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Ken Shirriff's blog: Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package
This is sweating the details.
apple 
3 days ago
Funnybook Babylon: Five Years Later: The Oral History of Countdown to Final Crisis
This is just a hilarious accounting of committee-driven art. They've obviously done their research and found that this stuff will sell a ton of books, but at what cost?
comics  dccomics  from instapaper
13 days ago
Postscript: Adam Yauch : The New Yorker
MCA was an inspiration to me with his activism and his lack of fear in bucking the popular.
adamyauch  mca  beastieboys  music  from instapaper
15 days ago
Roger Federer as Religious Experience
The great David Foster Wallace explains the great Roger Federer.
davidfosterwallace  rogerfederer  tennis  from instapaper
19 days ago
Letters of Note: God damn it, I split it so it will stay split
Sometimes you’ve got to throw out the rules. And sometimes you’ve got to write verse to make a point.
writing  from twitter
4 weeks ago
The Justice Department Just Made Jeff Bezos Dictator-for-Life - Business - The Atlantic
I love that people are noticing what a destructive force DRM is in this sector. The publishers didn't learn a thing from the music labels.
ebooks  amazon  apple  drm 
5 weeks ago
What Amazon's ebook strategy means - Charlie's Diary
Great overview of why Amazon's position is so deadly. The lovely thing here is that doing the right thing for the consumer will help make this a competitive market again.
ebooks  amazon  apple  drm  from instapaper
5 weeks ago
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I agree with almost everything written here. The cost of manufacturing, shipping, and shelving print books is obvious, but the publishers have devalued ebooks by making bad decisions with regard to DRM and not sweating the details when it comes to a finished product. The difference in cost has to reflect these issues before I'll buy an ebook over a similarly-priced print book.
books  ebooks  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Mindless Ones » Whatever Happened to the Mentallium Man of Tomorrow?
I just got the Flex Mentallo HC. Have only flipped through. I hope the recoloring isn’t as drab as these examples.
grantmorrison  frankquitely  flexmentallo  comics  from twitter
6 weeks ago
PHP: a fractal of bad design - fuzzy notepad
Great list of concrete examples of why PHP should go away.
programming  php  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Who Gets the Mobile Money?
Developers need to get paid in order to continue making things. It’s not a hard concept.
development  business  mobile  from twitter
7 weeks ago
Papermill
This is depressing. I thought the iOS race to the bottom was bad.
development  business  mobile  android  from twitter
7 weeks ago
The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs : The New Yorker
There are precious few musicians who can make such an impact on their instrument and their genre.
earlscruggs  banjo  music  from instapaper
7 weeks ago
An ultradeep image that’s *full* galaxies! | Bad Astronomy
Two hundred thousand plus galaxies in this 1.2 × 1.5 degree image. Let that sink in for a second.
astronomy  photography  from twitter
8 weeks ago
Natural Born Drillers
It's naïve to think that US policy can have this sort of total effect. It's much more nuanced. There are so many factors in play.
politics  krugman  energy  oil  from instapaper
9 weeks ago
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers. - Slate Magazine
An outsider takes a look at what _why brought to the Ruby community.
ruby  _why 
10 weeks ago
Ask Chris #96: Why Spider-Man Is The Best Character Ever (Yes, Even Better Than Batman)
Chris Sims talks Spider-Man and Batman.
comics  batman  from instapaper
10 weeks ago
Columbus will transform Jeff Carter jerseys into Jack Johnson ones for free | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports
Poor Columbus. But their PR has been as good as their management has been bad.
hockey  nhl  from twitter
11 weeks ago
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied.
Tenure is a bitch, Dr. Jones.
indianajones  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
Erie Otters’ Connor Crisp, after not playing all season, gets his 58 minutes of fame by going into OHL game in as an emergency goalie | Buzzing The Net - Yahoo! Sports
I don’t know, I’m pretty impressed. The poor guy went from not knowing how to dress to making 32 saves.
hockey  ohl  from twitter
11 weeks ago
Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate - The Washington Post
Hits the nail on the head.
politics  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
Teller Reveals His Secrets
“You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.”
magic  teller  from instapaper
12 weeks ago
The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order » Absolutely No Machete Juggling
Interesting take on how to string together the series. I think about this stuff.
starwars  from instapaper
12 weeks ago
Moochers Against Welfare
"44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 percent of those on Medicare say that they “have not used a government program.”" Where do these people think that money comes from?
politics  krugman  from instapaper
february 2012
Panic Blog » About Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper is an excellent compromise. It would be great to have it on iOS, but I doubt Apple wants to cede control.
macosx  security  from twitter
february 2012
Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire | Wired Science | Wired.com
HFT is truly frightening because we don’t understand it.
finance  from twitter
february 2012
iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it | The Verge
Handling sensitive data is a burden most app devs should avoid. Big or small, you can get hacked. (Look at Sony PSN.)
ios  security  from twitter
february 2012
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic
This is kind of incredible to think about. I wonder how long it will take for these kind of things to evolve to exert greater control over humans.
toxoplasmagondii  cats  from instapaper
february 2012
Swiss banking secrecy: Don’t ask, won’t tell
Switzerland is going to have a hard time maintaining their tradition here. It will be interesting to see how things go the next couple years.
banking  switzerland  from instapaper
february 2012
Hollywood by the numbers | asymco
Neat analysis by . What happens if we adjust the blockbuster threshold for inflation? Love the fourth section.
movies  from twitter
february 2012
It Sparkles!: NO FUN
This bugs me. Moore/Gibbons/DC were playing by the rules, until DC effectively changed the rules.
comics  alanmoore  dccomics  from twitter
february 2012
APOD: 2012 February 1 - Red Aurora Over Australia
What a busy southern sky.
astronomy  photography  from twitter
february 2012
Lists of Note: Wartime Golf Rules
Rule 7: toughen up, pansies.
golf  war  from twitter
february 2012
Apple Outsider » Hollywood Still Hates You
Don't treat your paying customers like assholes. If you do, they won't be your paying customers.
movies  piracy  idiocy 
january 2012
Warren Ellis » What A Comics Script Is For
It's interesting reading scripts, because there is so much variation. This is why.
comics  warrenellis 
january 2012
Fraser Speirs - Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
Excellent succinct technical overview of what is allowed to run in the background on iOS and for how long. Users should not need to be concerned with what's in the multitasking bar.
ios 
january 2012
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
Some great info here on best practices. Vim's built-in docs are excellent, but it's always useful to get a pointer into them to learn something new.
vim 
december 2011
The Post-Truth Campaign
These days, "balanced" reporting is anything but.
politics  krugman  from instapaper
december 2011
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Rolling Stone
"Such extremist rhetoric – equating taxation with theft – is exactly the kind of talk that dismays old-line Republicans. Many of those who fought for years at the side of Ronald Reagan say they no longer recognize traditional GOP values in the new Republican Party. Fighting for the rich, after all, is not the same as championing the right."
politics  from instapaper
december 2011
Bezier curves - a primer
Great interactive overview of Bezier curves.
math  beziercurves  from instapaper
december 2011
Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best - The Atlantic
Mmm, grade B maple syrup.
food  maplesyrup  from instapaper
december 2011
Dan Frommer on How to Write a Weblog
The writing on the web I most enjoy follows these rules. There's not much better than a focused blog that sweats the details.
writing  blogs  publishing 
december 2011
Pub Rules
It's no surprise that making the easy, sane decisions would result in the best product for both the publication and its readers.
web  publishing 
november 2011
A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl
"Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of. What makes the McRib different from this everyday horror is that a) McDonald’s is huge to the point that it’s more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants b) it is made of pork, which makes it a unique product in the QSR world and c) it is only available sometimes, but refuses to go away entirely."
fastfood  mcdonalds  mcrib  from instapaper
november 2011
Vote411.org: On Your Ballot
This League of Women Voters page finally knows where my address is. It will tell you what's on the ballot. Useful.
elections 
november 2011
Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
This sort of stuff takes the longest to learn, but makes the most impact.
python 
november 2011
Ask Chris #78: Why The 'Batman: The Animated Series' Opening Is The Best Thing Ever
Chris Sims nails the Batman: The Animated Series opening. Simple, beautiful, economical story telling.
batman  btas 
november 2011
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
stevejobs 
october 2011
Rogue’s Review: Darkseid
"Darkseid is the horrible laughter you hear in the music at the funfair, the hollow feeling you can’t cough out of your chest, the lines that ravage your face, the knowledge that you can’t win so it’s not worth trying."
comics  darkseid  grantmorrison  jackkirby  from instapaper
october 2011
Radiohead and “The American Radiohead”: Filling the R.E.M. void | The A.V. Club
"Setting out to become the next Bono is like filling out a job application to become the new Easter Bunny. A fun fantasy, yes, but not a viable career plan."
music  radiohead  wilco  from instapaper
october 2011
APOD: 2011 September 21 - Pleiades Deep Field
30 hour exposure. Incredible.
astronomy  photography  from twitter
september 2011
Marital Tragedy
"The Sun Also Rises" reviewed by the New York Times in 1925. "Mr. Hemingway makes his characters say one thing, convey still another, and when a whole passage of talk has been given, the reader finds himself the richer by a totally unexpected mood, a mood often enough of outrageous familiarity with obscure heartbreaks."
bookreview  hemingway 
september 2011
Eric and Irene
"America has a long-run deficit problem, which should be met with long-run budget measures."
krugman  politics  from instapaper
september 2011
Republicans Against Science
"Within the G.O.P., willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates."
science  politics  krugman  from instapaper
august 2011
Blargg's Audio Libraries
Game_Music_Emu is pretty great.
audio  emulation  chiptunes 
august 2011
ignore the code: More on Software Patents
"As a result, you can’t release software without putting yourself into a position where you might suddenly lose all of your money."
software  patents 
august 2011
The Centrist Cop-Out
"The problem with American politics right now is Republican extremism, and if you’re not willing to say that, you’re helping make that problem worse."
politics  krugman  from instapaper
july 2011
Modern Drunkard Magazine
119 beers in six hours.
beer  andrethegiant  from instapaper
july 2011
Pine Creek Watershed Coalition
"The Pine Creek Watershed Coalition is a group of stakeholders committed to improving the health of the Pine Creek watershed."
pinecreek  pittsburgh 
july 2011
The Pirates Should Be Buyers | FanGraphs Baseball
Too early to think about the Bucs taking a shot? It's fun watching meaningful baseball in July.
baseball  pirates  bucs  loserssince1993  from twitter
july 2011
Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
Andy Baio used an original pixel drawing interpretation for the "Kind of Bloop" cover and was sued by the original photographer.
andybaio  kindofbloop  litigation  from instapaper
june 2011
Mark Recchi Tribute: Fans in each of his NHL cities look back
Recchin’ Ball.
hockey  nhl  markrecchi  from twitter
june 2011
Jon Palmer’s M-wing Kit
A classic design from nearly ten years ago.
lego  starwars 
june 2011
This self deprecation has to stop
John Allison: "If you finished one thing, you can finish another, and you will improve."
work  johnallison 
june 2011
GPS Visualizer
Upload a GPX and get back a Google Map.
maps  gps  tracking 
june 2011
[3F14] Homer the Smithers
"Ahoy, hoy." The proper way to answer a phone.
simpsons  ahoyhoy 
june 2011
Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?
This will win out eventually.
english  punctuation  theonetrueway  from instapaper
june 2011
Three Fools: Morrison’s Joker
Incongruity is at the heart of Morrison’s Joker because it’s through incongruity that his autocritical super-sanity becomes viable.
comics  grantmorrison  from instapaper
may 2011
What’s Left of the Left
What Krugman took from Argentina—and what he thinks even liberals in Washington missed—was “a certain level of understanding,” he says, “that important people have no idea what they’re doing.”
paulkrugman  ecomonics  from instapaper
may 2011
Cranking
Merlin writes about priorities.
priorities  work  from instapaper
april 2011
Talk To The Fist - Television Tropes & Idioms
AKA Tuco's Advice.
tvtrope 
april 2011
Solarized - Ethan Schoonover
Plenty of thought put into this color scheme.
color  vim  terminal 
april 2011
A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring Out How to Start
"[If] it wasn’t hard, everyone would be doing it and a hard thing is never done by reading a list or a book or an article about doing it. A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start."
productivity  work  from instapaper
april 2011
Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Wil Shipley on steadily building a profitable business.
wilshipley  business  from instapaper
april 2011
Compare Regular Expression Flavors
Good charts about the supported features of many regex flavors.
regex 
april 2011
Nuclear power: When the steam clears
Put things in perspective. Don't overreact. Make things safe.
nuclearpower  science  japan  earthquake  from instapaper
march 2011
Opt Out
Opt out of all sorts of direct marketing. Let's see if this helps.
optout  privacy  spam 
march 2011
Letters of Note: Permission to land
Great story about how South Vietnamese Air Force Major Buang-Ly escaped Vietnam with his family.
vietnamwar  primarysource 
march 2011
Radiation Dose Chart
Visual representation of common sources of radiation.
science  nuclearpower  radiation 
march 2011
Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives
"The country that gave the world the word tsunami, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, built concrete seawalls in many communities, some as high as 40 feet, which amounted to its first line of defense against the water. In some coastal towns, in the event of an earthquake, networks of sensors are set up to set off alarms in individual residences and automatically shut down floodgates to prevent waves from surging upriver."
japan  science  earthquake  tsunami  from instapaper
march 2011
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