July 2009
18 posts
Jul 31st
“Spotify iPhone App Kills Pandora, Last.FM, Slacker and iTunes in One Shot”
– Gizmodo The need for variety in music discovery will never be sufficiently met by one single app. Listening habits vary by mood and moment. Different methodologies expose different music, and different combinations of music. Variety is not just stimulating, but essential. Silly headlines, on the...
Jul 28th
Jul 26th
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“The correct answer to the classic trick question “Have you stopped beating your...”
– The word “mu” (via. Edward O’Connor)
Jul 24th
“But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with...”
– Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run · The Guardian
Jul 23rd
Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | ... →
Vanity Fair’s editors and researchers give Sarah Palin’s resignation speech a going over. My favourite edits are from ‘research’, who find need to use the word ‘misleading’ on a number of occasions.
Jul 22nd
AT-AT
Some months ago, Twitter fixed, or broke, their @replies feature. They made it so that all the ‘@username’ messages you sent to your Twitter stream were only visible to people who also followed ‘http://twitter.com/username’. After initial irritation and (ongoing) fruitless protest, the solution has to be accepting Twitter’s decision and instead work out a new pattern for the use-case...
Jul 21st
Jul 21st
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“For my money, Techcrunch is doing the best it can to be open and it’s laudable...”
– —Timoni I disagree with the suggestion that TechCrunch is “doing the best it can to be open”. Michael Arrington is doing exactly the same he always does. To explain that, what follows is a fairly complete explanation of how I interpret his TechCrunch operation, methods and writing style. I hope to...
Jul 16th
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“What you may ask, is the dilemma, since it is clear that any decent human being...”
– — Daring Fireball Linked List: Do Unto Others What will it take for you to man up and shun TechCrunch? It’s nothing but a filthy, gossip ridden ego-vehicle for Michael Arrington. TechCrunch has proved itself harmful to individuals, companies and our industry. This is not complicated: Stop...
Jul 16th
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Song of the Day: ‘Run To Your Grave’ by Slow Club →
Slow Club covering The Mae Shi. Outstanding.
Jul 14th
For those who are not Apple
Had a great conversation with Rebecca this evening about mobile UI design, off the back of Sony Ericsson’s rubbish new Android front-end that people are apparently and inexplicably fawning over. All style, no substance. It’s unquestionably going to be utterly irritating in actual day-to-day usage. Anyway, phone manufacturers that aren’t Apple have a nightmare on their hands....
Jul 9th
Morgan Freeman getting his "In Rainbows" box-set →
From Radiohead’s webcast in November 2007. (via Colly)
Jul 8th
“These are the tags That live in the house The house of confusion That Jeffrey...”
– —This is the house [dive into mark] It’s notable that in the wake of the Death of XHTML, some number of people are pointing fingers toward Jeffrey Zeldman, the writer, web standards educator and evangelist who, with his book ‘Designing for Web Standards’, provided the spark that pushed...
Jul 7th
“This year’s contest was broadcast live on sports channel ESPN, and...”
– US man sets hot dog-eating record (BBC News). I honestly wasn’t sure which absurd paragraph of this article to quote. There were many contenders. Happy Forth July, American friends.
Jul 5th
Graded Browser Support Update: Q3 2009 →
Summer refresh of the Graded Browser Support testing matrix. Now including Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, and reducing the test coverage of Opera (although note that Opera should still receive an ‘A’ grade experience, we’re just only testing it on Windows.)
Jul 3rd
“While we recognize the value of the XHTML 2 Working Group’s contributions...”
– — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the future of XHTML HTML won.
Jul 2nd