February 2010
28 posts
Yelp and Punch →
Be careful what you Yelp; a crazy small-business owner just might show up at your door! The only way to get them to leave might be to punch and push them off your pourch! :-o
January 2010
8 posts
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Future Shock →
The Apple iPad: Enabling ‘real work’ by real people.
Future Shock: “The tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get ‘real work’ done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the ‘real work’.
It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the...
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Derek Powazek: What I Hope Apple Unleashes... →
marco:
(via John Gruber)
This sounds right. And this is why I’m so nervous and excited for the announcement: depending on the features of this product, it’s either going to completely exterminate Instapaper or be the perfect device for it.
I’m hoping the content created specifically for The Tablet is based on web-technologies; allowing access to the device’s gesture-based APIs. I want a...
99.99% Effective = 50% Bullshit →
“To cite a 99.9% fatality rate, manufacturers don’t have to kill 99.9% of all known bugs. Regulations don’t require them to disclose which bugs they exterminate, just that the products are effective against a representative sample of microbes.”
What’s the point of even washing my hands then?
“In one study in late 1990s, Navy recruits were directed by their commanding officers to wash at least...
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Where’s My Dongleware? →
I was sure the ZipCar iPhone App would allow me to be, literally, a back-seat driver… Steering the car with the built-in gyroscope. Bummer. I can honk the horn with it though; both entertaining and useful when in the vast Ikea parking-lot.
Still haven’t gone through a day and thought, I wish I could stick-that-in-my-iPhone. Specific iPhone hardware devices, practical?
Man flees in Munich airport laptop explosives... →
“A passenger fled from security officers after his laptop computer bag tested positive for explosives at an airport in Munich, the country’s federal police told CNN on Wednesday.”
(Via CNN.com.)
Hoping laptops won’t be banned from planes now…