January 2008
63 posts
“Could you imagine how amazing domestic violence would be if everyone knew...”
– Comedian (I missed his name) on Conan
“I’ve never had a phone get better after I’ve bought it.”
– Ben, my friend, on our iPhone updates
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that...”
– Steve Jobs
“If every band had this simple and beautiful an experience to sell their music...”
– Justin Ouellette
iPhone icon rejects
Now that we can move icons off of the iPhone home screen, is anyone keeping the iTunes WiFi store on page 1? My rejects, shifted to page 2: Photos: Never use it. Notes: Never use it. Not very useful without sync. Calculator: Sucks. Give me an iPhone version of Soulver. YouTube: Sucks over EDGE, don’t need it with WiFi. iTunes WiFi Music Store: On the rare occasion that I need it, I’m happy to...
Dear everyone who consistently fails to stop their car so that I can cross at the pedestrian crosswalk, or even fails to stop when I’m halfway across the pedestrian crosswalk: Don’t talk on your cellphone when you’re supposed to be driving your car. — dalasverdugo
I bet the Air becomes Apple's flagship notebook
I’ve been using Apple laptops pretty much exclusively for the last ten years (all the way back to the 3400c), and this thing is, without a doubt, the sexiest, slickest, most tasteful laptop to ever exist ever. It’s going to be impossible to hold that thing next to a MacBook and not consider flipping the extra bucks (or taking the slower hard drive over the MacBook Pro). We’re...
This is why the writers are striking →
Beyond the Macbook Air, the most important thing to take away from today’s MacWorld expo was the fact that Apple has reinvented the distribution mechanism for film and television, and everything from now on will be done through the web. No more need to buy DVD’s, and that means no more residuals for writers, as currently contracted. And you will notice that all the major studios are...
The owner of the camera just came to my apartment...
The second best part? This is nuts: The girl who owned the camera, who is visiting NYC from Dallas, TX, is friends with someone who reads my site every day. So it wasn’t even a crazy six-degrees-of-separation story. A girl lost a camera. Her friend reads the website of the guy who found it. Case closed. The best part? She came by with four girlfriends. So I had the undivided attention of...
WatchFunny Kid Isnt Sorry About Huge Party And the backstory behind the video. I strongly recommend getting this guy to throw your next party (that is if you don’t mind the 20k fine). (via Hipsterdiet) — peterwknox
Free LAX Shuttle to In-N-Out Burger →
Have some time to kill at LAX? Gadling’s got the parking shuttle hack. — courtneyc
“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“How can someone who’s so socially awkward make a social networking site?”
– Amy on Zuck’s 60 Minutes segment
Can anyone fill Dan's request? →
Can anybody recommend a tumblelog that primarily links to whatever’s going around the Internet this week that everybody is talking about and will be gone by the next week? […] I don’t really like it when people say, “Oh, you saw the thing with ______, right?” and it’s some stupid hampsterdance-like website that I had never heard of. It’s even worse if it’s somebody like a parent. I’d love to...
I don't know if you noticed, but the Golden Globes...
HFPA president Jorge Camara said he was “very disappointed” that “millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television.” boo hoo. Yet another awards ceremony no one really wanted to see. You know I’m Miss Optimistic, but the sheer NUMBER OF AWARDS...
Attention Males →
It’s January 14th. Time to make those Valentine’s Day reservations. OpenTable, one of my favorite websites, is a great place to start. If you hate your girlfriend, try this place. Note: Any self-important restaurant not on OpenTable can go fuck themselves. — rickyv
et moi, et moi, et moi
When I was twelve years old my parents asked my brother, Jesse, and me if we would be interested in having a French exchange student come live with us for a year. Jesse and I were extremely apprehensive. What would it be like to have a stranger living in our house for a whole year? What if we didn’t get along? What if we couldn’t communicate? As Jesse and I saw it, the potential...
No one goes to the moon anymore :( — jstn
WatchEvery aspect of this video is phenominal. — patrickmoberg
The Internet
Why is it that when smart, informed technology people need to say “the internet” they always substitute a more self-aware joke version like “interweb,” “internets,” “intertubes” or “infotubes”? Or a phrase so verbose and formal that it mocks itself (“the information superhighway,” “the world wide web” etc.). It’s interesting because it’s not that web people do it, it’s that web people do it every...
“For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the most...”
– The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
15 Year Old Boy Scout Saves President of the... →
And I don’t mean he used his knot-tying or fire-building skills either. A guy rushed the president with a knife at an event, and this kid wrestled the would-be assassin to the ground and took away the knife! In his boy-scout uniform! — xstevemurphyI must have quit scouts before they got to that badge. — peterwknox
It’s taking considerable effort to keep the phrase “for obvious reasons” out of my security audit responses. — toldorknown
Sony BMG agrees to sell DRM-free music on Amazon,... →
(thanks, vertigo) The feedback on the plastic card debacle may have had something to do with this. Again, no mention of iTunes. — marco
my new thing will be here →
Well, part of my new thing will be here. — jakoblodwick