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June 27, 2008quick linksDual-display e-book concept mimicks reading, makes complete sense - Engadget Yes. That’s what’s missing from the e-book experience. Page turning.
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June 26, 2008quick linksAnil Dash: Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - I considered Bill Gates “evil” for many years, but in the last few years he’s become one of my heroes. Good luck without him, Microsoft…
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June 20, 2008quick linksWhat is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - a very realistic and well-written look at the process. (0)
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It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo - Just two weeks ago the “Last one out, please turn out the lights” jokes were still funny. Now I’m not so sure.
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June 19, 2008quick linksMan gets Windows Vista to work with printer - Why does The Onion still exist when headlines like this appear in real newspapers?
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June 18, 2008quick linksFirefox 3: Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support - The trouble with “20% Time” is that it doesn’t necessarily create products that will be supported in the future.
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May 9, 2008quick linksYouTube - Big Broccoli Ocarina - Now I can truly say I’ve seen everything, including “Angels We Have Heard On High” played on Broccoli. [more here]
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May 6, 2008quick linksEric’s Archived Thoughts: The Really Perfect Ringtone - Best ringtone ever.
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May 4, 2008quick linksMicrosoft pulls its Yahoo offer - via Scoble, who described it thus: “Yahoo is a bleeding animal. Left lying, gasping for its breath, after a larger animal (Microsoft) struck and then walked away after it proved too difficult to eat.”
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April 7, 2008quick linksIn Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times - Another valiant but ridiculous effort by mainstream media to make the Internet seem dramatic.
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March 28, 2008quick linksAT&T Is Working on Its Own 3D Browser Pogo. - Attention AT&T: Adding some silly, usability-challenged 3D eye candy to Mozilla does not make for an improved web-browsing experience. (1)
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March 12, 2008quick linksThe worlds 50 most powerful blogs
- I’m continually amazed at how these lists seem to come from an entirely different universe than the one I live in. I’ve heard of 17 of the 50, and I regularly read a total of three of them. Either the blogosphere is far more diverse and wide-ranging than mainstream journalism suspects, or I’m just seriously out of the loop…
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February 23, 2008quick linksMail Keeps Rejecting Password (updated) - AndrewEscobar.com - For every problem, there’s a solution buried somewhere in a mile-long list of comments on a weblog post.
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February 20, 2008quick linksPaul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
- “I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” Brilliant advice, although I can’t figure out what overlooked problem requires a new dialect of LISP.
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January 27, 2008quick linksFive whys - Joel on Software - Some good thoughts on dealing with network downtime.
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January 15, 2008quick linksPalm OS II Devices on Track for Release in Early 2009 - Rumor has it they’ll be using a time machine to introduce these devices in 1996 when someone still cares.
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December 12, 2007quick linksDunning-Kruger effect - This explains so much.
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November 8, 2007quick linksBloglines | Top 1000 - Much more mainstream than the technorati list. And one of my sites is #11.
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October 28, 2007quick linksBlu-ray vs. HD: Whose side are you on?
- I’m on the side who only has a 27″ TV and can’t particularly tell the difference, and wishes the movie studios would stop wasting money on format wars and make a good movie for once.
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October 20, 2007quick linksOK/Cancel » Archive » Google Answers HCI PhD Program - The best thing about blogging is that sometimes you’ll land at #1 on a search and end up getting bizarre technical support requests.
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September 18, 2007quick linksTimes to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times - Welcome to the 1990’s, New York Times! Glad you finally made it.
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September 16, 2007quick linksiProng - iPhone features youll miss out on by buying an iPod touch - Apple is trying to make absolutely certain that the iPod touch is regarded as an iPod, not a PDA. Considering the failure of every non-phone PDA in the last few years, this makes sense.
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September 8, 2007quick linksscottberkun.com » How to write a book - the short honest truth - A perfect answer to this question, and much more positive than my answer would be.
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September 7, 2007quick linksstevenf.com: A Matter of $200 - if I said anything about the iPhone price drop, this would be it. Also, my $600 iPhone is indescribably better than your $400 iPhone.
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September 2, 2007quick linksLanguage Log: Prepositional anxiety and Voldemort’s wand - More than one copy editor with which I have dealt has done this to my writing.
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June 13, 2007quick linksRIP Don Herbert - This man was singlehandedly responsible for my continuing interest in science. So long, Mr. Wizard.
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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering - Joel on Software - Finally I understand why the “blurry letters” on the Mac screen drove me crazy the first couple of weeks after switching from Windows. I still like Microsoft’s ClearType a bit better than Mac font smoothing.
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June 5, 2007quick linksMicrosoft Surface was announced a few days ago, and I could only think of one use for it. Today, the first new version of Pac-Man in 26 years was announced. Coincidence?
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Motion Binding - one of the more disturbing optical illusions I’ve seen recently. I thought it was fake until I tried replacing the “occluders” with my fingers held over the screen.
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May 15, 2007quick links
Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous - Matt Haughey on web communities. Also, the basics.
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