October 2009
September 2009
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Welcome Back to Pottersville: Where Will the Next... →
The right wingers are getting really scary. This needs to be taken seriously. They’re actually proposing a coup against a democratically elected leader who won by a respectable majority of the voters.
“How many times do we have to hear people say that ‘somebody’ is going to make an attempt on this president’s life before we start wondering, ‘Why do you keep saying...
~Perspective is Everything with OmniFocus « John... →
Good tips for using OmniFocus.
WE KNOW THE PROBLEM: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLVE... →
The salvation and reinvention of the music business lies within the meaning of three little words, “choice and control.”
Generals: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney are... →
Retired generals and admirals say Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney are trying to instill fear about Gitmo closing.
indierawk:
Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage.
“I’m...
ryanlackstact:
heart-onfire:
Rumpus // Karen O...
Dropbox iPhone app finally released! →
Dropbox, everyone’s favorite cross-platform file-syncing tool, has now made its way to the iPhone and iPod touch!
Here Come the Airport Rectal Exams! →
And you thought it couldn’t get any worse.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Gmail Inbox →
With the nuclear scandal hitting the world press, we decided to take a peak into Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Gmail inbox. And this is what we found.
jumana:
MGMT VS Snow Patrol | “Chasing Kids”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Pavement (25)
Wilco (15)
The Clash (4)
grand:pm (2)
Youssou N’Dour (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jewish Bluegrass | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian... →
Gruen Transfer →
jumana:
bestofwikipedia:
In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer refers to the moment when a consumer enters a shopping mall, and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, loses track their original intentions. Spatial awareness of their surroundings play a key role, as does the surrounding sound and music. The effect of the transfer is marked by a slower walking pace and glazed...
Mp3: Karen O and The Kids - All Is Love x Rumpus
ohlek:
The soundtrack of Where The Wild Things Are was leaked throughout the course of the weekend, and I’ve taken the opportunity to offer you a little quick peak of the awesomeness of it’s content. So here’s two tracks with Karen O, the frontwmoman of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with the help of the Kids, which handled the whole soundtrack by themselves. The movie is dropping in theaters on October...
“…many office computers are left logged in when people go to lunch, or when they...”
– Bruce Schneier
Here at Hoff ‘Em Industries, we solve that problem quite easily by providing an incentive for users to become more conscious of the implications of their action (or inaction, as the case may be).
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In my office, if someone leaves a computer logged in and...
Keynes, Explained Briefly (Aaron Swartz's Raw... →
So those are Keynes’ prescriptions for a successful economy: low interest rates, government investment, and redistribution to the poor. And, for a time — from around the 1940s to the 1970s — that’s…
PSA for Mac Users: Download Quicksilver →
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I’ve switched to LaunchBar, which seems more stable. I tried Google Quick Search Bar, which is supposed to be the successor to QuickSilver, but I find it slow, ugly, and clunky.…
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This is the greatest song ever, from the majestic...
Pittsburgh Police POSE ARRESTED STUDENT FOR PHOTO →
Pittsburgh police pose for a photo with a Pitt student that they assaulted and arrested. Remind you of something?
indierawk:
Arcade Fire - Keep the Car...
G20 protester yanked from street, thrown in... →
People have been demonstrating to counter the G20, a group of the richest, most powerful people from the richest, most powerful countries who make decisions which impact all of us. Here, a…
How Many of You Use Macs? | Talking Points Memo →
I’d been noticing over time that the distribution of browser usage in our audience suggested some real growth in the number of our readers who use Macs. But I hadn’t looked at the operating system…
Many iPhone Owners Not Upgrading To iPhone 3.1,... →
AdMob, a firm that supplies advertising services targeting ad-supported iPhone adds, says that between September 15th and 22nd, only 23% of devices running apps with AdMob adds had updated to…
iTunes displays a "half-dot" to indicate...
finermac:
When syncing your iPod, or simply after starting to play a podcast in iTunes, any podcast episodes that have been started but not finished have a “half-dot” beside them. Previously, the “unplayed episode” dot just disappeared as soon as you started listening. This has existed at least since iTunes 8, making it easier to know which podcasts you can safely delete and which you should keep...
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Design Stupidity
I have a Brother 420CN multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. I wanted to simply make a black & white copy, which uses NO color ink. When I pressed the BLACK START button, even though there’s plenty of black ink, it refused to copy because two of the color inks were empty. That’s just wrong - it shouldn’t care if color ink is empty when I’m only going to use black...
MMS is live!
And Posterous only accepts SMS. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from mike3k’s posterous | Comment »
Many iPhone Owners Not Upgrading To iPhone 3.1,... →
AdMob, a firm that supplies advertising services targeting ad-supported iPhone adds, says that between September 15th and 22nd, only 23% of devices running apps with AdMob adds had updated to…
Obama in Strong Position on Health Care →
A just-released New York Times poll finds President Obama “is going into the fall having retained considerable political strength. At 56%, his job approval rating is down from earlier in the year…
Horrifically bad software demo becomes performance... →
For software developers, live product demonstrations are a way of life, and that means that “live product demos gone horribly awry” are also a fact of life. But what if the world’s most…
