Sunday, January 13, 2013 
Doc Searls on Aaron Swartz, including pictures, and an extensive set of links to other remembrances.
blogs.law.harvard.edu 
Carmelo Anthony has been fasting for 15 days. He broke his fast today. With some Honey Nut Cheerios?? :-)
sbnation.com We had excellent seats at Barclays Center tonight. And the Nets/Pacers played great basketball. Wonderful time.
flickr.com What Do You Think of People Without Facebook Accounts?
gizmodo.com Anthony's Big Second Quarter Helps Knicks End Skid.
nytimes.com There are four NYers on the Supreme Court, all from different boroughs.
nytimes.com Jack Lew, Tim Geithner: the treasury's new boss, same as the old boss.
guardian.co.uk Hurricane-Flooded Cars Lure Unwitting Buyers. (Amazing story.)
nytimes.com Topless Protesters, Tortured by KGB, Plan World Domination.
bigthink.com 3 Storytelling Tips From "Breaking Bad" Creator Vince Gilligan.
fastcocreate.com Thousands of Russians Rally Against Adoption Ban. #hope
nytimes.com Aaron Swartz: Look at yourself objectively. (Great story.)
aaronsw.com Knicks Use Day of Rest to Focus on Defense.
nytimes.com
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Treasury Will Not Mint $1 Trillion Coin to Raise Debt Ceiling.
nytimes.com Cyrus: Aaron Swartz and me, over a loosely intertwined decade.
arstechnica.com NYT: Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Dies at 26.
nytimes.com Scripting News: People are asking about the history of RSS today because of Aaron's passing.
threads2.scripting.com A Talk With Directors Rejected by Sundance Festival.
nytimes.com Major report warns climate change could raise temperatures by 10 degrees.
thehill.com Snow-making with recycled sewage in Arizona is yellow. They say it's not what you think it is. :-)
green.blogs.nytimes.com Yoko Ono, in Albany, Raises Her Voice Against Hydraulic Fracturing.
nytimes.com
Friday, January 11, 2013
Flickr: I was at the Knicks "game" tonight.
flickr.com Vince Gilligan on Writing Breaking Bad's Finale.
vulture.com Betaworks and Fictive Kin Team Up To Help with the Fun Part of Your To-Do List.
betabeat.com 2013 Sundance Film Festival Livestream Schedule.
sundance.org Pete Rose's new reality show "tests positive for tedium."
tv.nytimes.com AT&T; Seeks Innovation in Internet-Based Telephone Services. (Would have interested me, in the past.)
technologyreview.com "Rapidly declining advertising revenue" at the NY Times.
nymag.com Walker, twice-elected goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch to manage midwest subsidiary formerly known as Wisconsin.
esquire.com My Twitter avatars are inspired by the guy on 30 Rock with the hats. :-)
google.com We should stop arguing about or discussing the Republican terrorism until after they blow something up.
nymag.com Daisy the Puppy Can't Quite Figure Out Stairs, Simon Shows Her How.
youtube.com Re the trillion dollar coin: "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
en.wikipedia.org
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Spike Lee commercial for NBA with Chris Paul, Steve Nash, Magic Johnson.
youtube.com Wikimedia Foundation launches travel site 'Wikivoyage'.
news.cnet.com I decided over the holidays to move scripting.com to a static site running on Amazon S3.
threads2.scripting.com Quentin Tarantino: 'I'm shutting your butt down!'
youtube.com Ezra Klein says no to the trillion dollar coin, because it wouldn't address the real problem, lunatic Republicans.
washingtonpost.com I added the two NY Times podcasts feeds to my podcast reading list. (Thanks to @cbasturea.)
dl.dropbox.com I'd like to find the RSS feeds for the NYT podcasts. Anyone have an idea where they are??
nytimes.com Nobody Said 'Racial Equality' in 1865: The Anachronistic English of 'Lincoln.'
theatlantic.com Russ Feingold: Democrats Sold Out in 2012 and Need to Quit Big Money.
motherjones.com Wikimedia Foundation's travel guide site Wikivoyage set to go live on January 15th.
theverge.com Devs: If you're using the new static sites feature on S3 here's something to watch for.
threads2.scripting.com Americans Under 50 Fare Poorly on Health Measures, New Report Says.
nytimes.com Finally, a no-bullshit list of Oscar nominees.
slate.com Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? #insiders
guardian.co.uk Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan?
theawl.com Hank Greenberg Should Be Shot into Space For Suing the Government over the AIG Bailout. #chutzpah
rollingstone.com
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
This fantastic aerial photo of NYC turns Manhattan into 'Sim City'.
theverge.com Planet Money: Turning A Boom Town Into A Real Town.
npr.org Carmelo Anthony of New York Knicks suspended one game.
espn.go.com Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett Spat Is Much Ado About Honey Nut Cheerios.
bleacherreport.com Quickly De-Stink Your House by Cooking Vanilla Extract or Any Essential Oil.
lifehacker.com Steve Ballmer-led group to buy Sacramento Kings, bring basketball back to Seattle.
theverge.com How KKK rally image found new life 20 years after it was published.
poynter.org Watch Out CNN: New Twitter Search Capabilities Will Rule Breaking News. #toldyouso
readwrite.com T-Mobile is right -- there is a position for a carrier that doesn't try to scam its customers.
bits.blogs.nytimes.com Ferry Accident in Lower Manhattan Leaves Many Injured.
nytimes.com App makers highlight TV's utter failure to help you find anything good to watch.
theverge.com Dozens Injured as Commuter Ferry Slams into Pier Near Wall Street.
gawker.com The New York Public Library has a collection of over 16000 restaurant menus.
menus.nypl.org Call Time For Congress Shows How Fundraising Dominates Bleak Work Life.
huffingtonpost.com Steve Jobs Memorial Unveiled in Russia.
en.rian.ru How Accurate Is Quentin Tarantino's Portrayal of Slavery in Django Unchained?
newyorker.com Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained deserves an Oscar as Stephen, Quentin Tarantino's best character yet.
slate.com Django Unchained action figures outrage US black activists.
guardian.co.uk Why The 'Mint The Coin' Debate Could Be The Most Important Fiscal Policy Debate You'll Ever See In Your Life.
businessinsider.com
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Eric Schmidt's North Korea show-and-tell: one strange photo op.
guardian.co.uk Short skirts, bad stars and chow mein: why India's women get raped.
blogs.reuters.com Anthony - I Wanted to Talk, Not Fight, With Garnett.
nytimes.com Queens Wants to Transform an Abandoned Railway into a Park.
nytimes.com With Funding For Svbtle, Dustin Curtis Wants To Build A Business In Long-Form Online Content.
techcrunch.com Wired: Games We're Dying To Play In 2013.
wired.com Svbtle has raised money from SV Angel, CrunchFund, Betaworks.
blog.svbtle.com Actually Evernote for the fridge makes lots of sense. I want to leave a note for my kids from work.
pandodaily.com U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC's Chelsea Neighborhood.
techcrunch.com Matt Mullenweg: "A completely revamped reader is launching this week."
ma.tt How long will Twitter allow users like AP to sell their own ads?
paidcontent.org WNYC: Online 'Slut Shaming' A New Level Of Cyberbullying For Girls.
wnyc.org Nearly Half of Sun-Like Stars May Have Earth-Like Planets.
wired.com
Monday, January 07, 2013
Isaiah Sheffer, 76, a Founder of Symphony Space, Dies.
nytimes.com Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, Dies at 91.
nytimes.com Update on the Twitter Archive At the Library of Congress.
loc.gov Digital Globes, a New Way to View the World.
nytimes.com In Apple's War on Taxes, Surrender Costs $28 Billion.
wired.com Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack.
nymag.com America's fiscal challenges: It's not them, it's you.
economist.com I don't know about you, but I'm really burnt out on the Republican Party. Can't they take a hint!
youtube.com Obama Can Ignore the Debt Ceiling. (Really. We all understand the Repubs are being children. Ignore them.)
wonkwire.com At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales).
nytimes.com Identity thieves go shopping for Apple products.
reuters.com Proof That Google Plus Will Prevail. (It's even more insidious than he says.)
fastcompany.com Ford inks deal with Glympse for hands-free location sharing.
geekwire.com Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt of Google Visit North Korea.
nytimes.com
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Don't miss the oppty to clean house and have a great rest of your life, even if you haven't narrowly escaped death.
threads2.scripting.com There are events in life -- a breakup, a death, an illness -- that make a change of address good medicine.
nytimes.com NBA Top 5 Plays of the Week: Jeremy Lin No-Look Pass, JR Smith's Alley-Oop.
latinospost.com "Dave Winer linked to me." -- great honor to have my own @gapingvoid cartoon. :-)
flickr.com
Saturday, January 05, 2013
What the developers of the software were thinking when they designed it. (I blog that as I ship a product.)
prog21.dadgum.com Wondering if Congress knows its Library is archiving tweets that favor abolishing the 2nd amendment.
mashable.com Library of Congress Has Now Archived 170 Billion Tweets. #ridiculous
mashable.com Big Battles Ahead, Divided G.O.P. Begins Soul-Searching.
nytimes.com Customer Reviews: Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.
amazon.com Scare Amplifies Fears That Clinton's Work Has Taken Heavy Toll.
nytimes.com Richard Branson: Top 10 tips for making lists. (#11. Use an outliner.)
virgin.com Some Schools Buy New Chairs, in a Break With the Past.
nytimes.com
Friday, January 04, 2013
Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin and recent runner-up for vice-president.
esquire.com Venezuela's next leader may be chosen in Cuba.
qz.com As soon as Kerry gets confirmed, Elizabeth Warren is the senior senator from Massachusetts
esquire.com On of my photos was chosen by Flickr fo their New Years collection.
flickr.com Eighty-Six Minutes of Joe Biden Being Incredible.
slate.com Recreational marijuana users could get pot from vending machines, company says.
usnews.nbcnews.com Fresh Air: Quentin Tarantino on Django Unchained.
npr.org Tarantino grilled on NPR about movie violence. (Terry Gross.)
usatoday.com
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Conservative discovers that Obama might not be a socialist trying to destroy America.
slate.com Thread: Medicine is stuck in the 20th century. (Best part of this post are the comments.)
threads2.scripting.com Middle-aged people -- like me-- often look back on our teenage selves with some mixture of amusement and chagrin.
nytimes.com The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected.
economist.com Subway Deaths Haunt Those at Trains' Controls.
nytimes.com Member of file-sharing group given 5 years in prison for uploading movies.
theverge.com Soon, everyone with a Facebook account could have a new way to take phone calls.
buzzfeed.com Gregg Popovich of San Antonio Spurs not resting any players against New York Knicks tonight.
espn.go.com Twitter Replaces Facebook -- As Tech's IPO Obsession.
wired.com Retired Yakima surgeon among 9 physicians with top medical marijuana caseloads in Oregon.
yakimaherald.com This is what www.scripting.com looked like in November 1996.
web.archive.org Why Congress's Digital Archive For Text Messages Is Such A Bad Idea.
readwrite.com I created a list of my favorite movies at listnerd.com. Not sure if you can see it.
listnerd.com How American CEOs' push for a fiscal deal paid off: It's not about NASCAR or Hollywood.
qz.com
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Fluckr: Thought I'd watch some CurrentTV on TWC.
flickr.com Flickr: Ice on the lake in Central Park.
flickr.com Governor Christie: Natural Disasters Don't Happen In Red States Or Blue States.
youtube.com What happened to netbooks? Apple's iPad and Macbook Air killed the $400 former future of computing.
slate.com Christie lambasts House Republicans over Sandy bill: 'Shame on Congress'.
guardian.co.uk Check this out. One of the big electronic signs in Times Square is interactive! Real Minority Report stuff. (Almost.)
threads2.scripting.com List of 25+ top journalism & freelance writing conferences for 2012-13.
michellerafter.com This is how I get my news. No big tech company decides what I need to see. I do my own programming.
tabs.mediahackers.org Boehner: "Go fuck yourself." I don't think he was just talking to Harry Reid there.
slate.com Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project
forbes.com Idea for Amazon S3: 1. User uploads a zip file to a bucket. 2. Right click. 3. Choose "Unzip here". 4. The archive is expanded in place.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Forever21 Times Square Billboard on Vimeo.
vimeo.com Breakaway Oil Rig Runs Aground in Gulf of Alaska.
nytimes.com GOP Congressmen Suggest Republican Senators Who Voted For 'Fiscal Cliff' Compromise Were Drunk.
thinkprogress.org scripting.com is now an S3 site. Look ma, no server! :-)
scripting.com "Minority Report" huge color screens come to Times Square. Can you find the geek? They did! :-)
flickr.com What Does The Fiscal Cliff Debacle Say About Our Chances To Avoid The Far More Worrisome Climate Cliff?
thinkprogress.org Cleaning up the glitter this morning in Times Square.
flickr.com Republican: "We should not take a package put together by a bunch of octogenarians on New Year's Eve."
washingtonpost.com I'm moving scripting.com to S3 and have a question for people familiar with the Amazon's REST API re dates.
threads2.scripting.com Can you see the geek? (Times Square spots me, shows my picture. Hello Minority Report!)
flickr.com NYC is amazing. The morning after, all that remains is a little glitter.
flickr.com
Monday, December 31, 2012
The fiscal cliff: How will Americans afford to make their cereal delicious?
economist.com "The deal gives Repubs carte blanche to take America hostage again in a month over raising the debt limit."
tnr.com BusinessWeek: On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Are Blowing a Great Deal.
businessweek.com Chait: Why Is Obama Caving on Taxes?
nymag.com Saying Silicon Valley thinks college is a waste is like saying Hollywood is fighting piracy.
threads2.scripting.com Where to celebrate New Year's Eve in New York City.
nytix.com Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film.
fastcocreate.com
Sunday, December 30, 2012
"We'll meet again. Don't know where. Don't know when."
m.youtube.com Is it just me or does anyone else see an uncanny resemblance betw @krauthammer and Dr Strangelove? #meinfuhrer
m.youtube.com Kim Dotcom To Host Mega's Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month.
techcrunch.com Today's piece has gotten 2881 hits so far from Twitter, and approx 20000 hits from elsewhere. So there is life after Twitter. :-)
I think I just ordered NBA League Pass for the rest of the season. I want to watch Houston vs OKC tonight.
nba.com NYC Finally Gets Realtime Subway Schedule App.
core77.com How The Huang Brothers Bootstrapped Guitar Hero To A Billion Dollar Business.
techcrunch.com A Rush to Split Up Big Bank Deposits to Keep Them Safe.
nytimes.com We should strive not to create better billionaires, we should set our sights higher -- to create better voters.
threads2.scripting.com "An ignorant citizen is a traitor to an open society."
tnr.com
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Deserves another link: Amazon got the last feature in needed to implement static sites in S3. Good work.
threads2.scripting.com Woman Is Held in Death of Man Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Queens.
nytimes.com Reducing "Zero Dark Thirty" to a partisan argument about torture misses the big questions it raises about America.
salon.com The business of ice removal is totally different than snow shovelling.
newyorker.com Woman Is Held in Death of Man Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Queens.
nytimes.com No One Uses Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks.
wired.com Memphis Aims to Be a Friendlier Place for Cyclists.
nytimes.com A Rare Choreography for Riders Caught Between an F and an M.
nytimes.com Why has Python 3 not seen much adoption yet? #breakage
codepad.org
Friday, December 28, 2012
A row of crayons gets demolished by a fast moving steel ball. About 550fps.
flickr.com Eli Manning, Jeremy Lin and Raul Ibanez provided 2012's top sports memories.
nypost.com Jean Harris, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor killer, dies.
cbsnews.com Ray Collins of the Mothers of Invention Dies.
nytimes.com Amar'e Stoudemire to come off bench for New York Knicks, sources say.
espn.go.com How a bogus claim about Instagram losing users made Facebook's stock drop nearly 3%.
qz.com Yes we need libraries. 1. For children, a quiet thought refuge. 2. To preserve our history, on a neighborhood level.
nytimes.com The Amazon static sites feature could be simplified, if they relaxed the per-user limit of 100 buckets.
threads2.scripting.com NY Post: Instagram "may have shed nearly a quarter of its daily active users in the wake of the debacle.."
nypost.com Amazon has finished static hosting in S3. Next: Increase per-user limit on S3 buckets. 100 is not enough.
threads2.scripting.com My test site, bloatware.org, is being served in a bucket on S3. Happy! :-)
bloatware.org Re: Amazon and static sites. They do it the right way. Not via redirect, via a (welcome) DNS hack.
threads2.scripting.com I'm checking out the new Amazon static sites feature. The jury is still out on whether it's what we're waiting for.
threads2.scripting.com Andy Moe is a programmer because of Joel, Philip and myself. What an honor to be included in this group.
news.ycombinator.com
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Man Is Pushed to His Death Under Train in Queens.
nytimes.com I always thought libraries were for children. A place to think and read when life at home isn't quiet enough.
nytimes.com Joan Walsh: Hang tough, Mr President.
salon.com Indian Teen Who Was Gang-Raped Commits Suicide After Police Refuse to Investigate Attackers.
gawker.com "Dave Winer linked to me." I've been looking for this Hugh MacLeod cartoon from 2006 for a long time.
flickr.com It's pretty ballsy to call your sexting app Poke.
slate.com Another thing wrong with the NYT paywall is that you sign up online, but to cancel you have to call. No deal.
nytimes.com FreshAir interview with Django Unchained star Christoph Waltz.
npr.org Every app is an island and that's just the way Apple wants it.
pandodaily.com Looks Like PBS Made A 'Silicon Valley' TV Show That Could Really Be Worth Watching.
techcrunch.com If you're starting a company, read this piece, now: Why Founders Shouldn't Be The Developers.
zemanta.com Conventional wisdom is always wrong. It wouldn't need to be CW if it were factually true.
Nate Silver is a carrier of The Blogging Cause. Believe your eyes and ears, and your mind, not conventional wisdom.
threads2.scripting.com My choice for BOTY is someone you might not have heard of, unless you were a techie in the early days of the web.
threads2.scripting.com What Happens when You are The Doctor on the Airplane?
cockeyed.com
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Yes, Randi Zuckerberg, Please Lecture Us About `Human Decency'.
readwrite.com Huge Shark Tank Breaks Inside Chinese Mall, 15 People Injured.
gizmodo.com Potent Storm Hits Wide Swath of U.S. and Moves East.
nytimes.com Itchy and Scratchy in Reservoir Cats. (Warning: Decapitation.)
dailymotion.com A valuable lesson from Randi Zuckerberg: Facebook is as messy as the end of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
gigaom.com
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
When I want to check for messages on one of my many devices, I pull off to the side and stop.
threads2.scripting.com In N.B.A. on Christmas Day, at the Intersection of Religion and Realism.
nytimes.com USATODAY has a weather news feed, but it hasn't updated since Sept. Not really "news."
content.usatoday.com Justin Hall is looking for an editor to compile web site pages into eBook. (Me too.)
sfbay.craigslist.org It's always fun to take pictures of the streets of NYC on Christmas Day. #empty
flickr.com Man Who Shot Firefighters in Webster, N.Y., Left Note, Police Say. (And he used a Bushmaster.)
nytimes.com Bad guy with a car runs down students in China.
nytimes.com Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime.
gigaom.com Random observation: @joetrippi could play the lead in the Jack Klugman biopic.
guardian.co.uk Someday you'll mention the idea of a printed magazine and a young person will have no idea what you're talking about.
threads2.scripting.com I still think it's hilarious to see a person walking down the street talking to no one.
threads2.scripting.com Durning was in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" -- a Coen Brothers movie.
en.wikipedia.org Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89.
nytimes.com
Monday, December 24, 2012
I'm hearing lots of reports of AWS problems, but they are not showing up in their feeds.
static.scripting.com Netflix streaming down on some devices thanks to Amazon issues.
theverge.com Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit.
reuters.com 4 firefighters shot, 2 killed at Webster, N.Y., fire.
usatoday.com Five NBA games tomorrow. None today.
nba.com John Miller of CBS, at Home on Both Sides of the Police Tape.
nytimes.com Wired: Tim O'Reilly's Key to Creating the Next Big Thing. (What a puff piece. I hope he paid for this ad.)
wired.com Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards, but Sends Kids to High-Security School.
weeklystandard.com
Sunday, December 23, 2012
It's been a bit over a year since I deleted my Facebook account. Quitting was easier than quitting cigarettes.
scripting.com Anthony's Big Finish Rallies Knicks Past Wolves. (The Knicks had *heart* tonight. Very nice win.)
nytimes.com Is there a standard or best-practices doc that says what email clients do with script and style in messages?
threads2.scripting.com West Antarctic Warming Faster Than Thought, Study Finds.
nytimes.com Mitt Romney Never Wanted to be President.
gawker.com Boston Globe: The story behind Mitt Romney's loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama.
bostonglobe.com American conservatism has been rendered a parody of a burlesque of a puppet show.
esquire.com Flickstagram will import all your Instagram photos directly to Flickr.
flickstagram.org
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Re irregardless -- there is such a word. But it's irridiculous. Use regardless instead. :-)
merriam-webster.com Thread: NBA All-star picks. (Basically the Rockets plus Kevin Durant against the Knicks/Nets with LeBron James.)
threads2.scripting.com 'Minecraft: the Story of Mojang' now available on The Pirate Bay courtesy of its producers.
theverge.com NYT editorial: The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hole.
nytimes.com Apparently Murdoch isn't pwned by the NRA. Maybe their lunacy trumps his. Trump!
If you're a developer, we have eight full Twitter archives kindly donated by users so we can develop apps with them.
threads2.scripting.com Xeni: "Zero Dark Thirty" not good enough to justify torture fantasies. (Totally agree.)
boingboing.net New York Newspapers Slam the Wacky NRA Vice President.
gawker.com Evan Williams's Advice to Start-Ups: Don't Be Too Data-Driven.
bo.lt Series A crunch --> Good time to start something new. Less crowded. Easier to find talented people to join you.
pandodaily.com Django Unchained is still opening on Christmas Day.
google.com 'Snow Fall' Isn't the Future of Journalism? (Perhaps. But moon missions can create commercial features.)
nytexaminer.com Flickr is making its unlimited Pro service, normally $25 a year, free for three months.
businessinsider.com Instagram Reversal Doesn't Appease Everyone.
nytimes.com
Friday, December 21, 2012
Anthony and 3 Others Are Ejected as Bulls Beat Knicks.
nytimes.com Chait: Obama Waking Up From Dream of Grand Bargain.
nymag.com Knicks made Amar'e Stoudemire 'available for free' this summer, according to report.
sports.yahoo.com "Messages sent through Poke self-destruct after up to 10 seconds. Surely this won't cause any trouble."
technologyreview.com Marijuana, Not Yet Legal for Californians, Might as Well Be.
nytimes.com Roots of John Kerry's secretary of state ambition lie in wake of 2004 defeat.
boston.com A Reminder of What Midwest Winters Are About.
nytimes.com Esquire: Why We Can't Stop Rampage Shooters.
esquire.com Alec Perkins put his Twitter archive on GitHub.
github.com Doc Searls on The Hobbit: Every battle is as predictable as professional wrestling.
movies.scripting.com I use GEICO for car insurance. Just gotta say their website is a marvel of efficiency. Study how they do it, and learn.
NYT: Kerry Is Pick for Secretary of State, Official Says.
nytimes.com Great picture of John Boehner looking like he just lost his best friend.
gawker.com
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Are you searching for the perfect tweet-parlay? Look no further.
twitter.com Is Stoudemire still essential to the Knicks' cause?
nytimes.com Gizmodo: Stop Misleading People On Twitter, You Idiots.
gizmodo.com Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers.
venturebeat.com Ryan Tate is releasing Typingpool, "software that makes audio transcriptions easier and cheaper."
tumblr.ryantate.com Thread: Sometime early in the boot-up of the blogosphere, April Fools became an odd tradition.
threads2.scripting.com Watch the snowstorm in Madison on this webcam, realtime.
union.wisc.edu Next Challenge for the Health Law: Getting the Public to Buy In.
nytimes.com At Queens High Rise, Fear, Death and Myth Collided.
nytimes.com Birdwatchers angry as viral video is exposed as hoax.
theweek.co.uk
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty "leaves you drained, sweaty-palmed, and morally queasy -- sort of like the war on terror itself."
slate.com Man shot at St. Pete pizza joint had been complaining about slow service.
tampabay.com Argument Over Sandy Hook Shooting Ends in Gunfire.
gawker.com Twitter gives the boot to popular Anonymous account, but it comes back to life.
venturebeat.com On Christmas Cards and the Death of Handwriting.
gawker.com Filter by the Truth On the (Social) Media.
medium.com The NYT interviews writer and director Quentin Tarantino
nytimes.com I don't say Andreessen is wrong, from his point of view the web never really was that wonderful.
threads2.scripting.com NYT: Robert H. Bork, Conservative Jurist, Dies at 85.
nytimes.com Perhaps Newtown could lead the country in answering the What-To-Do-About-Gun-Violence question?
threads2.scripting.com I think we understand what Instagram is doing, and I think the reaction in the tech press was appropriate.
slate.com The Matrix added to National Film Registry. "There is no spoon."
usatoday.com Still true, and meaningful: "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."
powazek.com ICANN has already made $350 million from the TLD application process.
itwire.com Iconic Wright brothers photo was photographer's first.
theverge.com Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star.
bbc.co.uk Spiegel: Guantanamo Torture Should Be Declassified to Counter Zero Dark Thirty.
spiegel.de Wired: Almost Everything You've Heard About the North Korean Space Launch Is Wrong.
wired.com
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
BBC: Prosecutors clarify offensive online posts law.
bbc.co.uk "The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
blogs.wsj.com November: How to help the open web. Things you can do, today, to make the web work better.
threads2.scripting.com AARP's Top 10 Movies for Grown-Ups. Argo, Amour, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Hitchcock, Les Miserables, Lincoln...
nytimes.com If you're using Instagram and care about your creative work, or your word, you're an idiot to keep using it.
threads2.scripting.com NY Post: Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete?
nypost.com Zuckerberg Photographer Noah Kalina Complains About Instagram Changes.
allthingsd.com Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer among TIME Person of the Year finalists.
slashgear.com GigaOM tests out New York's coworking spaces.
gigaom.com Ayy, my new iMac makes a screeching loud ping sound when a SMS comes in. I have no idea where it's coming from. Lovely.
Meet the private equity firm that dominates the US gun industry -- but no longer wants to.
qz.com Microsoft Turns Subway Car Into a Pink Nightmare.
mashable.com The US is not Israel. Look at a map and you'll see why.
usatoday.com Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos.
news.cnet.com I'm glad *someone* criticizes Shirky. He's smart, for sure, but he can also be very wrong.
mobile.twitter.com Jeremy Lin shows New York Knicks why he's a keeper.
espn.go.com
Monday, December 17, 2012
Jeremy Lin Helps Hand Knicks Their First Home Loss.
nytimes.com Hurricane Sandy. Sandy Hook Elementary. Who is Sandy and why is he or she screwing around with the northeastern United States?
Did you notice that Abu Nazir's last name begins with Nazi?
sho.com It might not have been the return of Linsanity, but there was some of that familiar magic.
usatoday.com See what guns do to the bodies of innocent children, teachers, psychologists and school administrators.
threads2.scripting.com If you want the Mac scrollbars to behave somewhat rationally, you have to go to Settings > General. Screen shot.
static.scripting.com 'SpongeBob Diner Dash' pulled from App Store after privacy complaints.
theverge.com 66 people agree that the Flickr API should be a National Historic Landmark. We can do better. Sign now!
petitions.whitehouse.gov Wired: Why We Need to Protect Some APIs -- Like Flickr's -- As National Landmarks.
wired.com North Korean Satellite Most Likely Dead, Astronomers Say. (This should be scaring people as much as Newtown.)
nytimes.com Columbine wasn't enough. Virginia Tech wasn't enough.
esquire.com In Newtown, Conn., a Stiff Resistance to Gun Restrictions.
nytimes.com David Gregory asks them serious questions about which they have serious bullshit to say.
threads2.scripting.com Watching pornography online 'can cause memory loss'. (What day is it?)
theweek.co.uk Dukakis seen as possible Senate replacement if Kerry tapped for State.
thehill.com "Did we just kill a kid?" he asked the man sitting next to him. "Yeah, I guess that was a kid," the pilot replied.
spiegel.de Obama Expected to Name Kerry as Secretary of State.
nytimes.com Slate kibitzing re Homeland. They're too serious, it's just a TV show.
slate.com Flickr is not, for many users, a free service. I've been a paying Pro user since the start, in 2004.
flickr.com
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Raymond Felton, a Knick Who Didn't Want to Go, Is Glad to Be Back.
nytimes.com Raymond Felton hopes New York Knicks fans welcome Jeremy Lin warmly.
espn.go.com The Twitter archive looks to be useful. Tweets are available in JSON and CSV formats. One file per month.
threads2.scripting.com Update: Thanks to Navjot Singh, I now have a Twitter archive, and am uploading and documenting it. Stay tuned.
threads2.scripting.com Idea: Sub-titles for "Gangnam Style" like the ones we used to have for Hitler.
youtube.com Let's explore Twitter new archive format. (If you have the feature activated, please read. If not, please RT.)
threads2.scripting.com Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets.
thenextweb.com It's time for a meaningful, nation-wide conversation about mental health.
readability.com Google's sync changes are going to screw Gmail users on Windows Phone.
thenextweb.com
Saturday, December 15, 2012
How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour.
24ways.org Petition: Declare Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, requiring it to be maintained as an open resource.
petitions.whitehouse.gov TechCrunch: Google Could Loosen Amazon's Cloud Grip With Pay-Per-Use API Services.
techcrunch.com Adam Lanza's Mother, His First Victim, Was a Gun Enthusiast, Friends Say.
nytimes.com Google drops a Gmail-shaped bomb on Windows Phone.
theverge.com Amazon.com: Camouflage Military BDU Pants, Army Cargo Fatigues (Polyester/Cotton Twill).
amazon.com Washington Post Moves Social Reader Off Facebook. #sanity
mashable.com 6 extensions that help supercharge Kevin Tofel's Chromebook.
gigaom.com Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist.
wired.com Microsoft Battles Google by Hiring Political Brawler Mark Penn.
nytimes.com And they sang about guns as well. But that does not mean that guns == cars.
youtube.com Donnie Andrews, Basis for Omar of 'The Wire,' Dies at 58.
nytimes.com
Friday, December 14, 2012
Futurist Ray Kurzweil joins Google, will focus on machine learning and language processing.
theverge.com NYU Local: Citi Bike's Arrival Just The Latest Signal Of Changing New York Bicycle Culture.
nyulocal.com US Transgender Basketball Player Jumps Through Hoops to Compete.
en.rian.ru Jeff Jarvis on why it's a good idea to hold or qualify your tweets in times of big breaking news.
buzzmachine.com Engadget: Does Windows Phone even have a chance without Google?
engadget.com Michigan: Trained gun owners can now carry weapons in schools, day care centers, stadiums and churches.
freep.com Do you remember Love Canal? How many of those are we creating on the Internet right now?
en.wikipedia.org The Sullivan piece crosses access journalism by talking about it. This is forbidden by unwritten rules.
threads2.scripting.com Previous public editors tried to dish up the mess in a recipe palatable to the journalists who are playing footsie..
threads2.scripting.com Marc Andreessen and the Middle Class.
nymag.com Felix Salmon defends the DealBook conference, in support of "access journalism," which is imho a disease.
blogs.reuters.com President Obama Says Marijuana Users Not High Priority in Drug War.
abcnews.go.com Krugman always says "the sky is falling" but there must be something we can do. He never says.
nytimes.com This soundbite from Bourne Legacy became the punchline of many of the #njff jokes this year.
static.scripting.com The problem with ending deductions is the Repubs will sneak them back in there.
thedailybeast.com If you were a movie industry insider you could go to special awards screenings.
twcguilds.com
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Bourne: "I've got a plan. Wait for the next person to show up to kill you. Maybe they can help me."
static.scripting.com Instead of lamenting about how screwed everything is, do something about it. Help the web.
threads2.scripting.com Knicks' Success Began With Woodson Challenging His Stars.
nytimes.com Museum of Mathematics at Madison Square Park.
nytimes.com Seattle is the latest city to go around ISPs to get a gigabit network.
gigaom.com Yes sir. If my friend @gruber were a bit more outgoing and open minded, he could have all he wants. :-)
blog.phoenixtrap.com Breaking news: Republicans don't actually care about deficits. #tellwolfblitzer
nymag.com There should be lots of news and reviews on the Movies river tonight. #thursday #december
tabs.mediahackers.org Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content. #sanity
gigaom.com I want to install the Mac App Store from Apple on one of my Macs. This is where you go. But what to click? No clue.
apple.com Arizona funnels business to CCA through its school-to-prison pipeline.
guardian.co.uk Eight things Marc Andreessen said to Quartz that made us sit up and listen. (Okay.)
qz.com North Korean satellite in orbit after rocket launch.
cbc.ca Google boss: I'm very proud of our tax avoidance scheme. Calls it capitalism.
independent.co.uk Ryan Tate: Mr. Zuckerberg, Tear Down This Wall.
wired.com Google Maps is another app that runs iPhone-size on an iPad. Don't these people have tablets?
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Julian Assange plans to run for Senate seat in Australia.
guardian.co.uk North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control: Why This Is Very Bad News.
gizmodo.com Nick Bilton: Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr. (I've stuck with Flickr. Haven't tried new app.)
bits.blogs.nytimes.com Marco does not have a Master Plan to revolutionize publishing. Aw snap I was hoping he did! :-)
marco.org Manhattan murder: Gunman who killed LA man had help, police say.
cbsnews.com Eric Schmidt says Google Fiber 'isn't just an experiment,' company 'trying to decide where to expand next'.
engadget.com Time Warner Cable adds on-demand video to its iOS app. (I use their iPad app as a remote control for my TV.)
theverge.com Life Without Parole -- Four Inmates' Stories.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Twitter needs to ask itself: What is its core competency?
gigaom.com Former president Jimmy Carter OK with legalizing pot.
politico.com Amsterdam Ave has these Christmas decorations and they're all still there.
flickr.com Flickr: NakedJen ain't sure if I'm cool or not.
flickr.com You can tell it's a romantic comedy if there's a big kiss at the end and your eyes are watery.
movies.scripting.com Thread: Catching up on the NJFF. (Silver Linings, Killing Them Softly, Cloud Atlas.)
movies.scripting.com Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers.
wired.com Audio recording being installed for every seat on many public buses.
thedaily.com
Monday, December 10, 2012
We saw 'Killing Them Softly,' With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik. Loved the movie.
movies.nytimes.com Spoiler-filled recap of last night's Homeland.
salon.com ACLU: The 13th Prisoner Exonerated from Texas's Death Row.
aclu.org Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders.
theverge.com Gallup: Americans Want Federal Gov't Out of State Marijuana Laws.
gallup.com The Cove is a 2009 documentary film that analyzes and questions Japan's dolphin hunting culture.
en.wikipedia.org I'm doing my first podcast with NakedJen in 23 minutes. In theory, you can listen-in if you want! :-)
talkshoe.com
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Twitter could do something nice for users for Christmas. (And I don't mean clone a feature from Instagram.)
threads2.scripting.com There's something the NYT and Guardian don't want to face up to re Assange, and they're obfuscating, not illuminating.
pandodaily.com This Pando piece examines what's interesting and vital about Assange's predicament without being juvenile.
pandodaily.com NYT review of the Rolling Stones at Barclays Center.
nytimes.com These days every morning begins with Gangnam Style for programming warmups. The Macarena of 2012.
youtube.com Company Envisions 'Vaults' for Personal Data.
nytimes.com NYT reviewer pans 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' by David Mamet, With Al Pacino. (I liked it.)
theater.nytimes.com
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Silicon Valley Finally Gets the TV Treatment It Deserves, From the Dude Who Wrote 'Beavis and Butt-head'.
betabeat.com You can still view Instagram photos on Twitter, using this IFTTT recipe.
thenextweb.com Sanders: GOP Senate obstructionism 'undemocratic' and 'unAmerican'.
thehill.com For Afghan Officials, Prospect of Death Comes With Territory.
nytimes.com Kicking someone when they're down is considered poor style in the US. How about in Britain?
threads2.scripting.com It's a shame that Twitter is copying the features of Instagram instead of giving us features only Twitter can.
threads2.scripting.com Air Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret.
wired.com "Office Space" creator Mike Judge shooting new HBO parody of Silicon Valley.
deadline.com I'd suggest thinking about only offering the vote to citizens who had served on a jury that reached a verdict.
threads2.scripting.com Even the most interesting person gets longwinded communicating in 140-character chunk after chunk.
threads2.scripting.com Assange stuck his neck out for us, and whether you agree with him or not, it doesn't matter whether you like him.
threads2.scripting.com Mayor: City Working on Storm, Climate Prep.
wnyc.org At Least One Subway Disaster Averted This Week.
nymag.com 58% of Republicans believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years.
gallup.com The Guardian is still tormenting Assange, and disrespecting their readers. This isn't reporting.
guardian.co.uk
Friday, December 07, 2012
Dan Froomkin: How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign.
huffingtonpost.com Social media experts like to show what they had for lunch, a nice plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
flickr.com Film Documenting Jeremy Lin's Rise to Stardom To Debut At Sundance Film Festival 2013.
latinospost.com Besides Scalpers, Few Turn Out for iPad Mini Launch in Beijing.
blogs.wsj.com U.S. Adds 146,000 Jobs -- Jobless Rate Falls to 7.7%.
nytimes.com Skyfall, the most awful pointless boring incompetent waste of disk space movie ever. Great reviews. What?
reverttosaved.com How the Obama Administration Is Considering Responding to Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington.
reason.com For Medical Marijuana in New Jersey, a First Few Ounces.
nytimes.com
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Marijuana Initiatives in 2 States Set Federal Officials Scrambling.
nytimes.com Two Laws Are Welcomed After Midnight in Seattle.
nytimes.com T-Mobile USA plans to ditch phone subsidies, sell iPhone in 2013.
reuters.com Bloomberg Rejects Sea Walls, Citing Tale of King Canute.
nytimes.com Washington Post said to add paywall for online news.
news.cnet.com FCC chief urges FAA to allow more in-flight use of devices.
news.cnet.com Rodriguez music is available on Amazon.
amazon.com The moral of Google Reader is you should never join a network that a single company can shut down.
Flickr: It's Sugar is a sugar store on Broadway near Lincoln Center.
flickr.com NJFF report: We saw Skyfall & Searching for Sugarman today. The two movies couldn't be more different.
movies.scripting.com When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone back in time by 20 years, Cook said.
rockcenter.nbcnews.com We should all become Public Editors to hold the Times, and other media, accountable to journalist integrity.
nytexaminer.com
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
NYPD and Occupy Wall Street Worked Together to Prevent Post-Sandy Crime.
gawker.com As often happens in tech, the users and open standards become an afterthought to the warfare between large companies.
threads2.scripting.com Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web. (Bing!)
hanselman.com Apple LTE policy likely to hit smaller networks hardest.
telecoms.com
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
I like to write blog posts. It keeps my writing muscles working, for the day they might be needed again.
threads2.scripting.com Most of the time we spend pecking and nibbling at stuff on the net, with the occasional tweet -- a grunt or snort.
threads2.scripting.com "Twitter has made me break up my thoughts into tiny, incomplete, pieces."
adambrault.com Mitt Romney Hits Costco -- Buys Toy Car (Manufactured in China).
tmz.com This morning almost everything on the net is slow. It's as if the whole net needs a reboot. Probably just me.
What matters to me is that I can ship something, without worrying about someone outlawing my work.
threads2.scripting.com What's Wrong With the Republican Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer.
bloomberg.com Clothing-Optional Days Add to English Garden's Appeal.
nytimes.com Building ecosystems takes time, patience, love and understanding. And maturity. And friendliness. And code.
threads.scripting.com Silicon Valet investors wake to the news they really have been in a bubble after all.
readwrite.com
Monday, December 03, 2012
Microliner manages your conversations in Twitter in an outline.
microliner.org I like movies that make simple political points, and I like the message of The Matrix, and I like that they picked it up in Cloud Atlas.
threads2.scripting.com The critics didn't like Cloud Atlas, so I almost didn't see it. That would have been a mistake, because I loved it.
threads2.scripting.com Hillary is Running: A Dispatch from the Saban Forum.
newyorker.com
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Time Warner Cable expands Wi-Fi reach by tapping public hotspots.
gigaom.com Reminder: We haven't started to work on climate change yet.
esquire.com Flickr: One of my favorite winter shirts.
flickr.com "Obviously this would have other applications. You get to play virtual tourist. Or do window shopping."
threads2.scripting.com "Mainstream media outlets don't want to look partisan, so they ignore the BS hidden in plain sight." #newsfoo
swampland.time.com Knicks game starts in 20 minutes. (I hate the Knicks but I still like watching them play for some reason.)
nba.com The other day I was walking down Columbus Ave and passed an Italian restaurant that looked like a place I'd like.
threads2.scripting.com "Street Photos" Showing What New York City Looks Like to a Bicycle.
petapixel.com Fred Feldman did the helicopter traffic reports for WOR-AM.
nytimes.com 2004: Behind the One-Minute Pitches, a Radio Legacy.
nytimes.com Farhad: San Francisco can become a world capital. First it needs to get over itself.
pandodaily.com
Saturday, December 01, 2012
It's important to study something like iTunes to figure out what it really is, don't just tack on annexes.
threads2.scripting.com Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban OK with San Antonio Spurs fine -- Should have been higher.
espn.go.com A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid.
washingtonpost.com Obama's debt ceiling proposal: Replace it with a vote of disapproval.
slate.com Report: John McAfee Captured After Weeks on the Run.
gizmodo.com Stage Deli's Closing Ends a Restaurant War.
nytimes.com Who can blame the Repubs for their lies if the press is willing to carry them, verbatim?
threads2.scripting.com My goal is to live to see the last of the "Mitt Would Have Won If Nobody But White Folks Voted" stories.
esquire.com Zynga Stock Dives as Facebook Keeps Backing Away.
wired.com
Friday, November 30, 2012
"Tell me this," he said. "What would Stern have done if they won?"
nytimes.com Catherine Bracy: My Experience Leading the Obama Campaign's Tech Field Office.
cbracy.tumblr.com Jewish Daily Forward: After 75 Years, Stage Deli Serves Its Final Sandwich.
blogs.forward.com Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let's All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn't Full of It.
swampland.time.com N.B.A. Fines Spurs $250,000 for Sending Starters Home.
nytimes.com When Is It Worthwhile To See Classic Movies On The Big Screen?
nyulocal.com "It is up to the country to explain to the Republicans (again) that they lost the election."
esquire.com After taking his seat, the first thing Buscemi said to the audience: "First of all, YOU shut the fuck up!"
gothamist.com On online learning site Udemy, quarter of approved instructors earn $10k or more.
gigaom.com In Colorado, No Playbook for New Marijuana Law.
nytimes.com Poll: Nearly half support legalization of marijuana.
cbsnews.com
Thursday, November 29, 2012
How countries voted on Palestinian statehood today -- and Israeli statehood 65 years ago.
qz.com Judge says "no fundamental right to use Facebook," tosses antitrust case.
gigaom.com Fantastical eclipses Angry Birds to become the top paid iPhone app in Apple's App Store.
thenextweb.com Why President Obama Isn't Using His Most Powerful Weapon -- Again.
buzzfeed.com Mike D'Antoni: 'I shouldn't have gone to New York' to coach the Knicks.
sports.yahoo.com The next version of Amazon Prime --> Instead of shipping products to us, we ship ourselves to them. Dramatically cuts costs. :-)
Photos of an Amazon warehouse. It's the beginning of the Matrix.
imgur.com Is it possible that Amazon Instant Video is not available on the Nexus 4? All of a sudden Netflix looks good again.
zdnet.com PeopleBrowsr Wins Temporary Restraining Order Compelling Twitter to Provide Firehose Access.
blog.peoplebrowsr.com
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Great balls of fire goodness gracious. Great balls of fire me oh my.
youtube.com Slate: Overlooked fiction and nonfiction of 2012.
slate.com Google's Horowitz: Facebook is social network of the past.
news.cnet.com Guardian: Germany to ban bestiality under animal welfare law.
guardian.co.uk Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Is Tonight. 7PM.
nyulocal.com Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
nytimes.com Anne Helmond thinks our Twitter archives will be in JSON. She got hers from them in April. 50MB.
threads2.scripting.com NYT: Bill Murray, Star of 'Hyde Park on Hudson'.
nytimes.com What's the Deal with Android's Weird Wallpaper Requirements? #baddesign
lifehacker.com NASA Mars Discovery Misunderstanding: Mission leader excited about entire mission, not specific discovery.
slate.com Be the 100th to sign: Arrest and prosecute officials who tried to suppress the vote in the 2012 election.
petitions.whitehouse.gov 40% of foreign students in the US have no close friends on campus.
qz.com The Echo Chamber in Thomas Friedman's Head.
reason.com Tom Ricks Isn't a Fan of MSNBC Either.
nymag.com
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Vinod Khosla, 57, told conference goers last year that "people over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas."
nbcnews.com NYU Student Accidentally Hits Reply All to 40,000 Students, "Replyallcalypse" Ensues.
gawker.com Grover Norquist's Budget Is Largely Financed by Just Two Billionaire-Backed Nonprofits.
thenation.com US coastal cities in danger as sea levels rise faster than expected, study warns.
guardian.co.uk Latest news headlines from the Financial Times. #riverofnews
ft.com Former GOP chair, governor say voter fraud wasn't a concern, but reducing Democratic votes was.
palmbeachpost.com We still need 24923 signatures: Arrest and prosecute officials who tried to suppress the vote in the 2012 election.
petitions.whitehouse.gov Naked Protesters Storm Speaker John Boehner's Office.
mediaite.com John McCain is The Angry Republican, starring Moe, Larry and Laurel and Hardy. #hic
guardian.co.uk They are not sold out of 8GB Nexus 4's but the 16GB model is.
play.google.com Facebook has to do what they're doing because their stock is screwed and they're being run by Goldman Sachs.
threads2.scripting.com Apple's new iMac desktops go on sale starting on November 30th.
theverge.com Petition the President: Arrest and prosecute officials who tried to suppress the vote in the 2012 election.
petitions.whitehouse.gov Wii Mini revealed by Best Buy with a release date of December 7th.
theverge.com
Monday, November 26, 2012
Petition the White House to arrest and prosecute officials who tried to suppress the vote in the 2012 election.
petitions.whitehouse.gov Just wish the Nets had signed Jeremy Lin. That would have been poetic.
nytimes.com A Nascent Rivalry for Nets and Knicks Fans. #cooool
nytimes.com Two Analysts Went To Kansas City To Check Out Google Fiber And They Were Blown Away.
businessinsider.com Family Members Drown After Jumping Into Ocean to Save Dog; Dog Survives.
gawker.com An Antarctic fur seal trying to mate with a king penguin.
nytimes.com Dear President Obama: It's time for arrests in the voter suppression atrocities of the last election.
threads2.scripting.com Dear Justin Beiber: You're Way Less Classy than White Trash. #canadians
thedailybeast.com Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law. (Arrests coming?)
palmbeachpost.com Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Users Can Download Their Entire Archive By Year-End.
techcrunch.com
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Q& - A - Fat Joe, a Rapper and a Die-Hard Knicks Fan.
nytimes.com Kind of shocking to read Peggy Noonan's post from Nov 5, predicting a Romney win. Poetic. Other worldly.
blogs.wsj.com If a university is going to have a startup builder function, it should itself be entrepreneurial. Even subversive.
bostonglobe.com Boston Globe: Harvard's i-lab could buoy the entire region. (First I've heard of it.)
bostonglobe.com So I beg to differ on the date of the first NYT API -- it was in 2002, when we shipped RSS feeds for their content.
blog.programmableweb.com Taipei Times: Motion for Jeremy Lin political party quashed.
taipeitimes.com New Senate's First Task Will Likely Be Trying to Fix Itself.
nytimes.com Clearly Twitter is moving more towards Tumblr. If Medium adds templates and CSS they will be aimed squarely at Tumblr.
threads2.scripting.com Creating a blog is no more complex than creating a WP doc. But there's psychic overhead that stops a lot of people.
threads2.scripting.com I like the changes Fred Wilson describes in VC. If true, we will be able to pay for tech without enslaving users.
avc.com Barney Frank asks the kind of probing questions I wish more reporters would.
thinkprogress.org Dody is working on a native Android tabbed rivers client -- and it's ready for you to try out. :-)
groups.google.com Fred Wilson on the changes in VC.
avc.com
Saturday, November 24, 2012
After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android.
techcrunch.com Listened to Zeldman's interview with Evan Williams re Medium. Most of the good stuff is in the last 10 minutes.
5by5.tv Confetti at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Was Made of Still-Readable Confidential Police Docs.
gawker.com Netflix was a great way for me to fill in a lot of the blanks in my movie-watching career.
threads2.scripting.com Why is Medium hiring a "Director of Content"?
medium.com In 91 of NYC's 5286 precincts, Obama received 100% of the vote.
nytimes.com Hagman wanted to come back as a marijuana cake.
tv.yahoo.com Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump advised The Donald?to cool it on Obama, insider says.
nydailynews.com We are riding a sea change in communication technology. It's been going on for 30 to 40 years.
threads2.scripting.com Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong.
salon.com A Report on the Santa Clara Conference on Software Patents.
groklaw.net With Knicks' Eyes on Him, Lin Improvises in Win.
nytimes.com
Friday, November 23, 2012
Actor Larry Hagman, notorious and beloved as 'Dallas' villain J.R. Ewing, dies.
dallasnews.com For Couple at Macy's Parade, Annual Clown Ritual Turns Tragic.
nytimes.com Clown Dies in Front of Shocked Macy's Parade Viewers. (Clowns die too.)
wpix.com Wall power plate with USB sockets. Great idea.
amazon.com Krugman is amazed, yet again, by the lunacy of the Repubs. The point has been made. It's not news. What next?
nytimes.com I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog.
shkspr.mobi Pigeon Code Baffles British Cryptographers.
nytimes.com Nexus 4 shown working on Canadian LTE through simple carrier menu code (video).
engadget.com Google Nexus 4: Not many reasons to give thanks.
zdnet.com
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Knicks to Reunite With Rockets' Lin but Aren't in Mood to Discuss Him.
nytimes.com NYT: Egypt's President Morsi Gives Himself New Powers.
nytimes.com Why Apple stores are raking in bags full of cash, and no one can dupe the formula.
digitaltrends.com Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers.
politico.com Software running on 80s hardware is interesting in the same way it is to drive a car from the early 20th century.
threads2.scripting.com What Facebook's new terms of service really mean: Ads are coming to Instagram.
qz.com 1995: The Cute Little Nut. (A piece I wrote long ago about forgiveness and other things.)
scripting.com NYT Magazine: Oliver Stone Rewrites History -- Again.
nytimes.com US politicians urged to seize the moment on climate change after Sandy.
guardian.co.uk A musical thanks-giving with Bob Hope and Shirley Ross from "The Big Broadcast of 1938."
threads2.scripting.com Hello Kitty balloon in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
flickr.com
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Jack Taylor Gains National Attention After Scoring Record.
nytimes.com A Survey of the Flooding in N.Y.C. After the Hurricane.
nytimes.com Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X Are Great, and Yet.
nytimes.com Screen shot of ThinkTank/PC from 1987 running in an emulator in Chrome on my iMac in 2012. #egad
static.scripting.com If you're wondering what Google Reader communities were like, the thread here has lots of info.
threads2.scripting.com Why the share of $100 bills in circulation has been going up for over 40 years.
qz.com Would you be surprised if there is life on Mars? Space agency hints at 'historic' discovery.
thespacereporter.com Why Jakob Nielsen's Windows 8 critique is old-school thinking. (Sure radical rethinks are good. In new products.)
news.cnet.com Interview: Why Linus Torvalds would rather code than make money.
techradar.com
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Six Suspected "Israeli Spies" Publicly Executed in Gaza.
en.rian.ru Leon Panetta Has a Few More Drone Wars Ready to Go.
wired.com $198 for an unlocked Android 4.1 quadband phone. Catch?
amazon.com Nate Silver on 'Morning Joe': Why pollsters got it wrong.
politico.com These are the files on the distribution disk for the 1987 version of ThinkTank for the IBM PC.
threads2.scripting.com Charles Pierce: There Is No Side Worth Taking In Gaza.
esquire.com Touch belongs in a tablet interface, for sure. But desktop computers need a pointing device like a mouse.
threads2.scripting.com Mars Discovery: NASA touts Curiosity data that points to historic discovery.
slate.com The Real Estate Follies of CNET Millionaire Halsey Minor.
curbed.com Frum calls a troll a troll. Maybe the Repubs can come to their senses.
thedailybeast.com The Conflict in the Gaza Strip: the Rhetoric of Hypocrisy & Illogic.
muftah.org Romney Suffered 2nd Worst Home State Loss in Presidential Election History.
blog.lib.umn.edu Picture Of Lonely and Sad Mitt Romney Pumping His Own Gas Makes A Splash On Reddit.
mediaite.com Mitt Romney Surfaces At A Gas Station Looking Very Sad.
buzzfeed.com San Francisco nudists warn of backlash if anti-naked law passes.
guardian.co.uk Christie's Post-Hurricane Embrace of Obama Outrages Many in G.O.P.
nytimes.com Shelly Adelson is like the Albert Shanker character in the great Woody Allen movie "Sleeper."
israelhayom.com Hacker Faces Jail for Accessing Public URLs That Revealed AT&T; iPad User Emails.
technologyreview.com Twitter takes new steps to be even more like Instagram.
news.cnet.com "It was all in their hands, and they just let her go." -- Remembering Savita Halappanavar.
aclu.org Following Obama's Victory, Wisconsin Governor Proposes New Limits On Voter Registration.
thinkprogress.org New York Times Acknowledges Conspiracy of Silence Over "Fiscal Cliff".
nytexaminer.com Hillary Clinton to visit Middle East over Gaza conflict.
guardian.co.uk Amsterdam: Associate Professor Media Studies.
uva.nl The Rich People Who Don't Know How Tax Rates Work. #marginalrates
slate.com
Monday, November 19, 2012
Twinkie maker Hostess to go into mediation with workers' union. (Did you ever think you'd see that headline?)
guardian.co.uk Chris Dixon joins Andreessen Horowitz. Powerful move, both ways. Congrats to all. :-)
cdixon.org BTW, I spent a few minutes tweaking Disqus's prefs, and now my comments work a lot better.
threads2.scripting.com This morning I wrote a piece entitled "I hope Mark Cuban reads this." He did, and replied and a discussion ensued.
threads2.scripting.com America, Meet Your New First Lady: Obama's Foreign Side Piece, the Prime Minister of Thailand.
gawker.com Now Comes the Real Healthcare Fight -- States Debate the Healthcare Bill.
esquire.com Treasury Secretary Geithner: Lift Debt Limit to Infinity.
cnsnews.com The operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet.
theverge.com John McAfee starts blog documenting life on the run from Belize police.
guardian.co.uk The Worst Candidate of 2012. (They say Rick Perry, but I want Mitt Romney to win *something* -- come on.)
politicalwire.com The antidote of a corporate mess, historically, has not been another corporate mess, but rather an open mess.
threads2.scripting.com We need to use the Internet itself as social media. Then you won't have to worry about Facebook putting their finger on the scale.
threads2.scripting.com Every time TechCrunch says "RSS is Dead" -- I'm putting another pin in my Mike Arrington voodoo doll. :-)
techcrunch.com Trippy World's Fair Structures Are Relics of Forgotten Utopias.
wired.com This is what the real Situation Room looks like. The one on CNN is more impressive.
flickr.com Twinkies likely to survive sale of Hostess. #preservatives
guardian.co.uk Jakob Nielsen: Windows 8 -- Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users.
useit.com Mark Cuban, I bet the other social networks do what Facebook does, or will, when they get larger.
blogmaverick.com
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Paul Ryan Emerges as Power Broker in Fiscal Talks. #groan
nytimes.com I love this. NakedJen quoting Doc Searls. This is an important, possibly historic connection. I don't think they've ever met. :-)
threads2.scripting.com Shadow Banking Grows to $67 Trillion Industry, Regulators Say.
bloomberg.com Back in the 90s I thought blogs would be the antidote the bullshit of news, but it didn't turn out that way.
threads2.scripting.com Why Opera thrives in Europe's last dictatorship.
qz.com San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing.
usnews.nbcnews.com If you were infected with Linsanity earlier this year, this is the piece to read. Finally someone tells the truth.
nytimes.com Very true: "Nine months ago, Lin saved the Knicks' season, and nearly saved D'Antoni's Knicks career."
nytimes.com A long but important new piece on our predicament in news, all kinds -- tech, politics, economics. Please read.
threads2.scripting.com Jeremy Lin and Mike D'Antoni to Cross Paths Again. (Maybe the Lakers will trade for Lin?)
nytimes.com NYT list of people who died in NY in Sandy, where they died and the cause.
nytimes.com There are a lot of variables a strategist gets to tweak. And one of them is when to play the hand.
threads2.scripting.com
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Thousands of French Residents Protest Gay Marriage Bill.
en.rian.ru New York Techie Dixon in Talks to be Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
allthingsd.com Weird question -- are Apple's new maps available as a website from a Mac in Chrome? If not, why not?
I had a phone conversation today with a reporter doing a story on Google Reader communities.
threads2.scripting.com In New York, Hundreds of Storm-Battered Homes Face the Bulldozer.
nytimes.com Are You 28 Yet? No? Then You Have Never Seen a Cooler-Than-Average Month.
treehugger.com The Economist: It is a tiring business running a big chunk of the federal government.
economist.com More gymnastics team members, looking impressed. :-)
flickr.com President Obama jokingly mimics U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" look.
flickr.com Is the toilet seat really the dirtiest place in the home?
bbc.co.uk New York Times Slams Obama For 'Lame' Flip-Flop On Economic Benefit Of Climate Action.
nytexaminer.com Nexus 4 review: Amazing phone with a deal-breaker flaw.
m.nbcnews.com For the Knicks, Excellent Starts Have Proved to Be Good Omens.
nytimes.com
Friday, November 16, 2012
In Gaza, Tragic Result for Misplaced Hopes of Cease-Fire.
nytimes.com Marijuana Ballot Initiatives In Colorado, Washington Won Because The Other Side Was Broke.
tnr.com Chris Christie Knows Where You're Going With That Twinkies Question. #omg
nymag.com How Facebook Boosted Obama's Vote Tally With Its Get Out the Vote Button Most Clicked by Women and Democrats.
technologyreview.com Susan Lucci, Stephen Colbert Up the Ante on the Petraeus Affair.
gawker.com Why does a company need to hire all those people when the developers are willing to do it for love?
threads2.scripting.com What happens when a Twitter client hits the token limit.
marco.org Taliban Accidentally Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members.
abcnews.go.com SB: New York Knicks are doing everything right.
sbnation.com My linkblog is now a Google Group that you can subscribe to via email.
groups.google.com Imagine if Hostess had gone bankrupt during the campaign. #shudder
nytimes.com I would love to use a combo of NYMag's restaurant reviews with Seamless ordering system for delivery.
threads2.scripting.com Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict.
betabeat.com Mitt Romney, as predicted, is now a punchline. #badjokes
m.youtube.com Rivals Vie for Wood From Storm-Torn Rockaway Boardwalk.
nytimes.com
