January 2010
86 posts
“Apple is such a big and powerful company that it can get away with things you...”
– This is why it’s worth learning about advertising, by Rory Marinich
Jan 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Massive Attack (15) Adele (14) Paloma Faith (10) Solid Steel (6) Ellie Goulding (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“In regards to the iPhone, where I can compare my use of Instapaper, the...”
– 5typos.net: My Kindle 2 review (before the reality distortion field) This is one reason why I love reading on the Kindle, and one reason why reading (with or without Instapaper) works so much better on anything else, including the iPhone and hopefully tomorrow’s thing, than on a general-purpose...
Jan 27th
“by offering the girls the classes and probation instead of immediately hitting...”
– Ruining Kids in Order to Save Them - Reason Magazine
Jan 27th
Experiment: Twitter Usabilty - A new users first... →
lauraglu: timoni: from Idea du Jour, a nice write-up of a very inexperienced internet user’s first time trying out Twitter (in this case, the author’s mother). I’d argue this person isn’t ‘very inexperienced’ other than as she relates to the uber online-tech crowd. From my interaction with thousands of users of our product, I’d categorize her as *very* experienced, which speaks to where we...
Jan 26th
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“I wouldn’t want to take away your joy and surprise on Wednesday when you see our...”
– —Apple COO Tim Cook You know what? I’ve been entirely blasé about this whole remodel-the-universe Apple Tablet stuff. I have an iPhone, and a MacBook, and a Mac Mini media centre, and in this Apple-loving mesh I cannot work out where I’m supposed to fit a third handheld device and get a valuable...
Jan 26th
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Listen Rocket. From Goldfrapp’s forthcoming Head...
Jan 25th
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“Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools...”
–  ‘Oral sex’ definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools | Books | guardian.co.uk
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[toread] ignore the code: Realism in UI Design →
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[toread] The Gates Notes →
Jan 21st
[toread] Where do the reporters in Haiti get their... →
Jan 21st
Leica Collectors & Historica - Leica User Forum →
Jan 20th
[toread] BBC - Music - Charles Mingus →
@bbc, @radio1: this is really nice:
Jan 20th
[toread] United States Patent: 7650331 →
Jan 20th
[toread] Under The Milky Way | The Ministry of... →
Jan 20th
[toread] Earthquake survivors get solar-powered... →
things that make you go hmm. and - this is not what #haiti needs right now.
Jan 19th
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough Amen! (via sarahejennings) (via amber-rae)
Jan 19th
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“Let’s take a wider view for a second. What we’re really talking about here is...”
– Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go Been meaning to read this for a while- and i’m glad I did. It’s great to see this reasonable, measured response from OK Go.
Jan 19th
Google Voice Was So Very Close To Working →
Jan 19th
"Looting"
squashed: If a natural disaster strikes and somebody decides this is an opportune moment to break into a Best Buy and steal themselves a flat-screen TV, feel free to call them a looter. But when somebody breaks into a supply depot looking for food or medical supplies because their only other is watching somebody they love starve, they’re not “looting.” Those aren’t “spoils or plunder taken by...
Jan 19th
“All these drawings about dinosaurs… Why can’t we have photos?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Jan 19th
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World Economic Outlook (WEO) Data Forum - IMF... →
Jan 19th
[toread] Harry's Tale on the Behance Network →
Jan 18th
[toread] Labnotes » Vanity: Experiment Driven... →
Jan 18th
[toread] A global fiasco is brewing in Japan –... →
Jan 17th
Listenmitchellgoldstein: livejamie: Tom Hodge -...
Jan 14th
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[toread] Op-Ed Columnist - Is China the Next... →
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[toread] Wallpaper* Magazine | Sex Issue: Tart... →
Jan 13th
[toread] Cappuccino on Rails | blogt0sk1 →
Jan 13th
[toread] Lines go all over the place. →
Jan 13th
Welcome - Ommwriter →
Jan 13th
BBC - BBC Radio 1 Programmes - Zane Lowe, Florence... →
Jan 13th
[toread] BBC News - Islam4UK Islamist group banned... →
Worried about the move to ban Islam4UK. Bigotry is bad but censorship is worse.
Jan 13th
[toread] Making Bank | Royalty Free Stock Photo... →
Yay - I’ve had my first submission to iStockPhoto!
Jan 12th
[toread] Rails and Merb Merge: Plugin API (Part 3... →
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[toread] New York - Brooklyn Bridge Sunset on... →
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[toread] HINT.FM: Web Seer →
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[toread] Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design,... →
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