February 2012
3 posts
→ RIAA still raging against Google, Wikipedia for... →
Nate Anderson’s point-by-point breakdown of RIAA Cary Sherman’s crybaby NYT op-ed is priceless. I especially like the closing analogy.
(Via Marco)
Bill Clinton interviewed →
Fixing “Previous Track” →
When listening to podcasts, the behavior of the “previous track” button on the iPhone drives me crazy – especially since it’s gotten so much easier to accidentally hit now that all the buttons are closer together (thanks to airplay.) …Marco’s solution seems like a good one.
January 2012
4 posts
Hollywood still hates you →
Make the right thing the easy thing. (Via the Loop)
Everything you need to know about buying a camera →
Pretty thorough explanation of all the basics f buying a camera from The Verge. (Via Kottke.org)
The Restart Page →
Oh the nostalgia. Works best full screen. (Via daring fireball.net)
March 2011
4 posts
The Day the Movies Died →
If Ad Agencies planned kids' birthday parties →
How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And... →
marco:
Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two.
This is what passes for compromise in our nation’s capital.
By Robert Reich.
For the first two years of the Obama administration, I kept waiting, giving them and Congressional Democrats the benefit of the doubt that they...
Want: Wireless Dominoes →
February 2011
1 post
What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us? →
Type in ‘Asians have’ and autocomplete is right there with ‘no souls.’ Try ‘Jews have’ instead and ‘horns’ is the result that the search giant recommends.
January 2011
4 posts
Who said art has to cost money? →
Francis Ford Coppola on how filmmakers might make go about making a living in the future.
1 tag
"Nigger" →
If the book was, say, an unavoidable math classic, I can see how the word could be distracting. But the book is specifically and precisely about that time and that place - if Mark Twain’s writing isn’t a good platform for the discussion of changing American mores and fashions, what on earth is?
December 2010
1 post
Arcade Fire's The Suburbs music video by Spike... →
October 2010
5 posts
"Chokeville" by Joshua Allen →
I’m completely addicted.
YouTube Time Machine →
“Pick a year, click refresh, and travel through time.” (via Daring Fireball)
"iPad as the new Flash" by Zeldman →
Everything we’ve learned in the past decade about preferring open standards to proprietary platforms and user-focused interfaces to masturbatory ones is forgotten as designers and publishers once again scramble to create novelty interfaces no one but them cares about.
I couldn’t agree more. I groan every time I see another new iPad app that is clearly just a website wrapping itself up in...
"Ten Things I have learned" by Milton Glaser →
“Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless.”
(via Swiss Miss)
“It’s pretty hard to teach a kid who has been raised by the television, when he...”
– Robert Freeman (via AZspot), addressing the biggest problem our modern educational system faces: not bad teachers or bad schools, but the downward spiral of poverty and the decimation of the middle class. (via marco)
August 2010
1 post
Coyote Tracks: The Emperor's New Antenna →
Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no clothes. And ultimately this is what’s so infuriating about Apple: that’s not what...
July 2010
2 posts
In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter →
New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts — and often become even more attached to their beliefs.
Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a Lousy Recovery... →
April 2010
4 posts
Marco: Why 960 × 640 →
marco:
But I’m still puzzled about the 960 × 640 move, if it’s real. The iPhone is already the highest-DPI display that Apple sells, and to double its resolution is very expensive: the panel costs more, it’s likely to use more power, it places higher demand on the CPU for rendering, it needs much more memory for frame buffers and textures, and it incurs big costs on developers and Apple’s...
Taste →
If you look at the people who’ve done great work, one thing they all seem to have in common is that they worked very hard. If you’re not working hard, you’re probably wasting your time.
“At a certain point, you have to admit you aren’t good enough to do something...”
– Joe Clark, http://blog.fawny.org/2010/04/04/expertisedenial/
“Obama’s efforts to reach across the aisle and make these reforms...”
– George R.R. Martin, http://grrm.livejournal.com/141683.html
January 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Transition Costs
stevenf:
Nothing is ever simply black or white. There was a cost to making the transition. But there was a benefit to doing so.
To change was not all good. To stay put was not all bad. But there was a ratio of goodness-to-badness that, in the long run, was quite favorable for everyone involved. However in the short term it seemed so insurmountable, so ludicrous, that it beggared the belief...
December 2009
3 posts
September 2009
1 post
July 2009
1 post
Introduction
This is jeff, up past his bedtime, testing tumblr.