April 2009
Non-unique email addresses now allowed in Gmail... →
Shared by pberry 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,…
Apr 1st
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…
Mar 31st
Mar 31st
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.
Mar 31st
Where would conservatives go? →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 31st
Mar 30th
Calculated →
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Mar 30th
stevenf designed you a T-shirt. WWDC is right... →
Shared by pberry Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I lol’d. stevenf designed you a T-shirt. WWDC is right around the corner is all I’m saying.
Mar 28th
“My brother is a shoe store DJ. My father is a shoe store DJ. My grandfather was...”
– your monkey called
Mar 28th
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…
Mar 27th
Kent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon... →
he’d been trying to get them to patch it since last October [via] 
Mar 27th
Mad Science FAIL: so much for that. We're... →
Shared by pberry 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….
Mar 27th
There’s Something About Boxee →
Shared by pberry 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.  ★ 
Mar 26th
The Other Side of the MacHeist Argument →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 26th
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Trailer →
So very much looking forward to this. (Via Colin Devroe.)  ★ 
Mar 25th
Food myths →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 25th
Canon unveils EOS 500D / Rebel T1i DSLR →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 25th
President Obama Press Conference - March 24, 2009 →
Shared by pberry Best transcript service, ever President Barack Obama Press Conference White House March 24, 2009 ***************************** Obama: I want to remind people that it took George…
Mar 25th
‘Accessibility Is Not a Checklist’ →
Shared by pberry 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,…
Mar 25th
Paul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern... →
Shared by pberry Ha hah! Take that, beej! Avril Lavigne and Soulja Boy are louder than Megadeth  
Mar 24th
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…
Mar 24th
Richard Stallman: ‘The Javascript Trap’ →
Shared by pberry I went straight to “rolling my eyes” I waver between rolling my eyes at Stallman’s kookiness and admiring his singleminded determination.  ★ 
Mar 23rd
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,…
Mar 23rd
Battlestar Galactica vs The Wire →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 23rd
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…
Mar 22nd
Quietube →
Shared by pberry Nice. like Readability for YouTube; here’s a quick demo [via] 
Mar 21st
‘Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable’ →
Shared by pberry 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….
Mar 20th
Justin Mason on "Quoz," the FAIL of the... →
Shared by pberry The more things change… the entire chapter on urban slang in 19th century London is fascinating  
Mar 20th
Scenes from 30,000 meters above →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 20th
Douglas Bowman explains his decision to leave... →
“I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data”  
Mar 20th
Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 over AT&T →
Shared by pberry Sweet. Joachim Bean: Hello everyone, I just found a way to enable tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 over AT&T.  ★ 
Mar 20th
A Hand in the Health Care Debate →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 20th
Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 20th
Styling Scrollbars →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 20th
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…
Mar 20th
Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages →
Shared by pberry Damn! “What does IE6 have in common with a Fleshlight?” [via] 
Mar 20th
NYT on the rise of mistrials from jurors'... →
related: Ars interviewed the juror who used Twitter in the courtroom  
Mar 19th
Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 1,302 SXSW... →
Shared by pberry Mainly for Warren. interspersed with charts and other interesting trivia about the bands  
Mar 19th
WSJ: IBM in Talks to Buy Sun →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 18th
A mea culpa →
Shared by pberry 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. …
Mar 18th
"At the end of the day, I’ll head home and... →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 18th
Human Foot found in Tehama sent to *CSU, Chico* «... →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 18th
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…
Mar 17th
Fag On FOSS by James Dumay » Mac OS X Tip:... →
Ah, much better.
Mar 17th
Commentary: Obama a leader who actually leads -... →
Shared by pberry 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.
Mar 17th
TV needs Aaron Sorkin to return →
Shared by pberry Only if the let him go back to using lots of drugs. TV needs Aaron Sorkin to return
Mar 17th
dnalounge update →
Shared by pberry 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.
Mar 17th
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…
Mar 17th
AT&T Adding Capacity at SXSW to Deal With... →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 16th
U.S. backs off on renegotiating AIG worker... →
Shared by pberry 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…
Mar 15th