March 2012
28 posts
WHODAT.BIZ →
The whois service of THE FUTURE, allegedly brought to you by Kanye West’s Donda Media.
UPDATE: Appears to be fake. Still funny.
My Quora answer to "What are some of the best WTF... →
I may have written too much.
Way →
In some ways, probably the best computer game I’ve ever played. Also - it’s free!
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit →
The definitive commentary on the Mike Daisey story. Puts everyone else to shame.
IEVMS - Run IE6, IE7, IE8, and IE9 On the Same Mac... →
A lifesaver. Very glad I do not have to buy Windows just to test websites on IE for an hour a week.
Word of caution: each disk image takes up about 10GB of space. It’s sort of a waste of hard drive space unless you make websites professionally, in which case it’s incredibly convenient.
Quora answer: Does it matter that Mike Daisey lied... →
In other news, answering Quora questions is a great way to feel productive while actually procrastinating.
“As long as we’re all tweeting lessons from this week’s news: Never...”
– Dara Lind
This American Life Retracts Entirety of Mike... →
Seems like Daisey fabricated large portions.
Alexis Madrigal points out that this does not invalidate the previous reporting of the New York Times and last year’s Wired feature by Joel Johnson, both of which contain similar details about Foxconn’s subpar working conditions. So this is more about the heartbreaking emotional anecdotes within that episode, which appear to be totally...
“I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social...”
– Why I left Google - MSDN Blogs
“As we were under NDA, our friends in the Microsoft ATG felt they could converse...”
– Douglas Hofstadter on the National Federation for the Blind’s immaturity / quasi-corruption
“They’ll do it right in front of a cop car —... →
WatchNiggas In Poorest - Yasiin Bey
WatchHell of a Life - Josh Rubenoff
In December 2010, I was listening to Kanye’s MBDTF outside in -20 degrees and sick out of my mind, and was convinced that he had turned into the devil. So I made the first 81 seconds of a music video, over a year ago, before abandoning it. I hope you enjoy it.
iPad 3 Features Page →
Some awesome front-end dev work here, with HTML5 and Quicktime animations that autoplay depending on your scroll position.
“Alison Brie said she and Danny Pudi had no idea what the episode was about as...”
– Community at PaleyFest 2012, on an upcoming episode
WatchThis is perhaps an even more brutal evisceration of Childish Gambino than the 1.6. Lyrically and stylistically dead-on.
