Holy Crow: Hollywood Reporter says David Milch, brilliant Hollywood writer and producer, gambled away his fortune.

He's living on a $40 a week allowance now. More here.

WEB Why are some of the ugliest sites also the most popular? Because aesthetics don't matter for their audience. Nextweb:

There's one site I find myself visiting every day, and every day I'm reminded how a diagram of people who use the site and people who designed the site have no overlapped space at all. You call up the site on your mobile device. The mobile version starts to load. The minute there's some readable text you scroll down, but the act of touching the site launches an ad. So you go back to the page and it loads all over again, and as you scroll down you hit one of the enormous ads placed every seven lines. It's either intentional, which is unforgivable, or bad design, which is unforgivable. But as long as the ad-impression numbers are good - meaningless, but good - then no one in the organization is likely to change it.

ARCHITORTURE You might find this intriguing: industrial camouflage in WW2. KCET:

The rest of the piece is about . . . I don't know, public spaces, concealment, LA, artifice, and so on. It tries hard to find Deep Connectedness in all these things, but the interesting story is the life of the people whose jobs consisted of pretending to live in fake houses on top of massive factory roofs.

BRB; going to pitch a novel based on the idea. Maybe a murder mystery. Of course a murder mystery,