September 2008
43 posts
Chutzpah
(IPA: /ˈxʊtspə/) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
“To murder one’s parents and then ask the judge for mercy on account of being an orphan.”
“The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long...”
– Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani (via The Breaking Point - New York Times)
How to land a 747 →
Will copy that to my iPhone. You know, just in case. (via kottke.org
Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and... →
Coming at the end of this year, this looks like an amazing must-have gadget for me. I can’t wait to see the first reviews.
Good online advertising →
Probably inspired by the HEMA online store I linked to half a year ago or so.
DF: Apple ‘Solves’ Problem With App Store...
Arnold Kim:
Aparently, Apple has now started labeling their rejection letters with Non-Disclosure (NDA) warnings:
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE
I.e. if you’re a developer whose app has been rejected from the App Store, you are not allowed to say that your app has been rejected from the App Store.
You have got to be fucking...
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning,...”
– Frank Sinatra
“In lieu of flowers, he asks that you make a sizeable purchase at your favorite...”
– If your obituary reads like this, you did something right in life.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II sample video →
A gorgeous HD video clip taken by Vincent Laforet with a pre-production EOS 5D.
These up-and-coming video DSLRs really got me hooked. Too bad I lack the funds as well as probably the talent.
L2I - Ghost Between Clouds / The Braunschweig...
The McDonald's theory of war
kottke:
The Russian/Georgian conflict has proven the McDonald’s theory of war wrong. The theory stated that no two countries with McDonald’s restaurants would ever go to war with each other. (via mr)
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
– Peter Ustinov (via brocatus, topherchris)
[ timebeat ] - beautiful flash clock →
Play With Spider - OneMotion.com →
This is awesome. Do NOT click this link if you’re arachnophobic. Seriously.
Why Google Chrome matters
Google:
In the long term, we think of [Chrome] as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems.
And there it is, Microsoft’s worst nightmare...
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters... →
