October 2009
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How Critics Reviewed the Original Macintosh in... →
via DF:
The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence...
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Wordpress Plugins on RRR
In case you find it useful, here’s a list of the plugins I use on RRR’s Wordpress installation and an example of how a couple work together. I’m inspired to post this after following the tips provided by Dreamhost on fine-tuning a Wordpress installation to speed it up dramatically.
ADMIN (make it easier to manage)
Ajax Plugin Helper - activate, deactivate, and upgrade plugins...
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Google Social: search results from people you know →
Whoa: search results from people in your various networks based on what they’ve broadcast publicly. Searching for something mundane like “Brooklyn food” (no quotes), I get all these mentions of “Brooklyn” and “food” from people I’m connected to on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Suddenly, that random restaurant someone raved about on Twitter four...
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Friday Slink: Basement Jaxx - Scars (feat. Kelis,...
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Experts Puzzle Over How Flight Overshot Airport →
So, Delta pilots are allowed to have email during flights without worry of instrument interference, eh?
Instead, the Airbus A320, with 144 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants flew past Minneapolis to above Eau Claire, Wis., apparently ignoring repeated radio calls from controllers and other pilots in the area as well as email messages from the airline’s dispatchers, until the...
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Mattel Now Using Aqua's "Barbie Girl" in... →
In 2002, everyone’s favorite appeals court judge (seriously, the guy never fails to entertain) Alex Kozinski told Mattel too bad, parody songs are a part of what you get for being a cultural icon—and included the classic line: “The parties are advised to chill.”
From suing the band for infringement to actually licensing and using the song in just a few years.
[via...
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Apple Netbook Claim Chowder →
Gruber posts claim chowder regularly, but this one strikes me as reblog-worthy.
Two days ago, Apple announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 26. The company sold 3 million Macs, of which 2.3 million were laptops, and booked $1.67 billion in profit. Not one of those 2.3 million laptops was a “netbook”…
He then cites examples of numerous analysts predicting doom for...
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What problems does Google Wave solve? →
A good, if limited, introduction to Google Wave. [via waxylinks]
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Friday Slink: Wiley - “Time Flies...
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The lesson of the Sidekick failure
marco:
… You aren’t in control of your data if you can’t easily and frequently make useful backups onto your own computer and your own media.
I recognize that it’s hypocritical for me to say this, as the lead developer of Tumblr, which does not yet offer an automated feature for users to download backups of their blog content. So I took some time this week and started to write one. I’m...
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Trentemøller - “Always Something...
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Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love... →
Daring Fireball:
A new Windows text editor with clever original features and a graceful UI. Never thought I’d write those words. I’m particularly intrigued by the “minimap” — a zoomed-out view of the entire file.
I use TextEdit (Mac equivalent of Notepad) in plain-text mode for just about everything I do that involves words. If I were on Windows I would give this a shot. The features look...
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Kelis vs. Beanie Sigel - All The Milkshake
I had...
Cooks Illustrated vs. The Internet →
mrgan:
Christopher Kimball, founder and editor or Cooks Illustrated, defends his dismissal of recipes and cooking advice found on the Internet:
In terms of recipes, no, I do not believe in a Wiki website, with a community opining on recipes as a means of creating a valuable database. Making a recipe 75 times in a test kitchen under controlled circumstances (yes, this is deeply self-serving) is...
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Feist - 1,2,3,4 dub (excerpt)
I work across the...
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“With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a strong, modern successor to the...”
– Walt Mossberg: A Windows to Help You Forget
marco:
Think about that for a minute.
Windows is the most popular desktop operating system by a long shot, and Windows XP, most of which was designed and written ten years ago, is the most popular version. In other words, most computer users are...
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Good old Verizon
mrgan:
marco:
But Verizon knows what it wants, and it it definitely doesn’t want to be in the situation AT&T is in today with iPhone owners: reduced to a dumb pipe with very little device branding, no lock-in, no customer loyalty, little to no revenue share from phone-based content sales, and only negative press resulting from the relationship.
I agree with Marco’s assessment of what we...
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Vocoding with a piano →
This is cool and freaky: using a piano to generate human speech. The video is a must watch.
UPDATE: here’s a YouTube video with a translation of the German VO.
[via waxylinks]
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“Perhaps Google’s stiffest competition in the immediate future isn’t Bing and...”
– Is Google a Social Media Company? (via Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet)
marco:
I hope not. That sounds awful.
Fortunately, I think this is one of those new-media thought extrapolations where we’re so far into the clouds that we can’t even see reality anymore.
I’m sure products and services (or...
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The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis...
Re: I Shake, I Move by LMFAO
me: all their songs sound like they were made in FL Studio. i think i made this groove accidentally years ago (sans vocals).
ben: i think i wrote those lyrics accidentally years ago (in 6th grade)
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Friday Slink: Santigold - “You’ll...
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NYC 311 iPhone App with Location Sharing →
Starting today, New Yorkers can submit select quality-of-life complaints – with an option to attach pictures – to 311 via their iPhones. New Yorkers are already able to report complaints to 311 through mobile web browsers. The new, free iPhone application will streamline the process by allowing New Yorkers to report complaints to 311 using a program that identifies the user, determines the...
