Elsewhere in Manhattan, the faithful lined up for hours in the rain outside Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store, in order to be among the first to purchase the new iPhone 4S. Long lines outside Apple stores have been reported worldwide as the 4S went on sale this morning, prompting analysts to predict that Apple could […]
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What He Said Times a Million
James Fallows calls out the Times and others for their buying into the idea that a bill has “failed” after getting a majority of Senate votes with headlines like, “Obama’s Jobs BIll Fails in Senate in First Legislative Test” (Times) and “Obama Loses Big on Jobs Bill” (Daily Beast). We have gone so far in […]
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I Think This Is An Ad For Yogurt
They’ve convinced me that there aren’t enough drugs in my yogurt. I’m switching.
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Apple Releases New Greeting Card App, iPhone
After roughly half an hour of the usual “holy shit we’ve sold a lot of stuff and isn’t our stuff awesome?” statistics and info-porn, Apple finally got around to announcing some new stuff this morning. So, what’s new? Greeting cards! Yes, they really announced their new greeting card app first. Then another 10 minutes of […]
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Final Space Shuttle Launch
If you’re a space nerd like me, watching the final launch of the space shuttle this morning was weirdly emotional. I’ve been watching this thing fly since I was a kid, and it’s always been awesome. Bye, bye, space shuttle.
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Georgia Discovers Immigrants Less Lazy, More Useful Than Once Thought
Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is exactly right: “It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad.” After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia. Thanks to […]
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Facebook Is Not Dying
The story about Facebook losing users has been whipping around for a couple days, and everybody’s all “Is this the end of Facebook?!?,” and what happens next?This isn’t the end of Facebook. Not even close. It’s tempting to treat Facebook as just the current incarnation of sites we’ve seen before: Friendster, MySpace, Geocities, Compuserve (which […]
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The Mysterious iCloud (and Other WWDC Announcements from Apple)
Apple’s developer conference began this morning, and as usual there was a keynote address with several major announcements. Unlike most of these announcements, everyone already knew the major things they were going to be showing off: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), iOS 5, and iCloud. No one was expecting new hardware today, and none was announced. […]
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Microsoft Previews Windows 8
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a preview of the next generation of their operating system, cleverly code-named “Windows 8”. The focus on tiles is clearly inspired by the Windows Phone OS, and it looks pretty slick. Apps going full-screen and behaving more like tablet apps is the direction all desktop operating systems are going, and if it’s […]
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Google Chrome: It Gets Better
So good*: * Not just the commercial, but the whole, huge, amazing thing. Way to go Dan and Terry.
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iPhone/iPad Keeps Detailed Records of Your Movements
Flying through the tubes right now is the discovery that iOS devices record very detailed information about the device’s location and retain that info in a file backed up to the user’s computer when the device is synced. The terms and conditions users of these devices agree to does state that Apple may collect non-personally-identifiable […]
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The Greatest Fails of March
Happy April! Here are your “March 2011 Fails,” or, “Idiots on Parade.” Favorite moments: 2:50 and 7:05.