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Jan 04, 2009
Technology

Steve Gillmor is Unintelligible

Update: Steve Gillmor cracks me up. God, I love Steve Gillmor. Steve just wrote an article about how much Feedburner sucks now that Google bought them, and how FriendFeed might end up eating Google’s lunch in this area. Unfortunately, Steve write...

Jan 02, 2009
Photography

365

Ever heard of a 365 project? It’s where you shoot and post one photo every day for an entire year. It sounds straightforward, but it actually represents a huge time commitment. I’ve been thinking about doing one for a while, and finally worked up ...

Jan 02, 2009
Politics

A Party of Whiners

Will the Republicans eventually stage a comeback? Yes, of course. But barring some huge missteps by Mr. Obama, that will not happen until they stop whining and look at what really went wrong. And when they do, they will discover that they need to ...

Jan 02, 2009
Politics

Five People Who Are Also Dickheads

[Mark Halperin's] insufferably decrepit posts include the daily "Five Important People Who Aren't Obama" lists which appear to be five totally random names blurted out in numerical order without any explanation or insight -- ostensibly proving tha...

Jan 02, 2009
Photography

JPG Magazine Says Goodbye

We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in ...

Jan 02, 2009
Miscellaneous

Mouth Breathing

You know someone smells overwhelmingly bad (i.e. cheap booze and stale tobacco) when you need to breath through your mouth to keep from getting ill. Yay for public transportation!

Dec 31, 2008
Microsoft

The Day the Microsoft Zunes Stood Still

One user wrote: “From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot...

Dec 30, 2008
Apple

25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek

"When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have ...