Ben Brooks:
Twitter has turned it’s back on the very users that not only made the service popular, but that came up with the very features that Twitter is now using to try and profit from. And that bugs me.In my mind Twitter took the easy way out: venture capital and eventually paying that money back by slapping ads everywhere.
I don’t think anyone minds that Twitter makes money, but do it respectfully and don’t screw your users and developers along the way.
Seems accurate to me.
Two possible pyramid complexes might have been found in Egypt, according to a Google Earth satellite imagery survey.Located about 90 miles apart, the sites contain unusual grouping of mounds with intriguing features and orientations, said satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, N.C.
I want to see the pyramids one day.
Some things you might not know about beards.
Facebook granted GigaOm a look inside its Oregon data center.
We just released some new magic on the Dropbox website. Now when you make a change to a file on your computer or phone, the Dropbox website instantly updates to reflect those changes. You no longer have to hit refresh as you wait for your friend to share those super-important files or worry about getting out of sync. The latest files just automatically appear on your page. After all, every second counts!
Great news.
Mashable:
It’s that time of year again, when college students scramble for textbooks, in the hopes they’ll have money left over for food and fun during the school year.No longer does the campus bookstore have the monopoly on book sales. The key is to find the right edition of a textbook at the right price, and that can take some research.Fortunately, a few websites can help with that. Amazon has just hopped on the rental bandwagon, launching its own textbook rental service. Other sites offer books you can both rent and buy.
I was luck that, as a Political Science major, my “textbooks” were often mainstream but my CompSci buddies just got crushed by the cost of textbooks. Check out some of these sites to see if they can help save you some beer money.
Buzzfeed:
Danica McKellar, former Wonder Years star, is on a mission to make young women know they’re just as good at math as their male counterparts.She just released her fourth math book for girls, Girls Get Curves. It’s designed to teach girls math but also confidence so that they don’t shy away from pursuing it in college or their careers beyond. Playing off the geometry focus, the book also tries to teach young women how to have a positive body image in a world that tries to keep them from it. McKellar speaks to BuzzFeed Shift about why women are so underrepresented in mathematics, her own experiences in the field, and more.
Winnie has growed up real good and, after graduating summa cum laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, has made another career for herself as an award winning author and mathematician.
Hypervocal:
Ladies and gents, we present to you the official Worst Sentence of 2012:“As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting.”
I have been a fan of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for years but be careful – the web site can be a huge time suck!
TechCrunch:
Do you have $50? Do you trust strangers with it? Do you like paying for evanescent access to a service you may never use? Then IHave50Dollars.com is the site for you. Not everyone has $50 they’re willing to push down a rat-hole in hopes of access to a social media service based on a promise by a man with a proven track record in being compellingly earnest on camera, but if you do, this may be your lucky day.IHave50Dollars is a parody site, obviously (there’s an Easter Egg at the end) but it does offer a fairly poignant criticism of the bandwagon mentality in the Valley.
Justin Williams:
Yesterday, I experienced my first layoff as myself and many of the other talented people at Hipstamatic were let go as part of a downsizing. In retrospect it wasn’t that shocking. When you play back things in your mind, the signs become more obvious. It doesn’t make it any less frustrating knowing that yesterday you thought you had job security and today you’re sitting and writing this article in your gym’s cafe area.
Justin is a great guy and a talented coder.
Hypervocal:
“My colleague has a dirty keyboard and has gone to vacation,” writes this Redditor. “I did the only logic[al] thing: I planted cress in his keyboard.”
The included GIF is a bit misleading. You have to go to the full album to see the prankster “cheated” a little bit – he put dirt in the keyboard and watered the garden cress seeds so of course it was going to sprout. Still – you’d like to see the look on the co-worker’s face when he comes back from vacation!
One of the smartest decisions that Apple made over the last decade was to open retail stores worldwide, giving users a chance to get some hands on time with its products. One of the worst decisions came recently when the new vice president of retail John Browett decided to gut the operation. Luckily, he admitted the mistake. […]
The first Indiana Jones movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” will get a limited run on Imax theater screens before being released on Blu-Ray Disc.
When you finish watching an episode of a TV show, we’ll minimize the credits and tee-up the next episode. If you do nothing, the next episode will start to play in 15 seconds. You can also stop it to get more information or select another episode.
This is awesome.
Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin talk about a unibody iPhone, Apple’s cable television patent victory, Origin going multiplatform, the iBookstore changing the game for textbooks, more of the Samsung v. Apple lawsuit, as well as a new one for Apple with Microsoft, and rabid beavers.
How far would you go to get a bird’s-eye city view while swimming? If you’re staying at the Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao, you’ll get to take a dip in their glass-bottom pool, which appears to be suspended in mid-air as it partially hangs over a 24-story drop.
Easy answer to the headline question. HELL NO.
Now that’s funny.
Bryan Larrick:
I looked on my server, and there was a whole other website squatting on my domain, selling vpn access to god knows who out of who knows where. I’d been hacked.
Wow.
An interesting look at dots and pixels as John Gruber makes his way from a Pac-Man coin-op machine to a Retina MacBook Pro.
More than $60,000 worth of “computers and personal items” were allegedly stolen, but Flattery declined to say whether they belonged to Jobs, who died last year at the age of 56, or another family member.
A classic comic from Joy of Tech.
Rene Ritchie:
No one can look at Samsung’s mobile products over the last decade and not consider them anything other than a ruthless, relentless copy of everything popular that’s came before. It’s not that Samsung doesn’t continuously push the limits of hardware specifications and capabilities as much if not more than anyone else. They do. But they do so by systematically, institutionally copying what other vendors have already done first.
Rene just goes off on Samsung.
A really nice message from Om Malik to John Gruber, congratulating him the 10 year anniversary of Daring Fireball.
A new Web site aims to help end-user confusion over lengthy Terms of Service agreements with various sites by summarizing and grading them.
iNeedHelp sends your location via text message and email at the push of a button to your HelpList.
Seems ideal for children or senior citizens.
Objective-Cologne is an Objective-C & Cocoa community-organized conference taking place next month in Cologne Germany. Speakers include Mike Lee, Jason Harris and Ken Aspeslagh.
A great looking line-up of speakers. I wish I was going to Germany.
I love it when people are taken to task for avoiding questions they should answer.
I took a minute today to call John Gruber and congratulate him on his 10th anniversary of running Daring Fireball. John has had a tremendous influence on me as a writer and on my current business model. […]
Bryan Beverly sent this to me this morning and it fits the Apple, Samsung trial so well.
“The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward.” — Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation, 1964.
