January 2010
54 posts
“It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the...”
– Fraser Speirs, “Future Shock”
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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brian, Saying farewell to The Tonight Show
“…sure it’s maligned, sure it’s troubled, but we’re the only ones allowed...”
– Chris Young, “The real reason Brock Lesnar hates Canada”
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“You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m going to build the biggest,...”
– Will Smith, talking with Charlie Rose (~23:00)
(via Bobulate)
“Shh. Do you hear that? Off in the distance. It sounds like a freight train from...”
– John Gruber, on news of Amazon’s switch to a 70/30 revenue split for the Kindle
Simple, Focused
Just a quick follow-up to my two previous posts regarding recent and future Apple products.
Again, as best-illustrated by Apple’s official iPhone / Touch applications - iTunes Remote, Keynote Remote, iDisk, and now, Gallery - there’s a definite, purposeful limitation to the tasks the applications perform.
Each MobileMe-specific application in particular, only focuses on one aspect of...
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“He said there would be an exam on all things Canadian. […] I would be...”
– Jo Ollive, “New to Canada and determined to skate”
I love this country.
Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI
MortenMW: Has Monster started producing these yet? I cant wait to get some high-quality cables!
rolfwind: Monster? Ha! A cheap fabrication for those who don't know better. Ever since I switched to triple platinum-plated (no cheap gold here!) Pear Anjou cables, the colors on my monitor have been much deeper, richer and more vibrant, truly life-like! That's because they have a proprietary hybrid geometry, and the platinum plating provides ultra-low electrical reactance and the underlying copper is fully annealed 99.999% pure oxygen free. Not that cheap copper you get everyplace. All this combines to allow for new levels of digital accuracy.
Rogerborg: Oh... are people still using platinum? Well, I guess if you're willing to settle, rather than pay for unicorn horn, then it won't degrade your signal too much. Probably not enough to spoil your enjoyment, but a true videophile can tell.
StreetStealth: Not to drag this dry videophile discussion out too long, but I presume you're not using cheap factory-raised unicorn horn, notorious for its poor standing wave sync-sweetening and shallow inter-bitstream raster resonance? Only unicorns raised in the Swiss Alps have the protein content in their horns that allows a digital signal to hit such crisp, sparkling 1s and deep, thick 0s.
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Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers... →
Breaking news:
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town....
“…never retire, but plan to change your career to keep your synapses...”
– William Safire, “Never Retire”
“Go ahead and believe there’s a such thing as a life well-wasted. We’re put here...”
– De-optimizing, Frank Chimero
Ten Rules for Web Startups →
Old (relatively speaking) but not dated.
The UNIQLO Calendar →
Tilt-shift photography video.
And there’s a cute-japanese-girl clock too.
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MobileMe Gallery Application →
And look at that. Guess who just released an iPhone / Touch app that lets you access your pictures in the cloud?
(Scroll down about half way.)
“Behold, the ultimate in guilty colonialist fetish fantasy epic porn filmmaking,...”
– Mark Morford, on James Cameron’s Avatar in his article “Please mount my hot blue alien”.
Someone had to say it.
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Requisite Apple Tablet Predictions
Author’s Note: I wrote this rather quickly. Not a great excuse, I know, but I’ll still reserve the right to come back during the course of the next few days to edit / correct spelling errors and the like. I do, after all, have a real job.
Since everyone and their grandmother have something to say about the...
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Alex Payne, in Don’t Be A Hero:
If someone is working at four in the morning, something is deeply wrong. Figure out what’s broken and delegate the work out evenly across your team such that it doesn’t happen again. Don’t pat your hero on the back for “pulling another late-nighter”.
This is one reason why, when looking for a job a few years ago, I didn’t consider working for any company whose...
“Less is more.
Keep it simple, stupid.
All updates are free. Period.
Trial...”
– “Attitude”, MOApp
My Parents Were Awesome →
Sweet nostalgia.
Gore’s Choice →
Apparently, Al Gore invented Typography too.
let's talk about earthbound/mother →
I’ve never played Earthbound / Mother, but this makes me want to find it. Now.
(via whirbangsigh)
Take Care of Your Ice Skates, You Don't Want to... →
Lots of good advice.
“Apple has not publicly confirmed its existence.”
– “Apple tablet supply chain points to Q2 launch: sources”, The Globe and Mail (Reuters)
What a great start to 2010.
Snowboard wizards aim to turn carbon into gold →
I suspect we’ll be feeling the effects of Own The Podium for years to come.
Here’s to Canadian innovation, then! And Team Canada, of course.
Ke$sha. “Your Love is My Drug”....
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“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same...”
– The Red Queen, Through The Looking-Glass
Destroying perfectly good retail merchandise
marco:
Have you ever seen a book or magazine that said something along the lines of, “If you received this book without a cover, the author hasn’t been paid for his work”? That’s because book and magazine publishers have a similar arrangement with their vendors, except that the publishers often required in the past (not sure if it’s still true) that the store tear off and send back each credited...
“As rush hour traffic whizzed around him, he pushed a snow blower in front of...”
– “Man arrested after drunken snow blowing”, The Toronto Star