Wednesday, September 03
“ I say this with sincerity and distance: I did not expect post-Obama Democrats to engage so gleefully in the politics of personal destruction
Tuesday, September 02
Mythbusters’ Adam Savage explains why Discovery will never let the show air an episode about the ridiculously lame and hackable state of RFID technology. These credit card companies are pathetic.
Sunday, August 31
Smart combination of Safari 3’s built-in “create a Dashboard widget out of whatever I select in this window” feature with Ping.fm’s native ability to pop out a posting window. Seems to work just fine for me.
Saturday, August 30
Friday, August 29
Feedback I just sent about Snap Shots, those obnoxious mouse rollover ad popups
A paste of the feedback I just submitted to the company:
Snap Shots is one of the very, very few web products that, if it were some kind of tangible, living creature, I would strangle until I saw all life drain from it with my own two eyes.
Please, stop killing the web.
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Submit yours at:
Snap.com: Delivering Contextual Content And Advertising > Feedback
Thursday, August 28
“ So post-SIGGRAPH, we’re out in the ocean and Dan looks at me and states: “can you believe this is all rendered in realtime?
For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more…
Wednesday, August 27
“ You can pause your newspaper delivery, and the newspaper never complains. Unfortunately most people online haven’t figured out that they’re just another publisher in a crowded space. Which is kind of a shame, because I think accepting that mantle of “publisher” might improve many peoples’ contributions as well as add a useful layer or two to their epidermis.
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Social Networks: The Case for a “Pause” Button | 43 Folders
A good feature request and social media reality check from Merlin Mann. I remain on the seasoned fence as to whether social media apps and their users will take it to hear—er, consideration.
“ Talking to my wife @tesseral about Linux: “So these Linux geeks created OpenMoko …” “What’s that? A coffee drink?
“ Media outlets think Web 2.0 means “idiots do half-assed shit for free, and we wrap cheap ads around it.” Trouble is, the idiots agree.
“ The Mac has prospered because of quality. Both in terms of Apple themselves and 3rd-parties. The iPhone is at a dangerous point right now. It’s on the verge of becoming commoditized and so is the 3rd-party software on it. And the VCs are right there behind this and will probably drive it if the market lets them.
• tap tap tap ~ Fuck the VCs (via lkm)
Reblogged from lkm 
