Detroit man accused of killing naked 15 year-old son in vacant lot as he begs for his life

A relative says a 37-year-old Detroit man irate after hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old made the teen strip naked at gunpoint, marched him outside and fatally shot him.

The boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, told the Detroit Free Press that he told her he had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl and that she phoned his father. A judge has ordered Pinkney Sr. held without bond.

via: Google / AP Newswire

more at: detroit.blogs.time.com

The Problem with Publishing

In a story depressingly reminiscent of Steve Albini’s famous “some of your friends are already this fucked”:

The Revenue reality of a bestseller: Lynn Viehl’s Twilight Fall was a top 20 paperback bestseller. Here, she analyzes and posts her royalties and discovers: “If I published one book a year and it did as well as this one, my net would be $2,500 over the US poverty threshold.

summary economics:

author nets:   $24,500

publisher nets: $453,800

via: @umairh

tiff:

maniacalrage:

Twitter by Mark Weaver
Something about this hits me just right.

Mark Weaver is doing it right.

Beautiful.

tiff:

maniacalrage:

Twitter by Mark Weaver

Something about this hits me just right.

Mark Weaver is doing it right.

Beautiful.

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On Birdfeed and Progressive Disclosure…

birdfeed:

onethinline:

But much of the joy of using Birdfeed is its use of a design principle called progressive disclosure, an elusive but powerful property whereby an application presents only what is needed as it’s needed, gracefully exposing more features and complexity only when the user seeks them out. In other words, the power is there, but it sticks to doing its job, not getting in your way.

A favorite review of Birdfeed from David Adams.

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But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.