March 2010
43 posts
“Speed of iterations beats quality of iteration.”
– Boyd’s Law (via dancroak) (via thememegeneration)
February 2010
59 posts
Haiti: The United Nations Picks Up The Pieces →
Just because the camera crews and reporters have left, doesn’t mean that somehow Haiti should stop being newsworthy. Just because the politicians have stopped talking about the disaster, and stopped visiting, doesn’t somehow mean the problem is solved.
222,517 lives lost. To put that in perspective, 2,973 lives were lost during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Just tragic and heart...
10 billion songs downloaded →
I wonder if this number, and the giant banner-style headline, makes competitors wonder how the hell they missed this opportunity. It was up for grabs in 2000.
Magical USAA Check-Depositing Smartphone App Now... →
Major barrier to Android just got lifted. Also, I <3 USAA.
The Ultimate Hipster Irony →
Any popular urban youth movement quickly gets poached by mainstream America and ultimately get’s incorporated and homogenized.
I heard a Muzak version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in an elevator once.
(via @zeldman)
Google executives found guilty of violating... →
Hold tight kids, internet privacy laws just got flipped upside down. An Italian judge found three Google executives guilty of violating the privacy of an Italian student who was bullied in…
Browser Parity
I want browsers to be competitive and push us forward but I want them to compete on features, not on the display of web content. All browsers should display the web content identically, based on W3C standards. If a browser wants to be forward-thinking and allow new specs that aren’t finalized, that’s cool, as long as the current specs are displayed correctly. There are so many other...
AT&T Roars Back in 3G Performance Test →
I can honestly say that this is a dead issue for me. My iPhone always has the 3G radio on now and I rarely drop calls anymore. Maybe it still sucks in SF and NY but here in Denver, AT&T made some major improvements.
Naps Can Seriously Improve All-Day Learning... →
I don’t need a study to tell me what I already know to be true. If I take a 15-minute nap at lunch, my afternoon is much more productive. But good luck explaining that to your boss.
You're Easier to Control When You're Afraid
2010 - Social Networks
1983 - Answering Machines
1977 - Classifieds
(via Consumerist.com)
Is Microsoft Trying To Buy BlackBerry? →
This honestly wouldn’t surprise me at all. When MS falls behind, they usually buy their way to the top again. Not bad, necessarily, just historical.
Putting the Fun Back in Funeral →
You must be comfortable: -Wearing a bikini -Being around the recently deceased -Applying make-up to our guest of honor and/or dressing -Washing Cars -Driving the party Hearse
Emphasis mine. Because that’s how I want to take my final ride.
How smartphones are bogging down some wireless... →
“Cell nodes use signaling channels to set up the data connection, as well as signaling phone calls, SMS messages, voicemails, and more. When enough iPhones are in a particular area, these signaling channels can become overloaded—there simply aren’t enough to handle all the data requests along with all the calls and messages.”
How to Raise Racist Kids →
Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”
Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two.
Back to Basics
1990 - Adobe Photoshop:
2010 - Pixelmator:
Adobe lost its way.
20 Years of Adobe Photoshop →
Fun trip down memory lane. This is where I started.
Why Piracy Works →
Is That a Room For Rent on My Craigslist?!? →
You bet your nomadic ass it is.
Steve Jobs Reportedly Argues Against Flash →
[Jobs] also called Flash a “CPU hog,” a source of “security holes” and, in perhaps the most grevious insult an famous innovator can utter, a dying technology. Jobs said of Flash, “We don’t spend a lot of energy on old technology.”
Well then.
Google the A-Hole
I disabled Buzz for a myriad of reasons today but, for some reason, that also meant I had to delete my Google Profile which existed before Buzz. It also meant that anyone following me on Google Reader was booted. I think this is just Google pouting that their social service sucked balls out of the gate. So if anyone would like to continue following my Google Reader shared items, you can find it...
Patrick Rhone: My RSS System →
I set up my Google Reader this way today and I already like it. There are quite a few feeds that I’ll just dismiss entirely if I’ve gone too long between reads. Feeds like Engadget and Smashing Magazine. But some feeds, those “a-list” feeds I’ll read no matter what. It makes sense to break it apart this way.
First-person perspective of a bus crash →
Frightening from the side cameras.
Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone →
I’ve been addicted to this for the last 2 days.
The Best Steak Dinner
Prepared steak using this method and it was fantastic. I’ve been grilling for years and have never had steak so perfect.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/friday04/sets/72157623443869758/
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with...”
– Grandpa Simpson
(referenced after I viewed the Most-Downloaded iTunes Songs of All Time [iTunes Link])
Guess What I'm Licking Right Now →
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How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an... →
Shared by Chris
For all my talk about user experience design, I must admit that I never thought people used Google as their sole means of navigation. Back to the drawing board.
It’s not…
Google Responds to Critics: Makes Small Changes to... →
Google Buzz, which launched two days ago, has been widely criticized for making the lists of who you follow and who follows you public by default. Until now, the check box to turn this…
Sexist Vintage Ads →
Things people try to log into
mrgan:
Regarding this morning’s amazing occurrence where people who had googled for “facebook login” and got taken to a news story about Facebook then assumed that the news website was Facebook itself…
Flickr user jimwhimpey posted screenshot of login pages for Facebook and MySpace; this resulted in comments from users trying to log in to those websites using small screenshots of them, or even...
I liked the old Facebook login better →
mrgan:
Please read marco’s post on a mindblowing web artifact:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the...
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“Users don’t read your copy or look at your branding…Users have been...”
– Open Thread: The Internet Is Hard
Jim's Design Critique
merlin:
For inspiration, maybe make one a little more jazzy and another a little more grunge or “extreme.” But not too grungy or extreme, because I think we all agree that people who buy stool covers care a lot about always keeping it clean. And they love POP! POP POP POP! But still keep it clean. And, again, have fun with it, within reason.
I am so happy I’m not doing this kind of work...
Music Labels See Slower iTunes Sales Growth in... →
What a surprise.
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited →
This is in the name of security, you see. There are evil terrorists out there and the FBI and your federal government want to protect you from them. If you’re a fine, upstanding citizen then you have nothing to fear. They’re only after the bad guys. They’ll never use the information they collect for anything other than catching evil terrorists.
Fuck that. If this doesn’t...
Little-Known Secret to Typing Contractions on...
When you’re typing on your iPhone or iPod Touch and you were to type W E R E and hit space it’ll think you typed “were” but if you type W E R E E and hit space, that’s not a word and it’ll default to “we’re.” There are other contracted words where that works but you kind of have to discover them, such as I L L L = I’ll.
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A Tale of Customer Service
This morning I took my MacBook Pro to the Apple Store to have them look at it. The left speaker and the internal microphone weren’t working. This was my 3rd visit to the Apple Store for this machine. I wasn’t upset or anything. I have AppleCare on the computer and the last time they had to take it from me for repairs they had it back in 2 days. I figured something was going to be wrong...