October 2010
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April 2010
8 posts
“The reason we pay attention to Beck is that he both comforts and flatters his...”
– Romano, in a really thoughtful examination of Glenn Beck (via newsweek)
“The deeper policy correction that’s now needed in Washington and financial...”
– Hirsh, on the need for a radical new approach to economic thinking (via newsweek)
“Net neutrality isn’t a fair fight. It’s an abstract issue concerning whether...”
– Summers, on Comcast v. FCC (via newsweek)
Editorial: iPad app prices are out of control and... →
nerdology:
An opinion. But a valid one.
Apple trained us well with the iPhone. All those $0.99 apps, $1.99 apps, and the occasional $4.99 or app, padded by plentiful free apps, and we laid down / rolled over every time the App Store whistled. Sure, we admit it, after a few months of conditioning we even spent $9.99 on a couple apps, but boy did we do our homework on those ones! They had to...
“40 years ago you could open the hood of your car and see and touch just about...”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball (via nerdology)
March 2010
21 posts
“What forces Google to have a foreign policy is that what they’re exporting isn’t...”
– Google Searches for a Foreign Policy - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets) (via infoneer-pulse) (via techspotlight)
“I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I can use...”
– Steve Wozniak finds the solution to the iPhone’s lack of multitasking. (via newsweek)
The world is an internet forum | Colin Horgan |... →
techspotlight:
By now we’ve all heard of the protesters shouted racial and sexual epithets at some House Democrats as they made their way to hear President Obama speak to his party this weekend to encourage them to pass the healthcare reform bill. Emanuel Cleaver was apparently spat on, Barney Frank was called a faggot, and John Lewis was called the N-word. And on Wednesday, CBS released some of...
Today in Childish Republican Obstructionism →
(via newsweek)
Official Google Blog →
Google has officially uncensored it’s Chinese services, by redirecting them to their HK servers:
techspotlight:
On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail...
Oops: Google Denied Trademark on Android Nexus One →
How in hell did they get to market without having done this already?
techspotlight:
It’s been a rough day for Google’s Android phone, the Nexus One. First we learned this morning that initial sales have been far weaker than the iPhone saw when it first came out of the gate. Now it’s being reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected its application for a trademark on the name...
SXSW Day 2: Privacy is Not Dead | Blog | design... →
This is why I do not, and will not, use Facebook:
techspotlight:
shaneguiter:
Facebook’s recent change in their privacy laws was held up as another example of things veering off course. What they did was to essentially create a “public by default community.” In other words, Facebook is a sign of a common occurrence throughout the social Web: we start with everything public and we have to...
Opera Mini 5 Beta - Faster Browsing, Speed Dial &...
techspotlight:
androidappsonly:
Opera has just released Mini 5 Beta into the Android market, adding a nice browser option for your phone.
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The "self-made man".
“Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised. ...
Vlatko Vedral: "I'd like to explain the origin of... →
techspotlight:
Great vid and interview by @Aleksk
Professor Vlatko Vedral is a quantum physicist at the universities of Oxford and Singapore who grapples with the behaviour of energy and matter at subatomic scales, and this has led him to ask some bigger questions including why are we here? And what does it all mean? The 39-year-old, originally from Belgrade, passionately believes units of...
Nerdology: Don't Turn On Your PS3 →
A crazy amount of errors are springing for PS3 owners under the name Error Code 8001050F. I don’t really know what is going on but it seems to come up for all games, including games that don’t have any connectivity online features. It also seems that owners of older PS3s have had their clocks set…
Activision shuts down fan made King's Quest sequel →
Yet another dick move from Activision. This time, they’ve stabbed The Silver Lining guys in the back. After Vivendi agreed to let them keep going on the project, it seems the new masters at Activision decided they were having none of that and gave them a C&D after 8 years of work.
No doubt this has something to do with GOG.com’s “Month of Activision” being made up...
February 2010
15 posts
Infovore » The most compelling case should be for... →
Wonderful short critique of a game review, that highlights what I’ve said so many times: games aren’t movies, and shouldn’t even want to be. They should want to be games, and we should critique them as games.
RPS mentioned the article in the context of Heavy Rain, and I think that is a good illustration. HR was an interesting demo, I’ll give it that, but in some ways I...
Newsweek: Dear Andrew Sullivan, We'll Spell it Out... →
We’ve largely stayed out of this whole “Newsweek and terrorism” thing, and would have continued to do so, except Andrew Sullivan doesn’t allow comments on his blog. So we want to make one thing clear, since there seems to be some confusion: Kathy Jones, our photo editor AS refers to here,…
How the hell did he manage to miss the sarcasm in that statement?
Steam has a sexy new UI →
And I do mean sexy. This thing is hot hot hot, and adds countless features I’ve desperately wanted for ages. Better organization and information tools for your games library. A seriously awesome and genuinely useful in-game dashboard, complete with a clock and a full Webkit based browser for quick info lookups. Nifty little extra info bits on the nicely reorganized and much more...
The victims of PC gaming DRM: one soldier's story →
A US soldier tells Ars about the difficulties DRM poses for our boys over seas looking to do a little gaming to relax between missions.
Leave it to the French to deprive our troops of vital guard-stabbing practice.
The war on progress.
Scott Brown Under Fire for Going Rogue on Jobs Bill - AOL News
So there’s a news link there, mostly a silly one talking about how the great saviour, Scott Brown, is apparently not big with the internet set for voting with the Dems on a bill to create more jobs. No surprise there, I suppose.
But the part that stuck out to me, was some of the quotes mentioning “progressives”. ...
Ten rules for writing fiction | Books |... →
Interesting piece for the writers out there. Neil Gaiman’s #7 explains so, so much.
I have a "tumblog".
Wanted something a little more meaty for when twitter isn’t enough to finish the thought. Oddly enough this first post is almost short enough to fit in a tweet.