John Gruber on blogging.
There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.
If at least some more opinions, facts, comparisons were delivered, the article might have had some sense. Until then I’ll gladly adhere to the group of frivolous timewasters instead of the frustrated OS hackers.
ZDNet in a journalistic failure:
Macintosh adherents tend to be frivolous time-wasters dazzled by cheap sensory effects.
Christoph Niemann’s love for coffee, and its history, illustrated. I guess every coffee lover can relate to this, although I still am stuck in the Espresso phase and never really loved Lattes. A great Cappuccino will do for me. Foam, not milk. :)
Amazing satellite pictures of the Earth from above.
Related: You might want to browse through the complete photo series at Boston.com, there are some amazing documentaries.
tj on twitter
#!/bin/sh
while [ "$CONSCIOUS" = "yes" ];
do
slamHeadIntoWall();
done
.
Thinking I sorta liked it when you had to learn perl, apache, and html to smear the web with dumbassery. It was a modest barrier to entry.
So Andrew, you’ve bought into the simplistic argument that reducing paper usage will save trees. Actually reducing paper usage is more likely to reduce the amount of trees grown. Most trees used to make paper are grown by private land owners. If the market for those trees goes sour those land owners won’t replant trees after they are harvested. They will divert the land to something more profitable — like growing houses. I know. I’m one of those private tree farmers
A comment at WLTC.
Every person engaged with nature, rather than profit, knows that a fully grown tree can generate more oxygen than any young tree.
tweaking someones Windows laptop. God it’s painful to use, it’s really hard after 12 mths of Apple serendipity
Logging in to Windows already hurts after only 3 months of Apple and applications such as Twitterific, Coversutra and all the other bling for Mac. Let’s forget the super work orientated applications.
Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured…
— Abraham Lincoln in his 2nd inaugural address. Found on iPod touch.
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