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VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Items in descending order of confidence, roughly: A flexible wristband with a flexible, high-DPI touchscreen running its full length. The charger is a squat peg that plugs in and sits on your nightstand, and you just drop the band over it. Charges via induction.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Last night during my regular 4 a.m. bout of insomnia I decided to look up where the Skagit River Bridge was. Turns out it spans the Skagit River — or used to span, anyway, from 1955 until about nine hours prior — between Mount Vernon and the tiny town of Burlington, WA.. When I searched for “Burlington, WA,” Apple Maps gave me a random address fifteen miles away from me on NWVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Look, and Feel. This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly over the past week or so, most recently in a quote from Justin Rhoades:. It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances toVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Mad About U2. Peter Cohen:. The inordinate amount of actual anger directed at Apple and U2 over this is so disproportional to the actual event, I’ve started to wonder aboutVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
19th. 2010. “You ever think about how in, like, a Tom Hanks movie, everyone lives in a reality in which there’s no such person as Tom Hanks? Because otherwise, people would be mistaking the main character for Tom Hanks all the time? So either Tom Hanks doesn’t exist in the world the movie takes place in, or he does exist but he looks likeVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
This is the fun part. We’re about a week away from Apple announcing a new product. People are pretty sure it’s going to be an iOS-based Apple TV, that its name will be simply iTV, and that it will sooner or later have its own App Store. It’s all very exciting. But this calm period — this strange time when we know everything and yet nothing — is the fun part, because we get to takeVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
So it turns out that the Leslie Nielsen classic Airplane! was actually a satirical remake of the 1957 aeronautical drama Zero Hour!.As seen in this video comparison, many of the lines in Airplane! were lifted wholesale from Zero Hour! (and made funny). But how weird/fantastic is it that Airplane! stands on its own as one of the best comedies ever made, when by my calculations 93% of the peopleVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Still Mad About U2. TJ Luoma disagrees with me (excerpts quoted below):. Dan, for someone who started their post with “this analysis is way off the mark” I have to say your analysis is way off the mark.. No one is angry about receiving a gift.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant's website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you're open. WebsiteVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
“MOM! BETHANY WON’T LET ME PLAY DOODLE JUMP!” “Play your own games, Bradley. And let your sister finish her homework.” Bradley kicked at the banister railing at the top of the stairs and stomped off to his room, flung himself onto his bed.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Items in descending order of confidence, roughly: A flexible wristband with a flexible, high-DPI touchscreen running its full length. The charger is a squat peg that plugs in and sits on your nightstand, and you just drop the band over it. Charges via induction.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Last night during my regular 4 a.m. bout of insomnia I decided to look up where the Skagit River Bridge was. Turns out it spans the Skagit River — or used to span, anyway, from 1955 until about nine hours prior — between Mount Vernon and the tiny town of Burlington, WA.. When I searched for “Burlington, WA,” Apple Maps gave me a random address fifteen miles away from me on NWVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Look, and Feel. This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly over the past week or so, most recently in a quote from Justin Rhoades:. It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances toVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Mad About U2. Peter Cohen:. The inordinate amount of actual anger directed at Apple and U2 over this is so disproportional to the actual event, I’ve started to wonder aboutVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
19th. 2010. “You ever think about how in, like, a Tom Hanks movie, everyone lives in a reality in which there’s no such person as Tom Hanks? Because otherwise, people would be mistaking the main character for Tom Hanks all the time? So either Tom Hanks doesn’t exist in the world the movie takes place in, or he does exist but he looks likeVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
This is the fun part. We’re about a week away from Apple announcing a new product. People are pretty sure it’s going to be an iOS-based Apple TV, that its name will be simply iTV, and that it will sooner or later have its own App Store. It’s all very exciting. But this calm period — this strange time when we know everything and yet nothing — is the fun part, because we get to takeVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
So it turns out that the Leslie Nielsen classic Airplane! was actually a satirical remake of the 1957 aeronautical drama Zero Hour!.As seen in this video comparison, many of the lines in Airplane! were lifted wholesale from Zero Hour! (and made funny). But how weird/fantastic is it that Airplane! stands on its own as one of the best comedies ever made, when by my calculations 93% of the peopleVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Still Mad About U2. TJ Luoma disagrees with me (excerpts quoted below):. Dan, for someone who started their post with “this analysis is way off the mark” I have to say your analysis is way off the mark.. No one is angry about receiving a gift.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant's website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you're open. WebsiteVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
“MOM! BETHANY WON’T LET ME PLAY DOODLE JUMP!” “Play your own games, Bradley. And let your sister finish her homework.” Bradley kicked at the banister railing at the top of the stairs and stomped off to his room, flung himself onto his bed.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Pianotable. Pianotable? Yes, pianotable. Some people might say this is a terrible piano because it doesn’t have pedals, or that it will sound awful because it lacks exposed speakers (yeah it’s digital), or that you won’t be sitting at the right height to play it comfortably when you’re at the right height to eat off of it, so you’ll have to buy adjustable dining chairs.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Watch this. I never do this, so I’m gonna do this: Here’s my completely uninformed speculation on what Apple might announce on Tuesday, apart from the stupidly huge new phones we’re all expecting. Items in descending order of confidence, roughly: A flexible wristband with a flexible, high-DPI touchscreen running itsfull length.
VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
2nd. 2014. chrisereneta: Uh huh. You got that right. PLATFORM STRATEGY. I’ve followed Flummox and Friends since its Kickstarter campaign a while back. It’s a great idea — a show aimed at smart kids who need a little help with social skills — and the execution is terrific. Recently IVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Common Misconceptions about What I Wrote Yesterday. In a probably-futile attempt to stem the tide of redundant comments, I’ll address some of the more frequent reactions toVENOMOUS PORRIDGE
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA. Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks.I haven’t played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
With our new API guidelines, we’re trying to encourage activity in the upper-left, lower-left and lower right quadrants, and limit certain use cases that occupy the upper-right quadrant.. I thought Twitter’s bullshit matrix needed a more consistent user experience, so I fixed it for them.bullshit matrix needed a more consistent userexperience, so
VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Software is a complement of hardware, and in any market, one of the best ways to make more money is to commoditize your complements. Joel Spolsky: Every product in the marketplace has substitutes and complements. A substitute is another product you might buy if the first product is too expensive. Chicken is a substitute for beef.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Shooting billiard balls at wormholes. In response, another physicist named Joseph Polchinski sent them a letter in which he argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
Intent Doesn’t Matter. John Gruber wagers that Apple doesn’t mean what it says in the iBooks Author EULA:. I’m willing to bet cold hard cash that Apple has no intention to and will never try to stop a publisher or author from taking content written in iBooks Author and publishing it elsewhere in another format.VENOMOUS PORRIDGE
App.net isn’t just a country club. Back in the early 1990s, when you went online, you either dialed up a local BBS or you used a national service like Prodigy or America Online.These services each had their own user interfaces and content and jargon and there was no easy way to communicate between them. I’m Dan Wineman and sometimes I post things here. You could follow @dwineman on Twitter ,or email me.
Sep
16th 2014
OH STOP IT, U2
Some more good observations on the central human rights struggle of the modern era (← JOKE):Steven Frank
:
> It’s that my various document libraries, and _especially_ my > iTunes library, are sacred. You DO NOT touch them. If I entrust them > to your cloud service, you double-triple especially DO NOT touch> them.
Daniel Jalkut
:
> The notion that Macs, iPhones, and iPads are personalized devices > runs deep in Apple’s history and remains a powerful marketing> message.
>
> So, many of the people who complained about the U2 album suddenly > appearing in their “Purchased” list weren’t outraged by a > petty act of gifting an album that they may or may not like. They > were instead annoyed, and perhaps a little scared by the implication > that Apple doesn’t respect the boundaries that separate > “customer stuff” from “Apple stuff.”Marco Arment
:
> The right way for Apple to do a big U2 promotional deal like this > would have been to simply make the album free on the iTunes Store > for a while and promote the hell out of that.>
> Instead, Apple set everyone’s account to have “purchased” this > album, which auto-downloaded it to all of their devices, possibly > filling up the stingy base-level storage that Apple still hasn’t > raised and exacerbates by iOS’ poor and confusing > storage-management facilities. And when people see a random album > they didn’t buy suddenly showing up in their “purchases” and > library, it makes them wonder where it came from, why it’s there, > whether they were charged for it, and whether they were hacked or > had their credit card stolen.Ben Thompson :
> Apple _wants_ people to believe their device is a reflection of who > they are. That’s why the U2 brouhaha was such a screwup.Sep
15th 2014
STILL MAD ABOUT U2
TJ Luoma
disagrees with me (excerpts quoted below): > Dan, for someone who started their post with “this analysis is way > off the mark” I have to say… your analysis> is way
> off the mark.
>
>> No one is angry about receiving a gift.>
> Actually, they are. They got something for free. That’s a gift. > They didn’t want it, and they’re complaining about it. For days. > And days. And days. No, I don’t think that’s accurate. The iTunes Store gives away free music every single day and no one cares. The only difference here is the delivery mechanism, and that difference is the entire reason for the anger. The fact that it was U2 is irrelevant (although it’s possible that if Apple had chosen a more current band fewer people may have been upset). >> Imagine waking up to a fruit basket>
> You mean, imagine a completely different scenario that doesn’t > relate to the transfer of digital information onto your portable > electronic device?>
> (This is analysis you consider “on the mark”?) Yes, it’s an analogy. You want something less abstract? OK, imagine you’re not a U2 fan. You’ve never bought a U2 album. Can’t stand them. You’re out for a jog, you’re listening to your iPod on “shuffle all,” you’re in the groove. Out of nowhere: boom, Bono in your ear. Wouldn’t that be a _little_ annoying? Wouldn’t you have a right to be pissed at whoever screwed with your musiccollection?
This isn’t a made-up scenario. With iTunes in the Cloud, and with the automatic downloading of purchases introduced in iOS 5, that’s exactly what will happento
anyone who doesn’t jump through hoops to remove the unwanted content (and you couldn’t do this from your phone _at all_ until today).
The content of an iTunes library has been 100% under its owner’s voluntary control ever since iTunes was introduced 13 years ago. That trust had never been broken before, and this ham-fisted promotion was a terrible reason to break it now. I hope nothing similar ever happensagain.
> It’s in your iTunes library, which a) almost no one is ever going > to see, b) you can delete it if you want to, and c) if you don’t > want to, you can say “I got that for free.” Whether anyone else can see it isn’t really the point; that was just an illustration. The important thing is that I and I alone decide what goes in my library — in fact, this is the whole reason I pay for music _at all_ instead of listening to iTunes Radio or Beats or any other streaming service. The value is in the ability to curate it, and in knowing that its contents won’t change at the whim of licensing deals or other factors beyond my control. Undermining that ability and that control is an act of deep disrespect. > Violation was a really unfortunate word choice.>
> Yeah, I know it has other connotations in the dictionary, but _you_ > also know that in the past month we have been talking about civil > rights violations and privacy violations, to name just two. Yes, this does count as a (minor) privacy violation. It’s also a violation of trust and of expectations, and arguably of good taste. I should have been more explicit about what kind of violation I meant, and I apologize for any offense my use of that word by itself may havecaused.
> This is people afraid that someone might think bad about them > because they had a free album in their iTunes library. That’s your > strongest argument about why this was bad. No; if you read carefully, you’ll find that my argument is that Apple should have had the empathy to predict the uproar this decision caused, especially since they had _immediately beforehand_ announced what they called their “most personal” product, with features designed around “intimacy” (their language, not mine). They should have known that a music collection is, to many people, especially young people, _also_ a personal, intimate thing that oughtn’t betrifled with.
(Source: dwineman
, via tj
)
MAD ABOUT U2
Peter Cohen
:
> The inordinate amount of actual anger directed at Apple and U2 over > this is so disproportional to the actual event, I’ve started to > wonder about the mental state of some of those complaining. It’s > really been off the charts.>
> If you fall into that camp, let me speak very plainly: I have no > sympathy for you. I have trouble thinking of a more self-indulgent, > “first world problem” than saying “I hate this free new album > I’ve been given.” I appreciate that this topic has zero significance in comparison to any of the genuinely terrible things that have been happening in the world in 2014. But if we’re going to talk about it, let’s talk about it _right,_ and this analysis is way off the mark. No one is angry about receiving a gift. People are offended by the _way_ the gift was given: without warning or fanfare, it just appeared in your iTunes library. Imagine waking up to a fruit basket from a well-meaning acquaintance, except instead of on your doorstep it’s sitting ominously on your kitchen counter. Do you shrug and chow down on a nectarine, or do you change your locks? Music collections are deeply personal, and to young people, they can be surprisingly wrapped up in identity. Back when CDs and cassettes were the thing, my friends and I would collect and proudly house them in elaborate alphabetized racks. Every cramped freshman dorm room had several cubic feet devoted to this purpose. You wouldn’t visit a friend for the first time without spending at least a few minutes arms folded, waist bent, scanning tiny lettering on 25 or 50 or a couple hundred plastic spines. It was smalltalk; it was a courtship display. Wait a sec, you’re into _Genesis?!_ Oh, just the early stuff. Cool,cool.
We’ve surrendered the physical trappings, but the connotations remain. And I think Apple didn’t see this because — no matter how deeply they insist music runs in their DNA — from the perspective of the iTunes Store, “library” means _licensed content the user is currently authorized to stream or download._ But due to various design decisions Apple’s made over the years, that’s not what it means to anyone else. I’d wager that to a majority of iTunes users, “library” means _my personally curated collection of stuff that I enjoy AND feel comfortable associating with my identity._ Messing with _that_ is, to be frank, nothing short of aviolation.
It takes a certain degree of empathy to get that a music collection isn’t the same thing as a Facebook feed, and empathy in marketing decisions at this level is rare. But any company that hopes to gain our trust in mediating intimacy ought to be _much_ better at figuring this stuff out.Sep
9th 2014
Nailed it .
Sep
5th 2014
WATCH THIS
I never do this, so I’m gonna do this: Here’s my COMPLETELY UNINFORMED SPECULATION on what Apple might announce on Tuesday,
apart from the stupidly huge new phones we’re all expecting. Items in descending order of confidence,roughly:
A flexible wristband with a flexible, high-DPI touchscreen running itsfull length.
The charger is a squat peg that plugs in and sits on your nightstand, and you just drop the band over it. Charges via induction. This works well because the device contains an induction coil that runs its whole internal circumference, completely surrounding the terminal inside the peg for optimal efficiency (think electric toothbrush).
Two orientations: portrait, when you hold your arm across your body and read it from the dorsal side, like a traditional watch; and landscape, when you hold your arm vertically, palm towards you. Portrait is for checking the time and reading brief notifications. Landscape is for longer messages and more detailed interactions. The device recognizes the position it’s being held in and moves the UI from one side to the other as appropriate. When not in active use, it can optionally display customizable wrap-around graphics or animations, though this will affect batterylife.
No built-in wifi or cellular connectivity. Just Bluetooth LE,
or something like it. If you have an iOS device on you, it uplinks through it, and it’s in this mode that the device is most useful (though it will still tell time and record your steps and so forth on its own). As a bonus, your iOS and OS X devices will be configurable to require a passcode or password only when it’s not in proximity. You won’t be typing on this touchscreen. Any text you need to input, you’ll dictate, and Siri will be on hand if your phone is present. The clasp is a new, stronger breed of MagSafe, and when
closed the seam is near-invisible. It runs iOS, but not any UI that we’re currently familiar with. No third-party apps or SDK except through partnership with Apple, atleast initially.
No more iNames. New era. And it won’t be called anything having to do with _watch_ or _time_. Too purpose-limiting. Think bigger. Oh, and I guess it has some boring health sensors too.Aug
29th 2014
(Source: twitter.com)
Jun
18th 2014
This is great: Damien Guard’s investigation of Typography in 8 Bits.
The computers I had the most contact with as a child were the Apple ][ series, the Commodore 64, and the Atari 800. School was all Apple, and most of my friends lived in C=64 households, but Atari was what I had at home, what I knew best, my first love. Oh, how we would PEEK andPOKE
those summer nights away. Seeing these tiny, cramped, pixel-starved letters again, and these weirdo character sets — especially the Atariand C64
ones, which
omitted such pedestrian glyphs as braces and backticks in favor of playing-card suits and box-drawing characters — was like catching a whiff of the carpet cleaner they used at my parents’ gym when I was nine: that drab facility in whose lobby my sister and I would regularly find ourselves parked, unsupervised, with nary to stave off boredom but a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet and a ration of three to seven quarters scrounged hurriedly from the bottom of a purse or a PBS tote bag (I made it to the top of the barrel level in hopes of rescuing Pauline precisely, I think, _one_ time) and whose vivid recollection, to this day, will beach itself on the unsuspecting sands of my psyche the moment that exact carpet cleaning chemical, or maybe it’s a floor wax or a wallpaper glue, presents itself, which is no surprise because we all know your nose has a red phone on its desk (noses have desks in this metaphor; just go with it) with a direct line to the Kremlin of your memory — but what I find myself finding out this morning is that, improbably, at least if you happen to be wired up like me,pixels do too.
(Source: damieng.com)
Jun
13th 2014
THE REAL PROBLEM WITH… WELL, EVERYTHINGRian van der Merwe
on Facebook’s newly announced intention to ignore the Do Not Tracksetting
in web browsers:
> I’m becoming increasingly uncomfortable with how online data > collection is driving product decisions. If a product’s sole > source of revenue is advertising, then the design is going to > reflect that. The product is going to be optimized for data > collection so that it can provide better accuracy for advertisers. > And if a product’s direction is driven by anything other than user > needs, that product becomes worse for end users. That is inevitable. > Nothing you can do about it.>
> This is why the “Well, what’s wrong with better ads?” argument > doesn’t hold water. It’s not that I want to see less relevant > ads (or no ads at all). It’s that I don’t want a company’s > design decisions to be driven by a need to get as much data out of > people as possible (as opposed to how to meet their core needs> better).
I couldn’t help but notice similarities between this argument and the one I use to explain why I don’t like games that have consumable in-app purchases. It’s not the cost that’s the problem — I’m happy to pay as much as $50 or $60 up front for a great game — rather, it’s the way game design is influenced by the need to incentivize spending money. “This slot machine has some really compelling gameplay,” said no one ever. Products, like anything else that takes part in an ecosystem, evolve to optimize whatever sustains them, and over time they shed the remainder like dead skin. Websites that rely on pageviews to survive become linkbait crapfarms. Ad-supported social networks sell off your attention in the precise quantity you’ll tolerate — until you get used to that, and then they sell off a little more. And games become shallow, joyless chores in fun’s clothing, because there’s a 0.15% chance you’re a “whale.”
If you’re working on a tech product right now, here’s what I propose. Before you type another line of code or click another pixel, stop and think: _What do I want this to become?_ Now, is that vision the basis of your business model? Not something that exists alongside it, or despite it, or in carefully balanced tension with it, but _the basis_ of it? If it isn’t, then you’re building the wrong thing.Apr
23rd 2014
merlin
:
>> “Maybe everybody else knows this, but what is the difference >> between the pager and the email?”>
> —Chief justice John Roberts>
> (via maxistentialist> )
>
> What.
Not to minimize the many legitimate occasions on which Supreme Court justices have shown a grasp of technology that would embarrass Grampa Simpson, but this particular quote isn’t one:
> Roberts isn’t asking about the difference between e-mail and a > pager. He’s asking about the differences in how police department > policy treated e-mails sent from a computer and texts sent from > department-issued pager. He’s actually making a rather > sophisticated distinction, not betraying his ignorance. The exchange > preceding Roberts’ question features Quon’s lawyer Dieter > Dammeier explaining the policy, “The city will periodically > monitor e-mail, Internet use and computer usage,” and Justice > Ginsburg asking if it wouldn’t be reasonable for an employee to > assume the same would apply to texts sent via pager.…>
> What Roberts is trying to tease out is whether there are differences > in reasonable expectations of privacy and the police department’s > conduct depending on where e-mails are stored (on a government > server) vs. where text messages are stored (by a private company). Now, the Aereo case does have some great examples of the justices being confounded by gimcracks and befuddled by geegaws, but that
doesn’t bother me much. Their job is to interpret and reconcile the decisions of lower courts, not to draft policy. They are experts in the law, and novices in every other field. Do you also expect them to have encyclopedic knowledge of human biology and reproductive medicine when hearing an abortion case? No; it’s the duty of the arguing attorneys to provide the background information. If one side leaves out a key detail, and the omission would harm the other side, then the other side fills it in. And outside parties file amicus briefs, and the
justices do their own research in the three or four months it takes them to draft a ruling following oral argument. That’s the system. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. It does seems shocking when a justice doesn’t know how SMS works, because we—the Technopedants of the Internet—do, and because of the principle that it’s hard to imagine not knowing something thatyou know
.
But I guarantee you they ask questions that ring as dumb or dumber in the ears of subject-matter experts every time they hear a case.
I’d be terrified if they _didn’t._(via merlin
)
Apr
2nd 2014
chrisereneta
:
> Uh huh. You got that right. PLATFORM STRATEGY. I’ve followed _Flummox and Friends_ since its Kickstarter campaign a while back. It’s a great idea — a show aimed at smart kids who need a little help with social skills — and the execution is terrific. Recently I had the tremendous privilege of developingFlummoxVision
,
the iPad app which went live today. We’re hoping that this app will see enough success to carry the show onto other distribution platforms, so as many kids as possible can benefit from it. I’ve been doing client development with Karbon for a couple years now. There are a few ways a project can be rewarding: it can be fun to work on, or it can be in support of a worthwhile cause, or the client can bring great content and design sensibility to the table. You hope for at least one of these. Two? Let’s not be greedy. This project had all three. I’m thrilled that I got to do it, working with Chris and Christa was a blast, and I’m very proud of the result. It’s a free download, so please give it a try.
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