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Nov 01, 2006
Innovation

David Pogue Looks Back at 2006

David Pogue has an article in the NY Times today about some of the technological highlights of the year. I find it interesting how much he hates Windows and Windows Mobile, as shown here: The turkeys of the year: Microsoft’s Ultra Mobile PC comput...

Oct 31, 2006
Innovation

Motorola Unveils a ‘Dumb’ Phone

It seems almost painfully obvious, in a way, but some people don’t actually want more features, doodads, gizmos, or gewgaws sticking out of their phone (admittedly, I’m not one of them: I still want GPS, 3G data, Wi-Fi, and a qwerty keyboard on my...

Oct 30, 2006
Apple

Emerging Fully Formed from Steve Jobs’ Forehead

Steven Levy has one of the most sycophantic and interesting articles about the iPod I’ve ever read up on Wired this month. The article sheds light on a number of interesting and new-to-me aspects of the iPod’s creation, like this anecdote about po...

Oct 29, 2006

Letterman rocks

You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head. Crooks and Liars has the Letterman interview of Bill O’Reilly up. Good stuff.

Oct 29, 2006
Web Design

HTML to be incrementally improved

Apparently, the W3C just isn’t getting enough uptake on XHTML, because it’s simply too hard to shove people in the right direction: The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags a...