Awesome episode.
(Source: salanderstark, via communitythings)
“This story about the Playstation Network being hacked is huge. Just trying to draw a chalk outline around the thing is a major undertaking. The degree to which this will impact the behavior and attitudes of the rest of the industry is hard to judge. But you can bet the people in Redmond are letting out a slow breath and saying, “Thank God this didn’t happen to us.” And then they laugh and go back to brainstorming new ways to make Games for Windows LIVE even more horrible.” — PSN Outage - Twenty Sided
AL09 (by Leif Peng) via Today’s Inspiration: American Legion Magazine, 1951. Red (menace) bow ties are cool.
“Why? I suppose we’ll need an obese person as well. Maybe we need to explore necraphillia or beasteality as well. Let’s have every imaginable lifestyle choice that has ever existed. Why don’t we explore diabetics and we’ll get the Directors take on that. Can’t we just watch telly for entertainment value anymore? What a load of rubbish.” — Star Trek boss regrets omitting gay plots Commenter “Tom” here has never watched anything for entertainment value in his entire pathetically stunted life.
Details matter.
Instant. Reblog.
Word.
(Source: analoguesunshine)
“…more tea, darling” - Nextwave 01 (Director’s Cut) - art by Stuart Immonen. 2006.
“The web is a customer service medium. “Intense moderation” in a customer service medium is what “editing” was for publishing.” — The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com). Many fascinating thoughts in this essay by Paul Ford.
RiSC future: The failures of the Mac App Store's UI, and that of its app, Twitter 2.0 -
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.
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 can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.
Read the whole thing.