May 2010
2 posts
“The new generation of drones have their merits. But flying robots, no matter how...”
– The Last Days of the Dragon Lady
April 2010
2 posts
“One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of...”
– The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?(http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1976935,00.html) (via Instapaper)
March 2010
12 posts
“Gruber posted a link to this memo from David Mamet to writers of the now-defunct...”
– DaringFireball.net and Wikipedia.
February 2010
12 posts
“This has to stop.
Mercurial’s enemy is not Git. Git’s enemy is not Mercurial....”
– The fighting’s been fun and all, but it’s time to shut up and get along, bitquabit
“In fact, the first chess program put into practice was designed by legendary...”
– The Chess Master and the Computer, The New York Review of Books
A conversation I have every month or so
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever...
“An Android gadget never disappears.”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘The Gadget Disappears’
January 2010
10 posts
Wither Kindle?
marc:
Screen: As my geeky friend Chris Fox just pointed out to me, the Kindle’s screen has more pixels per inch (167 ppi) than the iPad (132 ppi). The Kindle’s lack of backlighting, lower screen reflectivity, and higher ppi will likely make for a better long-form textual reading experience than the iPad.
He makes a whole slew of points, buries this one in the middle and doesn’t even say...
“I’ll take class over flash every time.”
– Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Magic, Gizmodo
“Good times.”
– SFPD is making sure we aren’t havin’ em.
Wherein a New Year’s Eve tale of police harassment is told., DNA Lounge
“So if the big names are accounted for, if the newspapers and magazines and DC...”
– DIY, Neven Mrgan
“The mid to late 80’s saw an abomination arise. An abomination so large that no...”
– Software Sea Change, Kickingbear
“The mythical tech-unicorn that Apple may or may not announce later this month is...”
– Dell Names Secret ‘Slate’ After Non-Existent Apple Product, Wired.com
December 2009
2 posts
A Matter of Notes
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an abysmal time remembering all the important but small things that happen during any given day.
I’ve tried all the usual tricks: fancy Moleskin notebooks, online services, stickies everywhere, even writing on the back of my hand. The latter got really messy, but that isn’t to say the other options were clean or desirable, either.
...
November 2009
3 posts
4 tags
An SQLite database of the WikiLeaks 9/11 pager...
(Update database to v1.1 on 11/30/09 at 11:49AM)
It contains all alphanumeric messages from the WikiLeaks 9/11 dataset as an SQLite3 database:
911.wikileaks.org.sqlite3db_v1.1.zip, 14MB (uncompressed: 44MB)
There are three tables - textTable (main), emailTable and urlTable - with the following schemas:
textTable: timestamp DATETIME, service TEXT, senderID INTEGER, text TEXT, key...
4 tags
I just want to drop files onto my Dock icon!
I’ve spent days reading post after post after post after post that purported to solve the mystery of how to hook up the magic pieces just right to enable files to be dropped onto your app’s icon.
However, since none of the links I trawled included both up-to-date and complete examples, I figured I’d put one together for whoever has to fight this battle in the future....
“ “Every month, the 87 million customers will accidentally hit that key a few...”
– Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now? (AT&T does it, too.)
October 2009
4 posts
“We all had a playbook — we just studied what IBM had been doing for...”
– Fake Steve. You gotta hand it to Lyons: he sure as shit knows the industry he’s writing about, forwards and backwards.
More gems from The Angry Drunk
From this article railing against Lifehacker for their sub-par reporting in regards to the recent boot rom changes in the iPhone OS (added emphasis mine):
OMFGWTFBBQ!!! Apple patched a known exploit in the OS, why those fucking assholes!! How dare they make the iPhone more secure at the expense of a bunch of whining fuck–wits?!?
… and …
Look you ignominious piece of squirrel vomit,...
“Apple could hand out free blowjobs and retards on the internet would complain...”
– The Angry Drunk
September 2009
4 posts
“Please act like an adult and respect the bar as well as its patrons.
We will...”
– KozyKar.com
“On a history test we were asked, ‘Who was Michelangelo?’ I answered, ‘Renowned...”
– Paige, via maniacalrage.