November 2010
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WatchThis is awesome booze.
February 2010
3 posts
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Mobile Mail was meant to be better on the iPhone.... →
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January 2010
4 posts
“It was as our forefathers had imagined it - that one day, people who had been...”
– Wyatt Synac, on The Daily Show in a piece about NJ banning same sex marriages
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December 2009
15 posts
Reeder app for iPhone →
Syncs with Google Reader. Now I have Feedly on the Mac and Reeder on iPhone. Go me!
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“btw, if you have a BlackBerry and you’ve not installed Opera Mini 5 Beta...”
– @codeslinger - http://twitter.com/codeslinger
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Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive... →
Instead of controlling the problem, try controlling the people who want a little transparency. Our lawmakers are idiots.
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Copyright Owners Fight Plan to Release E-Books for... →
Yeah fuck them! Also:
The treaty also creates a bad precedent by loosening copyright restrictions, instead of tightening them as every previous copyright treaty has done, said Brad Huther, a chamber director. Huther concluded in a Dec. 2 letter to the U.S. Copyright office that the international community “should not engage in pursuing a copyright-exemption based paradigm.”
Echoing that...
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“Due to legal restrictions, Samuel Adams Utopias is not offered in the states of...”
– Samuel Adams – World Of Beer
Seriously?? Laws on the books that say “beer” cannot be over N% ABV (but all other spirits are just fine) almost defy pure logic.
Although, notice that Utah is missing from that list. Wonder if SA just stays out of Utah all together…
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz
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Canabalt - An Analysis
I think I may finally have gotten the true genius behind Canabalt - that little guy is everyone.
Today I actually took notice of what’s in the initial building at the beginning of the game - an office chair and a filing cabinet usually. This guy is escaping from his office.
But no matter how far you run, and no matter how fast you go, in the end, you die, or find yourself back in the...
I got yelled at for not responding fast enough.
On one of my blogs, a user posted a comment. Then in short order, posted another comment demanding that I reply faster, engage my users more, etc.
I found this odd - but what is the policy for people that post on your blog? Do you have an obligation to reply within a few hours? Or do you let your part of the conversation be your post, and allow replies simply to be that - a reply that does...
Architectural Detail: Norwegian Wood →
Lye-treated Nowegian Wood makes for some absolutely stunning design.
High design in Fishtown, Philadelphia →
November 2009
8 posts
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
– Oscar Wilde
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If you can't make working DRM, outlaw breaking any...
Makes sense. I mean, since our content providers can’t seem to make DRM that can hold up to cracking for more than 10 seconds (remember the Sony DRM/break with a piece of tape comedy-of-errors?) then just outlaw anyone that works around DRM.
“Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival...
Scarier →
Gotta love top-secret international treaties on copyright that we have no say over or are even allowed to READ. Democracy in action, folks.
Scary →
Guilty until proven innocent. ISPs as police agencies. You aren’t allowed to know about this.
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October 2009
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MultiFirefox With Snow Leopard Support – Release
Yeah, so, MultiFirefox 2.2 was released. Like, a while ago. Totally forgot to post about it. Go get it.
July 2009
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The Most Important Interview Bill Moyers Has Ever... →
Bill Moyers – who has been around for ages, and has interviewed all kinds of incredible people – a man who’s life work speaks for itself – recently interviewed Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA executive, who gives some actual insight in to why the industry so badly wants to kill healthcare reform. It’s not rocket science of course – the more premiums brought in minus less money going out for...
June 2009
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The Need For A New Email Client
It’s really stunning to me – a plethora of people I know use Gmail and have for years. Most do so not for the user interface – it’s pretty God-awful, but for the user experience. (I had high hopes for themes, but alas.) Specifically, threaded messaging, which I simply cannot do without.
With the totality with which people rely on Gmail’s threaded messaging interface, it’s incredible to me that...
April 2009
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Won’t use Google Checkout? That charity could use...
Over at IndyHall Labs, we’re a bunch of independent designers, developers, usability experts, etc. – you’ve heard this from me before. However, we have a policy that is relatively long standing (in terms of the age of IndyHall Labs) and it’s getting a little attention.
There are people out there, you see, that won’t use Google Checkout. There are people that won’t use PayPal. There are people...
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Twistori Desktop
We released Twistori Desktop over at IndyHall Labs today. It was an awesome collaboration between IndyHall Labs and our friends (and IndyHall members from Austria!) over at Slash7, Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.
So there are a lot of links in the first two sentences, but Amy and Thomas (who are now husband and wife) are really incredible people, and were a joy to work with. Amy is the founder...
January 2009
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Multiplex (Beta) Launched
Multiplex was finally launched after much delay. Check out the website, or the review orinterview on the Smoking Apples website. Totally stoked.
From your friends at IndyHall Labs! More later.
December 2008
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Welcome To IndyHall Labs
Some of the coolest people I know came together recently to create an unprecedented organization. It’s a company of sorts, although not really. It’s an LLC, although only in so much as it needs to be recognized by the state. Beyond that, it’s a whole different animal.
At the center is the idea that stuff can be built and sold, by loose collections of individuals who want to work together on...