December 2009
13 posts
‘Liking’ posts with the Tumblr API
Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s new Tweetie options, we’re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.
The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we’ve been able to take advantage of a ton of...
Attention Comedians
The construct of your gags this week is:
The Terrorists are trying to take our freedom!
But, they failed.
So now we can’t take iPods on planes.
Pause.
Witty remark of shallow political comentary.
This joke will still work even when it turns out that we can take iPods on planes, because no-one will be paying attention.
End on witty remark of shallow cultural comentary.
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I... →
Mark Lynas writing for the The Guardian.
“LOVE YOUR SCROLLBAR”
– Please Scroll
“Gitmo is “the best place to have [trials], it’s the best place to...”
– —American Justice System Too Weak For Terrorists, GOPers Say | TPMDC
Republicans hate the very foundations of America.
“Activision’s main response to No Doubt’s claim is that that the band...”
– —Activision countersues No Doubt, which is likely not feeling ‘Hella Good’, Joystiq
Activision, who publish the Guitar Hero franchise, continue their plummet toward ultimate indecency. They put Kurt Cobain’s likeness in Guitar Hero World Tour, or 4 …or 5 and then allowed you to...
“For Mac users who want to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor...”
– QuickCursor — Your favorite text editor anywhere.
Very cool. Old extensions (generally just for web browsers) would enable ‘Edit in TextMate’ functions for text areas, but this tries to go further.
Ben Ward on Skitch →
Like everyone on earth, I have a skitch account. Apparently I hardly ever used it. Or maybe I actually have two accounts and some wealth of older posting is lost to the internet somewhere. Doesn’t matter. I’ve started posting UI rants and observations there. For now. Whether it’s the right tool for the job (as opposed to Tumblr, or Flickr) remains to be seen.
“For instance, when posting a Flickr photo from a user directly, “via” should...”
– —Garrett Murray, The Importance of Crediting the Creator
Garrett Murray on the misuse of ‘via’ for creator attribution on Tumblr (see also: Twitter.) An issue close to my heart that I’ve not been able to put into a concise combination of words.
That said, I don’t like using ‘by’ in...
“As for the larger issue, supporters of action on global warming might be...”
– Concerning those climate change research emails that were leaked last week, TPM provides a much needed summary of what it means in context, which organisation’s data is actually compromised, and clarifies that (not surprisingly) plenty of separately gathered data is still valid.
It’s...