Here's Photogrammar, a new tool for finding all the photos in the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). The Minneapolis section might be familiar to people who've researched the nadir of the Gateway area, but unless that description fits you with uncanny perfection, these will be new. Flophouses and transients, cheap hotels, rummies in the shade of the visitor center.

NEWS You might have seen the NYT piece on Amazon's working conditions. Here's the pushback, and it's on Medium:

Good question. The article, by the way, was written by former White House Spokesperson Jay Carney, who's now Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon, and apparently we're supposed to believe he's telling objective truths now. Go right ahead.

WEB You do want your country's intellectual property laws rewritten by 15-year-olds, right? This piece on the browser version of Popcorn Time, an app that streams torrents, quotes its idealistic founder.

He wants to give away movies because movies cost too much, and the studios control availability. That's why people pirate! No, they pirate because they don't want to pay anything. Wait until the Star Wars movie comes out. The audience has had years to set aside a few pennies a day to pay for the ticket. They'll torrent it.

The article had an update: the site's already been shut down. The "streaming bubble," a concept of which you may have been previously unaware, continues unpopped. Torrents, likewise - although it will be amusing if the day ever comes when the users who leach exceed the number who seed, and people start complaining that others aren't doing their fair share, but just behaving parasitically.