July 2011
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Announcing Max 6 →
June 2011
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Professional Video Editors Weigh in on Final Cut... →
David Pogue gets in the middle of the hysteria over Final Cut Pro X with a point-by-point response to criticism from professionals. His summation is dead on.
Apple has followed the typical Apple sequence: (1) throw out something that’s popular and comfortable but increasingly ancient, (2) replace it with something that’s slick and modern and forward-looking and incomplete, (3) spend another year...
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The Creators Project: Squarepusher
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Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →
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Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
May 2011
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Samsung's Lawyers Demand to See the iPhone 5 and... →
Another excellent, highly informative piece by Nilay Patel. As far as tech writers go, this guy is at the top of the list.
supersonicelectronic:
Artist Alex Pardee teamed together with Zerofriends to create this epically hilarious video, Tupac Cat:
“Moments before Tupac Shakur’s death, he called upon an ancient Voodoo spell to transfer his soul into a cat. For 15 years following his death, this cat was trapped in the pound. Now he has finally been released and is back in the hood.”
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Google's Music Beta First Look: It's Miserable →
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Amon Tobin's 'ISAM' - Full Album Preview
Brilliant new album from Amon Tobin. For sound design nerds, there’s lots of Kyma/Continuum Fingerboard goodness in here.
‘ISAM’ - Full album with track-by-track commentary from Amon Tobin by Amon Tobin
April 2011
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The Wall Street Journal Interviews Morton... →
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Heavy Ghost →
If Boards of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain formed a supergroup, it would probably sound like this band. Great stuff.
March 2011
6 posts
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The NYT Paywall →
$455/year for digital access to a newspaper? Really?
Glossy 'Jihad Cosmo' Combines Beauty Tips with... →
The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine - meaning The Majestic Woman - has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’.
Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.
And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’.
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February 2011
12 posts
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Electric Independence: Morton Subotnick
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What Happens After Yahoo Acquires You →
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Apple’s new rules rile. But not me: I’m the paying customer and I...
– Jean-Louis Gassée on Apple’s new subscription rules (via Daring Fireball)
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After years of searching, I finally found the chai tea that Borders used to sell before they switched to Seattle’s Best. Apparently, other people missed it as well. It’s made by a company called Big Train and it’s distributed under two different names.
Big Train Vanilla Chai Tea
: Amazon
Mystic Chai Vanilla Tea
: Amazon
: Sam’s Club
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Here we have the man who invented the personal computer, then the laptop. He’s...
– Rupert Murdoch on Steve Jobs (via paidContent)
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January 2011
5 posts
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How to Hold Your Breath for 20 Minutes
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The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was...
– The New York Times (via Daring Fireball)
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December 2010
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November 2010
2 posts
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Gate Rape →
Thank you, Urban Dictionary
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Eno on video
October 2010
16 posts
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End of an Era: Panasonic Kills off Technics... →
This time it’s real
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YouTube5 →
I love this Safari extension
This extension removes the need to use flash on YouTube by converting all videos to their HTML5 video tag equivalents. It also has the added benefits of decreased CPU usage compared to flash, and the removal of in-video ads.
Another step towards a Flash-free existence
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Watching Tim Cook at Apple’s keynote today felt like the future.
Thousands of years of art history and the safe...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Make Real... →
Somewhere in Chicago, a Dane is howling right now
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