May 2010
33 posts
“Palermo is a Mafia rathole — a corrupt, crime-infested, economically challenged,...”
– http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/05/stink_of_palerm.php
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Wired Mag for iPad Beefs
Overall I really enjoyed reading Wired Mag for iPad today. I haven’t read Wired all the way through in years. This new app is beautifully designed and more elegant to use than I expected. But it’s not perfect at all. Here are my beefs:
• You can’t select text. The articles might as well be JPG images. Accordingly, text isn’t as sharp as it could be. Also, I’m not...
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Webvisions 2010 Left-hand Taps
(There are typos but these are notes)
How the weak win wars
The shining as buddy movie
Punchline is unexpected but logical in hindsight.
Flip everything upside down to see how it works.
Kill the violence, stop the gun ad
Socks are sold in pairs that match
Monocle magazine
Quit now bonus at zappos
El bulli
Eddie izzard.
Phillip kerman’s view of the iPad: apple boxed themselves...
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The three treasures
mnmal:
I have just three things to teach;
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
— Tao Te Ching
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946
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The Art of Being Ridiculous; or Why Being Serious... →
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Life is beautiful →
93-page report on iPad usability (iPad Usability:... →
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Ruby Fibers: 8 Useful Reads On Ruby’s New... →
If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life →
Formee - Fresh baked forms for your websites! →
Fears for crops as shock figures from America show... →
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