Uptonic

"The privacy implications are, of course, horrendous. And while Google will inevitably dismiss such..."

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:48:20 -0600

“The privacy implications are, of course, horrendous. And while Google will inevitably dismiss such concerns as paranoid and argue that any data the company might collect at the OS level will be used only to improve its services and benefit users, it should still give us all pause. Because when it is finally launched, Chrome OS will be yet one more deep well of consumer data to which Google will have access.”

- John Paczkowski (All Things Digital)

Vintage.

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:14:35 -0600

Vintage.

Embedded Video in Firefox 3.5. Snazzy.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:15:55 -0600

Embedded Video in Firefox 3.5. Snazzy.

"Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran’s Ministry..."

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:55:36 -0600

“Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior were manipulated. But taken together, they leave very little room for reasonable doubt. The probability that a fair election would produce both too few non-adjacent digits and the suspicious deviations in last-digit frequencies described earlier is less than .005. In other words, a bet that the numbers are clean is a one in two-hundred long shot.”

- Washington Post

Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:00:51 -0600

Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran

Coda: An Electric Car for the Rest of Us?

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:54:11 -0600

Coda: An Electric Car for the Rest of Us?

"There is bad taste and then there is this. What was going through the designer’s mind? “I’ll scale..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:45:24 -0600

“There is bad taste and then there is this. What was going through the designer’s mind? “I’ll scale it a little bit. Hmmm, maybe just a little more. More. More. I have so much power. I’m drunk in scaling power. More. More. Scale it more. Don’t stop. Do it. Okay, that’s enough.””

- Brand New reviews the Bing logo

"Never mistake a clear view for a short distance."

Sat, 23 May 2009 23:17:44 -0600

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”

- Paul Saffo, in a NY Times article on AI

"These are not tea-parties. They are tea-tantrums. And the adolescent, unserious hysteria is a..."

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:29:59 -0600

“These are not tea-parties. They are tea-tantrums. And the adolescent, unserious hysteria is a function not of a movement regrouping and refinding itself. It’s a function of a movement’s intellectual collapse and a party’s fast-accelerating nervous breakdown.”

- Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic

Taking WordPress Further

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:47:00 -0600

Taking WordPress Further: Several useful tips to better leverage WordPress as a CMS for your site.

BallDroppings.com

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:39:48 -0600

BallDroppings.com: Another fun javascript experiment. Find more like this at Chrome Experiments (webkit browser required in most cases).

"When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each..."

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:55:06 -0600

“When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions.”

- Doug Bowman, Stopdesign

"Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism."

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:51:26 -0600

“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

- Clay Shirky, shirky.com

"This is the peculiar thing about financial markets: if you know something bad is going to happen..."

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:59:43 -0600

“This is the peculiar thing about financial markets: if you know something bad is going to happen (you know, like the global collapse of the financial markets), you can either sound the alarm and save a lot of people a lot of grief or you can make a billion dollars.”

- Jason Kottke, kottke.org

"Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa) said AIG executives should “follow the Japanese example”..."

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:24:58 -0600

“Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa) said AIG executives should “follow the Japanese example” - apologize “and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.” He later said he didn’t mean that they should kill themselves.”

- Steve Israel, Newsday.com

Kids by MGMT played on iPhones and iPod Touches… via...

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:05:03 -0600

Kids by MGMT played on iPhones and iPod Touches… via @elephantjournal

3D Javascript Molecule Simulator

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:11:48 -0600

3D Javascript Molecule Simulator: Where was this when I was studying organic chemistry?

"But there’s absolutely nothing about Cramer that is unique when it comes to our press corps. ..."

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:21:40 -0600

“But there’s absolutely nothing about Cramer that is unique when it comes to our press corps. The behavior that Jon Stewart so expertly dissected last night is exactly what our press corps in general does — and, when compelled to do so, they say so and are proud of it.”

- Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com

“6th Sense” wearable tech from MIT brings surface...

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:30:31 -0600

“6th Sense” wearable tech from MIT brings surface computing to any surface.

Armstrong’s sweet new townie… Love the faux-rust...

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:37:07 -0600

Armstrong’s sweet new townie… Love the faux-rust paint job.