March 2009
24 posts
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Convertbot →
Another gorgeous iPhone UI from the makers of Weightbot.
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HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your...
What We Can Learn From MacHeist →
Great article about the experience that MacHeist provides from Buzz Andersen.
Noah Stokes →
Bold new portfolio website from Noah Strokes.
21 Essential iPhone Apps with Sexy Interfaces →
Some good ones on here that I hadn’t heard of.
The Makers of Things →
When Brooklyn and New York’s population was booming at the end of the 19th century, the best way to get to and from Brooklyn was via ferries. As solutions were considered, I’m sure there were those who simply thought, “More boats!” These ardent defenders of the status quo were not engineers — they were the business. Their goal was not to build something great, but to make a profit.
“In my view, not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive...”
– Richard Dawkins
“The head of Black and Decker once said, folks don’t buy our products because...”
– Michael Gartenberg via Daring Fireball
“There are two markets. One has been sold to us as long-term: “Put your money in...”
– Jon Stewart to Jim Cramer (part 2, ~3:20), slightly edited from a raw transcript for clarity.
“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems...”
– Rorschach’s Journal
Not A Love Story – Kerrigan & Lowdermilk
iPhone OS 3.0 Predictions →
Now that we’ve seen a preview of Palm’s Pre, I wonder if Apple is prepared to bring back the Dashboard-style JavaScript/HTML/CSS APIs for creating iPhone widgets that were slated for iPhone 1.0, but yanked for performance reasons.
I’d go further and say that Apple will do a device-wide notification system like the ones in Andriod and webOS as well as support for new form factors.
On the App Store →
Adam Lisagor discusses reasons Apple may insist that iPhone applications are available on and not in the App Store.
Let’s look at it another way: what destinations built for the trade of goods would the word “on” apply to? I could say I bought a song on iTunes, but when I speak of it like that, I think of iTunes as more of a network for content rather than an outlet, much in...
International Day of Awesomeness! 3/10/08 →
The International Day of Awesomeness is a celebration of awesomeness. People are awesome every day, frequently don’t realize it, and their feats of awesomeness are rarely recognized. We aim to fix that, with a special day to both perform and celebrate feats of awesomeness!
Grading Bar Too High, Loudoun Parents Say ... →
I saw this very clearly when I was in school. Grades don’t reflect your aptitude, intelligence, or understanding of the subject matter. You don’t need to actually learn much useful material to get good grades. (And many of those who learn exceptionally well don’t get good grades.)
The computer as a burden →
Most people imagine their personal paradises as something like sipping drinks on a beach and doing nothing. To me, that would be hell. I’d rot into boredom and depression from mental atrophy.
I don’t even drink a lot because I don’t like my mind to have reduced capacity for very long. I get bored and want to go back to interesting things, but then I get frustrated if I’ve had more than about 2...