Hell all over again?

Now that Google’s Chrome is making some waves (about 2 million downloads worth), it’s probably starting to hit web developers:

“This is hell,” [said an attendee at Web 2.0 Expo], to applause from the audience. And he followed up with a question to the panel: “What are you going to do about it?”

With Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, [...]

Reversing Google’s fall?

Now that Android is out, and we can all look forward to Google’s first Android powered phone, will it be enough to slow or reverse the company’s stock price drop? Don’t get me wrong, Google is still a fantastic company and a darling in many regards; it’s still a dream job in the eyes of [...]

Defending elitism

Oh my god, I haven’t been writing much lately. My apologies. I promise to amend the situation in the near future, but in the meantime here’s some excellent writing from Sam Harris published in Newseek:

…You can learn something about a person by the company [Palin] keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, [...]

Not finding

Every wish you could use the command line find utility but have it exclude directories? Yea, me too, all the find. No seriously. And it turns out it’s pretty easy to do, too… it only took me a decade or two to stumble on the solution:

$ find . ‘!’ ‘(‘ -name ‘.cvs*’ -prune ‘)’

There you go, [...]

Precipitate

Oh, this is cool.
Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports Google Bookmarks and Google Docs. Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server [...]

Save the Constitution

I wish there was more I could do to support Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s recent motion to impeach our so-called President. I understand why Speaker Nancy Pelosi would rather not support any action to impeach. She’s dead wrong. Mr. Bush has violated so many laws (35 by Kucinich’s account) and broken our Constitution. Do we really [...]

Modern data visualization

Smashing Magazine has catalogued some of the most amazing visualization technique available today. I’m particularly fascinated by the spacial navigation and visualization models. As technology catches up with the processing capabilities of humans, we’ll be seeing more and more technology like this. We don’t think in folders and files–we think in relationships, proximity and “likeness.” [...]

Social media defined

If you’re still a bit fuzzy on this “social media thing,” here’s a great little move by Common Craft that makes it all clear. And tasty, too.

Mouse-less computer?

Microsoft, having let Apple pave the way, has announced that they’ll be releasing touch screen computer technology in the near future. I wonder if what this report implies is correct though–a mouse-less computer would indeed be a bad thing. Sure, I love being able to touch my screen to control things. There are even times [...]

Virus

Even though Mac OS/X has been demonstrating more problems of late (40 Mac OS X security patches this month, preceded by 90 security patches last month according to Mitchell Ashley), there have still been no significant breaches of OS/X security. Mitchell’s point is that Apple has remained too obscure a target to garner much attention [...]

Self-charging iPod?

http://devicedaily.com/gadgets/apple-files-patent-solar-cells-for-portable-devices.html

Losing our soul

Posted today on Defiant Majority:
And I ask myself today, what does the United States gain if it inherits the whole world but loses its soul? The soul that made this country a unique experiment — a beacon for the whole world to envy. Today, the United States my ancestors and I knew as a [...]