January 2010
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Seven DVDs a day?
whileyouweresleeping:
It’s hardly news that all y’all in the States are info junkies (to be sure, you’re not the only ones, but the story is about yanks, so shut up).
What’s pretty shocking is that whatever any of you sees/reads/hears/watches each day (EACH DAY!) on your spare time (SPARE TIME!) could fill 7 DVDs (SEVEN DVDs!).
Congratulations. That is a crapload of stuff. Now get out and...
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Michael: I'm not interested in you that way.
Tobias: What way?
Michael: Pick one.
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Tough love time
You guys are my world, my sun, my stars. But some of you are committing an act which can only rightly be called abuse, and it would be wrong of me to let it continue.
You are using the adjective “everyday” (which means “ordinary”) when you mean to use the adverb phrase “every day” (which means “daily”). You must stop this immediately.
Consider by...
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weselec:
To begin, I’m totally on board with what a mess AT&T is, and that it’s holding the iPhone back - but where’s Apple’s responsibility in the matter? Did they not look at quality of the technology and coverage before landing on AT&T as the prime choice? Seems more likely to me that because of their lousy upkeep, AT&T made a big fat juicy desperate target that Apple could...
“While I’m ranting, let me ask you something, Randall. At the risk of sounding...”
– Fake Steve Jobs, A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
Home. Fucking. Run.
New social networking rule
No one, under any circumstances, for any reason, is ever obligated to defend his or her “following” list to anybody.*
*Especially people who aren’t on it.
Backup app good, rich API better
funsizebytes:
marco:
The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta testing.
(There’s a lot more to this announcement at the original link.)
Wow.
First of all, understand that for all its years and popularity, even Flickr doesn’t have a “backup” app. Imagine the day when Flickr announces it is shutting down and you have 30 days to get all your stuff out of it. Do I expect that to...
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The Favrd Situation
I have more reason than most to appreciate Favrd. I’ve been fortunate enough to make friends with some of the most popular members of the Favrd Crowd and, as a direct result, I have a new career working with awesome people and doing something I enjoy. And thanks to the magic of Internet, I can live wherever I want. I’m incredibly lucky and immeasurably grateful to Dean for making that...
Decontextualization is death
jasonpermenter:
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I might not be the funniest, or cleverest, of Twitterers. But as someone who appreciates Twitter’s unique forum for this odd sort of artistic expression, I feel strongly that up-front attribution is often essential to the context of the humor. Some people might just not care, and that’s completely fine. Honestly. But, well….I actually don’t want my tweets to be...
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Southern Grammar Lesson
Y’ALL: You all
YA’LL: Ya (you) will; you’ll
Y’ALL’LL: You all will
YA’LL’LL: Syntax error (illegal operand)
ALL Y’ALL: I inexplicably refer to individuals as “y’all,” thereby necessitating a further syllable to disambiguate plural from singular constructions
CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN: Y’all heard of chicken fried steak?...
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