February 2012
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Feb 13th
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In Praise Of: Exquisite Tweets
It’s rare to come across a web service you use every day, and rarer still to come across two or three in one year from a single author. However, James Wheare managed that for me last year. Both IRCCloud (with RJ) and TwitShift are now part of my daily life. However, it’s a third, Exquisite Tweets, that I’m going to be writing about. Everyone knows that Twitter is, even though...
Feb 13th
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“The risk of one great whomp and you’re flattened on the 880? No… . That feels...”
– Art Hutchinson, referring to the most deadly effect of Lomo Prieta earthquake in 1989, quoted in Virginia Postrel’s essay, Resilience vs. Anticipation. The piece talks about the difference between the east and west coast approaches to culture, as informed by weather and natural risks....
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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finchmishi asked: Hi! I really like that "lorem ipsum" pixel square. Could you please tell me how you did that? I tried googling some stuff but didn't come up with anything. What did you use to replace the color data?
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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“I don’t like the idea of Instagram as a photo sharing service, and I don’t think...”
– Kevin Systrom, quoted in Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane at Gizmodo.
Feb 9th
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“Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out...”
– From Gizmodo’s piece Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane. It might be splitting hairs, but I think the Flickr account is for the White House, and is therefore in Obama’s role as President, while the Instagram account is more of a campaign...
Feb 9th
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WatchWatch
Tim Bowditch: “This time-lapse was produced to document Simon Terrill’s Balfron Project.”
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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“We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal...”
– Dave Morin: Path: We are sorry. Well, that’s not a bad response.
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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“More monitors cut down on toggling time among windows on a single screen, which...”
– NY Times: In Data Deluge, Multitaskers Go to Multiscreens. I recently switched from a single 15” 1440×800 MacBook Pro display to three screens: the MBP and two external 1920×1080 monitors (whose diagonal sizes I’m uncertain of, but let’s say 21”). I think it’s helped,...
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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AS8-14-2383
Borman: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty.
Anders: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled.
Borman: (laughing) You got a color film, Jim?
Anders: Hand me that roll of color quick, will you...
Feb 8th
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