links for 2009-12-30 NOW it's beginning to sound interesting First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil's Tablet-Friendly Ebook Format (via Gizmodo) (tags: geekery ebooks technofutures) Photos of standpipes with anti-sitting devices via BoingBoing, and a heretofore unimagined spectrum of urban hostility (tags: photography urbs)