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# This Week - Nov 22, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-11-22/
- Published: 2013-11-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:46.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, advertising, alissa walker, cabin porn, finn arne jorgensen, john battelle, online advertising, the atlantic, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> In this space between the built reality and the Cabin Porn imagination, a generation of consumers — be they hipsters, wannabe homesteaders, or simply ordinary people — is trying to come to terms with their own lifestyles and relationships to nature. I think this may perhaps be the reason for why so many people find [Cabin Porn](http://cabinporn.tumblr.com/?ref=drewshannon.net) so appealing. This deep romanticizing of cabin lifestyles is completely unrealistic, as most other porn, but it still has value. Looking at Cabin Porn, trying to articulate exactly what is essential and desirable at the cabin, we are looking at our lives and societies. In dreaming about an idyllic past, we are also imagining the future.  
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> — [What It Means That Urban Hipsters Like Staring at Pictures of Cabins (The Atlantic)](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/what-it-means-that-urban-hipsters-like-staring-at-pictures-of-cabins/254495/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Then I happened to glance outside. It was raining. It hadn’t rained the entire three months I had been there. L.A. had made me completely forget about the concept of rain.  
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> — [Sunny, Much to My Dismay (Alissa Walker)](https://medium.com/editors-picks/dbc53298fdee?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Today’s adtech has within it the glimmerings of a computing architecture that will underpin our entire society.  
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> — [Why The Banner Ad Is Heroic, and AdTech is Our Greatest Artifact (John Battelle)](http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/11/why-the-banner-ad-is-heroic-and-adtech-is-our-greatest-technology-artifact.php?ref=drewshannon.net)