July 2012
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Is Fiber Google's biggest breakthrough product...
Matt Rosoff thinks Google Fiber is the same type of innovative leap as Gmail was for three reasons: It exposes how slow incumbents have been to innovate It leverages Google’s hardware expertise (in data and storage) to get prices low It paves the way for new business areas Fiber does look amazing. But the fact that they still don’t have some core channels (ESPN, CNN) and...
Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 26th
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Things I want from OS X Mountain Lion
I’m not always a fan of OS X or iOS, but there are a number of features from Mountain Lion I’d love to see stolen for one of the OSes I actually use (Windows or Chrome, but really most of these would suit Chrome OS more):  Gesture-based notification center Gesture-based browser tabs System-wide “share” command (I think I seriously TRY to do this at least twice a day by...
Jul 26th
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“So, reminder to Mitt Romney: With respect to the presidency, national security...”
Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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“Some of Crovitz’s errors seem to stem from technological ignorance; in arguing...”
– Farhad Manjoo on Slate debunking a predictable WSJ op-ed on how the internet wasn’t actually invented by the government (bonus predictability: that it’d be Slate doing the debunking)
Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Jul 19th
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“Memory is a haunting. You remember times you liked, and you want something like...”
– Fitz Wahram, 2312
Jul 19th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 8th
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Jul 8th
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“Somebody has to sit there and filter out all those dicks. You can’t let...”
– “Here’s Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple”
Jul 7th
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“Our hardware is changing our lives far more profoundly than anything that we...”
– From Bruce Sterling’s essay on the the “New Aesthetic,” which I’m only just becoming aware had a name
Jul 6th
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The 2012 NHL playoffs, made music, by Bard Edlund.
Jul 5th
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“Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is one of the best products Google has ever produced....”
– Dieter Bohn’s 4.1 review on The Verge. Having used it myself for the last week or so, I have to agree.
Jul 4th
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Jul 4th
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Jul 4th
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Jul 1st
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