So busy the past few weeks I haven’t come up for air. Needed to post this though:
Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
Now for some commentary: When I first saw this I was extremely excited. As someone who carries their Moleskine around everywhere I’d love a more powerful and web-connected digital replacement. In fact I’ve…
…listening to Brownstone Megaphone’s song Making Bubbles and evidently Sarah is less comfortable on the mic than she leads on to believe…
So if this:
had a large touchscreen instead of physical keys would it be a killer tablet PC?
I look at this and think of a point Marshall McLuhan made in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man: that just before a new medium arrives, the older medium mirrors some of the behaviors of the new one. My…
Almost only counts in hand grenades and nuclear bombs. Not Fantasy Football live drafts. Hasn’t Yahoo heard the news? …lots of problems today across the board – not just me. The message boards and (ironically) Yahoo Answers were lit up with complaints and rants about how poorly prepared they were this season to handle demand….
When I first heard their single “Out There On Thin Ice” I thought I was hearing a New Order B-side or RMX. They’re THAT good.
Love the album: 4.5 Stars. It’s up there with M83
Why doesn’t this:
Look more like this:
Push and Play
Or even this:
Well Formed Eigenfactor™
?
He’s back with a new MUST READ about healthcare:
It’s a situation that one would have thought would be sobering enough to snap Congress into real action for once. Instead, they did the exact opposite, doubling down on the same-old, same-old and laboring day and night in the halls of the Capitol to deliver us a…
Arianna brings something up that I don’t think a lot of us worry about. She says (about the Van Jones scandal where he allowed himself to be associated with the 9/11 Truther movement by signing their petition):
If the sliming of Van Jones is an indication of how things are going to be, a lot of…
Reading a few blogs this morning I came across a term I had never head before: Shan Zhai.
Shanzhai (simplified Chinese: 山寨; pinyin: shānzhài) refers to Chinese knockoff and pirated brands and goods, particularly electronics. Literally “mountain village” or “mountain stronghold”, the term refers to the mountain stockades of warlords or thieves, far away from official…