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PERMENTER! is putting some of that fancy school learnin’...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:38:55 -0800

PERMENTER! is putting some of that fancy school learnin’ he’s been doing to good use and selling out. Finally.

His prints look great and now that I’ve already reserved mine, you should too. Seriously, go now before he realizes how criminally underpriced these are and raises his rates.

Also: PERMENTER!

The sole source of Angostura bitters was almost wiped out in the global financial meltdown

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:18:42 -0800

The sole source of Angostura bitters was almost wiped out in the global financial meltdown:

A key ingredient in many of your favorite cocktails, including the old fashioned.

I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that until yesterday, I’d been pronouncing it “angoSUTRA”.

"MSNBC is now saying that the account was never in their control in the first place. It was..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:32:39 -0800

“MSNBC is now saying that the account was never in their control in the first place. It was previously sending out MSNBC headlines, but then today went off the deep end, obviously. So I guess this is a lesson in controlling your online brand.”

- MG Siegler, over at the paragon of journalistic integrity, TechCrunch, on a rogue msnbc twitter account that was never hacked and never under official control of either the cable or online network. It was just some idiot who plugged an RSS feed into a fake twitter account.

Yeah, dude, I guess it is a lesson in “controlling your online brand” or some other bullshit that douchebags say. I guess msnbc should hire someone to worry about any and every derivation of their name that shows up on every social network ever. Because that seems like a much better use of time than actually, you know, working.

Excuse me, I need to go register @TechCrunchHeadlines.

p.s. TechCrunch, update your useless CrunchBase entry on msnbc when you find a minute between sucking up to Google and Zuckerberg and not releasing a CrunchPad. It might involve some actual reporting, but I bet you’ve got it in you.

The OpenOffice 18 button mouse. This is why open source design...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:03:36 -0800

The OpenOffice 18 button mouse. This is why open source design sucks [via The Grubester]

John Jon "@zuhl" Deal has an awesome writeup on how to use an SSD drive with your Mac

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:17:00 -0800

John Jon "@zuhl" Deal has an awesome writeup on how to use an SSD drive with your Mac:

Use the super fast solid state drive as your boot/OS/application drive, move your home folder for all your pictures and mp3s and whatnot somewhere else. Nicely done.

UPDATE: Egregious mispeling of JON Deel’s name corrected.

What?

From Last Days of Gourmet a photo essay looking at the closure...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:53:14 -0800

From Last Days of Gourmet a photo essay looking at the closure of Gourmet magazine

Everything about this is wonderful, but it really heats up about...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:29:57 -0800

Everything about this is wonderful, but it really heats up about four minutes in

"He’s our Oprah"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:16 -0800

“He’s our Oprah”

- Brad Thor, a “writer” of political thrillers, on the sales uptick when his “books” are mentioned on Glenn Beck’s radio show. Thor and his cohort specialize in a right wing escapist genre that almost certainly makes Dan Brown look like Dostoyevsky, a genre I’ll unoriginally dub “dick lit”.

I’m certain that this pulp is gobbled up by the same crowds, sequestered away in the forgotten, backwards hellholes of “real America”, who eagerly await the release of Sarah Palin’s screed. Which shouldn’t be at all surprising since Thor and Palin both exploit the same qualities in their supporters — ignorance of the world around them, unwillingness to change that ignorance and an eagerness to blame the world’s problems on some vague “other”. All delivered at a comprehension level your average fifth grader would find boring.

Google's Closure Tools is a suite for doing intensive javascript development

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:44 -0800

Google's Closure Tools is a suite for doing intensive javascript development:

Includes a javascript library, compiler and templates.

The Obama slide in New Jersey and Virginia

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:37:08 -0800

Running the numbers on yesterday’s clear and unambiguous referendum on the first 9 months of the Obama presidency.

Squirrelapult [via jwz]

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:12:05 -0800

Squirrelapult [via jwz]

Mockingbird looks quite slick

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:27:46 -0800

Mockingbird looks quite slick:

Web-based tool for wireframing

Wired: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:01:17 -0800

Wired: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook:

via the inimitable echuckles

"No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, a detailed analysis of Nielsen..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:18:43 -0800

“No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, a detailed analysis of Nielsen ratings numbers clearly indicates that in the two weeks after the White House in mid-October sparked a media controversy by claiming Rupert Murdoch’s channel was not a legitimate news organization, Fox News’ ratings did not soar or go “through the roof.” In fact, not only did Fox News’ overall ratings not soar, they experienced no significant increase at all. Instead, in the two weeks following the initial verbal jousts with the White House, Fox News’ total day ratings virtually flatlined.”

- Media Matters for America says that FOX News’ recent “ratings boon” is a myth.

Neven designed this awesome shirt. Tell him how awesome it is...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:05:13 -0800

Neven designed this awesome shirt.

Tell him how awesome it is and that you’d buy one if he figures out how to get ‘em printed up.

"The idea, said Chris Homeister, senior vice president for entertainment at Best Buy, is to let..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:01:39 -0800

“The idea, said Chris Homeister, senior vice president for entertainment at Best Buy, is to let consumers pay once for a DVD and then eventually be able to play it on any device: television, Blu-ray disc player, personal computer, handheld media player or smartphone.”

- Oh, I’m sure that’ll work great, as Best Buy prepares for a world where people don’t buy things on shiny discs. I’m sure the magical DRM fairy dust that they’ve concocted will be both effective and completely interoperable on all of these platforms. Perhaps Best Buy can deliver these movies right to my door via their army of unicorns.

Stewart gets the last word in the FOX/White House tussle

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:52:34 -0700

Stewart gets the last word in the FOX/White House tussle

A man should have a butcher

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:17 -0700

A man should have a butcher

Next to Big Daddy, your Halloween costume sucks

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:41:59 -0700

Next to Big Daddy, your Halloween costume sucks

"I think something I joke about with Adam is his, and You Look Nice Today’s fanbase, is largely..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:49 -0700

“I think something I joke about with Adam is his, and You Look Nice Today’s fanbase, is largely composed of a particular kind of person who really cares about fonts.”

- Jesse Thorn, on the type of people who need a little help dressing like a grownup.

As someone who cares about both fonts and looking dapper, I’m pretty excited about Put This On