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The New York Times published an article yesterday which tells you just about everything you need to know about the state of the Kindlesphere. On e-book sales: Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In [...]
Anyway, I think we should build nothing but shrines there. One of every kind of church. Spare no expense. I thought they should move Shea Stadium there. Thats another kind of shrine. No serious business at Ground Zero from now on. Just contemplation, prayer, reflection and baseball. When they try to blow it up they’ll [...]
I would be shocked if you didn’t pick up a couple of new OS X tricks after reading this Lifehacker article.
Almost all of my writing starts in TextEdit. I’m an unabashed champion of it and I think it does not get nearly the credit it deserves. I have it set to default to plain text, 90 characters x 50 lines, Menlo 12pt for my font after a long flirtation with Droid Sans. Patrick Rhone has [...]
What Apple’s recent smart playlist bug fix has in common with William Shatner’s infamous “Khaaaaaan” scene from Star Trek II.
These are the treasures that await when you take the time to read a 6000 word Andy Ihnatko review. Not only is Andy the only journalist I can think of who would even put an analogy like this into a review, he is the only one who could pull it off.
I am certainly a little late to the party but had to mention that I’ve really been enjoying Dan Benjamin’s podcast, The Pipeline. The Pipeline is a podcast he started earlier this year that, “is an interview show, featuring in-depth conversations with innovators, designers, geeks, newsmakers, entrepreneurs, and people who create amazing things,” and is part of his new 5by5 network.
In a world where people are too chicken to be the egg, I want to be both the chicken and the egg. What a great line.
So I got thinking. How did I develop the basic skills I have right now? Mostly by copying heroes. When you’re fresh starting out, you have no fear of diving in and copying something directly. It’s like playing guitar. When you start playing guitar all you want to do is play the first verse of [...]