December 2011
15 posts
Dec 29th
White Supremacists Exchanging Recipes for Chicken... →
hman: “Anyone have a really good recipe for Chicken Tikka Massala?”
Dec 27th
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“Ever wonder why shower curtains blow inward when taking a nice hot shower? So do...”
– So, apparently there are 4 competing theories for why I yell at a sheet of plastic every morning. The Shower Curtain effect
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 15th
“Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to...”
– Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
Dec 14th
“We like our hand,” he said. “We just don’t know what all the cards are yet.”
– Dish Network CEO (and apparent poker enthusiast) Joesph Clayton discusses his interests in buying T-Mobile when/if/but most likely when the AT&T-Mo deal falls through. Dish Network Seeks to Partner With T-Mobile USA If AT&T Acquisition Fails - Bloomberg
Dec 13th
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)(via shorterexcerpts)
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
“Nielsen shows that Facebook was the most used app in the U.S. during the last 30...”
– I guess you could look at numbers like that and whip up a frenzy about a dedicated Facebook Phone? But similar to the deep integration of Twitter in to the new Mac OS, I don’t get it. The period of time between 2005 and 2015 will be known to me as the ‘Throw Stuff At A Wall And See What...
Dec 13th
“I feel the Fire is going to be a failure,” Mr. Nielsen, of the Nielsen Norman...”
– In Monday’s edition of ‘Polemic Things People Say So As To Get Quoted In The New York Times,’ we have Jakob Nielson talking about his feelings. Amazon Kindle Fire Faces Critics and Remedies Are Promised - NYTimes.com
Dec 12th
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
Dec 6th
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“A truly open facet of Android — the open-source codebase, minus Google’s apps —...”
– Yeesh, what a buzz kill. /via Marco.org
Dec 6th