Bonjour bonsoir, and music with new Islands.

News news news:

• To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be (this goes for yourself too), via Kottke.
• Tech:
  • Unix Shell programming: The next 50 years (pdf), via Leah Neukirchen. Also, Joey Hess: Typed pipes in every shell (HN).
  • Doc Searls: BuzzPhrasing.
  • NYT: Inside Amazon's employment machine.