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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:41:21 -0500

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fivefifteen:

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Kitten Mittens!

"Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:39:16 -0500

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Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.

The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have insurance; quality affordable options for those who don’t; and bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the government while strengthening the financial health of Medicare. And it is legislation that is fully paid for and will reduce our long-term federal deficit.

Thanks to the hard work of the House, we are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform in America. Now the United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year.

”

- President Barack Obama

'2001' Geeks, Rejoice! World Learns Why HAL Sang 'Daisy'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:05:35 -0500

'2001' Geeks, Rejoice! World Learns Why HAL Sang 'Daisy':

We’re sure many of you are familiar with the death-of-HAL scene from the Kubrick classic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ in which the rebellious computer slowly, and childishly, drones the lyrics to ‘Daisy…

$10

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:58:32 -0500

grantjonah:

Your surfing through the App Store and come across an awesome app, and then you see the price tag, $.99. What do you think? Way too expensive? Should it be free? or are you willing to pay the price for a great piece of software?

This is the biggest problem in the App Store. People these days are so used to seeing a cool app and then downloading it for free and then they get used to it, not paying developer for their work. They don’t understand that these cool little things take time and money to make, yet they still don’t pay for these utterly cool products that people devote time and money to.

Just look at appulous, “The solution to a flawed App Store.” I personally know people who will find a cool app that will cost $.99. Only $.99 and the first thing they do after they see it on the App Store is they open appulous and pirate it for free. Not a good ‘solution’ if you ask me. One of my applications, Pong - iPhone Edition, had over 18,000 free downloads on appulous within a few weeks of it launching on the App Store back in May. Now let me remind you that it is one dollar. Really? You don’t have the money to spend one dollar on a game? Wait, how much is your iPhone or iPod touch? $200? $300? $400? If you can afford such an expensive device, something is seriously wrong if you cannot get the money to pay less than a dollar for an app and you feel that you need to get it for free, which is illegal and you can be fined up to $100,000 per piece of software.

While I could go on forever talking about different situations where pricing has had an impact on the application, but I’d like to focus on one.

Ramp Champ. An excellent skee-ball game on the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $2.99 and ships with four ramps and for $.99 you can purchase two more ramps in a ramp pack (currently four ramp packs exist) Have you ever heard of a skee-ball game on the App Store? How about the number one app on the App Store right now? Skee-Ball by Freeverse. Yes, it is the same basic concept, but Ramp Champ takes it much further (I mean it) with tickets, prizes, stunning graphics and its an overall amazing game. Yet, it has not even pierced the top 25 apps while Freeverse’s Skee-Ball has been at #1 for almost a week because Skee-Ball is $.99 while Ramp Champ is $2.99.

That really says something about the App Store. Starting today and for the weekend, I am bumping the price of my applications up to $10. I hope that others will join me in the cult against the free/$.99 App Store to prove that software is worth more than it is priced as on the App Store. If you are going to make your application $10 for the weekend, be sure to link to http://rfly.me/10dollars in your app description.

Apps that are included are listed below

- ICanHasCheezburger by MC Development

- iDjembe by MC Development

- Pong - iPhone Edition by Jonah Grant

- Hot Links by Jonah Grant

Please email me to get your app listed here if you raised the price of it.

I’m doing the same with my apps this weekend.

jimray: The OpenOffice 18 button mouse. This is why open source...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:00 -0500

jimray:

The OpenOffice 18 button mouse. This is why open source design sucks [via The Grubester]

FAIL.

If you need 18 buttons, you need to re-think your user interface.

OpenOfficeMouse

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:06:42 -0500

OpenOfficeMouse:

The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke.

Update: The same designers made an automobile, too.

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The Seven Biggest Fake Badasses in Music

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:37:33 -0500

The Seven Biggest Fake Badasses in Music:

There have been many musicians over the years that have taken their image as being larger-than-life badasses a little too far. Some of these artists even started to believe that they were as…

Amazing cover version of “Thriller” by Imogen Heap.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:06 -0500

Amazing cover version of “Thriller” by Imogen Heap.

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:44:25 -0500

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:33:57 -0500

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:51:05 -0500

Arcade Fire * Laika (via Arboria)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:54:23 -0500

Arcade Fire * Laika (via Arboria)

The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu (via TheZebu)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:59:41 -0500

The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu (via TheZebu)

Scoop: Arcade Fire's Third Album

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:20:06 -0500

yvynyl:

thenotes:

A very reliable and hard-to-please source of mine recently had a chance to drop by the studio and hear early versions of songs from Arcade Fire’s forthcoming third LP, and he promised to give me a sense of what to expect. These are some phrases he used:

“Fuller”

“More strings”

“More upbeat than Neon Bible”

“There’s a lot of Neil Young in Win’s voice”

“If these tracks were any indication, the album will be very, very good”

I can’t wait! Stop torturing me with anticipation!

iz pikture time?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:40:26 -0500

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/11/02/funny-pictures-pikture-time/

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Lizard (via mike3k)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:14:14 -0500

Lizard (via mike3k)

Screen Sharing

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:47:27 -0500

Screen Sharing

Noisy kittens waiting for dinner! (via smshdchrb)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:09:11 -0500

Noisy kittens waiting for dinner! (via smshdchrb)

25 Inspirational Dog Portrait Photographs

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:32:52 -0500

25 Inspirational Dog Portrait Photographs:

Image by Brian Hathcock

Dogs Dogs Dogs. Earlier today a friend asked me for some ideas on how to photograph her Dog. I did point her to our How to Photography Pets tutorial but also…

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:32:25 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1):

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