Matt Alexander, regarding e-ink readers and full-blown tablets: As much as you or I might enjoy the e-ink experience, people are not thrilled about buying a device that does one thing very well when they can buy something that does that one thing fairly well along with dozens of other features. And once that “fairly [...]
Category Archives: General Geek
‘Creating a Masterpiece’
This two-part series over at Engadget shows just how deeply carriers are involved with new phones. Reading this really helped me understand why the Android market is such a mess, and how different the iPhone really is.
Backup Pinboard to Webpage
Drew Schuster has posted a nice alternative to the Pinboard backup solution I posted about the other day.
PostSecret App Canned
Frank Warren, the man behind PostSecret: 99% of the secrets created were in the spirit of PostSecret. Unfortunately, the scale of secrets was so large that even 1% of bad content was overwhelming for our dedicated team of volunteer moderators who worked 24 hours a day 7 days a week removing content that was not [...]
The Mother of all Hot Wheels Tracks
My son would have a heart attack if he saw this video.
Mashable: ‘It’s Time to Cut Go Daddy a Break’
Sounds like Todd Wasserman maybe has a hunting buddy with a helicopter.
Backup Pinboard with a CRON script
I’m using Marcelo Somers’ helpful script to keep a local copy of my Pinboard bookmarks. I don’t use ifttt.com, but having my Pinboard bookmarks as an XML file in my Dropbox sure feels good. (I’m just manually firing the curl command at this point. I’ll get around to automating it with CRON at some point.) [...]
The Canon Cat
This little machine deserves a lot more credit than it gets.
Netflix CEO’s Stock Options Halved
After the crazy stuff that happened with Netflix this year, why didn’t Reed Hastings lose his job, not just some money?
GoDaddy Withdraws SOPA Support
The power of the nerd community shouldn’t be underestimated.
