- Turnabout is fair play – "This is so wonderfully, evilly devious. Superficially, it seems to support creationist methods—but what it actually is is a grand reductio ad absurdam."
- Google’s Business Model – Who is the customer and what is the product? (via @daringfireball)
- Björk: ‘Manchester is the prototype’ – "Biophilia is the Icelandic singer's new project – the word means 'love of living things' – and promises to push the envelope so far you'll need the Hubble telescope to see it."
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My delicious.com bookmarks for June 9th through June 10th
- Enough Is Enough – "The whole [Lodsys] thing is nuts. I can't understand why our goverment allows this shit to go on. "
- Android App Removals Cast Doubt on Google’s ‘Openness’ – “It’s certainly more open than Apple’s platform. But really, that’s like being a taller midget.”
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 16th through January 22nd
- Realism in UI Design – "The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning."
- Jan. 19, 1983: Apple Gets Graphic With Lisa – And without the Lisa there wouldn't have been the Mac…
- Googlephone No Match for Kafkaesque Carriers – Steven Levy finds that mobile (cell) carriers are all evil… I wish this was an isolated problem but it seems to happen everywhere. Does anyone actually like their provider?
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 29th through January 10th
- Google Android Personal Thoughts – "Uniformity is not a word you’ll find in Android’s dictionary. How about the fact that the application icons aren’t the same size. Uh, why? Since there’s no transparent padding around the icons … there’s no uniformity in the touch areas when you go to tap on an icon." These things probably don't seem important to Google but the attention to detail is what makes the iPhone (usually) a pleasure to use. I've not used an Android handset but these things would bug me pretty quickly.
- Japanese Photographer Bends Electricity to His Will – Beautiful.
- The Cost of Care – Nice graphic showing the relationship between the cost of healthcare and life-expectancy.
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 22nd through December 27th
- Separating Explosives from the Detonator – A sensible response to the pants bomber…
- Google ‘open’ memo betrays deep corporate delusion – "Aside from Apple, no tech outfit is more secretive about what goes on inside the company."
- Q: “Once in a blue moon” is a rare event. But what does “blue moon” really mean? – These things are never as simple as you think they should be…
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 4th through December 9th
- US switch to new lethal injection scrutinised – However you do it, killing people is a cruel and unusual punishment.
- Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys – "Lemasson … suspects that a dense jungle environment drove the evolution of syntax. Since the monkeys had trouble seeing each other, they compensated by talking."
- Google DNS – Why would Google make their own DNS service if there's no direct way to sell advertising from it?