April 2009
1 post
March 2009
2 posts
April 2008
2 posts
“For myself, when I was a teenager, a mix tape meant hope. I may not have been...”
– 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...”
– BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine ‘protects brain’ Yes, of course. From Mr. Gruber.
March 2008
4 posts
“Many of the scenes in “No Country for Old Men” are so flawlessly...”
– :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: No Country for Old Men (xhtml). Beautifully said. I think that Roger Ebert is greatly under-appreciated, especially his writing.
Simplicity →
Found at Daring Fireball.
“Yeah, we rocked your friggin world, right? I mean 29 June 2007 might be the day...”
– 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....”
– iPhone SDK, Apple’s Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades - (37signals) Found at Daring Fireball.
February 2008
10 posts
“Tufte makes an important observation about the iPhone when he talks about...”
– KATI » Blog Archive » Computer Administrative Debris. Exactly; this is the point that I have been making. (Found on Daring Fireball)
“A quick oral analysis of the AT&T and Starbucks deal: Short summary: it’s...”
– Wi-Fi Networking News: A quick oral analysis; found this after following a link on Daring Fireball.
“Boy, those Mac users sure are shrill with their knee-jerk vitriolic hate of...”
– [Expletive Deleted] Vista. | The Macalope: An Apple blog - CNET Blogs
“The worst part for me is that none of them seem to enjoy playing...”
– Patriots’ Season Perfect For Rest Of Nation | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“1. Joe Montana — Four titles, countless historic performances and the best...”
– ESPN - Digit Dominance: Ranking the best QBs by jersey numbers - NFL
“In fact, Montana isn’t just the best quarterback of this decade. He is,...”
– ESPN - Arms of Greatness: Ranking the best QBs by each decade - NFL
“The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy’s three-legged race
“If I were Microsoft, I’d rather be thought of as an evil genius than a...”
– Knee-deep in the dead
January 2008
21 posts
“It’s amazing how future Microsoft products beat current Apple products...”
– iPhone DOOOMED! | The Macalope: An Apple blog - CNET Blogs
Watch“When your minds made up” from Once, live version from the press tour for the movie.
“This is where you get the big question: If it all came down to one game, which...”
– Ostler: There’s an etiquette to the Brady vs. Montana argument
“Favre is the Nolan Ryan of football. Great career statistics, but not one I...”
– The Nolan Ryan of Football: Why Brett Favre Is Overrated - Bleacher Report
“So, too, is the Air a proof-of-concept. The concepts it sets out to prove are...”
– lonelysandwich. Spot on.
“Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has...”
– The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
“What are you afraid of?”
“Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.”
– Braveheart
Sandy's in trouble
Iwantsandy bit the big one tonight. It’s not the first time. It’s too bad; it’s a good idea but if it’s not reliable, that pretty much kills it’s reason for existing.
“Against Pittsburgh quarterback Ben “Go Ahead and Take That Call, Sports...”
– NFL divisional playoffs | Salon
“As you probably know, the Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow in Las...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: We’ll be covering CES
“She was that kind of lady
Times were hard
But she could come curling...”
– Crazy Love. Buckingham Nicks from 1973. Killer album, vinyl only. I can say I got it before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Thanks to Bob L.
“I didn’t spend enough time with him that day,” the coach says....”
– Garcia redeems himself with Gruden - NFL - Yahoo! Sports. John Gruden talking about the first time that he evaluated, and passed on, Jeff Garcia.
“In June, Apple released a phone that was the same as other phones, except...”
– 2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened | Cracked.com. Now that’s funny.
2007 cities
Got the idea from Kottke. Here’s the list of cities I visited in 2007: Merced Modesto Ceres Ripon Tracy Monterrey Santa Cruz Vallejo San Rafael Philadelphia Las Vegas (airport) Bishop Mammoth Lakes Lee Vining Lone Pine Big Pine Mariposa Hornitos Coulterville Yosemite Valley Palm Springs Riverside Hollywood Santa Monica Brentwood Visalia Redlands Banning Mountain Center Idyllwild Cathedral...
Mac OS X market share sets new record at the end... →
Found at FSJ.
“Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a...”
– Perl.com: Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting…
December 2007
43 posts
“This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal...”
– Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
“Could Tech Support Undo Palm?”
– Could Tech Support Undo Palm?. Oh, lord, yes. Not to mention the crappy quality of the Treos.
“Weave is a much more ambitious project, with the ultimate goal of offering a...”
– Web Worker Daily » Archive Mozilla Weave Helps Us Move to the Cloud. Exactly. I haven’t checked out Weave, yet, but that’s where (certain kinds of my) stuff should be, in the “cloud.”
“There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like — static. Even...”
– Rolling Stone : Bob Dylan Rails Against Crappy CD Sound
“hte desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.” — quoted in “Into the Wild”
“Of course, Parcells’ agent, Robert Fraley, had already told the Falcons...”
– FOX Sports on MSN - NFL - Parcells’ history explains latest move
Bubble 2.0 video -- check it out before it's gone... →
From FSJ.
“Whatever you decide be happy. Because that’s more important to me than anything.”