December 2011
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WatchOscar’s been doing this more often lately. It’s like he’s playing Attack of the Killer Bed.
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Jeff Rock: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
The disrespect the average moviegoer has for other people in a theater is simply unacceptable.
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This is another case of the messenger getting in the way of the message. Movie theaters were invented because there was no other way to show movies. That problem has long been solved. The Megaplex only exists because people keep going there. You can enjoy a blockbuster summer movie just as...
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“Seriously, Lana. Call Kenny Loggins, cuz you’re in the danger zone.”
– Archer, s1 - Diversity Hire
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Post-PC era, indeed
Like every year, our family got together for a zoo of a Christmas celebration on Sunday in Germantown, WI. This year, the high school daughter of an extended family member—let’s call her Annette for the sake of this story—brought along her iPad 2 and almost never put it down.
Our Christmas gathering is quite the spectacle, typically bringing in at least 25 members, partners, and extended...
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Fun with Android app permissions →
“Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.”
Wait, isn’t it someone’s job to keep out the riff raff?
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New York Times has a subscription experience... →
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Wiping my MacBook Air because support couldn’t fix a critical 3rd party app crasher before they (understandably) took holiday vacation. As you do.
So how was your fucking day?
The iPhone should have an AirPlay button on phone calls so you can stream hold music to the Apple TV and AirPort Express.
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Who keeps going to see Fast and Furious films and... →
Also: we all live in a world where “Vin Diesel fan fiction” is a thing.
Think about that.
Anonymous asked: are you 1password developer?
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How many calories would Santa scarf down if every... →
Wolfram Alpha is becoming more useful by the day.
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Action heros, shrink rays, and a 16-year-old's...
Dr. Venture: I'm just turning 16 and having a birthday pool party. My father invites every girl he knows, and I'm not talking about girls my age. No, not Jonas. He invites Playboy Bunnies and models and, I think, actual whores—you know, real prostitutes. So there I am in my giant bathing suit with nervous puberty oozing out of my gigantic pores. Just—just awful. So, the band suddenly stops playing and I hear "and now the man of the hour, Rusty Venture!" All eyes on me, right? Then suddenly, almost predictably, the Action Man shoots my groin with a shrink ray right as that fucking jackass Colonel Gentleman pulls my shorts down.
Hank: Wow. That's like a nightmare.
Dr. Venture: Oh, no! No! What I went through today was "like a nightmare." What happened when I was 16, that is my life.
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kim jong-il dropping the bass →
via Buzz Andersen
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RIP, RIM - SuperSite Blog →
Paul Thurrott:
RIM stands as a warning for any tech industry Goliath that once owned a market only to watch it get snatched away by smaller, faster moving rivals with better products and better strategies. This is a fate that could befall any company—Microsoft, Apple, Google, whatever. Though I have a hard time imagining any of them being as poorly run as is RIM.
RIM is dead....
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Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How... →
Joshua Kopstein:
The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a matter should tell you something about the integrity of Congress. It’d be one thing if legitimate technical questions directed at the bill’s supporters weren’t met with either silence or veiled accusations that the other side was sympathetic to piracy. Yet here we are with a group of elected officials...
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UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube... →
I guess Google wanted to get the jump on SOPA. It started making SOPA-like agreements under the table with media studios over two years ago.
Note that I didn’t say “copyright holders” because copyright has absolutely nothing to do with this situation.
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Steven Levy dishes some reality about the place... →
People in the tech world saw the widespread and extended mourning of Steve Jobs as a milestone indicating how tech had become a mass obsession. Now for a bit of reality.
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Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages may still be going... →
Jacqui Cheng:
Some unlucky iPhone owners are beginning to discover that, despite their best efforts to remove all information from their stolen phones, thieves and unsuspecting buyers are still able to send and receive iMessages as the original owner—even after the device is registered under a new account. Almost nothing seems to work—remote wiping, changing Apple ID passwords, or even moving...
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The Exporter →
A tool for exporting your data from a variety of social networks, including Twitter, Facebook (in beta), LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, and Gowalla.
via John Morrison
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Has Verizon Released the Galaxy Nexus? →
The answer, thus far, is surprisingly complex.
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If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is... →
Case in point, this weekend I tried to share a link to a story in The Guardian I found interesting. You’ll note (as I highlighted in a red box) even my browser recognized this was a link to the publication’s website, not Facebook.
However, due to how The Guardian has configured their site’s Facebook integration, anyone clicking the link is not taken to the expected URL. Instead a user is...
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“I wondered what my writer friends made of all this, so I dashed off an e-mail to...”
– Amazon’s Jungle Logic - NYTimes.com
Sometimes, an 800 pound gorilla can squeeze too hard.
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WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” is out →
It’s a great update that clears up a lot of the dashboard UI and brings drag-and-drop media uploading, which is wonderful for those of us who uninstalled Flash. They also spent some much-needed attention on improving the first-run and new user experience, and even added tooltips to help existing users who upgrade find their way around.
Oh yeah: and WordPress can now import posts from...
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Get Instant Feedback When You Publish -... →
WordPress is starting to gamify its posting tools and cites research that shows it actually does help. There is a new post-ublishing progress bar that shows how you’re doing towards goals you can specify, such as X number of posts per week or month.
It’s an interesting approach, one that I’m eager to watch for feedback. Does anyone know if these changes are coming to...
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Mac App Store downloads don’t include Lion,... →
Apple today announced the Mac App Store has reached 100 million downloads. Jim Dalrymple made sure to ask Apple a few of the typical questions that arise with news like this:
Apple confirmed for me today that those 100 million downloads do not include downloads for its newest operating system OS X Lion. The figure also doesn’t include updates to apps delivered to users from the Mac App Store.
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An Open Letter To The Spike VGAs | jason schreier →
Great piece. I’ve never watched the Video Game Awards but was curious this year. It was depressing:
I am a male between the age of 18 and 30. I know many other males between the age of 18 and 30. We all fall into your key demographic. Trust me when I tell you that not a single one of us thinks it is funny or entertaining to watch Felicia Day slice fruit hurled by the cast of Workaholics....
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Twitter revamps support for embedding tweets →
Remember a while ago when Twitter released a clunky tool for embedding tweets on any webpage? With the launch of #NewNewTwitter today, the company has revamped this tool, and it sounds like the new process is much simpler and yields a more polished, interactive embedded tweet. #NewNewTwitter hasn’t rolled out to me yet, though, so I can’t tinker with it.
In a nutshell, there is a new...
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Yahoo! Mail – 1, Spammers – 0 | Yodel Anecdotal →
Yahoo’s official company blog, no author listed:
Today Yahoo! announced a big milestone in the fight against spam – we were awarded a $610 million judgment against spammers responsible for creating a fake Yahoo! lottery email scheme.
Couple of other amazing or depressing stats, depending on how you look at them:
Yahoo now blocks over 600 billion spam messages—with a...
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Acer CEO: We're Going to Stop Selling Cheap,... →
Some blogger:
Acer is going to pin its hopes on the ultrabook. And it’s going to stop peddling affordable but poorly made hardware.
There is hope for this industry yet.
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Justin Ouellette of Tumblr responds to the 'Why... →
He clarifies a couple of general details about how iOS UI rendering works as a response to a post by Andrew Munn, a Google engineering intern, about why Android is laggy.
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Amazon Will Pay Shoppers $5 to Walk Out of Stores... →
Strange world we live in. Before the internet, you’d probably get punched if you walked into a competitor’s store to hand out $5 coupons. Now Amazon’s doing precisely that with its smartphone app and this new promotion.