“Nobody fucks with the Jesus”: John Turturro talking about his role in The Big Lebowski.
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March 8, 2010
March 7, 2010
OK, as a special Sunday treat here’s another crazy game: Angry Birds on the iPhone.
(2 days ago) Link to this postJoe Danger: well this looks suitably nuts. (Best watched in HD, btw.)
(2 days ago) Link to this postSoundville: a Sony “advertisement” by Juan Cabral set in Iceland. (From a Gizmodo article about how Sony’s ads used to make some sort of sense.)
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So a total bullshit iPhone “radiation measuring” app is rejected by Apple, and the “tech journalism” world goes crazy, apparently having quaffed heartily of the Kool Aid being offered by the people behind the app.
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March 6, 2010
Apple historical product porn.
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“ I would not hesitate to recommend a Nexus One to a computer-geek friend of mine, especially one who has grown tired of Apple’s App Store policies. But I’d warn them first that they’ll be trading a lot of well thought-out user experience, of usability.
Jason Snell of Macworld with a round-up of his likes and dislikes of Google’s Nexus One phone.
His three examples of poor Android usability are: copy and paste, the media player and the app marketplace.
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March 5, 2010
OK, so there’s another Microsoft Courier tablet concept video mock up doing the rounds. Problem one: when you hear the narrator introduce herself - “Hi! I’m Marcel and I’m a trend researcher” - the first thing you think is: “Go fuck yourself.” Problem two: when Marcel says she “drags” things from one side to the other, she actually has to flick them, because there’s a spine in the way. Problem three: the iPad will be available in four weeks’ time, and it is real. You’ll be able to buy it, take it home, and research trends with it. Or whatever. This Microsoft video is a load of pie in the blue sky wishful thinking that will probably never make it into a product. “Real artists ship.”
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Good lord, who are these people? (Via chrisbowler.)
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BBC sprinkles “open source” throughout blog post
iPlayer debate rumbles on: apparently you can apply the term “open source” to pretty much anything, especially if you’re trying to confuse people or get them to shut up and go away. The Register has more on this story.
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Apple announces iPad availability dates
“Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.”
Maybe the theory they’re operating under is that if you keep referring to something as “magical” it eventually becomes that.
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“ We’re losing the throwaway paperback. The airport paperback. The beachside paperback. We’re losing the dredge of the publishing world: disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet. These are the first books to go. And I say it again, good riddance.
A smart (and nicely-illustrated) article from Craig Mod, “Books in the Age of the iPad”. (Via Daring Fireball.)
He makes a good point about pages: “The metaphor of flipping pages already feels boring and forced on the iPhone. I suspect it will feel even more so on the iPad. The flow of content no longer has to be chunked into ‘page’ sized bites.”
And one of the reader comments is pretty funny: “I find it difficult to fully engage any text unless I have the option of throwing it across the room.”
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