January 2010
30 posts
“This is not a reason to prefer Macmillan over Amazon. Amazon might arguably have...”
– Hacker News | Why my books are no longer for sale via Amazon
I’m not sure there is really a good guy in this fight, but I am reading far too much pro-MacMillan stuff all of a sudden.
Also: when various music and movie publishers tried to pull the same stunt with Apple and iTunes, they were...
The iPad's eBook play seems like a non-starter
Say what you want about the Kindle’s limited feature set, but e-ink is really, really easy to read, even in poor light and absurdly tiny typefaces (like full-page PDFs). LCD panels are, in comparison, eyestrain factories.
“This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded...”
– Gary Kasparov, The New York Review of Books
Milestone moment
sportscentr:
With the Viking-Saints game at halftime, we are only thirty game minutes away from a glorious ten-week stretch where Joe Buck will not announce a single nationally-televised sporting event. He’ll probably show up on “American Idol” just to screw with the country and show off a new set of hair plugs. But until then, we can sleep soundly and watch sports with open ears, thanking God...
Magnetic Fields documentary to premiere at... →
(via p4k)
Flickr: rubydoomsday's Photostream →
The photos are good, but the name is to kill for.
matthewgallaway:
ninety9:
My math might be bad, but how is typing 2k10 more efficient than typing 2010?
Dante: In this, the tenth (or possibly eleventh?) year of the second millennium after the birth of Jesus Christ, can I tell you how motivated I am by the concept of ‘efficiency’?
Zephyr: ur a ‘doofus’
On the subject, I’ve always found 2k+10 to be pleasingly baroque.
In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science... →
A thousand pardons, readers — there is nothing worse than cluttering up your dash with kibbutzing on meaningless top 100 lists. But as an old-style nerd, I am powerless to refrain from commenting.
This list is obviously an elaborate troll — the proof is that Wolfe’s Book of the Long Sun comes in ahead of his Book of the New Sun.
Ok, that’s a joke. Sort of. (Not...
I was skimming the cable news channels just now.
MSNBC was talking about Haiti with one of Haiti’s ex-Prime Ministers.
Fox News had Sarah Palin talking about… something I didn’t hang around long enough to discover.
CNN had Larry King asking a (presumably Haitian) man: “It’s hard to be Haitian, isn’t it?”
I sometimes find it difficult to explain why...
Eater SF: House of Shields in Danger of Closing... →
schlomo:
manymachines:
schlomo:
The bar I own is in EaterSF today!
Honestly, I’m ready for this chapter of my life to close. I’ve known we were going to shut the doors years ago. It’s sad, but not depressing. I’ll put the money into a new place. Make something that speaks to me for the next 10 years, instead of the previous 10 years.
I had no idea Schlomo owned this. I don’t get down...
Eater SF: House of Shields in Danger of Closing... →
schlomo:
The bar I own is in EaterSF today!
Honestly, I’m ready for this chapter of my life to close. I’ve known we were going to shut the doors years ago. It’s sad, but not depressing. I’ll put the money into a new place. Make something that speaks to me for the next 10 years, instead of the previous 10 years.
I had no idea Schlomo owned this. I don’t get down there much any more, but...
drewhancock:
“Among the screenplays ineligible for WGA awards are District 9, An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, The Road, A Single Man and Up.”
How can you even take this award seriously?
“Everything on LiveJournal was pretty much a joke. The whole security thing,...”
– Brad Fitzpatrick, Coders at Work
Me: Is that your book about the history of pirates?
5th Grader: It’s not mine, but I was reading it.
Me: Is it good?
5th Grader: It’s a terrible book. There was a pirate named “Booty”. What is wrong with the world?
Brad Graham (bradlands) dead at 41 →
Basically the OG of blogging, circa 2000. Wikipedia credits him with the term “blogosphere”, which is an unfortunate legacy. I remember his efforts to organize the annual A Day Without Weblogs on World AIDS Day.
