November 2011
32 posts
I did some good today.
From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn’t belong here. Not in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is something...
Drinking is the only way to deal with morons
Smart people “booze so we can tolerate everyone else,” says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to “take people’s responses at literal face value.” But after a few drinks, “we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit.” Its Science Bitch
WatchKickass Cover of the Day: From tonight’s episode of Late Night, Jimmy Fallon as Jim Morrison covering an extended cut of the “Reading Rainbow” theme song.
Watchzizidur:
GTA V’s Trailer
The Interaction of Lion’s “Natural Scrolling”
Perhaps one of the most recent demonstrations of this would be Apple’s natural scrolling which they just “introduced” with the release of OS X Lion. It’s getting a pretty bad rap, and a lot of people are complaining about it. Which I think is very strange, but I completely understand. We just aren’t thinking about it properly. While it was technically just introduced, we’ve been using it for...
October 2011
42 posts
