February 2011
67 posts
“Microsoft gets a lot of stick for producing clunky software. But even during the...”
– Perhaps it’s a case of just not checking out the competition, but I really don’t understand the vitriol spewed towards iTunes.
What exactly do you need it to do that it doesn’t do? It plays music, it plays media, and it plays nicely with all of my Apple peripherals (iPhone, AppleTV, etc). I don’t...
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navigasmic: Semantic navigation for Rails →
thechangelog:
Site navigation isn’t rocket surgery. But how many times have you gone down this route? You plop that <ul> into your header and then add <li>’s with each of your site navigation links. Then you need to make one of them highlighted based on the current page. Suddenly your nice clean view code gets a lot less readable as you handle conditional logic for setting the...
CAPTCHArt: Tumblr Censoring →
captchart:
Welp. Looks like despite the voters not caring or wanting the post to stay up, Tumblr went ahead and censored (deleted) the “Queen Identification” post or any reblog of it without any warning or request for us to take it down ourselves.
While we realize that Tumblr is responding to angry users,…
Considering the plethora of porn tumblogs that randomly seed pseudo-meme and...
Bushwick: Muggings →
neighborhoodr-bushwick:
Hey kiddos, sorry to interrupt with an announcement like this…
but a trusted source informed me of a wave of muggings happening in Bushwick, mostly near the Jefferson stop on the L train. Targets seem to be mostly white guys that were wearing headphones at the time of the incidents. They are…
I’ve always tended to take my headphones off one stop before I...
In Iraq, Torture and Secret Prisons Continue →
theatlantic:
Kevin Redmon explores the secret prisons if Iraq:
As the world’s eyes were fixed on the drama in Egypt last week, Human Rights Watch investigators in Iraq filed a depressingly familiar chapter in the country’s recent history, making new allegations of torture and of a secret prison that they say is run by special counterterrorism forces who answer directly to the office of Prime...
Call it "3G" or "4G," America's wireless networks... →
mikehudack:
jonprins:
Estonia has wireless broadband in the 20-80mbps range. Estonia. We’re chugging nicely at 5-12mbps from Verizon here stateside.
Estonia is actually an incredibly advanced country. They vote online. They have great wireless (and wired) networks. They are the birthplace of Skype. Some of blip’s funding comes from Estonia.
True, true. I’m not knocking on...
Call it "3G" or "4G," America's wireless networks... →
Estonia has wireless broadband in the 20-80mbps range. Estonia. We’re chugging nicely at 5-12mbps from Verizon here stateside.
Happy Hallmark® day, y’all.
Too late for closure.: OTL OTL OTL →
stringsx:
all of my iTunes music is gone.
and not like…oh here, it’s in this folder, i can just add it in again.
it’s gone.
COMPLETELY GONE.
IT IS NOWHERE IN MY COMPUTER AND I DON’T KNOW WHY.
i looked in my iTunes folder and nothing is there.
and i didn’t delete it.
it’s not backed….
IT’S ON MY PHONE, do y’all know if I can like…reverse it?
This might work. Other than that…...
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“Android is not any more “open” than iOS is. For example, look at the hardware...”
– Justin Lowery (via ericmortensen)
perfectly put.
(via gunsandrobots)
Except that rom chip (eFuse) isn’t used for that. In fact, the Droid X has been rooted for some time. And apple conceives of such a thing as a ‘mandatory update’ all the time - just look at iTunes. Google...
Watchbliptv:
This week on blip on blip, Annie sits down with Creative Services Director, Pete Gosling, to talk ad units and the creative process. The featured show this time is Project Rant, where people go to air their grievances.
Meanwhile, some of blip’s finest demonstrate their throwing tactics in the office!
“We need to put our country back in the future business.”
– Bill Clinton, via fora.tv
Pass Kontrol - New Hope City. From their play by...
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Minimal Mac: Airplane Mode →
minimalmac:
I recently had lunch with a dear friend whom I had not seen in a while. This friend has a job that places him in a position that is far more important to the organization than even he readily lets on. He is the linchpin for multiple large projects with dozens of internal and external stakeholders…
“[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone...”
– CF (a friend, via IM). For reference, see an explanation of “Stand Alone Complex” in Wikipedia’s article on the philosophy of Ghost in the Shell.
