January 2010
51 posts
F-ing phonies. →
via timoni:
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
“In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. ‘He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,’ said...
Names
mrgan:
Product names currently topping Engadget’s feed: (these are all real and not particularly cherry-picked)
Kula TV PMP
Optio I-10
Gateway EC14D
Alienware M11x
Projectiondesign Remote Light Source
DMC-ZS7 (Or is it 7SZ? Or SZ7? Or Z7S?)
MvixUSA Ultio Pro
Moto CLIQ
OLPC XO
Mustek MER-6T
I like “iPad”.
Agreed.
“It’s not over. Nothing’s over.”
– Kurt, whispering to himself, with regards to his life. (I witnessed this in his office at lunch)
“The Apple iPad is the FUN part of a laptop: Consuming Content.”
– my twist on a comment from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber
“Just got word that a convoy of four armored SUVs has left campus. Three of the...”
– Fake Steve Jobs. Boom.
Tablet Eve...
Derek Powazek nails it with his hopes and dreams for “tomorrow’s announcement”. It’s exactly what i was hoping for in my New Year’s Eve tablet theory: Tablet as publishing game changer.
Read his idea here.
Football Games Have 11 Minutes of Action - WSJ.com →
This headline pretty much sums up my disdain for the sport.
“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
– Steve Jobs with regards to the Apple Tablet as reported by TechCrunch.
HTML 5 video!!
Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced they are going to begin offering video playback in HTML5. Vimeo is currently rolling out almost all of their videos in that format. I just tested it out and its CRAZY how much faster a page loads when it’s not dealing with the ridiculousness that is Flash…
“I don’t like that question, because it seeks to make me sound strange if I say...”
– John Mayer, when asked whether he pleasures himself on a daily basis. Awesome.
Where is Apple’s media event invite to the press for the Tablet launch? The end of the month is coming up and still nothing… shouldn’t we be getting it any day now?
“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want...”
– Conan O’Brien (via seafaringwoman)
i really hope when all this is over that somebody releases a “Conan bashes NBC/Leno” highlights dvd
(via piercethenight)
(via pippip)
Conan refuses to delay The Tonight Show!!!!
Conan is refusing to move The Tonight Show to 12:05 so Jay Leno can tell jokes at 11:35…
His entire press release is AMAZING. Read it here: http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/conan-obrien-resigning-tonight-show/
Watchmoderation:
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Looks like my Vimeo movies are bubbling back to the surface…
“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our...”
– BeautifulPeople.com Founder Robert Hintze after he booted 5000 people from his internet dating site designed for beautiful people…
WatchWow. A wedding proposal made of light…
“Dude, I haven’t showered this year.”
– moderation on his bathing habits in 2010
WatchPretty great video about the 10yr anniversary of the Time Warner AOL merger. The CEOs of the respective companies basically apologize for the “worst deal of the century”.
Here’s a great article by Joel Spolsky that demonstrates how managers can massively disrupt employee work by interrupting one task with another task that must be completed simultaneously.
The point of the article (as technical as it may be) is that the act of switching tasks lowers the average output of completed work when the employee is asked to multitask (work on both simultaneously) as...