January 2012
nos dos yabanci Yes, konu komsi
There are no strangers amongst us; we are all...
– Turkish saying aligned with kuzguncuk. Large Jewish hood in Istanbul
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Morphine →
Today I am thankful for the chief isolator
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner who’s genius is allowing someone close to me a few moments of peace
Editorial: RIM's new CEO isn't the shakeup it... →
The real internet on a map →
★ On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch →
John Gruber, daringfireball.net
Daniel J. Wakin, reporting for the NYT: The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night. The…
★ Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education... →
John Gruber, daringfireball.net
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in a piece headlined “Apple’s Education Event Is Getting Seriously Over-Hyped”: We interviewed MacInnis over the weekend, and as near as we can tell, Foresman — and the 18 other reporters who followed his lead — g…
Muhammad Ali at 70: How the 'Louisville Lip'... →
yummy →
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
– Truman Capote (via quote-book)
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels....
– Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (via nevver)
December 2011
The Lifecycle of a Keurig Coffee K Cup →
SuperAmerica « Thought Catalog →
A. Because it has unearned authority in the American press. If in doing the...
– The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers » Pressthink
Found via John Gruber and I think Rosen’s entire self-interview is worth a read.
My gut tells me that Gruber linked to this because of this whole meme that MG, Marco, Ben Brooks and others are harping on — which is that technology...
bohemian slapfight: My non-eulogy of the day →
littleorphanammo:
A sometimes racist, sometimes kind of interesting, always controversial, mostly smug atheist died.
It’s awful to die in pain, for that I am sorry. I really didn’t care for the man, and many of his views seemed convoluted; Presented specifically to irritate, to inflame, to provoke. I can’t say I…
The Skip - James Fenton →
Check out this video on YouTube:
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Smartphone penetration skyrockets in 2011, iPhone... →
Apple begins international roll-out of iCloud’s... →
5 Internet Lies « Thought Catalog →
As a worshipper at the church of iPhone, I know all too well that checking your emails from the bar or in the middle of the night [ sad life :( ] leads to neglecting messages you would’ve otherwise answered, but let’s keep it real: between 10 PM and 6 AM, email is the credit card bill of the internet — received, read, ignored.
inothernews:
Jon Stewart’s brilliant (as usual) take on the whole advertiser controversy around All-American Muslim.
Because I missed it last night.