July 2010
WatchI hope Chelsea Baker continues playing baseball, keeps crushing it and makes it to the majors. A 13 year old knuckleballer! That’s insane.
Also, parents who told her that “baseball isn’t for girls” and other put downs: Really? You’re going to hate on her for striking our your less physically gifted son? Really?! REALLY?!
thedailywhat:
Kickass Kid of the Day:...
Internal What Now? →
Interesting insight about internal controls and controlling company assets. The erosion of internal controls happened at the one of the companies I worked for and it was not fun to deal with.
“Preventive controls are the key to safeguarding company assets. The tangible preventive controls revolve around the idea of segregation of duties. The idea is that there should not be one individual...
“Apple CEO Steve Jobs came up with a two-part solution. Part 1: There is no...”
– Lyons, on the iPhone 4 announcement (via newsweek)
Transcript of Today's Apple iPhone 4 Press Event
Apple: The iPhone 4 has the same problems all other phones have when you hold them, we just made the mistake of pointing out that our antenna design was better than anyone else's, even though we knew when you held it it would turn to shit. Oops. Basically, we shouldn't have to be any better than anyone else, because all phones suck.
Users: But we're dropping calls.
Apple: Yeah, but only one more than normal. So shut up.
Users: Right, but when I'm talking to a client and--
Apple: And look, we'll give you a Bumper for free. They're normally $29, but we're gonna make you schmucks happy and give you all a free one. That will solve this problem.
Users: But you can't use the dock with a Bumper, and you can't use most of the car accessories with a Bumper, and the Bumper makes it hard to put the phone into your pocket which means you're more likely to drop it, and--
Apple: Free Bumpers. Shut up.
Users: Okay, what about the proximity sensor?
Apple: Yeah, yeah. Stop complaining about that. We're working on a fix for that and we'll release it at some point.
Users: So in the mean time, we'll drop calls without a Bumper and we'll put people on mute and speakerphone accidentally with the proximity sensor issues.
Apple: Yes. The iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market.
Users: But what about--
Apple: Did you see the fucking charts? Shut up.
LeBron James took the easy way out in choosing... →
“GREENWICH, Conn., July 8, 1990 — Michael Jordan announced on national television he’s leaving Chicago to join the Detroit Pistons. Jordan said it was tough to bolt Chicago, where he was the most popular athlete in many years, because he thinks he has a better chance to win a championship if he plays with Pistons star Isiah Thomas. Jordan said by playing together, he and Thomas...
Bill Simmons: The All-LeBron sound-off - ESPN →
“City: Cleveland, Ohio Name: Jeff I’ve figured out the moral of the story: Stay in school.
Wade: 3 years at Marquette Bosh: 1 year at Georgia Tech The kid from Akron: no college
The most educated guy convinced his dumber friends to come play on his team for less money.”
I'm Comic Sans, Asshole. →
“Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.”
BART shooting trial: Johannes Mehserle found... →
“Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983.”
I know I shouldn’t be surprised about this, given my instinctual fear of police as a byproduct of where I grew up, but this is still shocking to me. 1983. Wow.
iPhone 4 Antenna issues are a UX issue: What the... →
How a user experience decision can come back to haunt you.
June 2010
Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot →
Amazon acquires Woot.com. One of the funniest acquisition announcements ever.
“This is definitely an emotional day for me. The feelings I’m experiencing are similar to what I felt in college on graduation day: excitement about getting a check from my folks combined with nausea from a hellacious bender the night before. I remember fondly that time when an RA turned on the lights and yelled...
foursquare: We're just getting started... →
This is amazing. Congrats to foursquare! Now lets see those new fangled products you’re talking about!
Hey all - It’s been quite the year for foursquare. Last year at this time, Naveen and I - tired of working around my kitchen table - borrowed a desk from our friends at Curbed.com and Hard Candy Shell. Two months later we brought on our first hire (Harry!) and a few weeks after closed...
The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut : The New Yorker →
I’ve not read the Millennium trilogy yet, only seen the movies, but something tells me this parody is spot on.
The New iPhone 4.1 →
Fixes all issues regarding signal quality and reception. From the press release: “With the new Magic-Enhancement-Band from Apple, the iPhone just got better with the new and improved iPhone 4.1. It will be more greater than evar before imagined! Your life will never be the same. You’ll be able to enjoy a new technology, only available from Apple, Voice-to-Voice communication over 3G...
What Happens When You Auto-Tune a Vuvuzela? →
Auto-tune + Vuvuzela + The Final Countdown = GOLD.
Donovan scores in the 91st minute and USA...
A VC: The Credit Card Expiration Blues →
It’s issues like this that make me sad PayPal was bought by eBay. I bet the pace of payment/merchant innovation would have kept up if PayPal was independent and forced to compete and grow to stay alive.
Now it seems that PayPal is happy to just be just another available payment option instead of the market leader.
“This credit card expiration thing is a big issue when so much of our...
Plain English Beginners Guide: How to Jailbreak...
Apple has just released their new firmware update for iPhones, iOS 4.0. It comes with a lot of nice improvements to the OS. You can read about all of the changes here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/iphone-os-4-0-unveiled-shipping-this-summer/
However, the biggest bummer for owners of the iPhone 3G, like yours truly, is that the best feature of the new update, multitasking, isn’t usable...
“However, on at least six occasions during my tests, the new iPhone was either...”
– New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class - WSJ.com
i’m still going to get the new iphone but this line from Mossberg is a heartbreaker.
(via bijan)
Dave Delahaye: My Internet Campaign To Destroy... →
Are you kidding me? This is how ALL of the networks are, not only AT&T.
slackr:
i feel your pain bro
Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to... →
Using the Open Graph API to show how much information people really are posting publicly. I am pretty sure this isn’t what Facebook envisioned when they launched the the Open Graph API.
WatchNew Futurama premieres on June 24th! Cannot wait!
thedailywhat:
First Look of the Day: The first 90 seconds of the first episode of the highly-anticipated new season of Futurama, which premieres Thursday, June 24, @ 10 / 9c on Comedy Central.
Hooray!
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