2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future
Let’s time-travel back to the year 2000 and have a look.
“Build them with the most boring technology you can find”
Pick Your Battles – yes, new technology is amazing. Seriously. But there is a lot of value in an established software stack.
Alone Together, Again
Alone Together, Again – Alex Payne on his divorce. Well worth reading.
Our true needs are not complex
Technology runs counter to our personhood; technology is complicated and shallow, but people are simple and deep. Our true needs are not complex.
Bookmarks for August 23rd through August 24th
- Spidergoat-silk + human skin = (nearly) bulletproof flesh – Boing Boing
- "Jalila Essaïdi attempted to create bulletproof human skin by implanting transgenic spider-silk with human skin."
- Let’s give those a try | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- Chinese sneakers. Build quality of a Soviet-era Škoda, but rather comfortable so far.
- Derek Powazek – “Nobody Uses Their Real Name” and Other Outdated Notions
- The Redditor
- HTML5 Rocks – How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In
Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In
"Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars."
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls
Is anyone surprised?
Please do not change your password
Please do not change your password
"abc123", "hello" and "darling"
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
"But robots will never be able to create art." Yeah, right.
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
"[..] when the conversation gets big enough, it shuts down."
I need to talk to you about computers.
I need to talk to you about computers.
Insightful essay about the history of computers in the light of the iPad.
Alex Payne — On the iPad
"The future of personal computing that the iPad shows us is both seductive and dystopian. It’s not a future I want to bring into my home."
Styrofoam Androids and Cowbells at Home Depot
These are my links for January 5th from 11:10 to 23:01:
- Kepler telescope spots ‘Styrofoam’ planet – A giant planet with the density of Styrofoam is one of a clutch of new exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope.
- iPhone vs Android: It is Happening Again – Google's support of Apple's iPhone helped make a great and innovative Apple product more successful, and now Google is doing a Microsoft and driving its Android environment hard with new hardware and a more open approach that will create an entire ecosystem of incented hardware makers, software providers and carriers to make Android successful.
- Now you can play Foursquare anywhere – Attention, suburbanites: You, too, can be the mayor of your local Home Depot.
- YouTube – Boise State girl tearin’ it up on the cowbell! [720p] – Happy Cowbell girl is happy.
- Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2009 / The Hype Machine – Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.
Bookmarks for November 5th through November 7th
These are my links for November 5th through November 7th:
- Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson’s "Pattern Recognition" —> NOGOODFORME.COM – So awesome you can't even see her.
- Captured Photo Collection » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos – Oh wow.
- Bob’s Blog – ColdFusion Tidbits: Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub –
- Mockingbird –
- Phone texting reveals sensitive new metrotextual | Technology | Internet | Reuters –
Bookmarks for October 30th through October 31st
These are my links for October 30th through October 31st: