Links for August

It’s another edition of monthly links! Here are some interesting things for you to check out in August: Tracy Durnell has some interesting takes – and interesting ways of presenting existing ideas. In this tortured reflection on why Tracy won’t buy the lamp that she wants, she highlights how “home decor” is another way of putting you onto the consumerist treadmill. How will I be useless to Capitalism today? And commenter Chris Glass links to his List of Things I Do Not Need – a brilliant idea. He also links to a piece on Korean Dopamine Sites: fake e-commerce sites that are meant to scratch the itch of shopping without the exenditure. Related: food-delivery experience simulator. EP 1320 from Teenage Engineering This is… a medieval groovebox. It’s got horse hooves, hurdy gurdies, 2 witches, the illuminated medieval website is unbelievable, the device itself has medieval LED numbers, the promotional video is bizarre. I love this. I wish I was musically talented so I could play this.…