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If your users are activating Safari Reader on your site, this means that the default user experience of your site is so bad that your users first consciously notice that they have trouble reading an article on your site, then remember that they might be able to fix it using Safari Reader, and then actually activate that feature.
"Boom"
The Song Decoders at Pandora - NYTimes.com
"‘Was the music just wrong?’ Because we sometimes have data errors,” he recounts. “He said, ‘Well, no, it was the right sort of thing — but it was Celine Dion.’ I said, ‘Well, was it the set, did it not flow in the set?’ He said, ‘No, it kind of worked — but it’s Celine Dion.’ We had a couple more back-and-forths, and finally his last e-mail to me was: ‘Oh, my God, I like Celine Dion.’
Let's look for deft, English alternatives: use Twitter, post to or on Twitter, write on Twitter, a Twitter message, a Twitter update.
'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet', www.theawl.com, 10 June 2010
I respect the Times' position that "tweet" is colloquial, neological jargon to be avoided. But: deft?!
Saying something is so does not make it so.
Floss, you know, use salt, baking soda, get them professionally cleaned, you know, for a bit, take care of your damn teeth.
Patti Smith addressing Pratt Institute's 121st commencement ceremony, www.mediabistro.com
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The one internet privacy policy that really matters is your own. If you want it private, don’t share it. Because what’s private today might be public tomorrow. Period.
Are We Really Dumb Zucks?, tweetagewasteland.com
True.
We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. ...I remember thinking that this would be a pretty harmless easter egg, that no one would really use it, but I was very wrong.
The Origin of the Blink Tag, www.montulli.org
Oh. My. God.
Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content.
This is a time for children to explore the immediate environment (backyard, neighborhood, nearby parks) in a way that is hands-on and full of joy. It’s not a time for them to worry about environmental tragedies.
How to Talk with Kids About the Gulf Oil Spill, www.nwf.org
Ranger Rick speaks the truth.
Every now and then I see tourists standing outside looking at the building, wondering if it could really be the place where it all happened," said Huberto Suarez, owner of Krika's. "There are no statues or plaques, so I tell them that this is it."
On the Beatnik trail in Mexico City, USATODAY.com, 20 April 2010
Joan Vollmer Burroughs died and is buried in Mexico City.
The administrator who managed the Lower Merion School District's laptop security system says she asked her bosses at least three times to clarify the rules for activating the Web cams and tracking software on students' computers.
"I tried to get the administration to look closely and get a policy on several occasions," Cafiero said in her first interview since the district put her on paid leave.
School official says Lower Merion lacked laptop policy, www.philly.com, 30 April 2010
"This house is like a mullet: all business in the front and a party in the back." - design milk
I read a bit about Aquaman growing a beard and having a harpoon hand and living in a cave and talking to spirits or something, and thought, how can anyone not like this guy? This crazy dude living under the water. Anyway that is the only version of Aquaman that I am really into.
It’s one thing for semantic and identity layers to emerge on the web, but it’s something else entirely for the all of the interactions on those layers to be piped through a single provider
"Understanding the Open Graph Protocol", factoryjoe.com, 23 April 2010
The problem with OpenLike is that Virginia has never heard of hunch, digg, reddit, or stumbleupon. But I bet you she's on Facebook before her 101st birthday.
[In your 30s] things start losing their profundity; in middle-late age, you enter a tragedian period, realizing that the human animal isn't changing for the better. In a way, I think I entered straight into my tragedian period, as my work is set against the stupid, destructive way we live on this planet. Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point.
"It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni", www.latimes.com, 22 April 2010
A suburban Philadelphia school district says it secretly captured 56,000 Webcam photographs and screen shots from laptops issued to high school students.
NYTimes/AP: Pennsylvania: School District Took 56,000 Secret Photographs
This is a shocking story, whose second chapter is the deplorable reporting by popular media which fails to ask basic questions like:
Let's see what we can come up with for the first question:
...It was discovered that the school had installed LANrev security software onto all of their laptops, in case of theft. The software was set up to take pictures every 15 seconds or 15 minutes (reports are very mixed over which it is) from the iSight camera without it showing any indication of being active.
Thousands Of Images Of Underage Students At Home Taken By School Issued Laptops, www.insanit.net, 17 April 2010
Lower Merion high school students [reported] iSight cameras powering up, as indicated by a brief flicker of the LED light next to the camera. Some students even put tape over their iSight cameras to prevent them from operating, but most were assured by the district that the light was a “common MacBook glitch.”
School district faces lawsuit over Webcam spying claims, www.macworld.com, 23 Feb 2010
Kudos & credits: The story is being tracked quite well at Stryde Hax.
My sole aim is, come May, to have fools begging for February, sepia photos, and those "Black History Month Moments."
Ta-Nehisi Coates is honoring the hell out of Confederate History Month.
* iPhone and iPad applications are very different things
* most people use it widescreen most of the time. why?
* frustrated by being shunted to iPhone versions of websites, particularly Google Docs.
* where the hell is the apostrophe?
For each of the next 5 days I purchased a Happy Meal from the drive-thru at my two local McDonalds, alternating between restaurants, and always driving a car with a child's car-seat in the back.
Each time the attendant asked if I wanted a girl or boy toy, I answered, "Give me whatever is the most fun." 5 times out of 5 I received a Star Wars toy. Four women (all different employees I'm fairly sure) and one man all responded to my request in the same way.
My brother had an MC Hammer album that was riddled with silent patches because my mom had erased the dirty bits from the cassette. I really don’t know how she did it — that might be a lost art — but she had it mastered.
The conversation: Joanna Newsom - Times Online
I cannot exaggerate the degree to which Malkmus enjoys fantasy sports; he almost seems to like them more than music. His fantasy football team was devastated by the loss of Ronnie Brown to injury, but he's stayed in the playoff hunt by picking up Vikings wide receiver Sidney Rice. ("You could just immediately tell he was going to be Favre's guy.") The most productive player on his NBA team is under-publicized Pacers forward Danny Granger, but he's more satisfied about stealing the Nets' Chris Douglas-Roberts off the waiver wire. Malkmus does not watch the NHL, yet he still participates in a fantasy hockey league. He's that kind of guy. I don't even try to talk with him about rotisserie baseball.
Check out the triforce! What does it represent?
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