February 2010
January 2010
"Nothing’s ever simply black or white."
This quote has new meanings to me.
So I watched the Dollhouse finale…
This show just bumped Firefly down from the #1 spot on my Favorite Sci-Fi Shows of All Time list. Now Whedon owns spots #1 and #2.
I cannot stress enough how badly everyone needs to see this show. There’s some lulls in early season 1 and mid-season 2, but on the whole they easily get compensated for by the incredible thrill rush all the other episodes provide. It’s mind-blowingly...
Google To Start Phasing Out IE6 Support →
Took a while, but this was inevitable. The floodgates are now open, and IE6 support will be phased out of web design contracts all over the world. Short URL: http://farukat.es/p386
I miss you guys.
eequalsmckenna:
I wish someone would tweet that we are meeting at Vertigo so I can race up to San Francisco in my car. I didn’t do that enough this weekend. COME BACK!
Well don’t let the fact that some of us are here in SF stop you, or anything.
(Bailey, Jason, Matt, Maya, Jessie, Clarko, me and I’m sure I’m forgetting some, even…)
Steven Frank: "Nothing’s ever simply black or... →
I found myself quietly nodding along to every single word in this post. A must-read. Short URL: http://farukat.es/p384
On cynicism…
tj:
We were having a discussion about cynicism in class, and how destructive and anti-productive it is.
Someone mentioned Conan’s farewell speech which included this widely-quoted section:
To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism —...
Today was fucking good.
No further comment, but AREN’T YOU CURIOUS?
I Love Walled Gardens →
Rory Marinich, with a great User Experience-oriented perspective on the complaints about the iPad’s (and iPhone’s) closed nature:
Does anybody remember what using a computer is like? I spent a…
Apple's iPad -- a broken link? →
Adrian Ludwig, attempting to overstate the value of Adobe Flash:
If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab — not to mention the…
iPad: The Better Webbook →
Remember when I wrote about ChromeOS and Litl, somewhat over a month ago? It was all about the next generation of Operating Systems and the many, many devices and different types of devices that…
iPad About →
Stephen Fry with an excellent piece about the iPad:
There are many issues you could have with the iPad. No multitasking, still no Flash. No camera, no GPS. They all fall away the minute you use…
Adding Tags to the OS X Address Book →
One of my very first experiences with Mac OS X was watching Cindy Li update her Address Book with all the business cards she had accumulated on day 1 of the @media 2005 conference in London. The…
Say it out loud: iPad
lonelysandwich:
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The #2 top latest news item on cnn.com is “iPad name draws feminine hygiene jokes”. #2 on CNN. In fact, it was there I found out that people have been sending around a two-year-old MadTV sketch about (get this) an Apple-branded sanitary napkin called ‘iPad’. All I’d seen was people cracking wise and obvious all day on Twitter. Sure, I participated. What, am I made of steel?
...
iWish They Were Better at iNames
tj:
Apple really needs some help with coming up with names.
File management? Finder
Mail app? Mail
Web browser? Safari
Command-line? Terminal
PDF reader? Preview
Spreadsheet? Numbers
Presentations? Keynote
Word processor? Pages
Music making? Garage Band
And now…
Processor? A4.
Because nothing else is already named A4.
Really, Apple, are you aware of this thing called...
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Mag+ on Vimeo →
Fantastic concept video of what a magazine app for the iPad might be like. I’d be surprised if, say, Fray magazine doesn’t do something like this. Short URL: http://farukat.es/p378
How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad,... →
Peter Kirn, writing for Create Digital Music:
I think the new, mobile Apple is doing immense harm to the computing legacy the company has forged. We could have had a Mac tablet today. Instead, we…
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Avatar Now The Biggest Movie Ever →
Passing $1.8 Bn in seven weeks is just… wow.
Who says special effects can’t make a movie successful?
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Recap: my SFTU links
For those who’ve missed some or all of these:
My blog post talking about the SFTU
My Tumblr post for people I met who I’m not following yet: go answer!
My Flickr photo set with the pics from the weekend
There are, in particular, still many people I know I met but don’t recall their Tumblr usernames for, so help me out!
Hong Kong apartment is a super-green spacesaver →
coley:
via igiwong
This is so freakin’ awesome.
I want!
After a Starbucks customer orders his drink in...
yhf:
kurafire:
<Luckyshirt’s chat>
Technically, if a person answers with a non-numerical value to a question prompting a numerical response, it is well within logical linguistic boundaries to interpret that single answer as a default value of 1. However, if viewed from a programming perspective — for example, C# — this would throw an exception. This can be corrected using by...
After a Starbucks customer orders his drink in...
Guy waiting for drink, to his friend: [In horrible Japanese accent] "I WUD WAN WUN CARFEE!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
His friend: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Me: How many languages do you speak?
Him: Haha what?
Me: How many languages do you speak?
Him: English. Why?
Me: [to the friend] ...and you?
The friend: English.
Me: I just asked you both for a number, and you both answered: "English". So apparently you speak zero languages, while the guy you're laughing at speaks at least two.
(And then I walked out.)
(I might be in a bad mood today.)
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