February 2012
4 posts
everythinginthesky:
Hey Tumblr?
Following ⇒ Users ⇒ Turn Off Reblogs For This Person.
Please? Thanks, Ryan
Reblogging, natch
“So, if tripling the size of the social network to 3,000,000,000 users is not...”
– Alexis Madrigal says there’s really only one number that matters in Facebook’s IPO filing: the amount of money it makes per user, currently around $5.
“As far as I know there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to Moby-Dick.”
– Alan Moore responds to DC Comics’ Watchmen prequels.
January 2012
15 posts
“In Europe, in the United States, throughout the world, we need to make sure we...”
– Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, speaking at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, seems to be saying that privacy and economic growth are incompatible.
This is, of course, the exact response you’d expect from someone who’s personally made millions (billions?) of dollars...
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and...”
– The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers.
“Consider the intelligence of the average American. Then consider the fact
that...”
– Mark Twain (via azspot)
Google is now penalizing pages with too many ads... →
One more reason to kill the moronic notion of “above the fold”
“The techno-libertarian utopianism that pervades Silicon Valley means that both...”
– Mat Honan says SOPA And PIPA are the internet’s own damn fault and he’s right.
“Congress appropriates military funds with alacrity and generosity. It...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
When Samuel Met Sally
Samuel L. Jackson: There are two kinds of women: high fucking maintenance and low maintenance.
Sally Albright: Which one am I?
Samuel L. Jackson: Oh, you're the worst motherfucking kind. You're high maintenance, but you think you're fucking low maintenance.
Sally Albright: I don't see that.
Samuel L. Jackson: You don't fucking see that? "Waiter. I'll begin with a house salad, but I don't want the regular dressing. I'll have the balsalmic vinegar and oil. But on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce. But I want the mustard on the side." 'On the side' is a very big fucking thing for you.
Sally Albright: Well, I just want it the way I want it.
Samuel L. Jackson: I know. High motherfucking maintenance.
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Mat Honan writes the best CES post I can imagine being interested in ever reading. It feels like an obvious cop-out to call it Hunter S. Thompson-esque but I mean that in the best possible way. Personal and reflective and honest and interesting and dare I say thought provoking.
“If you’ll take a look at the map of New Hampshire here, Wolf, you’ll see that...”
– McSweeney’s CNN’s Political Team Has It Covered.
1.9 million →
From the Washington Post:
Private employers added 220,00 jobs, moving the total of private-sector jobs created in 2011 to 1.9 million [my emphasis].
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
1.1 million: The number of jobs gained under President George W. Bush.
That would be *eight years* of George W. Bush.
December 2011
16 posts
“In his very brave and very public dying, though, one could see again why so many...”
– Ross Douthat, in full display of the kind of soft-headed arrogance that so easily passes for conservative intellectualism, declaring Christopher Hitchens to be “the believer’s atheist”.
I have no clue how Hitchens would himself have responded but as a non-believer who has found...
The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments... →
Oh, these are good. (I’d humbly submit “guy who hates year-end lists for the lazy tropes that they are but reads most of them anyway then follows up complaining about how year-end lists are lazy page-view farms”)
“One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1...”
– Christopher Buckley remembers his friend Christopher Hitchens
“He’s been consistent since he changed his mind”
– Christine O’Donnell, endorsing Mitt Romney.
“A friend of mine who does torrent stuff a lot says that when torrent users do...”
– Louis C.K.’s $5 comedy special, which you may have noticed is something of a hit in certain corners of the internet, is creating some interesting discussion about the entertainment industry and piracy.
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov (via azspot)
doc hub →
This started as a CSS-only side project, got some traction on Hacker News and is now one of the finest looking and working pieces of documentation for web development I’ve ever come across.
Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Squad Hasn't Been... →
Perfect.
“On everyone’s desk was an inbox and an outbox, except they were actual...”
– Interesting thread on what offices were like before email. [via Maciej ]
“Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to...”
– So, at least there’s that.
Path shares, it's just sorta hidden
Like all the cool kids, you’ve downloaded the newer, hipper, 2.0ier Path, right. Of course you have. It’s cool! That doodad circle thing! The annotated clock scrollbar widget! Rock out!
But you’ve probably also said to yourself “Self. This is cool and all but I already Tweetblast and Foursquelch, why do I need Path?” And maybe you, like me, are irked that Path...
“At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear....”
– Liz Gannes on the non-apology apologies of Mark Zuckerberg.
This constant pressure on evaporating user’s privacy, along with a real lack of moral leadership from the very top, is why I’ll never trust Zuckerberg or Facebook.
November 2011
22 posts
Look Ma, I'm a Tech Blog →
Boom.
Adrian Holovaty is getting back to benevolently... →
This is such great news.
“What is true is that for a VC’s business model to work, it’s...”
– Jamie “JWZ” Zawinski calls Arrington out for disingenuously using Zawinski’s blog posts from 1994 as some sort of rallying cry about how to make it in Silicon Valley.
It’s a damn shame more people listen to self-aggrandizing idiots like Arrington than people who actually...
“In any case like this that touches on the transparency of financial markets...”
– Federal Judge and hero-of-the-day Jed S. Rakoff in declaring that Citigroup must stand trial and not be allowed to simply settle for allegedly defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Cyberfile your cybermail
Apparently, everyone I follow on twitter is annoyed that their inbox is filled with CyberMonday spam. Bummer! Here’s a fix if you’re using Gmail (I found this somewhere else years ago, I can’t recall where).
Create a new filter.
In the field for “has the words” copy and paste the following:
"added you" OR "is now following" OR "opt-out" OR unsubscribe
OR "viewing...
Triple stamp a double stamp
My pal Ross, who is smart, asks a good question: why bother with Stamped. It’s a fair response anytime yet another social network crops us asking us to stop what we’re doing and “like” shit.
Still. I like Stamped.
It’s a clever idea that’s well executed, first and foremost. Unlike the other high-profile rate the real world thing that launched recently,...
Survey Says →
Louis vs. Rick is back and it’s as great as ever.
“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them...”
– Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis on NYPD’s raid on the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
“Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental...”
– My favorite of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s answers to an ask me anything thread on Reddit. [via tiffehr]
Responsive Advertising →
Mark Boulton has some smart thoughts on the many challenges of incorporating advertising with a responsive design. That ads are sold on positioning is particularly problematic — by definition, there is no “above the fold” in a responsive design.
“The pleasure of making something great is what drives us, not a specific...”
– Geoff Stearns, author of SWFObject, in declaring Flash is dead, long live the internet.
“Another ugly aspect of the Zynga story is the use of “Google chef...”
– Nelson Minar on one of the many scummy aspects of Zynga’s attempt to force some workers to sell their stock back.
If it were possible for a company to be a douchebag, Zynga is almost certainly it.
The Social Graph is Neither →
Perfect.