February 2009
102 posts
Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 Released [Downloads] →
Shared by felix will this achieve the not so high bar of being better than mail.app? I hope… maybe I’ll wait to release and check it out. Windows/Mac/Linux: Love yourself a little…
Feb 27th
Why Are Book Publishers Making The Same Mistake... →
Back in 2005, we noted that Apple’s dominance over the online music space, which upset the record labels tremendously, was actually the record labels’ own fault for demanding DRM. That single…
Feb 27th
Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in... →
Shared by felix sometimes I ♥ the internets. treqie writes “During the trial of pirate bay yesterday, a professor (Roger Wallis) took the witness stand. He told the court things that the…
Feb 27th
London: Ryanair Might Charge You For Peeing In-Air →
Shared by felix insane. Could this contraption await you on your next Ryanair flight? Has Michael O’Leary realized he’s gone too far? There we were thinking that by abolishing check in…
Feb 27th
The end of the Audiobook argument →
Shared by felix perspective from the man himself. Just a quick one, as a follow-up to http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/quick-argument-summary.html and …
Feb 27th
Google So Dominant That A French Town Might Need... →
Shared by felix they don’t need to change their name, they just need to hire an SEO expert! ;) Apparently, the French coastal town of Eu is so upset that people can’t find the town via a Google…
Feb 27th
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less... →
Shared by felix super cool. super simple. Background We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed. Our database has grown a lot as our user base has grown. We now store over 250…
Feb 27th
ben stiller is suspicious →
It should have seemed suspicious when Ben Stiller did something funny at the Academy Awards Sunday night, because I don’t have a time machine, and going back to 2001 would be the only way to see…
Feb 27th
Now The NeverEnding Story Really Is Never Ending... →
Shared by felix Atreyu! Aaatreeeeyuuuuuuuu!!! There is a force so great that not even Atreyu or the Childlike Empress can stop it. Who can save the people of Fantasia from the clutches of…
Feb 26th
Robert Scoble is Fake Following →
Shared by felix I just don’t understand why this idea wasn’t immediately obvious. No one can follow even a reasonable fraction of that many people for reals. I had an interesting conversation on…
Feb 26th
Carol Bartz: Yahoo Will 'Kick Ass Again' →
Shared by felix I was *super* skeptical, I admit, when all this Bartz stuff went down, but recently, I’ve been really liking what I’ve been reading. We’ll see! Sixteen minutes after …
Feb 26th
Import Facebook Photos Into Your iPhone Contact... →
Shared by felix like a mini taste of WebOS on the iPhone. :) How much overlap is there between your Facebook “friends” and the real contacts in your mobile phone’s address book? If those two…
Feb 26th
ben stiller is suspicious →
It should have seemed suspicious when Ben Stiller did something funny at the Academy Awards Sunday night, because I don’t have a time machine, and going back to 2001 would be the only way to see…
Feb 26th
Vonage Now Losing Customers →
Shared by felix they need some voip tie in with mobile phones, that would be good. Vonage (VG) continues to struggle in the Internet phone business as the cable industry thrives. Vonage…
Feb 26th
Brain training devices 'no better than doing a... →
Shared by felix say it ain’t so! People who spend money on expensive brain trainers to keep their mind sharp may well get the same benefit from simply doing a crossword, experts conclude.
Feb 26th
For Thirty Euros, A Palestinian Artist Will Tag... →
For €30, a Palestinian artist will tag the West Bank wall for you.
Feb 26th
Google Blocks Unlocked G1 Users From Paid Android... →
Shared by felix trouble in the land of unfettered freedoms? *gasp* Very strange.  ★ 
Feb 26th
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a... →
Shared by felix I problem I have rasseld with a time or two, myself. iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and even PSN are all pretty good at distributing downloadable movies and music. But all of these…
Feb 25th
Have You Made Safari 4 Your Default Browser?... →
Shared by felix no. It’s been 24 hours since Safari 4 made it’s beta debut, so you’ve had some time with the new features. What are your impressions? Did you like it enough to make it your…
Feb 25th
Twitter = YouTube. →
Shared by felix Is real time conversational search really that important? Does anyone actually care about that besides socnet folk? I think Batelle is crazy to believe that searching 140 char out…
Feb 25th
Fish with transparent head →
Shared by felix I saw this guy in Spore, if you keep bumping into them they’ll give you presents. Silly scientists! :) Since 1939, scientists have thought the “barreleye” fish Macropinna…
Feb 25th
And Now Facebook And Twitter Will Melt Your Mind →
It’s been quite a week or so for people with fancy titles and no actual evidence to spout off about just how evil and dangerous social networks are. First, there was the totally ridiculous claim that…
Feb 25th
Maine Man Tries to Build a Dirty Bomb →
Shared by felix It’s a little ridiculous. No one cares, probably because he isn’t Muslim. White supremicist terrorism just isn’t sexy these days.
Feb 25th
The Kindle Swindle? (Roy Blount Jr/New York Times) →
Shared by felix this is so wrong. Roy Blount Jr / New York Times: The Kindle Swindle?  — BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early…
Feb 25th
Kindle 2 →
First, the results of my laptop hunt.  Thank you so much for all the suggestions — there are a lot more ultraportable options than I realized.  I narrowed it down to two wildly different…
Feb 25th
LL Cool J to star in 'NCIS' spin-off →
Shared by felix nice. ladies love cool j, that’s what I heard. TV News: Rapper-actor to to play former Navy SEAL — LL Cool J is getting on the gumshoe beat. The rapper-actor has been set to star…
Feb 25th
New! Grow your app beyond the free quotas! →
Posted by Brett Slatkin, App Engine Team We’re psyched to announce that developers can now purchase additional computing resources on App Engine, enabling apps to scale beyond our free quotas….
Feb 24th
John Hodgman on "meh" →
I enjoyed this exchange with John Hodgman on Twitter yesterday, reminiscent of my own rant on “FAIL.” hodgman: Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word “meh”? Nothing announces…
Feb 24th
WSJ: We charge, so why don’t you? →
Shared by felix An excellent post. Not a day goes by without someone adding their thoughts to the growing pile of opinion about what newspapers should do when it comes to charging for content…
Feb 24th
★ Best Picture →
I watch the Oscars every year because I love movies. I hate the Oscars because I love movies. The award for “Best Picture” often goes to a film that is, clearly, not the best picture. You know it,…
Feb 24th
The Oscars and Asians →
I had no expectations for Oscar81 last night, but boy was the casual banter good. Even A.R. Rahman’s “om” speech, which would have made me cringe last year, had its intended yogic effect this…
Feb 23rd
L Trains Run Entirely By Computer, Starting... →
Shared by felix Man, that’s my line… I think I’m a little frightened. *imagines a foot caught in the door as the train starts going…* The transformation is at last complete: After…
Feb 23rd
Sunlight Labs: Blog - Content Management Systems... →
I could not agree more with this post. Most CMS and even frameworks are good when you want to do what they allow you to do in the way they allow it. Deviate a little and you start to feel the pain.
Feb 23rd
Verizon FiOS Remote DVR Scheduling Beta - FiOS TV... →
Shared by felix Ok! Ok! Uncle! Now just freaking roll out FiOS TV. Jerks. Users in our forums notice that Verizon is slowly making good on their promise to more closely integrate Verizon…
Feb 23rd
Mark Cuban: Why Madoff Was Better Than A Mutual... →
Shared by felix that’s honestly the dumbest logic I’ve heard all morning. Granted it’s early, but I’m confident it’ll hold all day. Mark Cuban, still facing insider trading charges from…
Feb 23rd
The NYU Uprising In Photos →
As you may have heard by now, administration officials at NYU quelled the student occupied action at the Kimmel Center this afternoon by suspending matriculated activists and offering up…
Feb 21st
Will Wal-Mart Move to Union Square? →
Shared by felix this would be so sad. Photo via Brave New Films Future NYU students may be living in a Wal-Mart dorm one day! Okay, that’s not quite true (yet!), but The…
Feb 21st
Project Runway Finalists Forced to Hide at Fashion... →
Even though there hasn’t been any glimmer of Project Runway’s upcoming sixth season on the television, the finale took place under the tents as part of Fashion Week earlier today….
Feb 21st
Citi ATM Fees Can Buy You 1.6 Common Shares →
A: Hat Tip to Johnny for pointing out. Quite a statistic huh? With Citibank charging $3 for ATM fees at their E 86th / Lexington branch, I could have purchase 1.6 shares of the glamorous Citigroup…
Feb 20th
Congress Wants WiFi Owners To Keep Log Files For 2... →
Similar ideas have been proposed before, but new bills have been proposed in both the House and the Senate that require anyone offering internet connectivity to retain log files for two years….
Feb 20th
The "Broken Windows" Theory of... →
Shared by felix this theory works for me and my desktop as well… as long as it’s clean I can keep keeping it clean. But as soon as an errant paper shows up… boom. 3 inches of crap. Evidence…
Feb 20th
Ricoh looks to increase dynamic range with CX1 →
Following the release of its CX1, CMOS-based, zoom-compact, we asked Ricoh about some of the technologies included in the camera. As well as using a CMOS sensor that allows rapid continuous…
Feb 20th
FiOSTV Tops In Satisfaction Survey - Time Warner... →
Shared by felix No crapping duh! I can *not* wait till FIOS rolls out TV in my building so I can stop giving Time Warner my cash. Grr.. Time Warner. Grr… A new report by research firm…
Feb 20th
How Much Will 'Good Enough' iPhone Rivals... →
Shared by felix is there even one successful *mainstream* phone with a slide out keypad? No one in the mobile industry has been able to capture the design and elegance of Apple’s iPhone…
Feb 20th
Do We Really Need Laws Banning Texting While... →
Shared by felix why is everyone’s first instinct to legislate? jeezuz. Over at CNET, a blogger is decrying the latest epidemic to hit New York City: people walking while texting on their phone….
Feb 20th
Valve Exec Explains How To Compete With Piracy →
Last month, an exec at Valve Software noted that “Pirates are underserved customers” and said when someone realizes that, they also discover: “I can do some interesting things and make some…
Feb 20th
U2 Album Leaks... Despite Ridiculous Attempts To... →
At some point, folks in the music industry are going to (finally) recognize a rather simple fact: it just takes one digital copy of a song/movie/whatever to get out there, and it’s everywhere. You…
Feb 20th
When in Borneo, be sure to check out the 100ft... →
Shared by felix why can’t these ever be real?? A giant, 100ft (30m) long water snake known as the “Borneo Monster” has allegedly been photographed not once, but twice. According to…
Feb 20th
Global myopia on iPhone features →
Shared by felix I like that the ex-nokia exec inists that it is Apple with a stubborn view of handsets. Hahaha. Tomi T Ahonen - Author, Consultant and Motivational Speaker - Author of six…
Feb 20th
AdSense now lets you change your fonts →
One of the main things about Google AdSense ads is that the font has always been the same boring style with no way for us to change them. Well, no longer according to a post on the…
Feb 20th