December 27, 2009
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- List of animals with fraudulent diplomas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – This is why traditional encyclopedias will never be as good as Wikipedia. (5) #
September 23, 2009
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- Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7 – Microsoft – Gawker – This video is the best evidence yet that Microsoft’s marketing department exists on an entirely different planet than ours. (2) #
July 18, 2009
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- Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com – Wow, Amazon has taken a page from Microsoft’s Playbook for getting colossally bad PR. (2) #
May 6, 2009
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- Amazon.com: Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store – Apple? Are you listening? Please release an ebook reader that looks absolutely nothing like this. (0) #
April 30, 2009
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- Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs – Dear Yahoo: Please put someone different in charge before there are more boneheaded decisions like this. (0) #
April 27, 2009
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- GeoCities will close later this year - this is why you shouldn’t be trusting flickr or delicious with your data. Yahoo could get bored of them at any time… [via] (0) #
April 3, 2009
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- joshua’s blog: on url shorteners – I hate URL shortening services, and I consider Twitter’s reliance on them to be one of its biggest failings. One day of coding and they could have their own URL database to solve this problem without relying on external sites. (0) #
March 20, 2009
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- Douglas Bowman leaves Google – that’s a shame, Google really needed a good designer. I’m surprised he spent so much time fighting the current there. (0) #
February 3, 2009
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- Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle – Or they could put it on the Web and not send anyone an unnecessary ugly gadget. (0) #
October 21, 2008
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- TED | TEDBlog: A brief digression on lost time: John Hodgman on TED.com – A somehow touching speech about alien abductions. He’s not just a PC, you know. (0) #
- Bloglines Crawler Problem Fixed – Attention Bloglines: Waiting three weeks after a major problem begins and after bad press to post a paragraph-long “it’s fixed” announcement is really not the best way to keep your users (I might be the only one left) happy. Any business with the word “Blog” in its name should know better. (0) #
June 27, 2008
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- Dual-display e-book concept mimicks reading, makes complete sense – Engadget Yes. That’s what’s missing from the e-book experience. Page turning. (1) #
June 26, 2008
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- Anil Dash: Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever – I considered Bill Gates “evil” for many years, but in the last few years he’s become one of my heroes. Good luck without him, Microsoft… (0) #
June 20, 2008
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- What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb – a very realistic and well-written look at the process. (0) #
- It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo – Just two weeks ago the “Last one out, please turn out the lights” jokes were still funny. Now I’m not so sure. (0) #
June 19, 2008
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- Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer – Why does The Onion still exist when headlines like this appear in real newspapers? (1) #
June 18, 2008
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- Firefox 3: Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support – The trouble with “20% Time” is that it doesn’t necessarily create products that will be supported in the future. (0) #
May 9, 2008
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- YouTube – Big Broccoli Ocarina – Now I can truly say I’ve seen everything, including “Angels We Have Heard On High” played on Broccoli. [more here] #
May 6, 2008
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- Eric’s Archived Thoughts: The Really Perfect Ringtone – Best ringtone ever. #
May 4, 2008
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- Microsoft pulls its Yahoo offer – via Scoble, who described it thus: “Yahoo is a bleeding animal. Left lying, gasping for its breath, after a larger animal (Microsoft) struck and then walked away after it proved too difficult to eat.” #
April 7, 2008
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- In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop – New York Times – Another valiant but ridiculous effort by mainstream media to make the Internet seem dramatic. #
March 28, 2008
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- AT&T Is Working on Its Own 3D Browser Pogo. – Attention AT&T: Adding some silly, usability-challenged 3D eye candy to Mozilla does not make for an improved web-browsing experience. (1) #
March 12, 2008
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- The worlds 50 most powerful blogs - I’m continually amazed at how these lists seem to come from an entirely different universe than the one I live in. I’ve heard of 17 of the 50, and I regularly read a total of three of them. Either the blogosphere is far more diverse and wide-ranging than mainstream journalism suspects, or I’m just seriously out of the loop… #
February 23, 2008
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- Mail Keeps Rejecting Password (updated) – AndrewEscobar.com – For every problem, there’s a solution buried somewhere in a mile-long list of comments on a weblog post. #
February 20, 2008
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- Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things – “I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” Brilliant advice, although I can’t figure out what overlooked problem requires a new dialect of LISP. #
January 27, 2008
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- Five whys – Joel on Software – Some good thoughts on dealing with network downtime. #
January 15, 2008
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- Palm OS II Devices on Track for Release in Early 2009 – Rumor has it they’ll be using a time machine to introduce these devices in 1996 when someone still cares. #
December 12, 2007
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- Dunning-Kruger effect – This explains so much. #
November 8, 2007
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- Bloglines | Top 1000 – Much more mainstream than the technorati list. And one of my sites is #11. #
October 28, 2007
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- Blu-ray vs. HD: Whose side are you on? - I’m on the side who only has a 27″ TV and can’t particularly tell the difference, and wishes the movie studios would stop wasting money on format wars and make a good movie for once. #