August 2009
16 posts
You Can’t Multitask
I can only think about one thing at a time. Any girl reading this just going to roll her eyes and think, “Of course. You’re a guy!”. But it’s not just true for me, it’s true for everyone. It’s true for you. And not in that way. At first, this claim can sound fantastic. We can talk on a cell phone while driving to work, and we can compose complex sentences while typing. But, if you stop to...
pulse wave
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use XML.” Now they have two problems. Jamie Zawinski
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Kunstrad EM 2009 Carla und Henriette Hochdorfer
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Yeah, I don’t feel like riding a bike ever again.
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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Fear of Porn...
“Mozilla’s Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla’s research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people’s bookmark collections to suggest...
xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
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Blizzard Entertainment - Benefits
There’s a strong sense of pride that comes from contributing to products you believe in. The people who work at Blizzard share a passion for all things game-related, and this passion shows in the quality of our games. We’ve focused on hiring and retaining some of the most talented individuals in the industry, and we’ve done this by fostering an environment of creativity and...
Digsby Blog » Build 62 - Crystal Clear!
Several months ago, we started testing two unique revenue models to help us keep Digsby free and ad-free for all our users. We posted a lengthy blog post describing the changes but we want to reiterate some of that information again and share some changes that we will be making in a release later today. Now that some time has passed since we first implemented these changes, we would also like...
Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly...
Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked via scientificamerican.com
Purely because it’s on ./ and it’s from RPI ;)
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Seth Godin on standing out
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Daring Fireball Linked List: You Can't Make This...
Anti-health-care-reform activist, reportedly injured in a fight at a town hall meeting last week, is collecting donations to pay his medical bills because he was recently laid off and lost his health insurance. via daringfireball.net
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Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated)
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated) 338 Comments by Jason Kincaid on August 10, 2009 Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s...
Daring Fireball: Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary,...
In other words, not only must the dictionary be censored — a dictionary — but even after being purged of “objectionable” words it would only be considered with a 17+ rating. Even after agreeing to these terms, it took another two weeks for Ninjawords to appear in the App Store. According to Crosby, “We gave in and said fine, hoping that we could get on the App Store immediately since the...
What You Can't Say
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It’s the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They’re just as arbitrary,...
Don't Make Me Click
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Another Aza-fueled Tech talk
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Calculated Risk: Late Night Financial Advice
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Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone
Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone 125 Comments by Erick Schonfeld on August 1, 2009 Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the...