June 2009
19 posts
tell application "Firefox" choke on this end tell
marco:
I wonder if “Firefox.next” will be able to print reliably without crashing. Because that’s still a problem in the latest 3.5 builds, along with most of the interface bugs and incorrect OS X behaviors.
But that’s not fun for developers to work on. So they don’t. And the same annoying bugs persist in Firefox for years.
One of our next-big-things pulls off a nifty trick with Firefox via...
Allergy App is Go! — also for sale
The iPhone App Call Saga has reached its dramatic conclusion: sufferers of tree, mold, grass, weed and air pollution allergies can buy my app and know at a mere glance how shoddy your day is about to be. I care.
I’d like to thank Ben Pieratt for knocking the ball out of the design park, and the many awesome friends who assisted with the beta test. And rstevens, for contributing our secret...
Indiggnity
Washington Times headline: Obama dismisses Ahmadinejad apology request
Digg link to same: Obama to Ahmadinejad: Suck it
I swear that Digg is making me dumber, but I keep refreshing anyway.
No word from Persiankiwi for several days, distressing.
MJ, FF, EM
Ever notice how celebrity deaths seem to come in threes? Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson. Oh, and David Carradine… alright, scratch that.
I can’t summon much of a reaction to this news. The “king of pop” died over 20 years ago. Now the zombie has finally been put down, I guess.
Gawd, even Elvis was more on his game when he left the building.
Hot or not?
The Iran thing is an amazing phenomenon, but insofar as reinventing journalism goes, I think this story takes the cake.
The Guardian applied the Amazon Mechanical Turk model to research, using their own readers as analysts to sift through two million pages of scandal.
Most of the details in this blog post are regarding the technical decisions that went into making this work — “a framework...
“The poll found that 26% of respondents have a very positive or somewhat positive...”
– NBC/Wall Street Journal. In related news, support for the Nazi party is down several points, but folks just can’t get enough of that Hitler ‘stache.
But seriously, what’s going on here? Did two percent of respondents confuse Dick Cheney with Darrell Hammond’s impersonation...
iPhone RAM thing
Doubling from 128mb to 256mb RAM sounds pretty good.
But here’s another way of looking at it: before, you had ~108mb reserverd for your system, and only 20mb remaining for your apps.
Now your apps can access 148mb RAM. Sevenfold increase.
niftiness abounds
“What fiend put pineapple juice in my pineapple juice?”
– W.C Fields (via theblindfrog)
Freeway? What the hell's a freeway?
factoid: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was based on real events. There’s a bit linked by Digg regarding GM sabotaging the American public transit infrastructure back in the twenties.
That was a great movie.
Al Qaeda hates freedom, peanuts
Reports are trickling that a plot by Al Qaeda to assassinate Jimmy Carter was foiled the other day.
I love the word “foiled,” it’s so Scooby-Doo. And if you look at Al Quaeda’s history, it’s just one screw-up after another — I could totally imagine an episode where Velma yanks off some dude’s beard to reveal Osama Bin Laden (with another beard underneath)....
ring ring
I got a call from Apple last weekend. A call from Apple on my freakin’ iPhone regarding my iPhone app.
They had a minor issue that was blocking its approval. Thankfully they weren’t blocking it for any silly reason, there was a valid point. I don’t necessarily agree, but it wasn’t worth quibbling over.
So to counterbalance all of the negative press that the Apple App...
Green is the thing
I’ve been saying for years that Iran had all the potential to become the Japan of the Middle East. Young, intelligent, urbane — all it would take is shaking off that theocratic yoke. I hope it’s happening for real now. I’d love to visit someday.
Oh, and another episode of Foot Meets Mouth — a Tweet by me three months ago:
The revolution will be twittered. Unfortunately.
Fuck a Tumblarity
You see, I am simply way too cool for your popularity contest.
80's movies?
I’ve been wanting to revisit some of the movies of the eighties (many which I’ve never seen, so more like “visit”) that were very popular and/or critically acclaimed to see how they hold up. I don’t care about the obviously great films or anything actiony (yes Ghostbusters and Raiders of the Lost Ark are timeless), just the ones that seemed important at the time but...
B: I've realized that part of the reason I want to do this [slightly crazy-sounding third world medical procedure] is that I want to raise a big middle finger to our health system
Me: dude
Me: if you wanted to do some kind of fund raiser, "help me stick it to health care system," a paypal tip jar and a Digg promotion, I bet you could cover the whole thing pretty easily
B: yeah.. I dont think I'm terribly interested in publicizing myself as that dude that [underwent this really crazy-sounding third world medical procedure]
Me: I wonder if it would be possible for a Mexican health insurance company to do business in the US
Me: like, get all the licensing necessary, and then sell coverage, all you gotta do is book a flight if something happens
Me: they'd get a ton of slackers like me who are healthy and basically never need anything, and can't/won't dole out for American medical insurance
Me: and then a few people like you who are moderately expensive but only come down once in a blue moon, and anyway they'd make up for it on the cheaper cost of health care and the killer exchange rate
Me: Insurancia Fiesta!
B: es bueno
Sammich!
“Teh” imagined this depiction of the “who cares what you’re doing” response to Twitter.
What makes it “it’s funny because it’s true” is that there really are two kinds of people in the world: those who find the minutiae of life — including sandwiches — interesting and those who don’t. I find sandwiches intensely interesting, and if...