December 2008
25 posts
The Great Chess Doping Scandal →
When a judge asked Ivanchuk to submit to a drug test, he stormed out of the room in the conference center, kicked a concrete pillar in the lobby, pounded a countertop in the cafeteria with his fists and then vanished into the coatroom.
(via livejamie)
“Seems like the more an animal sucks at movement, the cuter it is.”
– Marco on cats. (via irc)
“I have confidence that, in no short order, Prop 8 will be repealed, and the gay...”
– John Hodgman (via Daring Fireball)
maniacalrage:
In case you’re curious, I don’t use LOL. I use “heh” for when something makes me smile, “hah” for when someone is being sarcastically funny and I smile, “haha” for when something is funny, and “hahaha” for when I actually laugh. Once you get to three HAs, everything after is a meter of just how much I’m actually laughing. I have written a few “hahahahahahaha” in my life, but it’s...
If Programming Languages were Religions... →
(via #neowin)
Apple: No Presence at Macworld Starting 2010
And it’ll be Phil Schiller, not Steve Jobs, doing the keynote in the last one, which is coming in a few weeks.
Linux, Stop Holding Our Kids Back →
I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.
(via inky)
Photoshop CS4 Installation Components
maniacalrage:
Adobe Extension Manger — “Easily install new extensions and manage the ones you already have.” Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever used this, but since it’s small (98MB) [emphasis added] it might be worth installing in case you need it.
Consider this, and consider the fact that the trial version of Fireworks CS4 for Mac is a 697.8 MB download, and then consider that Fireworks 8...
Stephen Colbert:
Agnostics are atheists without balls.
Cool! I never knew I’m a girl! (via wylie)
The new YouTube navigation is fugly, and the new search bar on the embedded videos is unnecessary and distracting.
Readers React to Review of BlackBerry Storm →
“I have serious doubts about your ability to evaluate tech.”
I want to say that about many reporters in the local newspapers. If you call the Android “Google Phone” (they were really talking about T-Mobile G1) and spell iPhone as IPHONE, you probably shouldn’t be writing about technology. But this is not a reporter in a local newspaper, this is David Pogue, I mean,...
“If your UI even vaguely resembles an airplane cockpit, you’re doing it wrong.”
– John Gruber (via wylie)
November 2008
28 posts
