Miley Cyrus (19) calls sex “magical” http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Miley+Cyrus+calls+magical/6660865/story.html “Revolutionary. Unbelievably great… way better than a laptop. Way better than a smartphone.”
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Miley Cyrus (19) calls sex “magical”

http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Miley+Cyrus+calls+magical/6660865/story.html

“Revolutionary. Unbelievably great… way better than a laptop. Way better than a smartphone.”

Refurb’d Kindle for $50!! (from Amazon!!) http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/74458/amazon.com-refurbished-kindle-with-special-offers-ereader The buttons are an ergonomist’s nightmare, so you really shouldn’t buy it, but whatev’s, it’s YOUR ARTHRITIS
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Refurb’d Kindle for $50!! (from Amazon!!)

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/74458/amazon.com-refurbished-kindle-with-special-offers-ereader

The buttons are an ergonomist’s nightmare, so you really shouldn’t buy it, but whatev’s, it’s YOUR ARTHRITIS

Apple iPod touch 8 GB 4th Generation (Black or White) @ amazon - $175  via slickdeals I’m telling you guys, all these sales, something between a Touch and an iPad is coming on June 11th…
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Apple iPod touch 8 GB 4th Generation (Black or White) @ amazon - $175 

via slickdeals

I’m telling you guys, all these sales, something between a Touch and an iPad is coming on June 11th…


To win a following among Chinese buyers… To win a following among Chinese buyers, brands have to follow three rules. First and most important, products that are consumed in public, directly or indirectly, command huge price premiums relative to goods used in private. The leading mobile phone brands are international. The leading household appliance brands, by contrast, are cheaply priced domestic makers such as TCL, Changhong and Little Swan. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577408493723814210.html  When I see a guy wearing an expensive pair of Beats headphones (in Brooklyn, this occurs about 100 times a day), all I think is “dummy.”
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To win a following among Chinese buyers…

To win a following among Chinese buyers, brands have to follow three rules.

First and most important, products that are consumed in public, directly or indirectly, command huge price premiums relative to goods used in private. The leading mobile phone brands are international. The leading household appliance brands, by contrast, are cheaply priced domestic makers such as TCL, Changhong and Little Swan.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577408493723814210.html 

When I see a guy wearing an expensive pair of Beats headphones (in Brooklyn, this occurs about 100 times a day), all I think is “dummy.”

John Gruber and Dan Benjamin ARE KAPUT! Here them say what would be their final goodbyes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2443832/Screenshots/Marker%201.m4a (via YComb thread) After two weeks of podcastlessness, Gruber revealed on Daring Fireball this afternoon that The Talk Show had left 5by5.tv for Mule Radio.  No explanation was given.  Dan has nothing to say on his site either. No “best of luck” or “amicable parting” b.s. like one might expect. So, presumably, it was NOT amicable. Was it over money?  Time and Twitter will tell…
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John Gruber and Dan Benjamin ARE KAPUT!

Here them say what would be their final goodbyes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2443832/Screenshots/Marker%201.m4a (via YComb thread)

After two weeks of podcastlessness, Gruber revealed on Daring Fireball this afternoon that The Talk Show had left 5by5.tv for Mule Radio. 

No explanation was given. 

Dan has nothing to say on his site either.

No “best of luck” or “amicable parting” b.s. like one might expect.

So, presumably, it was NOT amicable.

Was it over money? 

Time and Twitter will tell…

This fuckin’ thing hasn’t been touched for a month.
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This fuckin’ thing hasn’t been touched for a month.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itranslate-voice/id522626820?mt=8 iTranslate Voice = Siri meets the Star Trek Universal Translator Not super-perfect, but it gets the basics mostly right (see above), and the complexicateder stuff close enough. Pretty fun, and nice to have. The fact that it shows you TEXT of what you said, and what it is saying (and that that text is copy-and-paste-able) is a big plus, too. :)
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itranslate-voice/id522626820?mt=8

iTranslate Voice = Siri meets the Star Trek Universal Translator

Not super-perfect, but it gets the basics mostly right (see above), and the complexicateder stuff close enough. Pretty fun, and nice to have.

The fact that it shows you TEXT of what you said, and what it is saying (and that that text is copy-and-paste-able) is a big plus, too.

:)

winsupersite.com:  Windows 8 Pro PC upgrade is just $15 You are tempted to try it. Do not. Windows 8 on a laptop or desktop is a maddening ball of vexation.  (On a tablet, it might work. But it’s awful with a keyboard and mouse.)
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winsupersite.com: 

Windows 8 Pro PC upgrade is just $15

You are tempted to try it. Do not. Windows 8 on a laptop or desktop is a maddening ball of vexation. 

(On a tablet, it might work. But it’s awful with a keyboard and mouse.)

Daring Fireball: DVDs and Blu-Rays Will Soon Carry Two Unskippable Government Warnings Will the two screens be shown back to back? Will each screen last for 10 seconds each? Will each screen be unskippable? Yes, yes, and yes. lol, ~discs~.
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Daring Fireball:

DVDs and Blu-Rays Will Soon Carry Two Unskippable Government Warnings

Will the two screens be shown back to back? Will each screen last for 10 seconds each? Will each screen be unskippable?

Yes, yes, and yes.

lol, ~discs~.

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone is free on iTunes today. :) via slickdeals
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone is free on iTunes today. :)

via slickdeals

I had old — but critical (confirmation numbers, etc) — calendar entries VANISH on me today. They were there for months, I went in to update the entry, saved it, and right before my eyes PLOOOP! It vanished.  Repeated the error three more times making new test entries. They were there for a split second, then gone when you blinked. A few other test entries closed AS I WAS TYPING THEM! (I thought maybe I was hitting a wrong button accidentally, but I was very careful after the first incident.) It was enraging.  Running iOS 5.1 when it happened. (Just updated to 5.1.1 ten seconds ago.) I dunno if it’s iCloud sync wiping them or what. I just know I CAN’T TRUST APPLE’S CALENDAR OR BACKUPS now. Fortunately I had the confirmation number written on the back of an old memo, stuffed into a disused notebook, that i hadnt yet gotten around to throwing away, otherwise I COULD HAVE BEEN FIRED. THANKS, APPLE!
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I had old — but critical (confirmation numbers, etc) — calendar entries VANISH on me today. They were there for months, I went in to update the entry, saved it, and right before my eyes PLOOOP! It vanished. 

Repeated the error three more times making new test entries. They were there for a split second, then gone when you blinked.

A few other test entries closed AS I WAS TYPING THEM! (I thought maybe I was hitting a wrong button accidentally, but I was very careful after the first incident.)

It was enraging. 

Running iOS 5.1 when it happened. (Just updated to 5.1.1 ten seconds ago.)

I dunno if it’s iCloud sync wiping them or what. I just know I CAN’T TRUST APPLE’S CALENDAR OR BACKUPS now.

Fortunately I had the confirmation number written on the back of an old memo, stuffed into a disused notebook, that i hadnt yet gotten around to throwing away, otherwise I COULD HAVE BEEN FIRED.

THANKS, APPLE!

technologyreview (via kottke.org): The paid, expensively developed publishers’ app, with its extravagantly produced digital replica, is dead. Here, the recent history of the Financial Times is instructive. Last June, the company pulled its iPad and iPhone app from iTunes and launched a new version of its website written in HTML5, which can optimize the site for the device a reader is using and provide many features and functions that are applike. For a few months, the FT continued to support the app, but on May 1 the paper chose to kill it altogether. And Technology Review? We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit.  No need for fancy shit, just make yer app in plain fucking text! We want to read, not be dazzled by fancy layouts and pageturn animations. Isn’t that why Readability and Instapaper EXIST?
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technologyreview (via kottke.org):

The paid, expensively developed publishers’ app, with its extravagantly produced digital replica, is dead.

Here, the recent history of the Financial Times is instructive. Last June, the company pulled its iPad and iPhone app from iTunes and launched a new version of its website written in HTML5, which can optimize the site for the device a reader is using and provide many features and functions that are applike. For a few months, the FT continued to support the app, but on May 1 the paper chose to kill it altogether.

And Technology Review? We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. 

No need for fancy shit, just make yer app in plain fucking text! We want to read, not be dazzled by fancy layouts and pageturn animations. Isn’t that why Readability and Instapaper EXIST?

$279 iPads — from Apple!  http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad?afid=p201%7C1225267&cid=AOS-US-AFFC-IPAD Would love to get one for the kids… EDIT: bah, taxes. EDIT2: This means a $300-ish 7” model announcement at WWDC in 4 weeks.
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$279 iPads — from Apple! 

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad?afid=p201%7C1225267&cid=AOS-US-AFFC-IPAD

Would love to get one for the kids…

EDIT: bah, taxes.

EDIT2: This means a $300-ish 7” model announcement at WWDC in 4 weeks.

More fun facts via thetrichordist: Scroll down a bit and you will find that google has included these strange notices: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.  If you wish you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org Google removes the links.  It’s required to do this by law. But if you click on “read the DMCA complaint” you are taken to www.chillingeffects.org where you get to see the actual complaint.  But more importantly you get to see the offending links. The unlicensed download link you wanted is just one extra click away. I had no idea.
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More fun facts via thetrichordist:

Scroll down a bit and you will find that google has included these strange notices:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.  If you wish you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org

Google removes the links.  It’s required to do this by law.

But if you click on “read the DMCA complaint” you are taken to www.chillingeffects.org where you get to see the actual complaint.  But more importantly you get to see the offending links. The unlicensed download link you wanted is just one extra click away.

I had no idea.

William Adolphe Bouguereau - “Dante and Virgil in Hell” (1850) Thinkin’ o’ buying $1000 of Amazon (AMZN) and a $1000 of Apple (AAPL) today, just to sorta make things interesting (I got out of stocks after the dot-com bubble popped, and now only have a pleasant, respectable splash of mutual funds)… but signing up was like, UGH, so I gave up and blogged about it instead.
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William Adolphe Bouguereau - “Dante and Virgil in Hell” (1850)

Thinkin’ o’ buying $1000 of Amazon (AMZN) and a $1000 of Apple (AAPL) today, just to sorta make things interesting (I got out of stocks after the dot-com bubble popped, and now only have a pleasant, respectable splash of mutual funds)… but signing up was like, UGH, so I gave up and blogged about it instead.