July 2010
30 posts
June 2010
63 posts
When I’m wearing my contacts (most of the time), I can’t tell the difference between the Retina display and my iPhone 3GS display - they both look great, actually. And, hell, I can hold it any way I please.
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WatchPlaying with a Wacom
You know you’ve been doing a lot of international work when you type website.com.us by accident instead of website.com, because you’re so used to typing website.com.mx or website.co.jp.
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I think this gets me my Karma points for the week
Went to the ATM to withdraw money today, and the guy before me in the line left himself ‘logged in’ to the terminal, having forgotten to answer “Do you want to do any more transactions today?” I was a good boy, and pressed “no”.
That does bring up the point of defining transactional boundaries. It used to be that the machine would hold your card until you were...
And then one day
you realize that your entire past 20 years of work output could disappear in the blink of an eye with an EMF burst
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Making power beautiful
Sitting here looking at power bricks from Dell, Acer, and Xbox 360. I really wish that other companies would get on Apple’s “power bricks can be pleasant looking, and don’t have to be half the size of the device that they power” bandwagon. I mean, man, it’s like they’re paying their industrial engineers by the hour.
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Posterous and Tumblr Go to War
farflungfriend:
This is going to be good. Posterous rolled out a feature last night to import everything from your Tumblr into Posterous - one click operation.
I love posterous. Always have done. Not sure it’s good enough to use as a personal blog (I use wordpress for that), but it’s probably better than Tumblr at a lot of things.
After all of 30 seconds on the Posterous site, I’m not...
I would foursquare where I am right now, but I’m worried that I’d instantly become mayor of this godforsaken place.
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Abandoning(ish) the Twitter ship
Just noticing that many of the people I follow on Twitter have slowly been dropping off, with their ‘last post’ being weeks or months ago. And, simultaneously, realizing that my tweeting has too dropped off significantly.
What used to be an interesting place to see “What are you doing?” has become a massive linkfest, hashtag confab, and trending topics I don’t care...
How many American jobs will Steve Jobs destroy? |... →
Funny, I just read this using Reader.
Quiet iPhone wallpaper →
LOL+1
South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By... →
The Writer Who Couldn't Read : NPR →
nickdouglas:
Engel couldn’t see words with his eyes. His visual cortex was broken. But he could “see” when he used the motor part of his brain, first by tracing letters on a page, then by “writing” those same letters in the air, and then, strangely, when he shifted to copying letters with his tongue on the roof of his mouth. Tongue-copying was the fastest.
This is fascinating stuff.
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Ouch, found a way to crash Safari 5
If you go to this page using Safari 5 for Mac (http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/home-office/herman-miller-launches-desk-that-goes-up-down-119710) and then close your browser, it will crash your browser.
So, um, don’t do it.
Safari 5.0 (6533.16) on Mac 10.6.3 with ClickToFlash 1.5.4, for what that’s worth.
I’m liking this new Safari. I mean, what with it crashing when I have more than a handful of tabs open, it makes me more focused.
Oh no! Just got tired of my standby favorite web radio station.
OH: Younger child: “How do you spell ‘yeah’?” Elder child: “Y. A. A.”
“Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, A**hole.
Sudden and profound allergy attack. Guess that 1/4” layer of yellow on top of everything outside wasn’t finely shredded peeps after all.
Ok, so Twitter keeps barfing on its own toes tonight, so in lieu of a proper retweet, I’ll just quote here:
timoreilly .@markpinc ”The blackberry and the iphone have raised the opportunity cost of time, so we can’t afford a half hour in front of the TV.”
“…When trying to impress a woman, it is often helpful to call upon her ancient...”
– Hyperbole and a Half (via suckitshark:submarineshark) (via nickdouglas)
http://www.spacetimetravel.org/ →
Visualizations of the theory of relativity
Karma →
nikf:
Gray Powell will be forever known as the guy who lost the iPhone, thanks to Jesus Diaz. But now Jesus Diaz will be forever known as the guy who calls himself a technology reporter, yet had an iPhone 4 in his hands for a week and missed almost everything that was interesting about it.
That works for me.
Dan Wineman, via Jeff Rock
Best thing about getting out of Silicon Valley for a few days: guy points at iPad and says “What’s that?”
Not the best of days to be in MTY … http://twitter.com/#search?q=mty
“Will it be able to set itself apart from the multitude of eBook readers already...”
– ECS ELITEGROUP Everest EB-900 eBook Reader
How long will it take before people (technology bloggers, looking right at you) realize that specifications in and of themselves have little relevance on the success of a product? As long as you hit the perfect trifecta of “not slow, good battery,...
Wow, it’s three hours later than I thought.
Reading about iPad while using iPad, I think “Hey, x feature is cool, I should look at it next time I’m using my … Hey, wait a minute!”
Safari on iPad crashes while viewing iPhone 4 images on Apple.com. Random event, or jealousy?