April 2010
“Apple are trying desperately to force the growth of a new ecosystem — one that...”
– The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie’s Diary (via rafer)
vruz: therefore, he lied.
FBI investigating Massey Energy and Bush Junta for... →
(via ryking)
I threw my iphone in the toilet
chronicdissatisfaction sez: and it survived!
vruz: hallelujah! that’s probably because it doesn’t have Flash, it knows how to swim.
so we have reality shows, we have republican...
more on that, later when I find the time to deconstruct Steve’s hodge-podge of fact-free reality, half-truths and outright lies.
Steve Jobs' iPhone police state →
by Andrew Leonard, Slate
After Apple lawyers sent a no-nonsense letter to the news organization, Gawker agreed to return the device, albeit only after generating millions of pageviews for its scoop.
Four days later, on Friday evening, the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team launched into action. Terrorists can waltz into New York City with pounds of explosives loaded in the trunk of their...
“I am deeply disappointed that Senate Republicans voted in a block today against...”
– @BarackObama
vruz: let it be noted, the repubs are siding with the likes of Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and AIG.
“The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small...”
– The stupidity of Ronald Reagan - Christopher Hitchens (via danielholter)
vruz: a brief interruption of my intermission, I couldn’t resist the temptation… BAD HOLTER, BAD!
intermission:
taking some time off, will interrupt the usual programming for a few days.
see you in a little while,
vruz
Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island, responds to... →
Ron Gilbert sez:
Here is my challenge to Roger: Why is Monkey Island not art, yet, the Pirates of the Caribbean movie is art?
I will hold the story and characters of Monkey Island up to the Pirates of the Caribbean movie any day. The story in Monkey Island 1 and 2 is as deep and complex and interesting as that of Pirates of the Caribbean. The characters are as living and real and developed...
Will you read the Open Government Memo on an iPad? →
GovFresh.com / Rob Pinkerton, Adobe Director of Government Solutions
I love the Open Government Memo, I think it represents some of the most thoughtful and seminal policy strategy I’ve seen in 20 years in government. I don’t know who actually wrote it for the President, but I think that person should get a medal. And whoever reads it and doesn’t find inspiration for technology’s potential...
Zooey Deschanel to play the first computer... →
softculture: In other words, how Hollywood gets it ALL WRONG AGAIN.
Thanks to the ghoast for ruining my day.
vruz: remind me to hate this crap when it’s out.
“Instead of being simply a First Amendment case, the Christian Legal Society...”
– Free speech isn’t the issue in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (via ryking)
Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1 →
via Greg, The Tao Effect emailed Steve Jobs:
In my opinion, 3.3.1 only serves to make the platform less attractive to legitimate developers, giving them reason to write their software for competing platforms instead.
in closing :
Apple is free to write whatever absurd rules they want for their SDK, but in doing so, I think the “creative company” is undermining creativity itself, and at...
“Take, for instance, Glenn Beck’s effort to appropriate Thomas Paine as the...”
– Conservatives need more accurate historical icons
—via azspot: unburyingthelead: In other words, T. Paine was the shit.
“Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems? Probably not.”
– Bill Gates
vruz: probably not. some of them are debugging Microsoft Windows.
¡No te tengo Miedo!: Hoy recomiendo: Tumblrs en... →
Contrariamente a lo que puede pensarse, son muchos los usuarios de tumblr que escriben en español, y afortunadamente, muchos de ellos son excelentes escritores, gente que comparte su día a día o quienes tienen una mirada muy interesante para compartir. Yo elegí sólo unos pocos como para comenzar:
http://joludi.tumblr.com/ desentraña los secretos de las palabras y costumbres de todos los días para...
Innovation has evolved and will keep evolving if... →
—via mikehudack:
Eric von Hippel at MIT has written a great paper along with an HBS professor, highlighting what we see on a daily basis on the Internet - that collaborative innovation models driven by single users or groups of users, have supplanted the traditional “monolithic manufacturing firm” innovation models that are studied in academia.
The upshot of this is that, in such...
“So why did I create Botty? Well, mainly to see which experts and top twitters...”
– Peter Wells: Fun with Twitter spambots (via monkeytypist:ericmortensen)
Photoshop's CAF (content-aware fill) -...
—via o3:
John Nack posted a “sneak peek” of an upcoming Photoshop feature called Content-Aware Fill. There’s an impressive video as well.
Users are predictably drooling; some can’t even believe such a wonder is possible.
They can rest assured - it is possible and it has been around for years, e.g. in the GIMP plugin by Paul Harrison called Resynthesizer.
Here are some examples of what...
A Quick Introduction to IFF →
Jerry Morrison, Electronic Arts 10-17-88 IFF is the Amiga-standard “Interchange File Format”, designed to work across many machines.
“Sure, mine might get approved, but what about someone who hasn’t won a Pulitzer...”
– Mark Fiore
first online-only cartoonist to win a Pulitzer, can apparently publish his stuff in Apple’s garden.
vruz: what about those who don’t win the Pulitzer? it’s clearly not because of technical problems, nor content quality. so far all evidence points to the reasonable...
Bill Moyers Journal - 4/16/2010
—via...
“Fox, the mouthpiece of the GOP, is obviously as pro-America, pro-business, and...”
– Right Network: ‘Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military sensibilities’ (via ryking)
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and...”
– Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via novazembla: lastchatwithphontaine, ihatethismess :bringmethathorizon)
Digital Economy Act: This means war →
by Cory Doctorow, The Guardian
With the rushed passage into law of the Digital Economy Act this month, the fight over copyright enters a new phase. Previous to this, most copyfighters operated under the rubric that a negotiated peace was possible between the thrashing entertainment giants and civil society.
But now that the BPI and its mates have won themselves the finest law that money can buy –...
Blur - Fool’s Day
On my bike, down the...
Download New Blur - "Fool's Day"
—via twentyfourbit:
Blur released their first song in over seven years today in the UK in celebration of Record Store Day, but only 1,000 limited 7” physical copies hit shelves. Inevitably, Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn, and company’s new tune, “Fool’s Day,” sprung an interweb leak, which we opted not to share in the spirit of, um, Record Store Day. Good news, though: Blur are now offering a...
