October 2011
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
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The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
March 2011
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The Understatement: The Real Death of the Music... →
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A Bad Chart & Its Origins
In January, Bain & Company produced the following chart as part of their report on “Publishing in the Digital Age” (PDF):
Then on Tuesday, someone posted it on Flickr. Subsequently, Peter Kafka of Wall Street Journal’s MediaMemo noticed it and passed it along…
February 2011
4 posts
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January 2011
3 posts
December 2010
9 posts
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Hark, a vagrant: 291. COOKIES →
Merry christmas y’all!
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WONDER-TONIC: 4chan Declares War On Snow →
wondertonic:
A loosely-organized group of internet activists known as Anonymous announced on Sunday that it was declaring war on the meteorologic phenomenon known as snow. The hacker group, born out of the influential internet messageboard 4chan and responsible for the recent attacks against MasterCard and…
Small Mammal: Behind the Scenes: Lego Antikythera... →
small-mammal:
This is a 2000-year-old analog computing device reconstructed out of Lego. It predicts solar and lunar eclipses, accurate to within two hours — all using plastic gears. Andy Carol, its designer, builds mechanical computers out of Lego as a hobby. He made this device…
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November 2010
9 posts
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: Regular readers of Something Standard would... →
somethingstandard:
Regular readers of Something Standard would probably have picked up by now that I am a huge fan of the novelist J.G. Ballard. I’ve recently started reading the only novel of his 18 he wrote which I have yet to read: ‘The Wind from Nowhere’. This also happens to be his first novel,…
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October 2010
8 posts
WatchJames Blake - Limit to Your Love (Feist Cover)
September 2010
1 post
M. Wunsch: Notchdrones →
mwunsch:
I am only moderately aware of the game sensation Minecraft. I don’t play the game, I’m not completely sure of what it is. But I know some facts:
The game is in an α state. It’s called Minecraft Alpha. It’s in a state of rapid development. I emphasize “rapid” for a reason.
The game’s sole…
August 2010
6 posts
“I think everybody really does know how to play drunk because I think most people...”
– Greta Gerwig on acting drunk
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July 2010
7 posts
