December 2011
20 posts
“People who say, ‘I’m not a computer person’ will be as disconnected from society as someone who says today,’I don’t know how to read.’”— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) December 31, 2011
“Nowadays, a candidate must believe not just some but all of the following...”
– American politics: The right Republican
“To the outside world, it has always been easier to mock North Korea’s craziness...”
– Unreality Check: From Kim to Kim in North Korea
The 15 Most Memorable Christopher Hitchens Quotes →
Newt Gingrich and the Rule of Law
Newt Gingrich commenting on his dislike of things he dislikes:
There’s “no reason the American people need to tolerate a judge that out of touch with American culture,” Gingrich said on CBS’ Face the Nation.
You mean like Brown v. Board of Education? Courts are required to uphold the rights of the minority as well as the majority.
And Gingrich recently has said judges should have to...
"So, What Phone Should I Buy?"
Normally I try to avoid reading, much less write about, the sloppy thinking and lazy writing that passes for “tech blogging” these days, but this muddled article trying to “answer” the question “which phone should I buy” was too much.
Now, if you’re my mom, this is the part where I’d say, “well, what do you want to be able to do with...
“Hitch lived so large, and so beyond the rules, that his mortality seems...”
– Jane Mayer on Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, 1949 - 2011
From The New York Times’s review of Hitchens’s most recent book, Arguably:
Anyone who occasionally opens one of our more serious periodicals has learned that the byline of Christopher Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened — possibly both — but in any case not to be missed. He is our intellectual omnivore, exhilarating and infuriating, if not in equal parts at...
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy
I believe this because it so closely follows Apple’s visual design guidelines: cl.ly/CYHZ— Adam Spooner (@adamjspooner) December 13, 2011
I really want to know who believes this might actually be an authentic email from Apple?
Marshall Bock's Blog: iPhone 4S Template →
marshallbock:
Pretty much every decent iPhone app ever made also has a website extolling the virtues of the app and its features. And pretty much every one of those sites has one thing in common: an image of an iPhone, its screen displaying a shot of the app. It’s an incredibly common …
Power in Numbers - China Aims for High-Tech... →
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
“Another Friday in the race for the Republican nomination: one wishes one could...”
– Amy Davidson
You Guys Are Millionaires Right? →
Some very true reflections on being an independent software developer.
The Lack of Innovation in Google's Latest Products
Google’s going into retailing:
Google Inc. is aiming to challenge the e-commerce supremacy of Amazon.com Inc. by diving deeper into the fast-growing world of Internet retailing.
The Web-search giant is in talks with major retailers and shippers about creating a service that would let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day for a low fee, said people...
“Try new things, all the time. Especially those that are a little outside your...”
– Dan Frommer, blogging about better blogging.
So many blogs confine themselves to simple prose and ignore the opportunity to integrate media of all kinds. Support for mixed media is one of the reasons I love Tumblr and have stuck with it for so long. Some people have one “real” blog...
“All that was lacking was background imagery of strip malls and the Kardashians...”
– The Guardian takers on the Grammy Nomination Concert, which I didn’t even know was a thing.