How many photos have ever been taken? | 1000memories »

According to these boffins, Facebook hosts around 4% of all the photos that have ever been taken. And roughly 20% of all the photos taken this year will be uploaded to Facebook.

Kids – not even kids, teenagers – are growing up in a world where cameras are ubiquitous, they’re just part of the device you carry around with you. And photography isn’t some arcane, expensive hobby. It’s been democratized.

I can’t wait to see what this means for the next generation of photojournalists.

AV Club: Louis C.K. walks us through Louie’s second season (Part 1 of 4) »

I know people are probably sick of me linking to

1. The AV Club, and
2. Louis CK stories

but honestly, this second season of Louie was one of the best seasons of TV I’ve ever seen. (And “Duckling” was one of the best episodes of any TV show I’ve ever seen). Reading this background on the production of the first couple of episodes is fascinating.

Also, much as I hate to say “X is the new Y”, anyone else get the feeling that Louis CK is taking the reins left over from when Woody Allen packed up for Europe? No-one else is making New York seem so gorgeous.

Boom »

Boom is a command-line key-value store written by Zach Holman. If you don’t know what this is, you probably don’t need it. Still, I really love the installation instructions:

Hey, run this:

$ gem install boom

See? Now you can do this:

$ boom

Pretty easy. Like your mom.

I wish more software developers were brave enough to make ‘your mom’ jokes in their installation instructions.