January 2012
132 posts
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70 covers of Adele's Rolling in the Deep spliced... →
I love, love, love stuff like this. Oh, humans. You’re so awesome sometimes. (Don’t miss the supremely talented @samueltsui at the 2 minute mark)
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Iron Sky is a film about space Nazis from the dark... →
No really, that’s what it’s about. Awesome.
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The mobile app space is already bigger than the... →
Translation: I need to continue to work on my Obj-C.
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Is it better to buy lots of cheap batteries, or... →
It turns out they are basically the same price, you just have to replace cheap ones a lot more often.
The People's Microphone is a technique used by... →
“I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite...”
– George Clooney
the world: hey man we've got some really serious problems like global warming and mass economic failure and riots and genocide and aids and cancer and your healthcare system is shit so maybe we should get to work
US government: sit down I have to stop people from sharing things online
US government: also pizza is vegetables
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Amazon is... getting into the movie-making... →
Amazon Studios is an attempt to disrupt Hollywood with a new model for making and selling scripts and movies. On the face of it this seems crazily unlikely to work, but Amazon doesn’t often get into new businesses without thinking very hard about them first, so there may be some secret sauce in here.
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Five big problems with Twitter's UI
Okay Twitter, it’s time you stopped getting a free pass. You have fucked up your interface, and it’s time to fix it.
Before we get to the UI problems, let’s reiterate the bigger, older problem, captured just a second ago:
This was cute when you were tiny and still getting over early technical mistakes on the back-end, but you’re over that now, you’ve taken over...
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
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The real way to prevent SOPA happening is to... →
If the MPAA feels our anger on their balance sheets, they will stop buying congressional support for these stupid laws. Smart advice from Marco of Instapaper.
“The Wikipedia blackout presents a horrifying picture of a world with no...”
– Andy Daglas (via kateoplis) Quote of the night. (via shortformblog)