June 2009
14 posts
The newspaper suicide pact →
I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.
Great article. (via givemesomethingtoread)
Loving some of the comments as well:
This is an...
“I’m connected. I’m busy. I’m important. And if this meeting doesn’t hold my...”
– Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners
The Setup: Jakob Nielsen →
marco:
My Alienware is disappointingly noisy, even though I paid extra for having it sound-proofed and watercooled.
I learned a lot more than I expected about Jakob Nielsen, usability specialist, from this.
Pi.ckyyyy. Geesh.
“so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road...”
– http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/view/46088.
thanks http://onemoretimewithfeeling.tumblr.com/ for pointing out this hidden gem of a site
Sims 3
Bought Sims 3 to pass the time (fever at 38.7 as we speak), thinking I could pass a couple of hours playing with my imaginary carachters… but:
a) it took 40 minutes to install (I think more actually… but I didnt time it)
b) it runs so slow (I got a MacBook 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM, and enough disk space)
c) i couldnt figure out how to edit the clothing on the sim i...
...the Degradation of the American Dialogue →
“If you take away the hate groups, you take away their [Republican] party.”
– Comment found on Huffington Post. So sad, so true.
Women Don't Go to Movies" -- Huh? →
[tech] View XML Source in Firefox
Try viewing an xml file on firefox: http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage
Mine brings up an option: add it to google reader, or google personalized homepage. I need another option: view source.
The only way I figured out how, was to add the words: view-source: in front of the url. Example:
view-source:http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage
I discovered that by mistake; but...