December 2010
50 posts
Why does Apple have such a cult following? →
secondverse:
parislemon:
If I wrote a post with this title on TechCrunch, no matter what I actually wrote in the post itself, the first 300 comments would all be complete troll bullshit.
Agreed. But the question is… why? What is it about Quora that enables it to provide such good answers (and community!) without falling prey to the trolls? I ask because I have some pet theories*, but no...
Resurrecting the Real Life Top Five: Best List of... →
A completely unedited, uninspired look at the year that was.
A long and angry list from my favorite cultural historian, John Matthew Mattie.
HaïkuLeaks / Cable is poetry →
The United States
and South Korea must apply
patience and pressure.
marco:
“Yahoo! actually went on the offensive and claimed they weren’t going to kill Delicious but sell it, which makes me laugh, because no such thing could be true – the most glaring reason being that Yahoo’s authentication system infests every one of their properties, and a lot of people on Delicious are using Yahoo IDs. Another is that Yahoo are incompetent assholes. Back in January of 2009,...
“It’s more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long difficult...”
– Winnie-the-Pooh
“The state of Facebook is more real than the state of Palestine.”
– Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon
Transparency: GOOD's Most Popular Infographics of... →
Fantastic series of infographics.
“The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US...”
– WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name | World news | The Guardian
WatchWinter Solstice Lunar Eclipse (by William Castleman)
A gorgeous time lapse for all those who missed the eclipse.
“Twice as much Jeff Bridges does not necessarily mean twice as much entertainment...”
– Tron-Legacy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
“You learn very quickly how to
communicate dressed as a marshmallow.”
– A bird doctor from Nashville who donned a billowy white suit in order to tend to an injured whooping crane
“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists...”
– Susan Sontag
You can’t stop the internet.
“Trying to get millennials to tweet about brand myths to drive customer loyalty...”
– 10 Questions with Douglas Rushkoff | Yahoo! Advertising Blog
“Remember, when you visit our Web site, our Web site is also visiting you. And...”
– The first truly honest privacy policy. This is too real. (via fascinated)
SOUR / MIRROR →
Impressive use of Flash/browser.
“It is an unfamiliar sensation: optimism. Jiggity knows. Rahul knows. Everyone at...”
– The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ (via kevintwohy)
Why BlackBerry Overtaking iOS In Browser Usage Is... →
Native apps use the Internet a lot more than they use the Web, and StatCounter only keeps track of the latter. The huge disparity in native apps between iOS and competing devices should tell you what you really need to know, here: iOS users use apps for many things that non-iOS mobile users are forced to use the websites for.
