Nice to see he’s got a self-depricating sense of humor.
(Via Smoking Apples.)
Saturday December, 4th 2010
Thursday December, 2nd 2010
David Chartier, on why Ray Beckerman is wrong for suggesting everyone use traditional retweets (i.e. “RT @grahamwetzler blah blah blah”). Both myself and Chartier agree that the new-style retweet should always be used in favor of the the traditional retweet.
[The new-style retweet] preserves the identity of the original author and gives them due credit. Most clients (including Twitter.com) will treat that RT’d tweet in your stream as coming from the original author. When you star or RT it, or click through to the profile on that tweet, you get the original author, not someone else who just copied and pasted something they said. The original author gets credit and the best visibility for their work.
I really dislike the traditional retweet. I’ve gone so far as to unfollow habitual traditional retweeters. I find that the practice mostly lives on due to the fact that a lot of people are still using Tweetie for Mac.
(Source: chartier)
Wednesday December, 1st 2010
More than 40,000 people die each year in car crashes. It’s 9/11 every month. The threat is really overblown.
A couple choice quotes:
TV was supposed to kill radio. The DVD was supposed to kill the Cineplex. Instant coffee was supposed to replace fresh-brewed.
But here’s the thing: it never happens. You want to know what the future holds? O.K., here you go: there will be both iPhones and Android phones. There will be both satellite radio and AM/FM. There will be both printed books and e-books. Things don’t replace things; they just add on.
And:
When I reviewed the iPad, I tried something radical: I wrote two separate reviews, of equal length, in the same column. One was negative, one was positive. My point was that you could view this machine very differently depending on your technical background.
But on blogs and in e-mail, anti-Apple readers wrote about the “love letter” I’d written to the iPad; the Apple fanboys got riled up about the way I’d “trashed” it. Incredibly, each side completely ignored the other half of the review.
(Via John Gruber.)
We have two political parties in name only — they both pursue the same wealth-concentrating, corporatist agenda, but at least the Republicans don’t fill us with false hope for positive change before they screw us a little more each year.
Sean O’Neal:
Darabont is considering adopting a freelance model for next season, similar to the Starz/BBC series Torchwood. Although, it remains to be seen whether the Writers Guild will have something to say about that. In the meantime, amateur zombie writers may want to start polishing up their scripts in time for the show’s tentative second season premiere next October.
Weird.
Sunday November, 28th 2010
Eli Dourado:
The real reason Apple offers free engraving is to weaken the secondary market. [iPads and iPods] are durable goods. Apple has a monopoly on [iPads and iPods], but it still has to compete with the products of its former self.
(Via Hacker News.)
Thursday November, 25th 2010
Mike Hale:
The gap between the shows — which easily could have been much wider — can be attributed to problems in translation, beginning with the hosts: the actor and comedian Mr. Ferrara, the stunt driver Tanner Foust and the racing analyst Rutledge Wood. They’re somewhat younger and significantly more bland and callow than their British counterparts, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, who, to be fair, have had more time to develop their on-screen personas.
I agree. It’s easy to blame Ferrara, Foust, and Wood for being bland and boring, but Clarkson, May, and Hammond have been doing Top Gear for nearly a decade.
(Via Gyvon on Reddit.)
Wednesday November, 24th 2010
Oliver Ames gets a response back from Cultured Code as to why we haven’t seen the coveted cloud synchronization feature promised to us ages ago for Things. Also, why they just didn’t go with Dropbox for could syncing.
The one thing that you have to give Cultured Code credit for, is for not rushing out to implement a half-baked syncing solution. Instead, they seem intent on creating a highly reliable, heavily tested, and speedy implementation. This is one reason why I like Cultured Code so much.
(Via Steve Streza.)
(Source: oliverian)
Monday November, 22nd 2010
So one man from Nigeria tries to pack a bomb in his underwear last year, and now we’re all subjected to invasive naked body scans and physical pat-downs. Keep in mind that this “underwear bomber” succeeded in destroying nothing other than his own genitals, and that experts agree that even if his bomb had worked as he intended, it wouldn’t have brought down the plane.
Here’s the question for Pistole, and anyone else who argues that these new TSA procedures are an appropriate response to that incident: What happens if the next guy hides his bomb up his ass?
