Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of potential. It may become many things. It may change an industry or two, or it may not. It may introduce a new category — something between phone and laptop — or it may not. And anyone who claims to know what will happen will wind up looking like a fool.
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February 09 2010
Lost city of the Lizard People beneath L.A., according to G. Warren Shufelt (1934)
February 06 2010
Tahoe-LAFS
"A secure, decentralized, data store. This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious." This is the software used by online backup service AllMyData.com. (GPL'ed)“— Gummo - WikipediaWerner Herzog praised the film and spoke of being especially moved by the bacon taped to the wall during the bathtub scene.
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February 05 2010
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objc_msgSend() Tour
Bill Bumgarner: "What follows (across this and 3 more posts, maybe more) is a rather detailed tour of objc_msgSend() as implemented in Mac OS X 10.6.2. Rather detailed in that every instruction will be explained. Even though it is relatively few instructions, there is a considerable amount of background information that is helpful to understanding the objc_msgSend() instruction stream."Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls [A.V. Club]
"Ah, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, that sentient ray of sunshine sent from heaven to warm the heart and readjust the attitude of even the broodiest, most uptight male protagonist. In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that 'exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.'"February 03 2010
“— Charles Stross — Information, Freedom, Flame-baitI'm big on obligations, because it seems to me that they're the flip side of rights. ... Human beings are social animals; we do not exist in isolation, and if we desire some specific behaviour from our peers, we, too, are required to abide by it. ...
So it follows that if you want information to be free you are taking on an obligation to make information, and give it freedom. An obligation to work to better the lot of humanity, not to merely sponge off the labour of others.
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February 02 2010
csiconview
"CSIconView is a Cocoa class that implements a Finder-style icon view, complete with drag & drop, support for renaming items, support for the different state icons, coloured labels, and even support for multiple icon sizes in the same icon view.""DO WE REALLY NEED a better example of how genetics works? I think not."
via accidental mysteriesCthulhu in Love Perfume by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.
"an amorphous mix of oppressive, piceous ritual incense, macerated kelp, sea salt, sticky dark ocean plants, and . . . mixed chocolates."
January 31 2010
January 29 2010
Geek behaviors present during conversations [Philip Guo]
"This article presents some common behaviors I've observed from my past few years of interactions with geeks, nerds, and other highly-smart technical people. ... I don't mean to pass any value judgments on people who exhibit such behaviors; these are simply my observations and personal theories for why these behaviors occur."January 28 2010
"Pretend you’re Apple" [Brent Simmons]
"[Apple has] avoided the bleak future where computers are nothing but web browsers, where user experience is struggling to hit 1995 levels of quality, where all you’re making is a dumb terminal that can show pictures and play video, where you’re back to being the “beleaguered” Apple, whose product is a commodity easily matched, or close enough, by other companies that charge less."“— David Pogue”
January 27 2010
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“ Any plan that includes walling off your content from the rest of the web is destined to fail, unless it’s porn of some kind (financial data is a kind of porn). ”— Derek Powazek
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