January 2008
39 posts
“Time once again to mention that the needle discomfort goes away in a fraction of...”
– I recently gave blood after almost ten years of thinking that, because of a heart condition I was born with, that I could not donate. Turns out I was wrong and I’m now pretty excited about the process. I agree whole-heartedly with what Andy Ihnatko is saying here.
“Holy shit is it going to feel good to see Hillary Clinton deliver the SOTU next...”
– Gruber calls BS on a lot of people’s predictions when they turn out to be wrong. Let’s hold on to this one until November and see how he does (via Twitter).
Booksthatmakeyoudumb →
Average SAT (with margin of error) for the 100 most popular books on facebook.
WatchAwesome: My Damn Channel » You Suck at Photoshop #4
“A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a.”
– Avenues tumbl
I think it’s interesting (and fortunate) that my school’s firewall blocks access to fulltiltpoker.com but doesn’t prevent the client application from connecting to the server.
It is harder than it should be to password-protect a WordPress weblog. Where is the plugin to do this using user roles?
“We’re thrilled to report our best quarter ever, with the highest revenue and...”
– Apple Reports First Quarter Results, and they are the best in the company’s history… again.
“One of the frustrating things about picketing is that so often, you feel like...”
– Screenwriter and blogger John August, writing a blog post with the ridiculous title “Strike, day 79.” My only response is, “Ummm… yeah. What you are doing is not constructive.” Is anyone even paying attention to this stupid strike anymore?
I love being a teacher… but I hate grades and grading.
Testing MoodBlast
New Dilbert Widget
Scott Adams is a creative guy. Duh.
http://www.paramount.com/startrek →
How come nobody told me about this?
The Straight Dope: How does one suck in a piece of... →
The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Benjamin →
I played 3/6 Hold’em last night while listening to The Talk Show on my iPhone; it’s the perfect podcast to fold rags to.
The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds →
“I’d have rather seen a smaller footprint, a la the old 12-inch PowerBook G4 —...”
– I agree with what Daring Fireball has to say here. People come in to the store all the time looking at MacBooks and ask when there will be a smaller one. Invariably, these are 12” PowerBook users who want a machine that is smaller than the MacBook. I used to use a 12” PowerBook and...
“My question is whether they’re also going to enable the “just plug a USB drive...”
– I agree, on both counts (via Daring Fireball).
“OMG: “Today at CES, Taser International introduced the Taser MPH —...”
– Los Angeles Times
“Sony BMG dude: They appeal to the sort of mainstream consumer who will see the...”
– (From Why It Won’t Work) I know that people who own digital content deserve protection from people stealing that content… and I also know that DRM is a pain in the keister and often means treating customers like criminals. So, I don’t know what the right answer is. But, Sony? I am sure...
The iPhone and the Googlewhackblatt →
Man, I love geeks. :)
The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality →
David Pogue writing about one of the things that, as a high school teacher, keeps me awake at night.
Music lessons →
It is tough to single out any one thing that Seth Godin writes as more excellent than anything else, but this post qualifies. Just for kicks, count how many of the lessons he lists are things that Apple currently does better than their competition (I count ten out of 12).
“And so, the hunt is finally on for some sort of hardwired car solution for my...”
– From Andy Ihnatko, who got it just right.
“If the friendship survives a session of phone diagnostics then we really ought...”
– Andy Ihnatko
