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by dean@strelau.net

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    "As of Rails 3, script/server has become rails server. This was done because David liked it that way. Anyone who disagrees with the change is instantly wrong."
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    The One True Family In The One Who Is Called Steve® →

    But, if you really understood the nature of our unbreakable fealty to the “Steve Jobs/Apple distortion field,” you’d know very well that we can’t leave. Not even if we wanted to. Which, of course, we don’t. Never. Ever. I mean, why would we? This is The One True Family In The One Who Is Called Steve®.

    Merlin Mann, bringing the funny.

    — 3 days ago with 106 notes
    
  I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.”


The Failure of Empathy

    I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.”

    The Failure of Empathy

    — 4 days ago with 4 notes

    iPad (do-do-do-do-do)

    via @heycarsten

    — 5 days ago
    "I told him about the new iPad and his eyes grew wide. He blurted out “Wait, are you talking about an iPhone but with a bigger screen? A regular sized computer THIS easy to use? $15 a month for internet anywhere? When can I buy one?"

    On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing

    Remember: The Tablet is not for technophiles, it’s for technophobes.

    — 6 days ago with 3 notes
    "[…] it becomes obvious that the iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone, but rather that the iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad. The iPad is what they’ve been building toward all along."
    — 1 week ago with 3 notes
    Faster Loading Through Eval() →

    You can get around this with some trickery, it turns out, by downloading your JavaScript, not as actual script, but as something else. The Gmail team wrapped their scripts in comments. I’m trying to simply download my scripts as strings.

    — 1 week ago
    "The print publishing industry should be so lucky to have iTunes do for them what it’s done for music."
    — 1 week ago
    Top 10 Places You Can’t Go →
    #8. Contrary to popular belief, Disneyland has a full liquor license which is used when the place closes down to the general public to accommodate private parties. But there is one place in Disneyland that is always open to sell booze: Club 33. Club 33 is a private club located in the heart of the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland. Officially maintained as a secret feature of the theme park, the entrance of the club is located next to the Blue Bayou Restaurant at “33 Royal Street” with the entrance recognizable by an ornate address plate with the number 33 engraved on it. Fees for joining range from 10 – 30 thousand US dollars and membership comes with a car park. If you want to join the club, you have to go to the end of the fourteen year waiting list.

    Of the ten, I’d pick Club 33.

    via guy

    — 2 weeks ago with 4 notes

    Beethoven’s Fifth

    via inkyeagle

    — 2 weeks ago with 49 notes
    "Four years after we posted our first homemade videos to YouTube and they spread across the globe faster than swine flu, making our bassist’s glasses recognizable to 70-year-olds in Wichita and 5-year-olds in Seoul and eventually turning a tidy little profit for EMI, we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared."

    Merlin:

    Damian of OK Go on their record label’s stupid insistence on prohibiting embedded playback of their new video.

    Regardless of the fact that this is a ridiculous move by EMI, this video is fucking awesome.

    — 2 weeks ago with 112 notes