Link About It: This Week’s Picks

London's Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei's Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE's last ride and more in our look at the web this week

1. Grass-Mud Horse Style In a remark on Chinese Web censorship artist Ai Weiwei mocked PSY’s ubiquitous Gangnam Style video with his own version, Grass-Mud Horse Style. Still online outside of China, the video shows Weiwei in handcuffs, which he says “should belong to law enforcement but in many many cases in China people are arrested or taken away without any formal charge.” 2. noPhoto …

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London's Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei's Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE's last ride and more in our look at the web this week

Speed demons will definitely want to help fund inventor Jonathan Dandrow’s newest idea—a license plate that deflects the flash of traffic enforcement cameras. Called noPhoto, the advantageous tool will likely be banned once discovered by the fuzz, but you can pretend every road is the Autobahn until they do.

#giveFORUMtoPeter

London's Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei's Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE's last ride and more in our look at the web this week

Tuesday Jake Burton announced the end of an era with the laying to rest of “The Program” brands—Forum, Special Blend, Four Square. Stated as a strategic move for the big B, much of the snowboard industry felt the impact as team riders and brand employees were left in the dust by mid week. To keep the brand alive some good-willing social media supporters started #giveFORUMtoPETER, …