January 2010
69 posts
Could You Live Without Flash? →
soupsoup:
Turn off Flash on your computer for a week and see how it changes your experience. If you don’t think you can handle that, click the link above and use Click To Flash to choose to turn Flash on or off each time it is requested. It will be interesting to see just how ubiquitous Flash is and how much not supporting Flash could ruin the iPad experience.
Rhetorical question much? I only...
Silver Jews - Punks in the Beer Light
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Some ClickToFlash-like plug-ins Sebastiaan de With...
mrgan:
ClickToEnderle
ClickToComments
ClickToTechCrunch
ClickToFlashEvangelist
ClickToNotClick
ClickToBurnoutRant
ClicktoGruberWhenBaseball’sOn
ClickToRichMediaAdvertising
ClickToCrash (a Photoshop plug-in)
ClickToFAIL
ClickToAnyAppleRumorPost
ClickToFamilyOnFacebook
Party of No →
squashed:
azspot:
Paragons of fiscal discipline, every Senate Republican today voted against reestablishing “pay-as-you-go” budgeting rules that mandate that any new spending must be paid for. The rule passed on a 60-40 party line vote.
The Party of Nihilistic Tax Cuts!
No interest in actual governance whatsoever.
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Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island... →
No, we can't
marco:
Thomas Friedman:
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that movement has disappeared.
In part, it disappeared because the Obama team let it disappear, as Obama moved to pass what was...
Hey North Carolina tumblrs!
I’m likely going to roadtrip down to Wake Forest University this weekend with a couple friends so one of us can have a look at the school. Is there anything worth doing in or around Winston-Salem?
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:
Hot Chip - One...
“So it’s not like we shove a dysfunctional health system through the...”
– Bruce Sterling
WatchJohn Oliver: ” …the democratic party up there is, and I quote, ‘wicked retahded.’ Wicked retahded.”
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Das Racist & Wallpaper - Combination Pizza Hut...
said the chicago banking house to the boston...
ragbag:
Some time ago a Chicago banking house asked a Boston investment firm for a letter of recommendation about a young Bostonian they were thinking of employing. The Boston firm replied by outlining in enthusiastic detail the young man’s excellent First Family background. Several days later came a curt acknowledgment from Chicago. Unfortunately the material supplied was not exactly what they...
“Let me see if I have this straight. You have to replace one of the most beloved...”
– Jon Stewart (via soupsoup)
…on why the Coakley cockup is even more pathetic than most commentators already acknowledge.
New York Times Website To Charge for Access... →
caterpillarcowboy:
peterfeld:
mashable:
The New York Times website is set to charge readers for access. A decision is expected in days and an announcement “within weeks”, according to a report.
Let me know how that works out for you, lol.
This is so bizarre my first reaction was that it was fake.
Ooof, what a preventable disaster. Hope this *is* fake.
Watchazizisbored:
Aziz Ansari Discusses R. Kelly on Kimmel
Digg It
R. Kelly should have an ambassadorship.
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Good Morning
sexartandpolitics:
U-6 Unemployment is at 17.3%, seasonally adjusted.
U-3, the “official unemployment rate”, remains at a round 10%, seasonally adjusted.
Wait....
blondesnotbombs:
Is Tumblarity…..gone?
Sadly not permanently.
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on...”
– Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Bravo, Google.
(via emptyage)
Wow. This could be really big (?). They also describe a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on their corporate infrastructure originating in China, concurrent with similar attacks on 20+ other companies...
WatchMorgan Freeman does not approve.
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via paulsingh)
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if...”
– Frank Zappa (via gordonshumway)
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WatchVampire Weekend - Cousins (live)
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WatchVampire Weekend - Run (live)
it struck me that the two of us could run
“I don’t blame the Chinese and Indian authorities too much for giving it the old...”
– Willem Buiter of the Financial Times, Does poverty give a country the right to pollute the atmosphere?