November 2007
18 posts
3rd Manhattan Apple Store Opens in 1 Week
According to AppleInsider, the Apple store in the Meatpacking District will open on Friday, December 7th.
(Waxing nostalgic) I linked to news of this store way back on my first day of blogging, a little over 6 months ago.
“…if you find yourself assuming bad faith on the part of someone you...”
– Rafe Colburn, Anthropological evidence, or fairness if you prefer
“The most damaging and persistent delusion we’ve acquired about sleep is that the...”
– Jon Mooallem, “The Sleep-Industrial Complex”
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“If you believe that software made for a mass market audience that costs $129 (or...”
– Jason Kottke, On the complexity of personal computers
“…more people throw up in the dining room of Per Se than your average...”
– Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included, “I can hear you” (p. 180-181)
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CC-Ø
CC-Ø means “that there are no rights — copyright, moral, publicity, etc. — attached to content.” First seen in this announcement about freeing a large archive of federal case law, with details from Lessig.
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Google's Android phone platform uses a... →
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The Hub - Witness goes web 2.0 →
I was wondering if/when the human rights group Witness would move into the YouTube era. Started in the 1990s, Witness gave video cameras to activists and oppressed peoples to allow them to document human rights violations. With the proliferation of digital video and cameraphones and the ease of online video sharing, Witness’s mission remains the same, but the mechanism for disseminating...
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“Three of the four Boing Boing editors own iPhones.”
– Mark Fauenfelder, during an audio slideshow on Boing Boing TV’s iconography [I presume the editor who does not is Cory Doctorow, since he currently lives in London, where the iPhone only became available today, and because he switched away from Mac OS.]
“To find good places to eat, provoke the nerds….
…just google up...”
– Robert Donoghue, summarizing Anthony Bourdain’s strategy for finding restaurants
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“I will agree that on the one hand, obsessive attention to dining, ingredients,...”
– Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included, “Underlings” (p. 157)
“For the first time, the public health community has raised its voice in support...”
– Michael Pollan, expanding on some of the ideas in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in “Weed It and Reap,” an editorial on the new farm bill working its way through Congress
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WatchHow much advertisers pay for your attention in NYC
(Video, 1m 59s)
Video signs in Times Square are expensive, signs on busses are rather cheap, which explains all of the outdated ads I see on busses. Via Gothamist.
Paul Graham: "Holding a Program in One's Head" →
“…Or to put it more dramatically, ordinary programmers working in typical office conditions never really understand the problems they’re solving.” With recommendations to help get “the whole program loaded into [your] head.”
“If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t...”
– Bruce Schneier, The War on the Unexpected, criticizing “If you see something, say something”-style security