April 2010
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Jobs on Flash →
Jobs’ letter talks about how it’s bad for a platform if developers use cross-platform technologies, and more specifically, that Adobe has been slow in adopting new technologies in Mac OS X, with Carbon of course being the prime example.
And yet, without any sense of shame, Apple ships iTunes for Windows. iTunes for Windows is by far one of the worst pieces of (major) Windows...
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“The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so...”
– Rick Webb (via toldorknown)
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“‘Apparently Ms. Campbell is happy inside Apple’s walled garden,’...”
– Cory Doctorow Verbally Abuses 99-Year-Old iPad User, via nostrich.
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into...”
– Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
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Engineers are from Mars, artists are from Venus.
langer: i feel so heroic right now
jace: oh?
langer: so i'm in the office
langer: and mike left for l.a.
langer: and he has control of the airfoil speakers
langer: and his computer is passwd protected
langer: and i'm freaking out
langer: because i really need some gaga up in this shit
langer: so i ssh into the mini
langer: ps|grep, kill, find . -name, sudo, ctrl+z, bg, BOOM.
langer: NOW I HAVE CONTROL
jace: i also have a hack for that
jace: i turn his computer off
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“At any moment a thought might form in your brain, then be translated...”
– Direct Interfaces into the Global Brain (1997)
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“I just gave the worst iPad demo ever.” →
By lonelysandwich.
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“OpenBSD tells the disk to sync, kills all of the processes, and shuts the fuck...”
– AskReddit: Why does Windows take so long to shut down?
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PRI’s The World: Naming the Volcano
Learn...
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“Duck sex is far more interesting than it has any right to be, due to the twisted...”
– Glorious opening line from io9.
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Marco.org: Fun facts about Eyjafjallajökull →
The native pronunciation is comically short, given the length of the word. We should return the favor by somehow making Worcestershire sauce worthy of international news coverage…
On a tangential topic: for more comically short pronunciation shenanigans, check out the hexagraph.
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Internal Winter, by 1349.
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the ragbag: an amusing hoax of the grandest... →
i love me a good prank. and when the pranksters are a remote tribe of amerindians and the one being pranked is a dunderhead anthropologist—even better…
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Part II of Faking Gold & Murder, by Æthenor.
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Iceland Volcano Spews Consonants and Vowels →
All across [New York City], thousands of people, some of them highly paid television and radio newscasters, found themselves tumbling down the vowel-and-liquid-consonant-lubricated slopes of Eyjafjallajökull, the mountain’s 16-letter, six-and-a-half-syllable, 47-Scrabble-point name.
We know this because we went into the Times Square subway station and asked them to say it…
“He was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence simply by...”
– A line from Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, quoted by 52Books. I still need to read this.
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