February 2012
4 posts
everythinginthesky: Hey Tumblr? Following ⇒ Users ⇒ Turn Off Reblogs For This Person. Please? Thanks, Ryan Reblogging, natch
Feb 4th
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“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.
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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“As far as I know there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to Moby-Dick.”
– Alan Moore responds to DC Comics’ Watchmen prequels.
Feb 1st
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January 2012
15 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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“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...
Jan 25th
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“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.
Jan 24th
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“Consider the intelligence of the average American. Then consider the fact that...”
– Mark Twain (via azspot)
Jan 23rd
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Google is now penalizing pages with too many ads... →
One more reason to kill the moronic notion of “above the fold”
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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“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.
Jan 19th
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“Congress appropriates military funds with alacrity and generosity. It...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
Jan 17th
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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.
Jan 16th
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“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.
Jan 12th
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“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.
Jan 11th
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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.
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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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...
Dec 19th
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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”)
Dec 19th
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“One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1...”
– Christopher Buckley remembers his friend Christopher Hitchens
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“He’s been consistent since he changed his mind”
– Christine O’Donnell, endorsing Mitt Romney.
Dec 14th
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“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.
Dec 14th
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Dec 8th
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov (via azspot)
Dec 8th
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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.
Dec 7th
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Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Squad Hasn't Been... →
Perfect.
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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“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 ]
Dec 5th
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“Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to...”
– So, at least there’s that.
Dec 5th
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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...
Dec 4th
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“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.
Dec 1st
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November 2011
22 posts
Look Ma, I'm a Tech Blog →
Boom.
Nov 30th
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Adrian Holovaty is getting back to benevolently... →
This is such great news.
Nov 29th
“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...
Nov 29th
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“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.
Nov 29th
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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...
Nov 28th
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,...
Nov 28th
Nov 28th
Nov 23rd
Survey Says →
Louis vs. Rick is back and it’s as great as ever.
Nov 21st
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“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.
Nov 17th
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“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]
Nov 16th
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.
Nov 15th
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“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.
Nov 14th
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“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.
Nov 12th
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The Social Graph is Neither →
Perfect.
Nov 9th
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