January 2010
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Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those... →
Lets make it simple: the iPad is the death of flash.
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“I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
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WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN
It’s really easy to be cynical about the iPad. But fuck that, really. It’s god damn great. It’s a computer system where things like file systems and plugins and even programs really don’t exist anymore. You just do things on it.
Eventually they will put apps on there for creating just about anything, and they probably won’t cost that much because the App Store...
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Daring Fireball: Apple, Adobe, and Flash →
In discussing the state of Flash player on a Mac this article pretty much shows the good and bad of Apple’s software engineering taste even beyond the Flash issue.
Also I AM HUGE NERD.
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“Brian, stop farting on my laundry.”
– Bill (via redplastic) That was me who was farting :(
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iconoplastica:
While unfortunate that Google.CN may be shutting down, my ethnographic work in China revealed five things that aren’t being told in the current story:
Many Chinese internet users don’t find Google to be very useful. Therefore, a Google withdrawal would not have any immediate impact on the daily Chinese internet user because most people search with Baidu, the reigning search...
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Today's Gunshow is best →
If you haven’t read it yet, ANIME CLUB. (part 2, 3)
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Today's Mystery Solving Teens!! →
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“The Gay/Straight Alliance: Gender equality through superior firepower.”
– (via redplastic) I totally said this and my friend posted it on a tumblr that I didn’t know she had. UNTIL NOW.
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From twitter, a conversation between friends that...
beardlace: @devtesla I found it curious how similar conan's words were to the work hard & be nice poster [he was referencing this http://xrl.us/bgtkhe and the link in my about sidebar thing]
me: @beardlace so what if they are the same, it's the most obvious and best advice ever :p
beardlace: @devtesla no that wasn't a complaint.
me: @beardlace Oh, I see. This conversation got weird, so lets hug. *hug*
beardlace: @devtesla now you're just making it weirder! Respect my internet presence's personal space you glomping furry.
me: @beardlace *flees*
beardlace: @DevTesla ok kids. We're safe for now. BUT NOW DO YOU SEE WHY WE EAT ALL OUR VEGETABLES?!
emfail: @beardlace @devtesla fuck vegetables
beardlace: @emfail you go ahead and say that if you want the awkwardmonster that is @devtesla running out of the bushes and force hugging on you.
emfail: @beardlace i wouldnt mind a @devtesla hug tbh
beardlace: @emfail oh one @devtesla hug is fine. But if you give a @devtesla a hug he'll ask you to tf2. And if you tf2 he'll ask to troll metafilter..
beardlace: @emfail And then a bunch of other things happen that culminate in recreating the asstoass scene from requiem for a dream with @devtesla
beardlace: @emfail except in a parking lot behind a bus station. And not even for drugs. Just love of the sport.
me: @emfail *huggg*
beardlace: @devtesla @emfail oh great now we got six hours before you're sharing a doubleheaded dildo. I'll get the hose.
me: @beardlace You don't need one, it's raining.
beardlace: @DevTesla aaaaaaaah my imagination's courtesy filter just shut off and made me realize what I said
me: @beardlace If you need comfort in this trying moment I'm available for hugs, but I know that you may not want them so feel free to decline.
beardlace: @DevTesla I can't trust you after...... the incident.
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MetaFilter Guided Tours →
I’ve had the idea for a blog of awesome MetaFilter comments kicking around in my head for a while now, and now I’ve done it! Part of what made me go ahead and do it was that I found out that Tumblr has a submission system, and that’s cool.
I’ll be honest, it’s a lot easier to just repackage what was already awesome into blog posts than it is to make posts yourself,...
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Two steps to perfect equaliser settings in iTunes
The following is the so called perfect iTunes setting that has been my default for a while. I got it from 43 Folders » “Perfect” iTunes equalizer setting. Just set the equalizer to something that looks close to this, then select “set preset…” in the drop-down menu and call it perfect. Yay! Most songs sound better this way! The only problem with this (or any...
A very personal gift (note: fiction :p)
Paul: Now, I know I wasn’t supposed to get you anything, but I saw this and thought of you.
John: Oh, um, thanks.
Paul: Open it! Open it!
John: The Path Of The Green Man? Gay… Wicca? But I’m not…
Paul: Look, I know that it’s been hard for you, but it’s time you came out as gay wiccan. You own all the seasons of Charmed, you have that crazy wood necklace thing, you wrote that fantasy book back in college…
John: …wait wait wait, that’s something else entirely.
Paul: It’s okay! I won’t tell anyone, you can tell other people whenever you’d like, or not at all. But always know that I’m totally okay that you believe in gnomes or whatever. Okay?
John: Oh. Good to know.
Paul: Just, you know, try to be so obvious all the time, okay babe?
John: What?
Paul: Oh, um, just don’t broadcast your wiccaness to everyone all the time. Like, when you painted our apartment’s walls green and had us all read Harry Potter, I was like, ugggg, too much witches, you know?
John: The… Fuck?
Paul: I love you John!
John: Goddamnit.
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I’m a martyr (on metafilter)
I was spending this last day on campus before summer hanging out in my dorm floor’s lounge with my lappy. This usually means I end up ignoring what is actually going on around me, a problem when funny things go down. But this time the fact that I was directly hooked into the internet at least led somewhere.
It started with a idle thought by a friend of mine while he was packing all the...
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I can't go three months without changing blogging...
But you know, why not again? I had one at Wordpress, but that kind of died once I realized that blogging everything that I did on Metafilter was kind of inane and that I didn’t like how it looked. Then I had one at Blogger that I liked, but now I’m giving tumblr a shot.
Now I’m going to republish some things from those two blogs that I think are still relevant.
