January 2012
6 posts
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Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get... →
MG Siegler, in a surprisingly off the mark article:
As Josh Topolsky points out, Apple does work with school districts to lease iPads on a four-year schedule, presumably at a nice discount. But that means the school owns the iPads and temporarily gives them out to students. That goes against Apple’s stated mission that students should now buy (or get via redemption code) all iBooks textbooks...
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The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child... →
After reading this I’ve come to realize that politicians are pawns. Perhaps not all, but certainly enough of them are to make egregious internet censorship a true problem.
The thing I love most about the internet is that it’s real life. It’s the entire human psyche laid bare in the grossest way it ever could be. I’m hopeful that freedom will be victorious, as it has been...
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WatchClay Shirky: Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
The Post-Truth Campaign - NYTimes.com →
Paul Krugman:
Oh, Mr. Romney will probably be called on some falsehoods. But, if past experience is any guide, most of the news media will feel as though their reporting must be “balanced,” which means that every time they point out that a Republican lied they have to match it with a comparable accusation against a Democrat — even if what the Democrat said was actually true or, at worst, a...
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SOPA bans Tor, the US Navy's censorship-busting... →
Cory Doctorow:
Tor, the censorship-busting technology developed by the US Navy and promoted by the State Department as part of the solution to allowing for free communications in repressive regimes, is likely illegal technology under the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Doesn’t that mean that SOPA establishes exactly the type of repressive regime that Tor circumvents?
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Abortion pioneer: Defend rights or lose them →
Merle Hoffman, on abortion:
[It’s] a decision that she believes is irrevocably the woman’s, which in turn informs the rabid opposition to it: “The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that’s why it is so strongly opposed by so many in society,” she writes in “Intimate Wars.”
I think she nailed it. That opposition to a woman’s power would also explain the...
December 2011
8 posts
“The worst thing you can do is marry your work. Love it. Care for it. But realize...”
– Me.
“You can’t fix fundamental flaws with superficial solutions.”
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Three Traits Every CEO Needs →
Justin Menkes explains:
Realistic optimism.
Subservience to purpose.
Finding order in chaos.
However, there’s a fourth trait mentioned just prior to those three:
One core conclusion emerged: the best CEOs had been, and continued to be, distinguished by their ability to manifest the very best from their workforce.
Leaders inspire their teams.
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Craftsmanship
Fundamental changes are challenging because every new variable has exponential consequences, each forcing you to rebuild your understanding at every level.
In other words, when you change one thing, you change everything.
In my opinion the failings of many men comes down to their failure to decompose that old knowledge, and assimilate the new. For every creative endeavour is a matter of two...
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WatchI was skeptical of stylus at first, and I’m still hesitant to use it in production after it bombed on the jQuery Mobile CSS, but it is winning me over. It’s at least worthy of your attention, especially if you’re working towards a node based environment.
Taking Stock →
John O’Nolan:
One web developer points out that another (more famous) web developer is talking shit. A day of destroyed producitivity for hundreds of people ensues as everyone takes sides. Again. As always, it is far easier to criticise something than to build something. As always, those who’ve built something take the criticism personally. Nobody wins.
…and…
What I’m really...
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November 2011
5 posts
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter,...”
– Dr. Seuss.
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Fuck Glory – Startups are One Long Con →
More solid business writing from Amy Hoy, with a excellent quote from General Sherman that neatly summed up the whole piece for me.
I’ve always felt guilty for not swallowing the bullshit at places I work. Even where I am now, if it wasn’t a genuinely rewarding place to work I’d want to vomit every time I go in, like I did at my last job.
Death & Glory is a curious...
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Understanding The Occupy Movement | WealthRat →
This is a tale of TWO greeds, not ONE. I don’t believe that people are entitled to huge salaries and benefits without contributing anything to society, and I don’t believe that people are entitled to take advantage of and exploit the poor and middle class simply because they’re wealthy and powerful enough to do so. There has to be a middle ground.
There we go. Sense.
Seth's Blog: Your competitive advantage →
Are you going to succeed because you return emails a few minutes faster, tweet a bit more often and stay at work an hour longer than anyone else?
More time on the problem isn’t the way. More guts is.
Some of the most important choices I’ve ever made have been to do what I was scared of because I was scared of it.
My life has become immeasurably richer.
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October 2011
3 posts
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'Organized Climate Change Denial Machine' Mapped.
revkin:
Posted with permission (Dunlap). From “Organized Climate-Change Denial,” Riley E. Dunlap & Aaron M. McCright. Chapter in J. S. Dryzek, R. B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 147.
September 2011
1 post
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August 2011
1 post
I Have A Featured Article On Juxtapoz! →
FuckYeahJuxtapozFrontPage
July 2011
4 posts
Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive,... →
One of the nicer responsive frameworks I’ve seen.
WriteRoom, my favorite writing app on the iPhone,... →
I like the new even more understated UI.
“In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.”
– Paul Graham.
June 2011
7 posts
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The Google+ Project →
“Project” is the new “Beta.”
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“The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at...”
– Seth Godin — The Dip
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“He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses...”
– William Blake.
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Video: One Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes →
It’s a simulation, however it’s beautiful and mesmerizing.
Has Sony Been Hacked This Week? →
Why… yes, they have.
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How Tower Bridge Changed My Relationship With... →
Andy Budd:
First and foremost it brings into stark relief the fact that we don’t own our online identities or the content we produce. We have few if any rights, and the companies behind these services can remove our accounts at will. I guess I’ve always felt a certain ownership over the services I use. After all, we’re all part of the reason for their success. So the fact that they can delete...
May 2011
6 posts
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The cult of hard labour →
Michael Posner:
The regular weekend is like a speed bump. It slows you down, but doesn’t last long enough to change your basic habits. Three days, on the other hand, is a legitimate rest. It allows you to reset the psychic thermostat.
So here’s the real question du jour: Why aren’t there more of them? What’s so sacred about the five-day workweek, a regimen set in place in...
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Throwing the last dart →
Jason Fried:
When you really want to do something right, which is usually what you should be striving for, you tend to slow down.
Contrary to what your fears and superiors may be telling you, sometimes the best course of action to take when you’re stressed is to slow down.
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Force Mobile Safari to Repaint/Redraw
I’m currently working on some rather awesome stuff with SproutCore and it’s shiny new Template Views. They’re an excellent solution for the most part, but being only a few months old they’re still somewhat buggy.
Originally in sproutcore-1.6.0.beta.(1|3) the touch events in the template view didn’t bubble properly which prevented the iPhone view from scrolling at...
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Fear is the Mind Killer
Merlin Mann:
Take the time to be scared of more interesting things.
Amazing things happen when you run headlong into things you’re scared of.
Things like… not being scared anymore.
In the end, if you run headlong into enough interesting things that you’re scared of, you’ll simply end up being a more interesting person. Then you won’t be such a waste of flesh...
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OMG. WTF? Pt. 2 | Results-Only Work Environment... →
Jody Thompson:
The more we create rules and guidelines around flexibility, the more time we waste controlling and managing people’s time instead of holding them accountable for results.
April 2011
14 posts
WatchTony Porter: A Call to Men.
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Life is not a Zero Sum Game
Perhaps you noticed that the racism and sexism discussion flared up again, thanks to Build, Mike Monteiro, and a handful of bigots. Faruk Ateş has a good take on it.
The most reasonable argument I’ve heard about why women are discriminated against within the web design community comes from two women. Leah Culver, who is quoted with saying that “women just don’t pimp their shit,” (MP3 — 11...
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Search your Pinboard.in from Chrome's OmniBar →
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Spine →
Spine is a lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications. Spine gives you a MVC structure and then gets out of your way, allowing you to concentrate on the fun stuff, building awesome web applications.
Spine is opinionated and, although at first glance it might look similar to other frameworks like Backbone, it actually has quite a different take on things.
Spine is...
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AckMate →
The best project wide search for TextMate.
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