A piece in The New York Observer yesterday on RSS feed-induced anxiety contained at least one quote from a helpless bed wetter: “It makes me very sad, obviously, when I face the fact that there are like 115 items and I know that I’ll never read them,” wailed a 25-year-old hedge fund analyst at a […]
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A Few Thoughts About Visual Telephone Interfaces and Videophonic Stress.
From Gizmodo, re: Steve Jobs’ announcement of FaceTime for the iPhone 4: Yes, FaceTime is video chat, similar to what the HTC Evo demonstrated last week, and not unlike what my British LG slider from 2006 could pull off, over 3G. But regardless, video chat hitting the iPhone is a very big deal. Here’s what […]
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Apple Announces iPhone 4
Apple revealed the we-already-knew-about-it iPhone4 at their annual developer conference in California this morning. It has basically everything we had already heard about the phone that Gizmodo famously (and allegedly feloniously) revealed: • A4 chip (that means it fast as balls)• Front-facing camera• Flash (no, not that one, the kind for lighting up photos.)• 5 […]
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The Savage Love iPhone App
For reasons known to Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs alone… Apple has gone and approved the “Savage Love” iPhone app—and approved it in record time. The “Savage Love” app has all of my columns from the past five thousand years, searchable by keyword and by categories like “adult babies,” “amputees,” “worst advice ever,” and that’s […]
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Thanks for Everything, Google
Google generated $54 billion of economic activity for American businesses, website publishers and non-profits in 2009. Google is really doing some amazing things these days. Haven’t you noticed? I mean, apart from lightning-fast, super-relevant search, they’re enabling thousands of small businesses to reach out and connect with a global audience. Google is an amazing company, […]
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The Walmart iPhone: A Deal with the Devil?
Here is your ethical financial problem of the day! Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you should purchase an iPhone 3GS—but a) you don’t have the necessary funds, and b) maybe you’re thinking it would be better just to wait until the newest iPhone launches. Well, today’s news is not going to help matters much. From […]
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Google Announces Google TV
From the Official Google Blog this morning: Brad Stone of the New York Times just finished live blogging the discussion from Google’s conference in SF, where the crucial question of, “Neat-o, but how much will this cost me?” has apparently been left unanswered: No one is talking prices here. That will be key. A companion […]
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How Do Drive a Computer Geek Totally Out of His Freaking Mind?
Why, you change his password, of course. Language super NSFW!
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Today in Neck Snapping Science Experiments
If you’re like me, you absolutely HATE pushing those merry-go-rounds found on children’s playgrounds. Luckily the cigarette smoking douchebags in this video have concocted a somewhat imperfect method of getting this boring task accomplished. Now all they have to do is figure out some way of not getting thrown 20 feet through the air and […]
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Google Chrome Is Fast
Yesterday Google released the latest beta of its Chrome browser. It’s wicked fast. Much cooler, though, are these awesome speed tests they put together. They show that Chrome is nearly as fast or faster than lightning, pink paint accelerated via sound waves, and potatoes.* Here’s the also-interesting making of video. To quote @gruber: “You can […]
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Hmm… I Wonder What’s on Paul Rudd’s Computer?
Tell you what… LET’S FIND OUT! (Oh. Turns out it’s the exact same thing that’s on my computer… except instead of Paul’s face, it has my face. And my face isn’t as cute as Paul Rudd’s. BOOOOO, my face!) Thanks, Tim and Eric!
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Roger Ebert Hates 3-D
Is it me or is Roger Ebert just getting more awesome in his old age? First there was that heartbreaking/life-affirming Esquire article, now there’s this: a point-by-point breakdown of why 3-D movies totally blow in Newsweek. The elderly Chicago Sun Times critic is finally living up to that kinda forced tough-as-nails image he was cultivating […]