June 2009
“Across product lines I see a consistent trend: More of the same, only better.”
– Joe Wilcox on Apple without Steve Jobs, as quoted by John Gruber
Joe, if you see that as a bad thing, you need your head checked.
“Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever...”
– Harder Better Faster Stronger, by Daft Punk
How I'm Going to Write the Next Hit Tween Series,...
iomoth:
Galvanized by a conversation I recently had with jwisser, I have decided to write the next big YA hit, which will follow Twilight just as Twilight followed Harry Potter. To begin, I am outlining the elements necessary to ensuring my series’ success.
1. Romance requirements: a. True Love b. Nothing resolved until final book c. Heterosexuality d. For a male main character: no obvious...
Mobile Computing
It just struck me that with the advent of iPhone tethering on AT&T, you’ll be able to install a Mac Mini in your car, hook up your iPhone, and simultaneously recharge your iPhone and receive broadband internet on the Mini.
Now all I need is a car. And a Mac Mini.
Windows 7 may be sold on USB flash drives →
Linux: Way to get ahead of the curve!
Microsoft: Way to catch up with technology from several years ago.
Apple: …please try to catch up.
I'm sorry but...
seagull:
shiningstar:
interrobangin:
Michael Jackson hasn’t been relevant for years. The only thing he’s contributed to the world recently is Beatles songs to car commercials.
SO THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO CHOOSE TO SHOW PEOPLE BULLSHITTING ABOUT HIM INSTEAD OF RUNNING A PROGRAM ABOUT SIXTEEN YEARS OLDS FUCKING UP THEIR UGLY LIVES.
FUCK YOURSELF, MTV.
When I take over television, I...
“I see now that designers are people who can make information emotional and...”
– Becky Bermont
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How Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix, and Harry... →
Congratulations, you’ve had your first basic realisation on the path to understanding the hero myth.
For reference, I wrote a twelve-page paper detailing variations on the hero myth in eleventh grade. If anyone’s curious, I still remember most of the details.
“One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she...”
– Elaine Brooks, in Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Default Network →
The default network is an interconnected and anatomically defined brain system that preferentially activates when individuals focus on internal tasks such as daydreaming, envisioning the future, retrieving memories, and gauging others’ perspectives. It is negatively correlated with brain systems that focus on external visual signals. Its subsystems include part of the medial temporal lobe...
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– Lord Byron
Oh, Byron, you magnificent bastard. Anyone who drinks wine from a human skull and keeps a bear at uni just to piss off the administration has my admiration.
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Things I Have Learned Since Midnight
Setting a website’s <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=480” /> doesn’t affect any browsers except MobileSafari.
We, as users, commonly expect content for iPhone webapps to be centered.
Trying to debug custom Tumblr HTML is frustrating as hell.
I suck at making/editing websites. No, seriously. Argh.
The Cost of Companionship
Rose Tyler: What do I do? Do I stay with him?
Sarah Jane: Yes. Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.
(On the subject of travelling with the Doctor.)
“Our speaker was also fantastic - out of the great insights he had in his...”
– (from a friend’s Facebook note)
I understand the feeling behind this. I really do. I appreciate the exquisite beauty of the message.
But when I read it, I can’t think about anything but the brain God must have for it to be true for every person—even given a useful definition of a...
jaimeleighfairbrother:
jwisser:
“They’ve understood perfectly well that when you’re raising children, you don’t both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise. This is not a statement against daycare. It’s a statement about their belief in the importance of raising children properly.”
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Iris Evans, Alberta Finance Minister, reminding me one more time why I’m happy to be out of...
“They’ve understood perfectly well that when you’re raising children, you don’t...”
– Iris Evans, Alberta Finance Minister, reminding me one more time why I’m happy to be out of that small minded province. (via jaimeleighfairbrother)
Really? ‘cause, uh, I have to agree with that. If you’re going to have children, man (or woman) up and take care of them. If you bring a...
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Maybe I act on confused behavior Maybe waves crash...
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'What I Have Witnessed'
Hello,
It’s painful to watch what’s happening.
I don’t want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There was chaos last night at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals. Although by decree, all...
