August 2009
57 posts
Disney to Buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion →
Balls.
Via The Daily What.
Franklin is quite the snore-fest.
Cash For Clunkers: It's Over →
100% of the clunkers taken off the road were American-made while over 60% of the new cars put on the road were Japanese. I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Papa John's To Give Away Free Pizza To Camaro... →
According to the Papa John’s corporate office, any Camaro owner who drives to their nearest Papa John’s restaurant will get a large one-topping pizza for free. This only applies tomorrow, Wednesday, August 26th, and there is a limit of one pizza per Camaro and one Camaro per visit.
Once upon a time (when I was 17) I had a 1989 Camaro IROC-Z. I almost killed every one of my...
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The JetBlue terminal at JFK looks like a mall had sex with a nightclub.
Odeon it is →
I’m going to be in Manhattan (Tribeca) tonight. Any recommendations on a good place to eat?
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Songs In Code →
Just about every one of these could be Jeopardy answers.
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Tumbl On
John Gruber:
So I’m trying to think of a reason not to just recommend Tumblr. Its default templates are good and custom templates are relatively simple. The web posting interface is wonderful. It has an OK iPhone client (from which I’m writing this). And while you give up control with Tumblr as opposed to a self-hosted weblog, the typical user doesn’t have the technical savvy to manage that...
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One in four songs sold in U.S. is from iTunes →
Wow.
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DisplayPort of Pain
Mobelux picked up a couple Mac Pros recently, as you might have seen. Beastly 8-Core Mac Pros. So when it came time to decide on displays for mine, it wasn’t a tough decision. Dual 24” Apple LED Displays for me, please.
Life was good.
I tend to run multiple graphically intensive applications at once. It isn’t uncommon for me to have Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya beating on...
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No Fucking Love
I’m a football fan. Let me be more specific: I’m a Denver Broncos fan. Always have been. I don’t like to watch any other teams of any other sports. Does it bother me that we lost every decent starter that we had and fired the head coach that led us to back-to-back Superbowls? No. What bothers me is that I can’t watch my team suck because I live on the east coast.
Why...
Fuck Yeah Facts:
Lewis Carroll was a mathematics professor at Oxford University. After reading “Alice in Wonderland,” Queen Victoria sent a letter to him asking for another of his books to read. Carroll sent her a book on algebra.
New Camera-Based iPod Touches Next Month
John Gruber:
The Zune HD prices look good compared to today’s iPod Touches, but not so much compared to the new camera-equipped ones Apple is set to announce next month (16/32/64 GB for $199/299/399).
That’s a pretty confident claim.
Note: Blogging from a Blackberry SUCKS!
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stevienyc:
I miss the Tumblr app for the iPhone by Jeff Rock. :-\
My condolences. I can’t imagine how horrible this must be for you.
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Radiohead Done With Albums
Thom Yorke:
Radiohead have no plans to release another album, Thom Yorke has revealed. Long-playing records, it seems, have “just become a real drag”.
Wonderful news. The death of the 12 song album will change the landscape of modern music. It’s a practice that was a holdover from vinyl records that made it to CD’s. Since the album is...
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Steven Frank:
On Saturday night, we drove up to Seattle to attend a memorial service for my wife’s grandmother. Shortly after checking into the hotel, I checked the inbox on my Android phone and found myself staring at the words “Philip Schiller”.
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I haven’t sought Phil’s explicit permission to republish the letter, so I won’t do so here. But to summarize, he said: “we’re...
Buzz Anderson in response to Andre Torrez:
Finishing a significant consumer software application is essentially a process of nailing down a profusion of tiny details like the ones Torrez calls out here. It can seem like death by a thousand paper cuts, and it becomes even more painful when you realize that you can’t market based on polish, and no user will laud you for making sure a button is...
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