April 2009
The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into... →
Somewhere back in February, about three weeks into the Obama Administration, everybody on the left suddenly noticed that there was something different going on with the conservatives. The outrageous…
If Everything Was Made by Microsoft →
They tried and failed to make the iPod. How long until they try their hand at making, well, everything else?
The New Music Gatekeepers: Fans & Workload - MTT -... →
A&R execs at major labels no longer call the shots and decide which artists should be promoted. Bloggers and social networks determine success now. Artists have more opportunity to connect with fans…
6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern... →
If you go back through history, you find that time and time again the huge changes that shape our world today all hinged on some utterly random coincidence.
IE6 Update →
IE6 is like an illness that just wonât go away, but we have the medicine. IE6 Update looks like IEâs Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser…
20 Excellent Plugins for Safari | Webdesigner... →
Safari actually does support plugins. While the choice is nowhere near as extensive as that of Firefox, there is still a good variety of them to choose from.
Maniacal Rage: on App Store Reviews →
Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I donât want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing…
iPhone Development: OpenGL ES From the Ground Up,... →
Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon... →
Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit…
Useful open source libraries for IPhone... →
Things You Should Not Twitter →
An easily indexed and searchable website featuring all of those comments that find their way onto social networking sites and come back to bite you in the ass. If you “Tweet” and don’t want your…
Twitter Threats and Negotiations →
Twitter now has jerks too.
What I Launched in a Weekend: My Startup Weekend →
Daniel Brusilovsky’s thoughts from Startup Weekend San Francisco 2 held at Microsoft in San Francisco, CA.
Stock Photo Concept Generator →
Stock concepts can be hard to come up with. Fear not! Just use this generator to figure out, what your next shoot concept should be. The first three ideas are already there! Hit the button to…
iPhone Development: OpenGL ES From the Ground Up,... →
Tweetie for Mac looks fantastic! →
In a world where there will never be enough Twitter clients, Tweetie for Mac looks wonderful!
10 Most Offensive Tea Party Signs (PHOTOS) →
More than 2,000 HuffPost citizen journalists signed up to report on their local tea parties, sending photos, videos, and written dispatches, and we’ve already received hundreds of photos (the…
Twitter To Ruin Movies By Encouraging In-Theater... →
During a screening of “Zoolander,” audience members could heckle the movie via text, then watch as their comments appeared onscreen with the film: “I want a comb-over like Trump” and “Breakdance…
World Bank API →
Using the World Bank API, you can tap into 114 indicators from key data sources like World Development Indicators, Doing Business and Governance Indicators, and more than 12,000 development photos….
SetupGuide - backmyfruitup - This is the setup... →
Apple makes it very difficult to use TimeMachine to backup to anything other than the expensive proprietary TimeCapsule. This project enables one to use TimeMachine to backup to a Drobo/DroboShare…
The Ultimate Reaping of What One Sows: Right-Wing... →
Conservatives suddenly embrace Terrorist Rights now that they are no longer in power.
Ronald Reagan Was An FBI Informant →
During the “Red Scare”, Reagan became a secret informant, code name T-10, for J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Reagan and his first wife,…
Avoiding iPhone app rejection from Apple →
7 Wordpress Theme Trends & How To Implement Them... →
philnelson's diggbarred at master - GitHub →
WordPress plugin to prevent the diggbar from appearing.
Maddow mocks Republican 'tea bag Obama' part →
While conservatives may feel they’ve hit on a golden idea with their new “Teabag Obama” campaign, others are responding to the movement with approximately the amused disdain of a typical 13-year-old….
Rachel Maddow Talks About Teabagging →
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dips into subject of conservative activists expressing themselves through teabagging. Air America Radio national correspondent Ana Marie Cox offers analysis. Rachel somehow keep…
"Tea Bagging" Rallies Ruthlessly Mocked On Maddow... →
Tonight, on the Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow and regular guest, Air America’s Ana Marie Cox, discussed the fringetastic anti-tax Renaissance Faires known as “tea parties.”
In case you missed it: Rachel Maddow on Tea... →
Hilarious video.
Nikon’s “Secret” L Firmware – and what it means to... →
The D90 is the first Nikon camera to include a third firmware module containing a lens database that could be updated from time to time with information about new lenses as they were introduced. The…
Google, Universal to Launch Music Hub 'Vevo' →
Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one.
Mexican-American family returns to Jewish roots →
Enraptured by the story, the three members of the religious panel kept firing questions at Ignacio Esquivel, who along with his two daughters, a brother-in-law and a family friend were asking for…
Make XCode Work For You With This Secret Trick! →
If you have just started working with XCode then you may be making life harder on yourself by not using all of XCodeâs built in tools.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs in 2003 (via goodonpaper)
With these Microsoft ads now running, Unicorn Tears and all, this certainly felt like a timely comment to be reminded of.
(via nikf)
Was A 'Mistress Of The Lionesses' A King In... →
10 Reasons Why Being A Teenage Entrepreneur Sucks →
Why being a young entrepreneur aged under 20 sometimes sucks!
The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server →
If you’ve ever been curious about what Google uses for server hardware, how the company designs its system modules, or how the parts get racked and stacked, we’ve got information inside that will…
RAICES Group - HOME →
During these times when the Anti-immigrant sentiment is dividing the country over the human rights of millions of undocumented immigrants, Raices is making sure that we donât forget the History of…
The Song and Myth of Stagger Lee →
Over 400 different artists have recorded this song since the first recording in 1923. Margaret Walker and James Baldwin wrote poems from the song. Itâs been refashioned as a musical, two novels, a…
Microsoft's Negative Brand Image Gets Worse →
Would you like the iPhone as much as you do if it came from Redmond instead of Cupertino?
Stephen Colbert Destroys Mentally Unstable Glenn... →
Stephen Colbert ripped apart Fox News host (and NY Times cover boy) Glenn Beck Tuesday night, mocking his 9-12 project, meant to conjure the spirit of compassion and camaraderie Americans felt on…
Wrong Tomorrow - pundits vs. time →
Track wrong predictions by well-known pundits.
