August 2009
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My top 5 artists this week. →
Coldplay (2)
The Killers (2)
Radiohead (2)
James (2)
Band of Horses (1)
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Russian kids and their interpretation of hip-hop... →
For Stanislov.
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Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident →
“In a photo on the company’s U.S. Web site, three businesspeople—one black, one white and one Asian are shown as part of a pitch for Microsoft’s business productivity software. In the same photo on the site of Microsoft’s Polish subsidiary, a white head is placed over the black person’s body, although the hand is not changed.” Click thru to see the pic.
When Tumblr is down... →
My top 5 artists this week. →
The Beatles (10)
Ramones (7)
Talking Heads (6)
The Clash (5)
The Strokes (5)
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Woofer | Macroblogging →
The opposite of Twitter. Posts have a 1,400 character minimum.
AP: Ex-reporter Jayson Blair now working as life... →
Here is his requisite douchey website. How long before he follows me on Twitter?
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My top 5 artists this week. →
Pixies (5)
Interpol (4)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (4)
Geminiani, Francesco (4)
Georg Philipp Telemann (3)
45 Creative Logo Designs For Inspiration | Pro... →
RECAP needs your help turning around PACER →
RECAP needs your help turning around PACER
If you’re a lawyer, and you use the crazy-outmoded PACER system to access federal court documents, check out the new RECAP system launched today by Tim Lee, Harlan Yu, and Steve Schultze with the help of Princeton’s CITP. If you use PACER, you know it’s difficult to use. It also charges citizens to access what are nominally public documents, something that makes little sense...
The Hipster Douchebag Soundboard | Maxim.com →
Famous quotes that make just as much sense when...
“The attempt to combine wisdom and PowerPoint has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” - Albert Einstein
“You shall have joy, or you shall have PowerPoint, said God; you shall not have both.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“PowerPoint corrupts, and absolute PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton
“Their insatiable lust for PowerPoint is only equaled by their incurable...
Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore →
A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell one of its flagship products, Word, in the United States because of patent infringement.
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The print journalism profession has developed an elaborate, self-justifying...
– Tim Lee in his new blog, Bottom-up
Text messages may be “free,” but the network isn’t →
Text messages may be "free," but the network isn't
One reason AT&T may not like Google Voice is that it allows you to send and receive text messages for free. This has led many to argue that SMS are free to the carriers and they are overcharging. Congress is considering getting involved. Most recently there’s this from David Pogue in the NY Times:
The whole thing is especially galling since text messages are pure profit for the cell...
WebContent.gov: Better websites. Better... →
Seemingly useful web design guidelines and tutorials for federal agencies.