November 2009
15 posts
On Crappy Music Download UI
Update, Jan 20th, 2010: Jon Collins from Dropcards very graciously got in touch about this post, and so I’ve added a few points of clarification at the end. I want to stress that I’m criticising here not just about the particular implementation, but an overall experience strongly influenced by actions of record labels, and the capabilities of underlying software platforms. It is a...
“I saw the mayor of New York said today, ‘We’re tough. We can do...”
– —Rep. John Shadegg (Republican, Arizona). Learned everything he knows about terrorism from 24.
Via TalkingPointsMemo
“The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone
No. It hasn’t. It affects Jailbroken OS3 in some situations. No-one with an off-the-shelf iPhone running Apple’s software is affected. This fact is not mentioned until the third paragraph. I really hate the BBC’s...
“The trouble with a ‘scientific’ argument, of course, is that it is not made in...”
– The choice quote from A. N. Wilson’s anti-science tour de farce on the Daily Mail site. It’s called “Yes, scientists do much good. But a country run by these arrogant gods of certainty would truly be hell on earth”. No, really.
1300 words, two of which are ‘Hitler’ (also, two mentions...
“Only 36% of people view the GOP favorably, with an outright majority of 54%...”
– Poll: GOP’s Favorability At Its Worst In A Decade | TPMDC
I can only assume that someone in the GOP Fortress of Evil, this conversation went down last November:
“Fucking hell, that was pretty rough. Oh well, it’s been a while since we weren’t in power, so how shall we approach...
