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bye bye, AT&T
Posted by on January 21, 2011
On Wednesday the story broke that Google was testing number porting for Voice, but I got there too late: the option was already gone by the time I checked. Then yesterday it occurred to me to check again, and lo and behold, there it was. It just so happened that I was angrier at AT&T [...]
two articles
Posted by on January 21, 2011
and two quotes. 1) “How much time do you spend verbalizing? Every time you talk, you destroy the memory of what you’re talking about.” from Science Proves You’re Stupid 2) “Is [the software we use] it really fulfilling our needs? Or are we reducing the needs we feel in order to convince ourselves that the software [...]
the end of the mechanical age
Posted by on July 16, 2010
Anyone that knows me also knows that I am tablet fan. My first job out of college was at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center creating a user interface for a tablet that never shipped (this was 1998!) even though we got it working in prototype form. I have used tablets of various kinds since then [...]
the missing predators
Posted by on July 12, 2010
Over the weekend I saw Predators (fairly entertaining, if slightly slow in the reveal for some portions of the story). I don’t think I’ll ruin anything by saying that in this movie we meet a new caste of predators that we’ve never seen before, a sort of super-predator that kinda slaps around the original predator [...]
the quantum of solace script (abridged)
Posted by on November 16, 2008
Spoiler warning: yes, this is a spoof, but it essentially contains the whole plot of the movie. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Read on after the break…
the dark knight: spectacular
Posted by on July 19, 2008
In Alan Moore’s 1988 masterpiece The Killing Joke we got the clearest vision yet of the Joker as Batman’s “dark side,” and a Joker that was as vicious and demented as anything we had ever seen. Until The Dark Knight, that is. The movie borrows narrative strands from some of the best Batman graphic [...]
summer movie prediction: rockin’!
Posted by on April 17, 2008
Sometimes it’s hard not to wish that Hollywood would get its act together and produce some actual entertainment instead of drivel, or rather, not hand it out just one movie a year at a time. This year definitely looks like an outlier. The list so far: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. [...]
tim != bill
Posted by on November 25, 2007
Tim O’Reilly is thankful he’s not Bill O’Reilly. Hilarious.
Kindle, take 2
Posted by on November 20, 2007
Okay, so after a few hours of playing around with the Kindle here’s some further thoughts on the device, in no particular order. The display is clearly better than the one on the Sony Reader PRS-500 (first gen): faster refresh, better contrast. I imagine it is on par with that of the PRS-505. The navigation [...]
four movies in four minutes
Posted by on September 2, 2007
Over the last few weeks I’ve been catching up with some movies that looked interesting back when they came out in theaters but that I didn’t have time to go see at that point. Here’s the one-minute summary of each. There isn’t much to spoil, but if you’re sensitive to knowing, er, “plot” details, well, [...]
