October 2011
2 posts
There’s a certain amount of pain you can inflict on customers without losing...
– Mark Schwanhausser
2 tags
July 2011
2 posts
But Seriously...: How to Update Facebook From... →
justinbee:
Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
We can use that email address to cross post from Google+,…
June 2011
3 posts
Because I believe in democracy,” he said. “I believe legislators are...
– Dean Skelos, N.Y. Gay Marriage Vote May Have National Impact, 25, June 2011
[P]eople don’t understand that Facebook doesn’t consider the users their...
– Facefacts, Jason Scott. May 7th, 2011
May 2011
5 posts
here there be dungeons and dragons →
Awesome little documentary on D&D, and Uncle Monsterface outro music ftw!
Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’,...
– Douglas Adams, August 29th 1999
Everything you need to know summed up in three...
wilwheaton:
America, I am disappoint.
(images via The Great Orange Satan)
April 2011
4 posts
This whole “let’s move librarians off public desks” seems like a step backwards...
– Andy W, IT (and not that Stephen King creepy clown, either)
The problem is ignorance, not stupidity.
– Jacob Hacker, How Dumb Are We?
We are in danger of mistaking righteous consumerism for radicalism.
– Malena Watrous, Money Can’t Buy It: How the City of Free Expression Became a City of Righteous Consumers
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
The climate has gotten so toxic in our political discourse, setting up for this...
– Rep. Raul Grijalva, AZ
Pretty soon, we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people...
– Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, AZ
December 2010
1 post
[S]tart to use the term “HTML5 app” with artful carelessness whenever it’s...
– “HTML5 apps,” quirksmode.org
October 2010
2 posts
August 2010
1 post
Epic Win for Dinner. →
dinadina619:
Please make this now!
It was the best thing we’ve made in ages.
July 2010
3 posts
Inevitably, I must surely collapse under my own mass and become some sort of...
– Alan Moore
June 2010
4 posts
My goal is to make it as easy to save the world in real life, as it is to save...
– Jane McGonigal
What exactly are gamers getting so good at? Solving real world problems with games.
There is a big freakin’ difference between people who just want to...
– Sarah Palin, False Prophet
May 2010
4 posts
“How The Zombie Changed Videogames” (1 of 4)
from the MIT GAMBIT Research Video Podcast
April 2010
6 posts
By surveying the PAX forums, we may have been able to observe the value of swag...
– Genevieve Conley, PAX Pox: Lessons in Big Gaming [Part II]
A well learned lesson, and one that applies not just to gaming conventions.
So what does Marvel do to “enhance” its comics? They take away the...
– Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either), Cory Doctorow
March 2010
3 posts
…sometimes it’s ok to steal a bike.
Microsoft Internet Explorer uses type=”text/xsl” for XSLT...
– XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
November 2009
2 posts
If you have a specific destination, the Web is the place to go. If you just need...
– Diana Wagman, LA Times
October 2009
2 posts
What does a glowing pickle have in common with flat panel OLED video displays? (via MIT TechTv)
“Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products”
Something new from #MIT @medialab
September 2009
6 posts
Authority changes slowly on the “old” Web. But real-time search...
– Clive Thompson