December 2010
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“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and...”
– Pepsi’s CEO Aside from the fact that this is horrible corporate-marketing speak, Pepsi’s CEO may also have been paying too much attention to Web 2.0 company names.
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Describe me in three words. →
Getting involved in the latest solipsistic Formspring-esque meme.  For research purposes, not vanity, honest.
Dec 30th
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov
Dec 29th
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov
Dec 29th
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“The new device is an improvement over the old device, making it more attractive...”
– New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable - The Onion
Dec 28th
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“All these hacks to route around limitations of web-based computers [such as...”
– Hacker News comment on a Python shell Chrome extension
Dec 27th
“All these hacks to route around limitations of web-based computers [such as...”
– Hacker News comment on a Python shell Chrome extension
Dec 27th
“You seem to think that we might censor a student’s thesis, which is lawful...”
– Cambridge university refuses to censor student’s thesis on chip-and-PIN vulnerabilities
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
“So you guys did one thing well, a long time ago, and you’ve been...”
– What it’s like to work at Netflix (Glassdoor.com)
Dec 22nd
“So you guys did one thing well, a long time ago, and you’ve been...”
– What it’s like to work at Netflix (Glassdoor.com)
Dec 22nd
How To SEO A Vending Machine →
The title’s the most interesting thing about the article, but its simple point is nonetheless important: the best online shopping experiences (or at least those that perform most effectively via search results) are those that allow the customer to engage and discover rather than simply put their coin in the slot and order something. Duh.
Dec 22nd
“The first hotel chain that offers an on-call psychologist will make a fortune on...”
– Dream Jobs That You’re Glad You Didn’t Pursue. McSweeney’s “dream jobs” series is bleak, depressing, brilliant reading.  (Especially “so you wanted to be a computer programmer”).
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
"In the USA and Canada approximately 40 people are... →
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
“Excel on the Mac is a barely passable piece of software, so I keep an install of...”
– Michael Sippey on The Setup I’ve not properly had chance to “play” with the latest version of Excel for Mac, but I’ve always thought Numbers is one of the few cases where an Apple product is inferior to its Microsoft equivalent.  It seems to sacrifice too much power in place...
Dec 20th
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Originality is a myth.
I thought I was so clever for tweeting that “squid eating dough…” line from Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica album last night when I heard the great man had died. This morning I look back over Twitter and my Tumblr dashboard and realise every other indie kid with an internet connection had beaten me to it.
Dec 18th
“I am such a hardcore Notational Velocity fan that I basically just peed myself...”
– Lifehacker comment - this is what good software does to people.
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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http://morganroadgallery.com →
Just look at it.
Dec 14th
Dec 13th
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Google Chrome Web App Store: rough notes on a poor... →
Discovering what I think by writing about it.
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“I think Hacker News and Techmeme have succeeded largely because they seem...”
– John Gruber
Dec 10th
I'm jonathandeamer on Instagram y'all.
I’m no photographer, but my girlfriend has a house full of interesting knick-knacks that I snap ;-)
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Instapaper
Or as I currently call it, “the app where I read about Wikileaks”.
Dec 7th
“There are teens out there who are self-harassing by ‘anonymously’...”
– Digital Self-Harm (via Blue Lines Revisited)
Dec 7th
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“If anyone is a master’s student in international relations and they haven’t...”
– Prof Gary Sick of Columbia University
Dec 6th
“Google TV shouldn’t just be another Twitter client, it should be a...”
– Michael Sippey
Dec 3rd
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“It seems to me that at the end of this chain is BitTorrent. That when WikiLeaks...”
– Dave Winer  (Further to this earlier post of mine.)
Dec 3rd
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“Has no one talked to the folks at Foursquare about over-exposure? [It’s]...”
– Evangotlib
Dec 2nd
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“Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for...”
– Sarah Palin: Target WikiLeaks’ Assange like the Taliban (via iamdanw)
Dec 2nd
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“Shutting down WikiLeaks tomorrow isn’t going to change the fact that a...”
– Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) Next stop: a distributed P2P Wikileaks-alike site that will be even more difficult to kill.
Dec 2nd
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“The elements of math, according to [Conrad] Wolfram are: posing questions,...”
– Good.is
Dec 1st
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