Hey there. Music: a new Battles album! Nomnomnom.

News:

• Good pieces on the ad blocking drama:
  • Maciej Cegłowski - What happens next will amaze you, via HN.
  • Seth Godin - Ad blocking.
  • The ad industry's perspective: Ad blocking: the unnecessary internet apocalypse, via df.
  • Bloomberg Business on click fraud, via waxy links.
• Charles Eisenstein: Sustainable development: something new or more of the same?
• Drug goes from $13.50 a tablet to $750, overnight, via HN.
• Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time, via kottke.
• Vi Hart says Happy "Happy Birthday" Day!, via waxy links.
• We asked a cultural historian: are Apple stores the new temples? via kottke.