April 2009
Non-unique email addresses now allowed in Gmail... →
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This was a problem for me many times. Yay for fixes.
You can now associate an email address with more than one contact in Gmail’s contact manager. Editions included: Standard,…
March 2009
Keeping It Quiet →
Oh look, yet another piece in the ‘Powell was as bad as the rest of the cock-suckers’ story. Fuck that guy…
Deep Thought →
We’re the awesomest country in the history of the universe, and the act of building a simple subway tunnel is thought to be practically unfathomably expensive.
Where would conservatives go? →
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Texas. Duh…
So you know how dejected liberals threatened after 2000 and 2004 to “move to Canada” to be in more ideologically friendly territory? I wasn’t with that crowd, of…
Calculated →
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stevenf designed you a T-shirt. WWDC is right... →
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I lol’d.
stevenf designed you a T-shirt. WWDC is right around the corner is all I’m saying.
“My brother is a shoe store DJ. My father is a shoe store DJ. My grandfather was...”
– your monkey called
Death Threats →
Any time the great unwashed get a bit uppity, the powerful start whining about death threats. Violence and threats of violence are bad things without justification, but there’s a big difference…
Kent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon... →
he’d been trying to get them to patch it since last October [via]
Mad Science FAIL: so much for that. We're... →
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Hahahahahahaha. Oh shit, we’re all gonna die.
Hungry shrimp eat climate change experiment
It is another nail in the coffin of using ocean fertilisation to cool the planet….
There’s Something About Boxee →
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I guess I’m just dense. I still don’t “get” Boxee.
600 fans showed up for a Boxee event in New York Tuesday night. Smells to me like Boxee is going to go big, soon.
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The Other Side of the MacHeist Argument →
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Which is why it’s opt-in for fucks sake…
Marco Arment: I’m not interested in arguing the specifics of the MacHeist deal with developers. I’m sure that nobody will argue the…
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Trailer →
So very much looking forward to this. (Via Colin Devroe.)
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Food myths →
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Bacon is a plant, right?
The New York Times has a list of food myths, solicited from a variety of experts. The main takeaway is that all you really need to pay attention to…
Canon unveils EOS 500D / Rebel T1i DSLR →
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Merry Christmas!
Canon has unveiled the EOS 500D (Digital Rebel T1i), the latest addition to its compact DSLR series. The upper-entry-level camera features include a 15.1 MP…
President Obama Press Conference - March 24, 2009 →
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Best transcript service, ever
President Barack Obama Press Conference White House March 24, 2009 ***************************** Obama: I want to remind people that it took George…
‘Accessibility Is Not a Checklist’ →
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Ha! Accessibility is about passing automated tests to deal with ridiculous mandates and CYA. Isn’t it?
Nice piece by Rob Foster on accessibility: And from my perspective,…
Paul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern... →
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Ha hah! Take that, beej!
Avril Lavigne and Soulja Boy are louder than Megadeth
The Three20 Project →
Joe Hewitt’s new open source UI library for iPhone developers comprises a slew of useful, reusable classes and looks just great. As for the name, Hewitt writes: The name of the new project is…
Richard Stallman: ‘The Javascript Trap’ →
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I went straight to “rolling my eyes”
I waver between rolling my eyes at Stallman’s kookiness and admiring his singleminded determination.
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Measuring the Design Process →
Scott Stevenson: Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable,…
Battlestar Galactica vs The Wire →
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I haven’t seen the last season of BSG, but I’m comfortable with ‘no’
Battlestar Galactica had its high points, but does it really deserve to even be mentioned in the same…
The Sizzling Sound of Music - O'Reilly Radar →
So, what happens when your iPod (in the generic sense, not the brand-specific sense) has so much capacity that compression is no longer necessary? MP3 is only popular because it lets you take big music files and make them smaller. Once space isn’t an issue…
Quietube →
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Nice.
like Readability for YouTube; here’s a quick demo [via]
‘Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable’ →
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I keyed in on that first para as well.
This essay by Clay Shirky is, simply, one of the smartest things I’ve ever read: Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception….
Justin Mason on "Quoz," the FAIL of the... →
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The more things change…
the entire chapter on urban slang in 19th century London is fascinating
Scenes from 30,000 meters above →
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Very cool stuff.
On February 28th, a team of four Spanish teenage students and their instructor from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia launched a weather probe they designed and…
Douglas Bowman explains his decision to leave... →
“I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data”
Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 over AT&T →
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Sweet.
Joachim Bean: Hello everyone, I just found a way to enable tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 over AT&T.
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A Hand in the Health Care Debate →
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Yeah, you know…just “some guy” right off the street I’m sure. Yup, that’s the Obama plan. It’s called Surgeon Core. It’s like the Peace Corps, only for cutting people open and…
Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown →
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What features to have from “the get-go” for any product depends on many factors, like resources and launch schedule. Google Reader launched without search. Google Mail launched…
Styling Scrollbars →
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Why…
WebKit now supports styling of the scrollbars in overflow sections, listboxes, dropdown menus and textareas. For those who want to skip the article and just go right to…
Merlin Mann on SXSW →
Merlin Mann: Not a list of peoples’ jokey internet names, not a moldy hillock of kinda-funny-once “memes,” not a series of asynchronous “@” responses, and not a goddamned drama about who follows…
Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages →
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Damn!
“What does IE6 have in common with a Fleshlight?” [via]
NYT on the rise of mistrials from jurors'... →
related: Ars interviewed the juror who used Twitter in the courtroom
Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 1,302 SXSW... →
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Mainly for Warren.
interspersed with charts and other interesting trivia about the bands
WSJ: IBM in Talks to Buy Sun →
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Damn. Remember when Sun was rumored to buy Apple?
Better than just disappearing altogether: IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., sources with knowledge of the matter…
A mea culpa →
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Heart surgery? Eek.
Let’s get this straight right off the top: I was wrong, way wrong about Pedro Martinez being on the verge of signing as a free agent with the Astros. …
"At the end of the day, I’ll head home and... →
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Is Bushmills still proddy whiskey?
“At the end of the day, I’ll head home and proceed to punish my liver like Hepatitis A, B, C, and Z. I will not drink green beer. I will not…
Human Foot found in Tehama sent to *CSU, Chico* «... →
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Uh…
Human Foot found in Tehama sent to CSU, Chico. Posted on March 17, 2009 by kpayeditor. RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) - A human foot that was found along the Sacramento River has…
mixtape 073 →
Please enjoy jwz mixtape 073. This is late because I actually lost track of what day of the week it is. I’m at SXSW, and once again this year I slogged through the corresponding…
Fag On FOSS by James Dumay » Mac OS X Tip:... →
Ah, much better.
Commentary: Obama a leader who actually leads -... →
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No wonder Warren hates him.
While the armchair quarterbacks second guess the new president, he gets up every day and does things, lots of things.
TV needs Aaron Sorkin to return →
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Only if the let him go back to using lots of drugs.
TV needs Aaron Sorkin to return
dnalounge update →
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To be fair to SF, it wasn’t Texas per se, it was Austin.
DNA Lounge update, wherein San Francisco is shown how it is done.
The sanctity of AIG's contracts - Glenn... →
Apparently, the supreme sanctity of employment contracts applies only to some types of employees but not others. Either way, the Obama administration’s claim that nothing could be done about the AIG…
AT&T Adding Capacity at SXSW to Deal With... →
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And here I thought SF would be okay with everybody at SXSW. Not so much…
Dan Frommer: AT&T tells us it’s adding wireless capacity in downtown Austin to deal with…
U.S. backs off on renegotiating AIG worker... →
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If you want to be pissed, be pissed at the people who let those contracts get signed. Next, since “we” run AIG now, make every salary public…just like mine.
Giant insurer AIG is…
