December 2008
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“Many songs in the iTunes Store are now available as unprotected AAC files, which...”
– Mark Pilgrim, on lossy audio codecs
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“XML is not the answer. It is not even the question. … This is a different...”
– Phillip J. Eby, Python is not Java.
Dec 15th
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"And then I woke up and it was all a dream" →
Charlie Stross on the life and death of the PDA. Usually I’d post this on delicious, but there’s a lot I want to quote. Newton was John Sculley’s pet project, allegedly started after a high-level Apple meeting in which he realized everyone present was using a Cambridge Z88, and said “why don’t we make one of those?” The sorry truth is, PDAs are a commercial...
Dec 14th
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“In August, nGenera announced version 8.1 of its Talisma Knowledgebase, saying...”
– Enchantments? nGenera press release, via Rogers Cadenhead
Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Pitchfork's 20 worst album covers of 2008. →
(via binkythedoormat) Some of these look like they’d fit in with the storm of naive design dross that fills up fffound. (Oh, and the Santogold cover sucks.)
Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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ffffound / ddddownload
In a moment of procrastination, I noticed that ddddownload (previously) was at the top of the delicious home page (with 150+ links). Noting a mention of swissmiss, I saw her post about it, and this comment: FFFFFound is a pretty lousy company as they disregard copyright laws. I know from experience; they’ve posted pictures of mine without any credit to me.  This new download only makes...
Dec 9th