Tuesday 24th November 2009
An excerpt from Jim Corr (of ‘the Corrs’ fame) on the Financial Crisis on his completely batty website.
He’s totally nuts!
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Thursday 5th November 2009
Apple killing Atom support, dreams of netbook hackintoshers in next Snow Leopard release?
I’m not sure what they have to gain from doing this, so I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest that they probably won’t.
Think about it, allowing geeks to use a somewhat crippled version of Mac OS X is a great way of selling Macs.
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Sunday 1st November 2009
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Wednesday 28th October 2009
Deerhunter - Nothing ever happened
This is not particularly new, but I’ve been enjoying Deerhunter’s Microcastle album lately and this song is probably the pick.
Enjoy!
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Great cover of Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’ by PomplamooseMusic.
I particularly like the new bridge.
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Tuesday 20th October 2009
Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful
Lovely and informative infographic from the consistently brilliant Information is Beautiful.
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Why can’t we have government backed, electronic currency?
Good question. Banks and credit card companies take a significant cut of every transaction that happens. Why can’t the government set up its own (free and universally available) method of exchanging money?
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Monday 19th October 2009
» danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?
Good overview of what Google Wave actually is and what it does well.
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Tuesday 13th October 2009
Squashed: Breaking News: Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Wednesday 30th September 2009
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Saturday 26th September 2009
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Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Euros Childs - How Do You Do? (on Vimeo)
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Tuesday 22nd September 2009
In Which I Save Journalism
(Or, more specifically, toss out a proposal that I think would be awesome—though I suspect that catering to people like me probably isn’t a good business model.)
Anderew Sullivan wants us to subscribe to the Atlantic. I don’t plan to. It’s not that The Atlantic isn’t an excellent publication. And it’s not that $14.95 is an unreasonable amount to pay to support an excellent publication. I just don’t want The Atlantic to show up in my mail box ten times a year, a day or so after I have read the articles I plan to read and ignored the others. I don’t want the Atlantic to sit unread on a table for a month or two until I finally decide to recycle it.
The newspapers are even worse. I would love to support my local newspaper—particularly if it helped me actually pay attention to local news. But I can’t justify wasting a mound of paper when I’m only likely to read a few articles a month. Getting my news from the Internet is more convenient, more expedient, and less wasteful. With the an online edition readily available, the print edition actually has negative utility.
Don’t get me wrong—I like print. A lot. I have roughly a thousand books and am acquiring more all the time. Their presence makes me happy—even if I’m only likely to read or reread a fraction of them. They’re collected there in case I want to read them, loan them, or simply show them off.
A Proposal:
The Atlantic and other general interest publications, should offer an alternative to the standard subscription. About once a year, it should take some of the stories that are likely to remain historically relevant, collect them and bind them in a single, attractive volume. Send that to the people who would love to support the publication, but don’t want a lot of disposable paper arriving in the mail.
Great idea.
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Wednesday 16th September 2009
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