the moon: Earthrise from above the lunar far-side from the Longjiang-2 orbiter

tilt-shift: an immersive tour of the North Korean capital

worshipful company of stationers and newspaper makers

Via the always excellent Boing Boing, we are given a taste of the dazzling collection of ephemera of a confessed letterhead obsessive.
There are quite a few amazing Art Deco specimens to consider that are not only the height of typography but also serves as important historical record of millions of aggregated business correspondence of decades past. A blog, in itself and as a landing page, is certainly informed in terms of layout and format by the sheet banner, masthead, body and background and we bloggers should cultivate such aesthetics.