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“ For myself, when I was a teenager, a mix tape meant hope. I may not have been the smartest, wealthiest or best-looking kid at my high school, but I lived with the belief that there was a perfect song sequence on a 90-minute Memorex tape that could solve any romantic problem. The fact that this almost never worked didn’t sway this belief. It just made me choose songs more carefully, buy more expensive tapes and mess with the fade a little more. (Nearly every mix tape I made in the early 1990s had huge amounts of fade, so every song began and ended like Limahl’s “The Never Ending Story.”)

— Digital age doomed a musical rite of passage Kids, you don’t know what you missed.

“ Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.

— BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine ‘protects brain’ Yes, of course. From Mr. Gruber.

“ Many of the scenes in “No Country for Old Men” are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was “Fargo.” To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another.

— :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: No Country for Old Men (xhtml). Beautifully said. I think that Roger Ebert is greatly under-appreciated, especially his writing.

» Simplicity

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“ Yeah, we rocked your friggin world, right? I mean 29 June 2007 might be the day the world changed, but today it just changed again. BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google’s Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead. We’ve thrown $100 million into an iFund so people can build iApps to sell on iTunes and give us 30% of their iMoney. The coming onslaught of new applications will make iPhone the only smart phone that anyone in the entire world will ever want to use.

— The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Happy now, bitches?. He’s not kidding.

“ What we saw today was the spark. The explosion will continue for twenty years. We will all feel the warmth. What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile.

— iPhone SDK, Apple’s Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades - (37signals) Found at Daring Fireball.

“ Tufte makes an important observation about the iPhone when he talks about computer administrative debris. For many features, the iPhone uses the content as the interface and users interact with it directly rather than through interface widgets.

— KATI » Blog Archive » Computer Administrative Debris. Exactly; this is the point that I have been making. (Found on Daring Fireball)