October 2010
There is No New Media: It’s All New Consumption →
via alice
Om Malik on broadcasting :
The television industry, which is currently having its own Waterloo moment, is in trouble, because it never looked into the future and thought of itself as being part of the bigger business that is video.
“Pale, awkward and very very small. Form an orderly queue, gents.”
– Anna Kendrick
The AppleJack Project →
I strongly recommend any Mac OS X user to install AppleJack. When your system gets bogged down and keeps mudding about that stupid hard drive of yours, run it to get back to the snappy good old times of day one.
Updated for snow leopard. (for some reason had to plug a keyboard to get into single-user mode, but then it stopped working and my bluetooth keyboard kicked in. 0__o)_
Full text of Jon Stewart's ending speech at The... →
Good writer.
This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.
via soccernamlak on reddit
Sarkozy's Perfect Storm: French Fury Goes Beyond... →
Hear, hear.
The French are not just protesting to stop the retirement age from being raised. They are also fighting to save their country from government sleaze and the dismantling of democracy.
“The second dumbest bird in the world. Can only fly underwater.”
– Terry Pratchett, on penguins
“No sooner had I performed the familiar ritual and shed the familiar tears than...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Charlie Stross on the Macbook Air →
Stross shares his thoughts on the ipad, the air and the netbook “market.”
Apple are increasingly a consumer company. Their products are marketed at folks who, for the most part, want to Get Things Done, not tinker interminably under the hood. Making a Hackintosh work is somewhat similar to making Linux work on a laptop … back in 1995.
The economic fallacy of 'zombie' Japan | Steven... →
How, then, should we regard a country that has 5% unemployment, the lowest income inequality, healthcare for all its people and is one of the world’s leading exporters? This country also scores high on life expectancy, low on infant mortality, is at the top in numeracy and literacy, and is low on crime, incarceration, homicides, mental illness and drug abuse. It also has a low rate of...
Snow White design language →
The Snow White design language was an industrial design language developed by Frog Design, founded by Hartmut Esslinger. It was used by Apple Computer from 1984 to 1990. It is characterised by vertical and horizontal stripes acting as decoration and occasionally ventilation, as well as creating the illusion of the computer enclosure being smaller than it actually is.
via kottke
The Mortgage Fiasco in Simple Terms -Global... →
John Robb:
global banks wanted to take these dull mortgages and turn them into something institutional investors could purchase. So, they developed a complex process to do this.
First, they sold the loans to the institutional investors (as securities that they are allowed to purchase according to their charters) by removing the collateral, your home’s title, from the loan.
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Where Having It All Doesn’t Mean Having Equality -... →
Courtesy of the state, French women seem to have it all: multiple children, a job and, often, a figure to die for.
What they don’t have is equality: France ranks 46th in the World Economic Forum’s 2010 gender equality report, trailing the United States, most of Europe, but also Kazakhstan and Jamaica.
via anne fischler
“The consumerist society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have a...”
– Thom Yorke
“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
– Jim Rohn, via.
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating....”
– Steve Jobs. via .
