February 2010
57 posts
“The world’s biggest online retailer and home of the Kindle ebook store and...”
– Amazon shelves Macmillan titles in ebook row | Business | guardian.co.uk
ISN”T THAT THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF EBOOKS?
God damnit, didn’t you learn anything from the music industry?
Publishers: the business of selling atoms is going away. Like it or not, you’re now in the...
January 2010
55 posts
“All of the features of a “real” spreadsheet are there, but there are appear to...”
– Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
“Adobe is arguing that Flash is installed on 99 percent of all web browsers that...”
– Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
Minor detail.
“Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow made his little poster showing what a bunch of...”
– Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAjksfhaslk;dhja;slghalskjdgalksjhmlxakjhgal kjaglksje fajka;sd ask a’
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whoo!
“You’re simply no longer going to be able to tempt users into installing software...”
– The Essence of iPad – GigaOM
mattly: davisp: i'm serious about how juggling all this shit i have to do is like a game
mattly: it's like GTA 4 but with less drugs/guns/cars
mattly: you basically have to juggle all your "friends" that call you up wanting you to play pool or some bullshit
mattly: except your friends are on your computer
davisp: mattly: Yeah, but that doesn't involve a 20 foot feathered cat does it?
“Given that matrix, it’s hard to see how the iPad is really the no-brainer...”
– Insanely great? Ars reacts to the Apple iPad
The fact that you’re putting up a feature chart tells me you care more about features than experience, and this is not the product for you.
“Let that sink in: you’ll have to pay EA before you can buy stuff”
– Seven Samurai in space: Ars reviews Mass Effect 2
“The foundation of such applications is typically some combination of Visual...”
– Windows 7’s XP Mode: what it is, how it works, who it’s for HEY PEOPLE: THIS IS WHY OPEN SOURCE MATTERS
“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
“The real problem is the mistaken belief that you can cat(1) a random logfile to...”
– http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/log-inject.txt Damn, reminds me of Snow Crash
“When I was growing up, “trespassing” was something you could only do to other...”
– Tinkerer’s Sunset [dive into mark]
“Then “next” arrived and it was so unrecognizable to most of us that we looked at...”
– stevenf.com
“You can view the process as analagous to a real-time strategy game. The world...”
– 3 Simple Rules That Will Make You a ‘Superstar’ Developer « yield thought
“Somebody gets paid lots of money to write that sentence, and they earn it all,...”
– This is why it’s worth learning about advertising, by Rory Marinich
“Opening up a system that wasn’t meant to be opened just makes little kids cry”
– I Love Walled Gardens, by Rory Marinich
“please stop trying to make predictions about what’s next, you have no clue...”
– Cruft: A message to the Internets regarding the iPad
“if you need a big fucking iPod touch, you’re in good shape, because there...”
– blog | analogindustries.com
“they all clap hands to their foreheads as they realise they have been duped into...”
– iPad About « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
“Steve Jobs doesn’t give a fuck about you. I promise. I’m typing this...”
– Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash
“What if all the energy that went into free promotion for the Apple tablet went...”
– Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash
“I can’t tell you how many pitches I’ve heard about how some new company is going...”
– Derek Powazek - What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow
“certainly don’t agree with the lanes and I’ve watched for decades — if you build...”
– BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » A conversation with City Council candidate Mary Volm
“you can still build a web browser, spider, client, web server, image editor, a...”
– Christopher Blizzard · HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web I take back what I said earlier, Mozilla
“Flash is shitty, nonredistributable, closed-source, restricted-platform,...”
– Hacker News | How about a more relevant analogy to Flash? It has the same insecurities and pla… Hey Mozilla, how about this? I won’t even consider using Firefox as my main browser again until it supports FFMpeg in HTML5 Video. I’ll also discourage friends/family from using it....
“But no one is taking the A train north to kill that guy. In fact, you’ve...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: I’m Building A Rape Tunnel
“Because [corporations] may be managed and controlled by nonresidents, their...”
– Complete Text of Justice Stevens’ Dissent on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Democratic Underground
“The Columbian also reports that court documents reveal Cellestine was texting at...”
– BikePortland.org » Man driving in fatal hit and run was texting; gets five years
“Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the...”
– Human bed-warmers at Holiday Inn | Reuters
“I’m sure that Google keeps one or two free-range Humans on campus for that kind...”
– Google’s Nexus One is no iPhone - and that’s OK :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
“There isn’t a single city in the United States that qualifies as world
class.”
– BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Guest Editorial from the BTA: Together, we can get this thing built
“if they can show you’ve read the patent they get...”
– Mailing list archives
“drivers who enforce some imaginary version of the vehicle code by assaulting...”
– Doctor’s prison sentence isn’t a sea change for cyclists - Los Angeles Times
“We look for reasons he did this: were there signs, a homicidal triad, bipolar,...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: This Man Killed His Family And He Doesn’t Know Why
“You can safely replace “painters” in this response with...”
– Dabblers and Blowhards
“Remember people, just because you can’t think of a different solution to...”
– Fighting Hype with Hype - RDBMS FTW!!!1!
“this past year as a blog writer and editor covering the bike world I’ve had...”
– BikePortland.org » Editorial: My year as a woman in a city of bikes
“if Chinese people are being nudged into developing western style diseases...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Everyone Goes Crazy In A Different Way, As Long As That Way Is The Same
“I imagine Thurrott as a film critic in 1968, irritated at the hype surrounding...”
– Daring Fireball: The Original Tablet
a: said client is [redacted]
a: and they want to meet me as well, that's why i might be down there next month
b: RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN
“In the case of the Step Pyramid form the 3rd Dynasty, it would be easy to see a...”
– Better - Agile Pyramids
“since Marcus Fenix is a man, his physical virtues are an acceptable template for...”
– Penny Arcade - His Most Recent Superpower
“For me, architecture is a way of framing our place in the environment”
– Architect Rick Potestio: A megaphone for good design, urban planning | Portland News - – OregonLive.com
“As a nation we are placed in the grotesque position of being forced to listen to...”
– A view from the cycle path - David Hembrow: Perceptive comments on safety (folks, this was written in 1947. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
“The Future isn’t a service that’ll send you a text message when you’ve been out...”
– Software Sea Change
“SCSS is a CSS-style syntax for Sass”
– Changelog - SCSS: CSS-style syntax for Sass SUP DAWG, I HERD YOU LIKE STYLESHEET SYNTAX, SO I PUT SOME CSS IN YOUR CSS COMPILER.
“Lunch and dinner are the two occasions when we most easily meet with friends and...”
– Nil by mouth - Roger Ebert’s Journal