What Would Nick Denton Pay For These Things I Found In A Bar
I think this is the first thing I’ve posted about the lost iPhone. I was going to swear that I would make this the last thing I’d post on the lost iPhone too, but as the story goes on, it’s getting almost too interesting not to share. In the mean time, this is too good not to pass on.
How Much do Music Artists Earn Online? [INFOGRAPHIC]
This about hits my assumption that sticking with the independent route hits the sweet spot. More important is keeping a balanced portfolio and avoiding exclusives. Other artists out there seeing the same?
(thanks @CurtSiffert)
From Jobs missive on Flash today:
Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Of course, Adobe is going to make a great product for authoring in HTML5 and so on, because a great-big-non-trivial-part-of-the-business exists to do that. But by saying this out loud, Jobs just guaranteed that Adobe will be resentful the whole time.
Reason #1,248 that Ze Frank is a classy guy.
On FiveThirtyEight: Double Down by the Numbers: Unhealthiest Sandwich Ever?
No, no it’s not the most disgusting thing you could eat today, but it’s still tremendously disgusting. Insofar as it’s a reach to find anything surprising here, I suppose I’m chewing on the point that the Big Mac is, in fact, less disgusting than the Double-Down.
26 Percent of Wired’s Mobile Traffic Comes From the iPad
Predictable, given the audience of Wired.com. Doubly predictable given how great browsing is on iPad with your fingers.
Absolute dead-simple staple of my work. Transmit 3 is absolutely unparalleled. I pulled the trigger on Transmit 4 before I’d even launched it.
It’s been over two weeks that the iPad has been on the market in the US. I’m writing this post on the iPad, in fact, in a moving car on the way to Canyonville, Oregon for a lovely weekend at the casino with the wife and family. Cause, nothing says ‘vacation’ like the Seven Feathers for a family that doesn’t gamble or drink much.
As a strange aside, take a look at the Seven Feathers on Google maps; there is a crazy proximity to the cemetery right at the edge of the parking lot. I’m not much into the occult, but I saw Poltergeist.
I have read what I have to imagine now amounts to all of the iPad reviews. I’ve read the early ones calling the iPad a silly also-ran in a soon to be saturated market. I’ve read the reviews calling the thing an oversized iPod touch. I’ve read the ones calling it a game-changer, a magical tool that will change the way we live, raise our children, tame lions, and ride bikes. As much as I’ve been longing to get a few words out on the device, I didn’t feel like I would be able to add much to the discussion without actually — you know — using it for a while. So, here we are. Two weeks in and I think, now, I have something to say.
DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s
If you’ve ever spent time in NYC, particularly if you did your time in NYC post 1990, you need to look at this series of photos. It’s funny — the New York I know is in there somewhere, if I look closely, but it’s different, an erie alternate reality of the New York that exists in my head.
More than a few years back, I was walking up 40th past Bryant Park with my boss at the time, Jay, and he said– “You wouldn’t even recognize this place back in the 70s… you’d have been tripping over hypodermic needles, and fighting off the hookers back then. It was nasty, man.” A chort was about all I could muster-up as a response.
This is generally terrific news. Google Docs is already great, but the learning curve has been tough for those unaccustomed to working in the cloud. The new interface and collaboration tools will ease that sell, I think.
Besides using a new infrastructure, the document editor and the spreadsheet editor will add many new features. The document editor has real-time editing, sidebar chat, a new commenting system, better formatting and an improved importing feature. The spreadsheet editor brings back auto-complete, adds a formula bar for editing cells and you can now drag and drop columns.
Twitter / AP Stylebook: Responding to reader input ….
Tide came in slow on this one.
Captivating Examples of Sleeveface Photography
Some of these things are really terrific. Worth exactly :42 of your day.
FOXNews.com – 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
Not that this should be a surprise to anyone — terms and conditions of use are as complicated as US tax code these days — but this is one of those wonderfully playful tests of legalese. I didn’t make a purchase that would qualify, but if I got a letter from Gamestation nullifying their claim on my soul, I would frame it.
From the click-through terms agreement:
“By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions.”
Thanks @curtsiffert.
YouTube – Slap Chop Rap Acoustic Cover
This is what I love about the internet. It’s the evolution of memes. Take a watch and tell me this isn’t the single best video take off of another video about the Slap Chop that you have seen all day. I dare you to find me something cooler. I triple dog dare you.
