July 2010
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Android wallpaper app that steals your data was... →
Ouch. Not to say that something like this could conceivably get past the Apple watchdogs, though.
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What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor - The... →
As one of my multiple hats is that of copy editor for our many deliverables and reports, I especially enjoyed this one.
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The Emperor's New Antenna
Fantastic bit from Watts Martin’s thoughts on the iPhone 4 antenna issue:
Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no...
Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours -... →
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Enjoying watching skinny hipsters at SFO, all the right retro-cool garb, including big old-skool luggage. Without wheels. Maybe if she ate a bit, she wouldn’t struggle so with the bag.
Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster →
Ouch.
I write like David Foster Wallace →
Would be helpful if I knew who this is. Guess it’s time to start reading.
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iPhone 4 signal strength woes
In deference to my comrades with iPhone 4 devices, in anticipation of the Apple special event later this Friday, and in oblique reference to the late Michael Jackson, I have made myself a temporary glove out of aluminum foil which I am using to hold my iPhone 3GS in a vain attempt to get it to lose signal strength, after which I will be able to write a long and pithy, data-saturated online essay...
Daring Fireball Linked List: Microsoft’s Kin Humiliation
Man, that’s got to hurt. I knew some of the Danger folks and they had built an amazing platform. Too bad to see it flushed like this.
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New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To... →
It’s so hot here, my sweat has sweat dripping off of it.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years...
– Milton Friedman (via chelseymathews) (via ohhandrea) (via deaconandreggie)
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Out of solidarity with all my iPhone 4 friends, I’m currently sitting here wrapping my iPhone 3GS in Scotch tape, loop by loop by loop.
Well, not really.