Watching Arrested Development and napping.
All. Day.
This is the textbook definition of ‘happiness’.
(via arresteddevelopmentgifs)
Source: victorialaine
All Aboard The Logic Express!
I’ve mainly avoided looking into SOPA because I’m lazy and find politics to be more frustration than they’re worth. However, according to TechDirt, any dot-com or dot-org address is exempt from SOPA, meaning ThePirateBay.org, which is the biggest target the law is supposed to be going after, wouldn’t be effected. Oh, and RapidShare.com and MegaUpload.com wouldn’t either.
Maybe the legislators working on this bill should torrent a copy of Hooked On Phonics so they can actually read the damn thing they’re trying to pass?
Source: techmeme.com
Platforms versus Services
Hunter Walk:
The platforms we think about today (e.g. Twitter, FB, Android/iOS) all started out as services which attracted end user interest.
You can talk about websites calling themselves platforms prematurely, that’s fine. However, operating systems are “platforms” almost by definition - Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Blackberry OS are all platforms on which devices are created, not “services”. The platform will die if there is no user interest (everyone wave to Blackberry!), but it is a platform none the less.
Personally, if I want to talk about a “platform” versus a “service”, I would have to make a clear distinction:
- A platform is the ecosystem that fuels services that exist beyond the need to sustain the platform.
- A service requires a platform to run.
You can build an application for Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Windows, OS X, or Linux. You can’t build an application for Twitter that do much more than push updates to the server, so that’s a service. Tumblr is a service. WordPress is both.
It doesn’t make one more important than the other - in the end, it’s really just a useless distinction that more people shouldn’t give a damn about. Or, “Just another day on the internet.”
Source: techmeme.com
Happy new year, everyone. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do (which, admittedly, is not much).
Source: amazingsuperpowers.com
Research in Motion Directors Pressed to Exert Control Over Blackberry Maker
My favorite fact from this article: Tim Hortons, the famous Canadian doughnut shop, is worth more than Research In Motion. Really makes me wish the WSJ went with “Blueberry Muffins Beating Blackberry Phones” as the title, though.
Can you tell I’m really loving the schadenfreude here? ‘Cause I am.
I’ll see your “Elf On The Shelf” and raise you a Krampus.
I hope you were good this year. If not, Krampus will come and terrorize you. I like to think that Krampus is with us all December long.
via livingthescilife:
Krampus, A Christmas Legend
Krampus Day is associated with Christmas and is a part of Hungarian and Austrian folklore. “Krampus” is from the Germanic word “krampen” which means “claw.” According to legend, Krampus is a demon who travels with St. Nicholas on Christmas Eve, and while Santa delivers presents to the good little children, the cruel Krampus terrorizes bad children with his fearsome presence. Illustrations of Krampus often depict him with a basket on his back (presumably to haul naughty children back to his lair), and a willow branch for swatting.
December 5th is Krampus Day throughout much of Europe, and on the days surrounding Krampus Day, young men dress up in costume and roam the streets in chains, jangling loud, rusty bells, waving willow branches, and frightening children into good behavior before the arrival of St. Nicholas.
So move over, Mr. Scrooge: there’s another ghostly tale in town for Christmas.
For the naughty one in your life.
Source: krampus.com
Someone Bring Me Some Monster Screen Clean, Would'ja?
Do I really care about Android versus iOS anymore? Nope. Do I like @parislemon and @joshuatopolsky? Yep. Did I just shoot juice out of my nose reading this:
In other words, the iPhone 4S is super-duper swell and the Galaxy Nexus is golly gee fantastic. Head-to-head, they’d probably hug each other to death while smiling the whole time. Free rainbow ice cream cones for everyone! Ain’t life grand?
Sure did. If you’ll excuse me, I have to clean my laptop now.
Source: jeffstevens
There will be milestones along the way, but one thing I know about technology is that if you believe in something, you have to have a longer term horizon than next week, next quarter, or next year. When we looked at alternatives, we said ‘what will be affordable to HP to invest, and get this thing going,’ and we’ll monitor along the way. There’s a bit of a test and iterate here — it’s not just something you say ‘if it’s not perfect in a year, we’re out of here.’
Source: theverge.com
