September 2009
38 posts
“Wayne Hayes, an Oasis fan since 1994, said: “I’ll miss the fact that...”
– —Oasis change name to “Noelgallagher” - The Daily Mash
I love The Daily Mash, ever since I discovered their piece on US Healthcare.
I’m also unashamedly a little sad that Oasis finally split up. They were a relevant piece of my childhood. To top it off, Definitely Maybe is 15 years old...
“When it was released we found a few show stopping bugs that neither us nor Apple...”
– —Pass the lubricant as we’re getting fucked by Apple too — Joe Stump
A 6 week delay does seem both unreasonable and shit, although in the grand scheme of App Store disasters it’s the longest individual delay I’ve heard of (which, unscientifically, hopefully makes it an anomaly and a...
August 2009
17 posts
“Being left-handed, I never use Cmd/Ctrl-C X V. I would have to take my hand off...”
– —James MacFarlane
Comment on Dion Almaer’s second ‘trying to use the system clipboard from a web app’ woe post.
More evidence of Adobe’s amateur approach to user experience integration.
““We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our...”
– —Kennedy family statement
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy has died of cancer at age 77, via. CNN, and Brynn Evans.
Song of the Day: Our Most Brilliant Friends
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“Drawn from the best local sources, Chicharrones contain natural pork, sea salt,...”
– —4505 Meats — About The Best Chicharrones In San Francisco And Revival Butchery With Ryan Farr
Chicharrones. They sound great, but let’s be honest here, they’re clearly just posh pork scratchings. Pass the lager.
“One question asked: “Do you think the government should stay out of...”
– —Republicans Think Government Should Stay Out Of Medicare — Talking Points Memo
Holy fucking shit.
Betsy McCaughey Interview on The Daily Show →
This is it then. Jon Stewart’s nightly half hour of satirical comedy is confirmed as the only space on American television where a non-partisan, intellectual and intelligent debate can be had, and then given a fair, unmanipulated airing. Oh, and that’s despite him humming the tune to Yakity Sax in the middle.
First the financial showdown with Jim Cramer, then the Mike Huckabee...
Feed Reading
Nick Douglas has reached the point of realisation that Tumblr is a better feed reader UI than others. Where, at this point in history, ‘others’ is pretty much Google Reader. He wants the ability to read other feeds in Tumblr.
I’ve gone the other way. I no-longer read Tumblr posts in Tumblr itself, instead all my Tumblr subscriptions go into Fever. I loved reading in Tumblr because it blew...
“What shows up in Twitter, in blogs and in the other ways we are connecting the...”
– Epeus’ epigone: How Twitter works in theory
“I have been getting annoyed by think pieces in newspapers who criticised the...”
– —Graham Lineham
Tiny little, too-right remark about the weak media coverage of Twitter, even as it rumbles along being used for extremely valuable things.
Linehan attacks American ‘lies’ over NHS - Channel 4 News
“In our testing, we found the inclusion [of Flash] actually hurts operation of...”
– HTC Hero review — Engadget.
Will my site be archived? - Yahoo! GeoCities Help →
After great work by Jason Scott and a decent amount in internal, CEO-level haranguing at Yahoo (by, I can only assume, various different parties acting independently), archiving the content of Geocities is not being somewhat supported by Y.
It’s nothing like as much as I’d hoped for (I asked for us to handover the data, URL mappings and a box of old servers to Archive.org;...