June 2009
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My favorite thing about Pulp Fiction
is that every significant plot point occurs while John Travolta is on the toilet.
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Password Masking: a good idea
This is the second in a series of two posts I’m calling “Dan Reacts to Nerdy Stuff John Gruber Links To.” Bear with me.
Web usability guy Jakob Nielsen thinks we should stop masking passwords (i.e., echoing • or * when characters are typed into password fields):
Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking...
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Asshole 101
Jeff Atwood:
Here’s how far I am willing to go: I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the original Apple Macintosh. Yes, I am dead serious. Just check back here in fifteen to twenty years to see if I was right. (Hint: I will be.)
Perfectly fine, if unoriginal, prediction. Yet those four unnecessary parenthetical words at the end instantly transform the...
Missed Connection Fan Fiction
liana:
Patty lit her second to last Virginia Slim and thumped down on the bed. The comforter was a flipped-around version of the curtains. Blue flowers on pink sky. Patty sighed once, then again, after she decided she deserved it. There was leftover Chinese in the fridge. Patty thought about that for a while. Mulled over the idea of cold broccoli in greasy peanut sauce. She lifted up her shirt and...
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Aha
You said something that contradicts an overgeneralization you never tried to make in the first place and I’m pointing this out because it somehow makes me feel better about my own ill-considered decisions of which I was never very confident and must therefore attempt to justify by belittling someone else who is already having a fairly shitty day even though we probably don’t disagree...
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This may be the most audaciously stupid song ever...
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Way to go, Twitter and NTT
Twitter just announced that they’ve talked their network host, NTT America, into rescheduling some planned downtime because of Twitter’s role in the Iran election protests, possibly in response to pressure from users:
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for...
“The problem here is, at some point before...
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Half a gram
sloganeerist:
Put less simply, food manufacturers are allowed to set their own serving sizes. No big deal, until the FDA decides to also let those manufacturers make a zero where there isn’t one. Specifically, if a manufacturer-determined serving size contains .5mg of Fat, they can call it 0mg of Fat. Legally. Absurdly. Insanely. Often the “low fat” version of a food is simply the original...
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“It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal” by...
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Twitter Power User Pro Tip++
Wanna know if someone follows someone else? Enter this in your browser’s address bar:
http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.html?user_a=biz&user_b=ev
Unmodified, this URL will tell you whether @biz follows @ev. So replace their names with those of the people you’re stalking interested in. You’ll get back a page containing the single word “true” or...
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sniff sniffsniff sniffsnufflesniff snufflesnuffleFACELICK
— The dog equivalent of date rape
On brain-searing
lonelysandwich:
BoA: Beat of Angel (권보아)
So I’m cutting a commercial and there’s a guy in the next bay over cutting a music video for pretty Korean lady who goes by the name of BoA, for “Beat of Angel”. Which is funny to me for two reasons.
The second reason is that I can’t help but think of Bank of America, what with her capitalization scheme. Maybe only funny to me.
The music is not good...
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Dear newspapers
You know how you’re dying and stuff? And you know how a lot of you do that “Registration required” thing that keeps potential new readers from seeing your articles online without entering personal information, which is useless to you anyway because it’s pretty much all made up? And you know how none of your competition does that, except for other dying newspapers?
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WatchI taught my dog to walk backwards. What have YOU done?
EDIT: No, I haven’t shaved his ass. Why does everyone keep asking me that?
“Damn, I thought we hid the baby-bunny bonus better than that.”
– Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment, in response to my investigative report on Tumblarity
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Can we calm down about Tumblarity please
It’s a very simple algorithm:
Start at zero.
For each “like” or “reblog” you’ve received in the past week, add one point.
For each new follower you’ve gained in the past week, add three points.
For each new follower who actually reads your posts and isn’t just trying to get you to follow back, add six points.
Does your blog have a nonsensical...
