Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
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tech, humor, and nuance by David Chartier—tech distiller, freelance writer, Macworld contributor, wrangler of Finer Things in Tech
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Flora Borsi asks: what if abstract models were real people?
via PetaPixel
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I love the web’s promise of “write once, run everywhere” standards because it’s 2013 and it totally came true c’mon everyone it’s really fun here.
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Every restaurant needs this option. Even breakfast joints.
Accidentally Shot
- Tennessee man allegedly field stripping his Glock pistols shoots his 13-month-old daughter in the chest
- Cops: Man Accidentally Shot Brother, With 2-Year-Old In The Room
- Texas boy, 5, shoots his brother, 7, with rifle as they play in the bath
- FBCSO: Teen accidentally shot by brother
- Woman drops purse in Starbucks, accidentally shoots friend with handgun
- Officer accidentally shot herself at Gatineau bush party: police
- Colorado woman, 22, accidentally shot dead after trying to show off recently purchased assault rifle
- Santa Rosa: Police arrest man who accidentally shot his brother outside bar
- San Juan County Sheriff’s Office says felon accidentally shot his friend
- Toronto man faces 21 charges after accidentally shooting himself in the leg and claiming he was victim of drive-by
- 5-year-old fatally shoots 2-year-old sister
- Florida boy, 11, dies after being accidentally shot by 4-year-old
- Three-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shot In The Head While Playing with Pink Gun He Thought Was a Toy
- Colorado Springs man accidentally shot self in hand, leg after cleaning soda off handgun, police say
- Woman accidentally shot, killed by 4-year-old
- New Orleans man dies after accidentally shooting himself while repairing his gun, coroner says
- 10-month-old baby accidentally shot by father
- Florida Bowler Accidentally Shoots Himself
- Texas boy accidentally shot in head
- Jarvan Jackson, 11-Year-Old Florida Boy, Fatally Shot By 4-Year-Old Relative
- Student accidentally shot by staff worker at Colo. school
- HPD: Teen accidentally shoots younger step-brother in head in southeast Houston
- Richmond Man Accidentally Shot By 4-Year-Old Nephew Dies
- 5 accidentally shot at gun shows in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana
- Police: 11-Year-Old Accidentally Shot 12-Year-Old Boy In Face
- 18 Year Old Girl Accidentally Shot in Head By Toddler
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Train names are way, way cooler than planes.
- Empire Builder
- Saluki
- California Zephyr
- Wolverine
“Yeah, I’m coming into town on FREAKING WOLVERINE.”
AllThingsD | Will Yahoo Try to Get Its "Cool Again" By Doing a Deal for Tumblr?
Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in | The Verge
Everyone’s eager to kick SMS to the curb but Bohn is right, the New Messaging landscape is a messy work in progress right now, partly because none of these apps talk to each other.
If your family, friends, and coworkers aren’t nerdy enough to have a religious fervor for one proprietary message service and an irrational hatred for another, they’re too lazy or simply indifferent to bother signing up for 50 different services.
I’ll tell you one thing, though: the “open” services of Old Messaging—like IRC and email—are all either essentially dead or terrible. IRC didn’t make it far and email is a spammy bag of hurt. If you ask me, good riddance.
We’re in a transition period right now, and it’ll be a bumpy ride. We don’t have all the answers yet, but the user experience and usage of every New Messaging we have now is worlds ahead of the previous generation.
Regular users clearly prefer New Messaging. We can work out the rest of the details as we keep building.
lkm:
Abercrombie & Fitch Gets a Brand Readjustment #FitchTheHomeless (by gkarber)
The Verge | Larry Page wants to 'set aside a part of the world' for unregulated experimentation
He might as well have said “I want to build Rapture. Or Columbia, the name isn’t important.”
