I don’t mean to give anybody cognitive whiplash by going straight from “Robocop Rap” to this, but FYI: Lisp is awesome.
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dig if u will my internets
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Feb 07
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This is premium grade internets. I hope these guys adapt more movies into brit-hop.
I love that they even do interviews through a pitch-shifter.
The Knife On Its Darwin Electro-Opera - All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
Feb 04
i’ve really been trying to hold back on the ol’ iPad post plenty of people have done it. plenty of people way smarter than me but the above image to me, makes the reason for the iPad completely clear. if not read this and there plenty more where that came from. maybe this is all fanciful dreaming but i think we stand on the next revolution in computing. we are about to kill the mysticism of computing and that, my friends, is a great thing.
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Totally yes and great diagram to boot. The only person I’ve heard say that this is a bad thing is a unix sysadmin and doesn’t that just prove the point even further?
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Everybody can use a little Dinamic Excitement in mid-January.
Los Dinamicos Exciters - Let Me Do My Thing
Feb 02
Jan 31
Birds playing guitars. Yup.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London (via BarbicanLondon)
Jan 30
Jan 29
this one’s for @bengus and @yunicorn.
she’s like your friends older sister who you make out with for a whole summer before she goes off to college and then she gets in with the art crowd and everything sucks after that because you still watch cartoons.
Your MacBook had a grandpa. (via @jpfinley)
My boss asked for a reaction to the iPad
I’m not a tech blogger so thank god for small miracles. This is an email I sent to my boss after he asked for thoughts on the new iUnicorn. Ignore it if you already read everything about the iPad, but I thought it was a good enough summary of Apple’s product development philosophy that it was worth putting up for some SEO points.
What I’ve noticed about the reactions to the iPad is they fall into two camps. I’m not counting the third camp of people who endlessly repeated feminine hygiene product jokes as if that was the comedic revelation of the century. Don’t think Apple didn’t count on that either — their head of PR is named Katie Cotton, for chrissakes.
Anyway. The two camps: First group is people who weren’t at the event who are underwhelmed by the product because of the features they hoped it would have that it turned out not to have — i.e. e-ink, USB, video camera etc. Then there are the people who *were* at the event and got to play with the thing. Some of them did mention flaws in the product, but for the most part they are raving about it to the point where it was inducing contact embarrassment. Sure, Apple self-selects their demo audience to tilt things in their favor, but I seem to recall the exact same criticisms being made about the iPhone when it came out. And most of them are accurate to some extent, but it didn’t matter.
Here’s the thing about the Apple product team. They know what consumers *really* want. And they know that adding MORE features to the device just makes it Windows Mobile. So they add fewer features, and get better battery life and a simple and elegant use experience. As the product iterates they add more features one at a time, but they make sure that everything they add is necessary and that it works. So the iPhone still doesn’t have multitasking or magical animated desktop art. But it does have a calendar that always syncs and email that always downloads (assuming AT&T is up and running of course).
Jan 28
