July 2009
20 posts
Take back the beep. →
I like this idea. I’m sick of the manditory instructions after cell phone messages. Let’s end them.
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices... →
Evidently, a company that did not own the copyright to the books “1984” and “Animal Farm” somehow managed to start selling those works on Amazons Kindle website. When the company that does hold the copyright discovered this, they notified Amazon who proceeded to act in the most Big Brotherly way possible by not only to removing the book from their store, but also to...
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s... →
It looks like I will be deleting my Kindle app on my iPhone, as well as my Amazon.com app, and never buying anything from that company ever again.
“iPhone 3.1 OS Beta 2 Disables Unauthorized AT&T Tethering ★ This is going to keep a lot of people on 3.0 — tethering is simply marvelous.” - Daring Fireball
Oh is it now…?
“Does anyone remember the little booklets that used to come with “Spy...”
Dear everyone on tumblr,
I just stopped following you on the dashboard and subscribed to your RSS feed in my RSS reader. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that your posts are so cool that I keep logging into tumblr to do some work on posts of my own and end up spending an hour going thru my dashboard instead.
So in an effort to get back to making things for the web, I’m keeping my entertainment and my...
AFTER MICHAEL JACKSON DIED
“His spirit slipped like steam from a kettle’s spout. Briefly he thought of his grandmother, and he wondered if he would see her soon, now that he was dead, now that his spirit was being lifted lightly; and as he saw the doctor from Las Vegas leaning over his body, pushing at his old bones, at his chest, at the muscles he had earned this spring under silver machines, he saw himself as...