April 2012
62 posts
That post.
It was there. I just private marked it. Felt like I should have sat on it until Monday at least.
Take Care.
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Girls debate addendum (there will be follow up).
I’ve got a few thoughts about why Girls is the way it is. Not posting them until I’m at least four episodes into the show, and they’re pretty exclusively based around my high school years at a Brooklyn Heights private school, which were followed by time at an upstate New York liberal arts college.
Edit: Because I think it will related, there will also be comments regarding the...
“But cloistered though it may be, “Girls” is a symptom, not the disease. The...”
– Jon Caramanica’s think piece on the lack of diversity on television as a whole in the NYT, NAILS the right tones for the debate about Girls’ melanin deficiency.
Dissatisfied with the results for the google... →
via Dan Benjamin: How far does Google Drive's... →
bigweek:
Simply put: there’s no definitive boundary that keeps Google from using what it likes from what you upload to its service.
Somewhere, somebody is surprised by this.
And Dropbox Stays Winning.
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5 Minutes on The Verge: Facebook's Joey Flynn →
thisistheverge:
5 Minutes on The Verge: Facebook’s Joey Flynn
What are the biggest challenges of designing/scaling for a social network with hundreds of millions of users?
The biggest challenge here is that you have no specific audience. Your audience is everyone. For mobile specifically, we have different types of people using different apps on different platforms on different sized...
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Messy as all hell....: Date a Woman that... →
shesaflightrisk:
You’ll recognize her easily. She’s the one with a sharp mind of her own and tendency to speak what’s on it. She’s the one who has brought a classic novel with her to read in the doctor’s office waiting room so she isn’t stuck with People magazine. Her clothes are sensible most of the time and her…
I like the sound of this.
Sick Days
There are three places you spend all of your time on sick days. Bed, couch, toilet. Hopefully, that’s a list ordered in decreasing amount of time spent.
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The Aged Aged Man: In Defense of HBO's "Girls" →
agedagedman:
By now I’m sure everyone has heard mention of Lena Dunham and her new show Girls, which premiered last Sunday night on HBO. I’ve followed and enjoyed Dunham’s work for a few years now, starting with her satiric web series Delusional Downtown Divas and moving on to her…
Friend of the blog Ruth Shannon has started a tumblr with a good piece on Lena Dunham’s Girls, which...
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High Ranking NYPD Officials Used N-Word, Told... →
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“Capt. Coan would tell the field team … ‘They are f—–g animals. You make sure if you have to shoot, you shoot them in the head. That way there’s one story,’ ” said the retired detective.
The ex-cop, identified only as Undercover 7988, said Coan’s racist rant came before every search warrant executed in Brooklyn’s Brownsville,...
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“You don’t have to worry about me.”
– Don Draper, Mad Men, “S05E04: Mystery Date”
Facebook's iOS app: the hidden answer?
Maybe, just maybe, one of the reasons that Facebook bought Instagram was to have the Instagram team fix the facebook iOS app. Instagram, if it did nothing else, scaled beautifully. Facebook’s app is garbage, and even the globe-icon badge is never working properly.
I’m just hoping that’s the case.
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“… or am I confusing love and boredom?”
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Chat No More: Facebook's little mobile phone icon...
Before I knew it, I had quit using gchat 24/7, and I had somehow “unlocked” a new gear of my mind. And while that took almost no energy, it turned out that facebook, as per usual, was more difficult to log out of chat absolutely.
I made sure that my chat status was set to offline on all computers and iOS devices. But then, there was this little mobile phone icon that would show up...
“Did my position on this issue evolve over the last 12 months? I am not ashamed...”
– Former MPAA tech policy chief Paul Brigner speaking to CNET about SOPA. (via parislemon)
Let's do this right.
Saturday. It used to mean something. Let’s flip that switch back.
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Kanye West ft. Pusha T, Big Sean, 2 Chainz - Mercy →
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That blonde Lannister boy.
What an asshole. WHAT. AN. ASSHOLE.
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