January 2010
52 posts
WatchCANON Commercial - Freeze Tag on Vimeo
I’m ready for this game to exist.
I Love Walled Gardens
Again, Rory Marinich:
The open systems will still exist. Certainly people with certain aptitudes will always prefer something that puts the power in their hands. But they don’t have to be the default. Not when those open systems risk confusing and alienating people who just want to check their mail. We lose nothing by having closed systems. Only our chance to pontificate endlessly, to people who...
Apple's New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums →
On Oct 23, 2001, 02:29 PM, elitemacor said:
It’s now at the online Apple Store!
$400 for an Mp3 Player!
I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time…and it’s not really functional.
Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now?
“In five years, the coolest stuff on the iPad should be… jeez, you know, I think...”
– Robin Sloan
This is why it's worth learning about advertising
Rory Marinich nails it:
It’s easy to look at the iPad skeptically and say that, no, it’s not doing anything truly new. It’s basing itself off the iPhone and the Macbook. Sure, the unibody is revolutionary, the battery is revolutionary, the interface is revolutionary, but it’s all been done before. To which I say, Yes, but it’s never been done all at once. It’s like how Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely...
Instead of writing some thoughts on today’s...
“There’s value in obscurity.”
– Clive Thompson
“The print publishing industry should be so lucky to have iTunes do for them what...”
– John Gruber
“The fundamentals of interaction design aren’t about HTML and CSS, nor even about...”
– Christopher Fahey
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische
Last year, at the cinema
When I think of great films from 2009, here’s what comes to mind:
Moon
The Hurt Locker
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Where the Wild Things Are
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up in the Air
I realize any sort of 2009 list is pretty late now, but I’ve recently been watching some of these now on Blu-ray. This past week: District 9, Moon, and The Hurt Locker and I fell in love with each...
Andreas Bick:
I made this sound recording of a...
“And while encouraging people to spot the talented and the creative, we should...”
– Tom Coates
Apple and Red Cross accepting Haiti donations via... →
Everyone donates more when it can be done in fewer steps, using an existing, trusted payment system. Any company sitting on such a system has a responsibility to make things like this possible. Kudos.
I already donated via the Red Cross text message setup (“Haiti” to 90999), but Neven’s absolutely right. Cell phone and iTunes accounts are arguably some of the most pervasive...
“I notice that, as the Net provides free or cheap versions of things, ‘the...”
– Brian Eno
Since day one of installing Snow Leopard, I’ve been having issues with Normal/Bold versions of Helvetica and Times New Roman in Firefox. I scoured forums for help for days, cleared font caches endlessly, and otherwise exhausted all I knew to do, but eventually gave up. Then, tonight, I found this.
Terminal: atsutil databases -removeUser atsutil server -shutdown atsutil server -ping...
