May 2010
“The phone was just a thing, a simple part of the equation; it was important to...”
– One on One: Brian Lam of Gizmodo.com - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Some of Mr. Rumsfeld’s initiatives were controversial, and met with resistance...”
– U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Military Acts in Mideast Region - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper) (via mikehudack)
They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I...
Extreme Hoarders Buried Inside Own Home →
A cautionary tale for us pack rats everywhere.
“If I’m only getting three legit meals a day, they better be fucking good....”
– The Public Humiliation Diet: A How-To
“Zuckerberg needs your data. His business is built upon it. The most important...”
– Lyons, on Facebook (via newsweek) (via blakeley)
Uh… How is Facebook different from any other publication - the one Lyons works for included - whose “real customers are advertisers?” Seems kind of hypocritical to me to write that in a publication that ostensibly makes its money off of advertising...
“Yet by another fashion, the level of the program’s audience serves up an...”
– Television: Was ‘Lost’ Finale an Event? - Advertising Age - MediaWorks
Huh. Interesting article.
“What’s this add up to? I’d say H.264 still offers better quality, but the...”
– First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared - StreamingMedia.com (via donnaromer) (via mikehudack)
Not noticeable in most applications? You mean kind of like the supposedly restrictive license H.264 has? Hahahahaha.
Oh man. Codec humor.
“Zuckerberg needs your data. His business is built upon it. The most important...”
– Lyons, on Facebook (via newsweek) (via blakeley)
Uh… How is Facebook different from any other publication - the one Lyons works for included - whose “real customers are advertisers?” Seems kind of hypocritical to me to write that in a publication that ostensibly makes its money...
Out of Pocket
tedr:
unsuck:
Unsuck it: Unavailable.
Seriously! Where did ‘Out of Pocket’ even come from? Does it mean my phone will be in my pocket but I’ll be out of range.’ Does it mean ‘Normally you have me in your pocket, but not at this time.’
I don’t usually get irked at malapropisms, or malologisms, or whatever the hell these are called, but MAN this one irks me.
“People who find the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — have nonetheless been...”
– Mind blown. What a crazy, and what I think accurate, thought.
Virginia Heffernan (via soupsoup)
(via katykelley) (via mikehudack
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ooo. Yeah. Dead on. This, by the way, is what I think Steve meant by “Freedom from porn.” Maybe not the porn you want, but that it’s not gonna pop up all the damn...
“People who find the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — have nonetheless been...”
– Mind blown. What a crazy, and what I think accurate, thought.
Virginia Heffernan (via soupsoup) (via katykelley) (via mikehudack)
ooo. Yeah. Dead on. This, by the way, is what I think Steve meant by “Freedom from porn.” Maybe not the porn you want, but that it’s not gonna pop...
“In 1959, Gysin created the Cut-Up Method, wherein words and phrases were...”
– Brion Gysin: Dream Machine :: NewMuseum.org
Oh man I am so going to go to this.
“Sen. Ben Nelson (D), for example, told the Omaha World-Herald this week that he...”
– Great.
Aging Congress flummoxed by ATMs
(via heyitsnoah)
I can’t wait until people like this are out of positions of decision-making. Please retire. You’ll do the world a favor. Wisdom/Ignorance is not a good combination. (via jayparkinsonmd)
Ha ha. by the time they are out of power, we will be...
The New Yorker →
I can’t believe The New Yorker is using The Atlantic theme.
Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font... →
moth:
Exciting: Google has worked with top designers to create high-quality, open source fonts, hosted for free in the cloud, and available to designers and developers as web fonts (supported in CSS 3) for improved web typography. You can add the embedded fonts to any site with a line of code.
[via petervidani]
Ooo this looks super interesting.
Dan Lyons, on why he's switching to Android →
ramkumarshankar:
rickwebb:
mikehudack:
fredseibert:
moth:
The most telling thing to me was Google’s tone toward Apple at the event. Instead of pretending to still be an Apple ally, Google today basically threw down the gantlet and admitted that it’s engaged in total war with Apple.
And unlike other Apple rivals, like Adobe, Google execs weren’t huffing and puffing and wringing their hands...
Dan Lyons, on why he's switching to Android →
It’s “gauntlet”.
Blue wizard needs food, badly. Eat your food, don’t shoot it.
“As Google exec Vic Gundotra said when explaining why Google entered this market:...”
– Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com
Ha! That is amazing. Yes, I am absolutely sure that is why Google acted.
Dan Lyons, on why he's switching to Android →
mikehudack:
fredseibert:
moth:
The most telling thing to me was Google’s tone toward Apple at the event. Instead of pretending to still be an Apple ally, Google today basically threw down the gantlet and admitted that it’s engaged in total war with Apple.
And unlike other Apple rivals, like Adobe, Google execs weren’t huffing and puffing and wringing their hands about Apple’s bad behavior....
THE PAREENINGTON POST - Want to change behavior?... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Mr. Pareene…if you’d like to know what disruptive innovation does to the status quo, I’d suggest studying your previous employer (not your current one).
Haha aww… Now Jay… Salon was a very innovative attempt at new journalism, when it started. Let’s not ignore history, here.
Watchemmawelles:
Alive - Goldfrapp | Music Video
Uhhh. WTF??
Hahaha! This is so amazing. It’s like Allison Goldfrapp got to her fifth album and was like “man this rock star thing is so not like what I thought it would be when I was a kid. I thought it would be like Kiss or Olivia Newton John with lasers and smoke machines n shit. Oh wait. I should just do all that NOW and make it...
“We never abandoned Apple,” Geschke responded. “Apple now seems to be...”
– AppleInsider | ‘We have never, ever abandoned Apple,’ Adobe co-founder says
Anyone who developed Flash apps on the Mac around the turn of the century knows the huge lie lurking underneath this statement. Flash as an IDE was a joke on the Mac, and the runtime performance for the plug-in...
