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Jun 28, 2007 2:59pm

Crooked Timber: iPhone watch

“Skepticism about the phone is perfectly reasonable. It’s being marketed as a revolutionary device, and they don’t come along that often. What about the battery? What about the stupid AT&T network? Will it scratch? Will I be able to type on it? Is it way too expensive? Is it really all that different from my current phone? All reasonable questions. But much of the criticism I’ve seen seems driven by little more than sour grapes at the possibility that Apple could make something like this work as advertised, and deep irritation that a large group of consumers might be willing to pay for it if they did.”
Jun 26, 2007 3:28pm

David Pogue: "The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype"

The first iPhone review
Jun 26, 2007 11:22am

First in Line for iPhone

No matter how nuts you think someone is, there is always someone else vying for the title.
Jun 18, 2007 2:36pm

The Failed States Index 2007

As described by the folks at Foreign Policy.
Jun 6, 2007 10:47am

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

From the geek comic “xkcd”
May 31, 2007 4:39pm

Sudan threatens to cut off the world's Coca-Cola supply

May 28, 2007 7:11pm
“ No matter what else I do, my tombstone will be a giant pineapple. ” - Rupert Holmes
May 25, 2007 12:51pm

The Morning News - 2007 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence

Some very cool web sites, most of which I hadn’t heard of before this.
May 24, 2007 1:53pm

Zagat's fast food and chain restaurant survey

Wendy’s, Panera Bread, and Outback Steakhouse win, er, something
May 8, 2007 4:19pm

Are We Witnessing the Death of Personal Computing?

Jeremy Geelan thinks about what “Web 2.0” means beyond buzzwords.
May 8, 2007 8:32am
“ How is it that the federal government loses so many computers? Seriously, in the past few years it has lost enough laptops to start its own “One Laptop Per Child” program. ” - John Paczkowski
May 3, 2007 11:48am

Business magazine fails to heed its own tech advice

Business 2.0 lost an entire issue due to not keeping backups correctly. Do you make regular backups? (Neither do I.)
Apr 24, 2007 11:07am

Trimming the attention sails

Apr 17, 2007 11:12am
“ Uh-huh. And I’m busy constructing a bamboo-and-wicker water gate that will hereafter govern the flow of the Mississippi River. ” - Teresa Nielsen-Hayden, on Tim O’Reilly’s “blogger code of conduct” with which he hopes to “create a set of guidelines to shape online discussion and debate.”
Apr 13, 2007 2:52pm

Seen on Slashdot

  • Arevos: Beryl and Compiz [two Linux desktop rendering systems] seem more flexible than their proprietary counterparts. Do you know if Aqua or Aero have a plugin system that enables one to add third party effects to the graphics system? Could I write a plugin for either desktop that would make my windows "wobble" when moving them around? Or explode in a shower of sparks when closed?
  • Jalefkowit: That's correct. Unlike proprietary systems, Linux has no mechanism to protect you from your own bad taste.
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