January 2012
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A public request to Naomi Caldwell
Stop handing out my fucking email address to online recruiters, you incredibly fucking stupid person.
October 2011
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“My new iOS app uses Facebook for logins” is the new “It only runs on...”
– Wise words from @danbenjamin.
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September 2011
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Fixing Your Facebook Timeline Privacy →
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Facebook has announced a new profile page layout called “Timeline” that will be launching for all users soon. Unfortunately, the timeline appears set to join the long…
Ugh.
August 2011
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“I can announce today that over the next few weeks, I and ministers from across...”
– England riots: Cameron and Miliband speeches and reaction - live | Politics | guardian.co.uk
You heard it here first. Human Rights and Health & Safety: the causes of a broken society.
July 2011
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Hibari Mac App Store Holdup →
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On June 30 Twitter made good on their threat of requiring OAuth flow for third-party Twitter clients in order for them to receive Direct Messages. Fortunately we submitted Hibari 1.1.4 to Apple on June 27. Unfortunately it turns out that wasn’t nearly enough time. On June 30 Apple rejected…
Not good enough, Apple.
June 2011
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Vintage photo effects →
Create vintage-look photos the old-fashioned way. In Photoshop. Ahem.
May 2011
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GuideGuide →
Useful plugin that sets centred guides in PSDs.
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“Shall we roll the tape? Under Bush Sr., FEMA sucked. Under Clinton, FEMA was...”
– FEMA’s Ups and Downs | Mother Jones an object lesson in why voting matters.
April 2011
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“This story about the Playstation Network being hacked is huge. Just trying to...”
– PSN Outage - Twenty Sided
February 2011
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“Why? I suppose we’ll need an obese person as well. Maybe we need to...”
– Star Trek boss regrets omitting gay plots Commenter “Tom” here has never watched anything for entertainment value in his entire pathetically stunted life.
January 2011
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Little Big Details →
Details matter.
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“The web is a customer service medium. “Intense moderation” in a customer service...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com). Many fascinating thoughts in this essay by Paul Ford.
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RiSC future: The failures of the Mac App Store's... →
riscfuture:
I’m astounded that there hasn’t been a peep from Gruber about the problems and inconsistencies in the Mac App Store application, and those of the apps sold on it. My first experience with the Mac App Store was a purchase of the new Twitter app, of which Gruber had this to say:
Read it.
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Udo Kier's "Random Roles" →
The Onion AV Club’s “Random Roles” feature, where famous and not-so-famous actors give a series of anecdotes about their film and television roles, is a simple format but one that often delivers surprising gems from the most unlikely of sources.
But oh, my. The Udo Kier interview is something else:
So I bought the Bible. The Bible is wonderful. It’s only one book, but you...
December 2010
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Google Zeitgeist Shows We’re As Clueless As Ever →
I suspect that Googling a website rather than just typing in the address bar turns out to be a highly rational habit. Given the phishing and other unsavoury sites out there, a simple typo in a URL can be a pretty dangerous mistake.
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November 2010
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Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power... →
Good, somewhat spoilerish review of one of the great SF novels of the 1980s. Certainly better than io9’s slightly daft headline would suggest.
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“Unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases threaten multiple catastrophes, any...”
– A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice « Climate Progress We are so astoundingly screwed. Thanks, the global political class.
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October 2010
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“The music industry tried to break Apple’s hegemony over digital downloads...”
– Web fonts will flourish: True to type | The Economist An odd aside in an interesting piece on web type: The Economist gets the causation for Apple dropping music DRM completely backwards.
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“I often think that something like 20% of all broadsheet newspaper higher...”
– Finishing schools for gilded youth? — Crooked Timber dsquared in the comments thread.
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“Aspiration” is a popular word among politicians, but perhaps they don’t want to...”
– Finishing schools for gilded youth? — Crooked Timber Chris Bertram on the depressingly familiar plans for cuts to UK higher education.
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“Funny story: At a conference in Australia last year, IBM handed out thumb drives...”
– The dangers of USB drives. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine OMG. I was expecting over-the-top alarmism. But this report is straight-out alarming.
September 2010
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“The excuse used by the Australian that Grog deserved to be exposed because he...”
– Outing an amateur « Dave from Albury’s Weblog
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“When I wake up in the mornings, I check my expertly-curated Twitter list of...”
– The new Gurunomics? Pure gold. “Alex Blagg’s Bajillion Hits might just be the best new media satire going.” (via jimray)
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Children of the Bunker →
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The end of a thousand-year war. Two races locked in the embrace of murder-suicide. Technology in reverse. Attrition on a planetary scale: every living thing, every scrap of life-sustaining environment, must be destroyed to deny it to the enemy. The triumph of nihilism, genocide as business-as-usual. Few Doctor Who serials have even come in sight of the creative peak represented by...
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“The National Party – the political group that has done more to piss the living...”
– Possum Comitatus on the forthcoming Great Unhinging. I think we’re seeing the end of the National Party as we know it.
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August 2010
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CloudApp →
Another S3-based file-sharing app for the Mac. Can’t see that there’s much difference between them — which pretty much means I’m not likely to chose either.
Droplr →
S3-based file-sharing application for the Mac.
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“Since the X-wing’s proton torpedo may have affected the subatomic...”
– Astronomer: Star Wars Explosion More Realistic Than Star Trek Explosion: Other than the reflexive heteronormativity, the funniest thing I’ve read on the Internet today.
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