The droids we’re googling for (via Stéfan)
via visualizeus.com
Chuck & Beans, Shoebox
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Sexy Fibonacci Spiral, 9GAG
This has to stop.
Mercurial’s enemy is not Git. Git’s enemy is not Mercurial.
Their enemy is Subversion.
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 British mathematician Alan Turing in 1952, and he didn’t even have a computer! He processed the algorithm on pieces of paper and this “paper machine” played a competent game.
The Chess Master and the Computer, The New York Review of Books
Fireworks illuminate the skyline to celebrate the Lantern Festival on February 13, 2010 in Beijing, China.Welcoming the Year of the Tiger, The Big Picture - Boston.com
A conversation I have every month or so
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 occur to you?
Website: Fuck entirely off.
Me: (gives up, switches to computer)
Website: Oh! Hi! What can I help you with today?
Me: What are your —
Website: Hang on, I’m loading the music.
Me: Really.
Website: You’ll love it. It’s “Girl from Ipanema” arranged for steel drum and keytar.
Me: No, you don’t have to —
Website: Loading…
Me: All I want is —
Website: I SAID DOT DOT DOT.
Me: (drums fingers on desk)
Website: There we go. Isn’t that nice? It’s… what’s the word. Ethnicky.
Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?
Me: What. Are. Your. Hou. Rs.
Website: I… I don’t know.
Me: (goes to Denny’s)
An Android gadget never disappears.
You Play with the Thumbsticks, I’ll Play with the Joystick, Hawty McBloggy
Easily the best part of this awesome livery is:
loo (or mile-high club initiation chamber)shanairpic, via Flightstory.net
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 the one and only word you need when comparing the Kindle to the iPad: eInk.
What the almighty hell people. Does no one understand the remarkable difference between eInk and traditional LCDs?!
Yes, I work at Apple and yes, I’ve known of the ‘iPad’ for a quite a while. Yet I still went out and happily plunked down nearly $400 of my hard-earned money on a Kindle. And I’m still happy - enthralled, overjoyed - with it, for one very good and very specific reason: I can read for hours and hours without so much as an inkling of eye strain or headache.
To this day, when I show the Kindle to people - even brilliant engineers at this brilliant company - they make sarcastic remarks about my having wasted money on something that could easily be replaced by a product we’re right around the corner from unleashing on the world.
No. It could not. Read, learn, and please: stop equating the two technologies!
Preordering the Apple Tablet, Miguel de Icaza
