Month: March 2010
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
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Order your iBAP with your iPad this morning?
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Order your iBAP with your iPad this morning?
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The Secret Origin of Windows
Excellent story from Windows 1.0 product manager Tandy Trower. Not often I read stories like this from the “other side.” The Secret Origin of Windows
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My child deserves this shirt. Though, considering her crawling recently, I think she has gained a couple more DEX points.
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My child deserves this shirt. Though, considering her crawling recently, I think she has gained a couple more DEX points.
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Visualising the growth of the Internet
Nice graphic on the spread of Internet access since 1998, from the BBC. Notice how countries that serve as undersea cable hubs are high access regions. Would like to see this broken down by type of access, specifically land-based (broadband, etc.) v. mobile (3G. etc) access. I think that would surface a difference in adoption…
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[vimeo 7545734 w=500 h=281] Know Your Meme: Auto Tune (featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic) Via Vimeo’s 25 favorite videos of 2009 More Know Your Meme episodes. (Source: http://www.vimeo.com/)
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JIp3yStpmg?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] WE are THEY Just watched the Lessig “wireside chat” on changing copyright, remix culture and fair use. Yes, THAT presentation: the one that was dubiously silenced by Warner Music Group but has since had its audio returned. Another entertaining and inspirational presentation from the master. I support his clarion call for people to…
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Influence of the iPhone on smartphone design
I love this bit from Gruber: During Jobs’s iPhone introduction keynote address in January 2007, before showing what the iPhone looked like, Jobs put up this slide showing four of the then-leading smartphones on the market: the Motorola Q, a BlackBerry, a Palm Treo, and the Nokia E62. Those pre-iPhone smartphones Jobs displayed all shared…