December 2008
7 posts
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our...”
– Steve Jobs (via danw, mikehudack) (via marco)
If David Lynch would’ve met m83 in the...
Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security...
“Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each...”
– Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar Team | TechRadar UK (via soxiam)
I would also argue this leads to bad decisions, e.g. iTunes zoom (maximize) button activates the mini player.
Pleasantly surprised with some unlabeled music in...
Word of the Day: Portmanteau
While looking up the wiki-definition of Bookmarklet I came across this fun-to-pronounce one.
from Wikipedia:
A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words. The usage of the word ‘portmanteau’ in this sense first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in...