January 2010
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iPhone OS feature wishlist
TUAW’s collecting requests for the next Apple iPhone OS update. Here’s hoping they can have better luck persuading Apple than any of us individually, so here’s my wish-list:
1) Incoming Phone calls as Text Pop-up while in games: I’m tired of losing a game or having to restart anytime someone calls and interrupts me. Airplane mode isn’t a viable option, but...
September 2009
9 posts
Advertising Done Right →
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LOVE IT!
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This afternoon, we received a tip from one of our readers about an awesome ad on the IGN.com website. We chased the bait and…
French Parliament May Mandate Full Photoshop... →
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Absolutely brilliant. The French finally do something right! I wish they would go a step further and mandate that any photoshopped image must provide a link to the unaltered…
Google Will Snitch On Your Anonymous Skank Blog,... →
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Anyone remember when we actually believed in “Don’t Be Evil”?
Julie Hilden is not happy with Google. The company was “cowardly” and “fence sitting” in a lawsuit exposing…
Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history →
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I like to think that if Adobe hadn’t screwed up Flash on the Mac SO BADLY, Apple may not have been forced into the HTML 5 hand they’re playing — but I’m glad they did.
Despite…
JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights... →
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kevin Bankston has a post about the new JUSTICE Act:
Today, Senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin — along with eight other Senators — have taken the…
For students, Windows 7 will equal Snow Leopard's... →
For a limited time, students will be able to purchase Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system for $30, roughly the same price as Apple’s competing Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights... →
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kevin Bankston has a post about the new JUSTICE Act:
Today, Senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin — along with eight other Senators — have taken the…
'Samurai: Way of the Warrior' – An iPhone Hack and... →
Samurai: Way of the Warrior [$2.99] is simply one of the most original and entertaining iPhone hack-and-slash games to date.
The game has a storyline that is well incorporated throughout…
Court Holds Web Host Responsible In Louis Vuitton... →
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It’s about time! I’m so excited to finally see a company end up responsible for obvious infringement after years of everyone being scot-free hiding behind the DMCA.
A…
August 2009
6 posts
function my_exit_payout(…) →
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The most important function ever written. Why don’t schools teach this?!?
/* aggregate_options_strike_price = your options strike price per share * number of shares you own …
The one number you should know about your equity... →
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While yes, I agree that percent ownership is the most significant number in the grand imaginary profit number lookup table, it’s still not the be-all-end-all number. Assuming…
'Alive 4 Ever' – A Post-Zombie Apocalypse Survival... →
The iPhone is quickly becoming the premiere device to own if mowing down swaths of zombies is what you like doing in your spare time. Alive 4 Ever [App Store] joins the ranks of countless…
Magic Technical Support Cheat Sheet Will Solve All... →
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Dear Everyone: Don’t ask me for computer help until you’ve exhausted this flow diagram.
Dear Mom, I love you, but please print out this brief tutorial. It will show you…
Why Obamacare Scares America →
Listen to your grandmother. The Democrats’ new health-care plan may benefit working class folks, but the president’s sales pitch is giving them a heart attack.
On arriving in Orange County,…
Supported Features →
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The true problem of Linux
July 2009
12 posts
Officially Official: Ferrari 458 Italia announced! →
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Still holding out for my Testarossa/512TR
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Ferrari
Ferrari 458 Italia - click above for high-res image gallery
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Check Out - Already Back to School Time? →
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News like this makes it hard to pony up $300+ for a netbook instead.
This is a blog, simply, about a team of experts at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club who have really cool jobs working…
Estimation →
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Bullshit progress bars cause more trouble than they’re worth. Give us a spinning hourglass or beach ball of death if you really have no clue how long we’ll be there.
jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts &... →
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Brilliant jQuery plugin. I think you should always have the data in a standard table for accessibility, and this makes it so.
Accessible data visualization in HTML has always…
The Google-Cash-Swapping-Orgy Blimp →
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Sounds like there is a whole world of Evil hiding in this cluster.
Google hasn’t been shy about sharing its riches with select friends outside the company. And the number one…
Katie Price's drunken areola slip →
Here’s Katie “Jordan” Price drunk off her ass in London last night where, not surprisingly, her dress failed to contain her insane breasts. Leave it to Katie Price to look at a tiny scrap of fabric…
Sheeple →
You should follow me on Twitter | Dustin Curtis →
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Shockingly Brilliant! Always thought it was better to ask forgiveness than permission, so shove it down your users’ throats.
Ramblings from a user interface designer and amateur…
VIDEO: The Superest of Supercar Shootouts: Bugatti... →
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I would gladly take the loser… ah, the problems of the rich: How fast can my car hit 200mph?
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Bugatti Veyron vs….
Extrapolating →
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I’m sure Excel has a template for this too.
State of the Airline Industry Chart Compares... →
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This post should be called: “Why Southwest is the only airline worth flying.”
If you’ve ever had to change your flight, check additional luggage, or use in-flight Wi-Fi, you know…
The Nazi Stealth Planes That Could Have Dropped a... →
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Wow, news like this on how quickly a bit of technology could have completely changed history finally makes me feel warm and fuzzy about spending 50% of GDP on military spending.
How Much For A Rib? Pricing Should Be Based On The... →
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Awesome article on pricing your product. Price = Value is the key takaway, and don’t let the customers whittle away at your price when they can clearly afford it based on value.
June 2009
52 posts
Robot Parkour Ad by Nike [Robots] →
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The day skynet goes live and partners with Nike, we’re all fucked!
Without the limitations of, you know, human bodies and gravity and all that junk, the already-crazy sport…
Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai... →
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only…
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's... →
Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google’s cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company’s European operations in Zurich, London, Oxford,…
What would happen if your town got nuked? →
Not that it’s particularly likely, but as long as nuclear bombs exist, there’s the chance - however slim - that one might go off somewhere near you. This little Google Maps overlay might be a bit…
Edith Sitwell →
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Certainly the most expensive one.
“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”
Rating attractiveness: study finds consensus among... →
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Men like hot seductive women… Women don’t know what they like. New Knowledge Gained: 0.
Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don’t.
There is much more consensus among…
79 Years Ago, Today →
A new blog, News from 1930, summarizes the news that appeared in The Wall Street Journal each day in 1930. For example, on Wednesday, June 25, 1930 a broker said, “When this economic and market…
79 Years Ago, Today →
A new blog, News from 1930, summarizes the news that appeared in The Wall Street Journal each day in 1930. For example, on Wednesday, June 25, 1930 a broker said, “When this economic and market…
Is Texting While Driving More Dangerous Than... →
Is Texting While Driving More Dangerous Than Driving Drunk?
Car and Driver Magazine finds out what we all could have guessed anyway. (Via @ianbarker)
Cheap Happys: A San Franciscan In Las Vegas →
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“People go to Las Vegas for different reasons, and that reason is to drink.” — Priceless! Can’t wait for Vegas. The Georgios of the Club world is what makes it all so magical.
Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival... →
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Please call MUNI, I need my Routesy back!
When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was…
The Meatball Grill Basket Changes Everything... →
When was the last time you visited Willams-Sonoma? Yeah, they’re expensive, but no one else is offering a product to grill your meatballs. Besides, sometimes they have food samples in there. …
Newcastle DraughtKeg →
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Must have item of the decade!
Give your BeerTender new life with the Newcastle DraughtKeg ($23). Like a portable English pub, the pressurized mini-keg serves up 10…
Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 →
After a three year battle with cancer, Farrah Fawcett died this morning at St. John’s Hospital at Santa Monica with Ryan O’Neal by her side, according to TMZ. You’ll be hard-pressed to see a woman of…
<s>Giz</s> Bill Nye Explains: The... →
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The magic of the IPhone 3GS’ grease-free screen explained.
Exclusive: Bill Nye the Science Guy was gracious enough to elbow Matt out of the way and write a Giz…
Buffett laments that U.S. economy has no bounce |... →
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Greatest Buffet quote EVER!
“They’re doing things, but they take a while to have an effect,” Buffett said. “You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women…
Game Theory →
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W.O.P.R. - The greatest supercomputer ever conceived.
MySpace Cofounder Takes $7 Million Pay Cut →
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You mean Tom - everybody’s MySpace friend - added no value to the service all this time?!? Shocking!
After years of product rot and declining user-engagement, News Corp…
Microsoft Hires Guy Who Ran Yahoo's GeoCities →
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Really MS, the Geociries guy? You couldn’t find anyone who originally worked on MS Bob - possibly the only failure worse than Geocities?
Former Yahoo VP of operations…
GWT, Cappuccino, Sproutcore:... →
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Android Boyfriend →