"I was in the meeting when we decided what to do..."
When Kathie Lee Gifford said “night blogging” on the Today Show, we knew that Party Rats had altered reality and nothing would be the same again.
When Kathie Lee Gifford said “night blogging” on the Today Show, we knew that Party Rats had altered reality and nothing would be the same again.
With the exception of those in the “dock” area (Phone, Mail, Messages, and Safari) which I consider crucial to the entire point of even having an iPhone, I am going to clear everything from the home screen. Any apps that get accessed more than once in the course of the next week will be allowed to come back.
via minimalmac.com
This is great. I am going to do this right now. I wish the Dock worked this way. I wish iTunes worked this way. I wish my bookmarks worked this way. I wish my email worked this way. I wish everything worked this way, automatically. They promised us adaptive systems!
I made a modest amount of money telling old media companies how they should approach the web, then a similar amount of money hanging around while they didn't do it.
I spent days at a time sitting at home alone, getting high or drunk, playing videogames, watching television, ordering delivery falafel, and wasting time on the internet.
I shared some ketamine with a lesbian who proceeded to get up from my bed, vomit into my sink, and then pass out. I scooped the thick vomit from my sink to my toilet with my bare hands. Hours later, after I passed out, I woke to find her playing with my genitals. She told me the next morning that she'd "had a nice time."
The End of the 00s: Made in New York, by Joel Johnson | The Awl
"dirty and nerdy", "Joel Johnson's '00s look-back for the Awl is the white hot core of narcissistic, wasted-decade hedonism".
We have been briefed by Google on these allegations, which raise very serious concerns and questions. We look to the Chinese government for an explanation. The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy. I will be giving an address next week on the centrality of internet freedom in the 21st century, and we will have further comment on this matter as the facts become clear.
via www.state.gov
Call me naive but I always figured "cyberwar" was a lot of hype. I'd been sitting on this post because I wanted to dig up a crazy discussion I'd come across where an IT guy at a human rights organization in Washington DC described an amazing series of attacks that seem to be connected to this, featuring pixel-perfect phishing emails and toxic PDFs attached to emails with spoofed senders, timed to coincide with expected communications. Really intense. But I can't find it.
Note: this is bigger than Google:
At least 34 companies -- including Yahoo, Symantec, Adobe, Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical -- were attacked, according to congressional and industry sources. Security experts say the attacks showed a new level of sophistication.
We are naked beings and nothing has any meaning. We only fabricate things to help us be more removed from nature. Humans are like the prodigal sons of Earth – moving away from their mother to spend her fortunes, only to return in death as the stripped down and barbaric beings we once were. So to get closer to true nature? Burn your clothes and belongings and money, have a sharp chiseled stone to catch food and a grass hut to keep shelter! Or realize we live a world that is consumed by false beliefs and agreements and try to live your life without taking it all too seriously.
The right way to do it is to hold people accountable, to really restrict the number of things that you say to them, and to decide on the one or two things that are the most important. And then when you meet with them, you always bring back the conversation to that one thing. You have to do that consistently for over a year before you start having an impact.
via www.nytimes.com
Go get yourself a comic book, or any other rectangle that measures roughly 10” on the diagonal. Hold it as though you’re reading what’s on the surface.
You see the problem? Your fingers get in the way. Think about how big that surface is, too. That’s a lot of acreage to scan, looking for the right buttons to push.
While you’ve got it in your hands, imagine that it’s a sheet of thin steel. That’s heavy, isn’t it? Hard to hold up for long periods of time.
Think about how a user interface would have to incorporate those observations. Now imagine that you’ve been doing this experiment for four years and not four minutes.
via www.suntimes.com
It seems to me the hardest thing about doing great industrial design is having sufficiently high standards and taking the time to meet those standards. Which honestly doesn't seem that hard. How come no one can compete with Apple?
I dreamed I got a box of Chuckles with five licorice squares, and in my dream I exalted: "Finally!"
No longer able to eat or drink, Roger Ebert remembers.
Just as the three-dimensional world can be imagined as a cross-section through a four-dimensional world, so might individual consciousness be simply a slice of a higher form of conscious existence.
When architecture did not suffice, Claude Bragdon began to arrange festivals where people would perceive transcendent realities collectively through song.
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Sandy Isenstadt reviews "the first book-length treatment of Bragdon and his world", a biography by Jonathan Massey.
wil wheaton loves avatar
The best thing about Avatar is that it imagines a world where a program to breed Thundercats with Smurfs has been successful. SCIENCE!
via twitter.com
It's all true: it could well be titled "Dances with Thundersmurfs", and it's astonishingly delightful. Go for the 3D.
I was really struggling with the idea that I was going to live in Arlington. I drew a line through ‘one year’ and wrote ‘six months.’ I was there for 21 years.
Ian MacKaye on the Dischord house, The Orange Line Revolution - Music - Washington City Paper
The Black Book, which was first published 35 years ago, was like a scrapbook of the African-American experience
via www.npr.org
There's a certain way you can kind of move in and out of yourself, probably, to win consistently, that may be a little bit like writing fiction.
via David Foster Wallace in transcription at NPR.org. Huh, transcripts are free now. This is actually worth listening to, for the moment Scott Simon is caught off guard when Wallace mentions watching porn.
Google Public DNS privacy policy sounds reasonable:
Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.
We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.
In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena and improve the Google Public DNS prefetching feature. We don't correlate or combine your information from these logs with any other log data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.
How to keep a folder of text files in sync across multiple Macs and editable on an iPhone has bedeviled me for months. Today, sweet relief in the elegant form of a few world-class geek tools, loosely joined: How to sync Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox text documents with Hazel.
The new NYPL logo looks a lot like the Lyon Video logo.
Concentration is a great & steady state of grace — Ken Isaacs, How To Build Your Own Living Structures
The “prior art” claim of white people wearing locks is shot. White people falsely claiming their ancestors invented the hairstyle don’t do anyone any favors.
via www.alterati.com
I feel most movies I see don’t take me seriously. It’s like they think I’m 16 or something. Or they don’t realize that I’m sitting in a movie theater and there’s nothing else going on. They don’t need to fight for my attention. They got my attention. They can be comfortable, it’s fine.
This is how an American soldier is made. A fascinating photo essay that details 27 months in the life of new US Army recruit Ian Fisher. It chronicles his recruitment, induction, training, deployment and finally, his return from combat. posted by Effigy2000 (65 comments total) [add to favorites] 34 users marked this as a favorite [!]
Julia Baum took photos of suburban homes in Santa Clara, CA that were all built from the same architectural plan.
I'm pretty sure I grew up in a house just like these. Dig the Dr. Seuss shrubbery.
via kottke.org
45 Homemade Foods You Can Make Yourself (But Never Thought You Could)
His Soul Is Marching On | MetaFilter
This is where I note that West Virginia is West Virginia, it’s own state in its own right, because they were abolitionist, and dead-set against secession. Virginia is Confederacy - West Virginia is a solid, stout bulwark of the Union, as anti-slavery and pro-industrial as states come.