Microsoft: Macs ‘not safe from malware, attacks will increase’ | ZDNet.

 

Translation: We’re paying good money for security exploits on OS X, so expect more!

 

Curious Rat – Home – I’m Giving Up Reading for a Year.

 

See previous post on the  douchebag giving up the internet. Very funny.

 

Paul Miller Is Leaving the Internet for a Year — Shawn Blanc.

 

I have to totally disagree with both Paul Miller and Shawn Blanc on this. Shawn calls it “fun and challenging.” It seems particularly stupid with Miller being a tech writer. I do agree it is very much like going without electricity. Miller makes some statements about him “being a better Paul.” Maybe he is kind of a douchebag, I don’t know. In that case, perhaps it will help.

The internet is more than distraction, folks.

 

Why the iPad Is My New Laptop — Shawn Blanc.

 

A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl.

 

Great analysis.

 

 

one problem not mentioned: drinking through thermal mugs removes the smell factor, making your high-quality coffee into something much less.

 

Review: Coffee Joulies – Marco.org.

 

Bezos: Hello?

Jobs: Hi, Jeff, you’re stealing our intellectual property. It needs to stop.

Bezos: What?

Jobs: You know. Your fucking “app store!”

Bezos: But we call it an “Appstore.” Yours is called “the App Store.” Obviously very different.

Jobs: If you were in an elevator I would so fire you right now.

 

 

iOS 4.3 Multitasking Gestures Inch Up Productivity, No Home Button for iPad 3?.

 

Horace Dediu at asymco:

I draw three conclusions:

  1. Apps overtaking digital music is a watershed event. Apps are a new medium: they will impact all other media.
  2. As the number of apps attached to any single device continues to increase, apps create increasingly higher switching costs for users.
  3. Apps consumption is increasing at a rate to overtake the PC software market.

This is just incredible. The result of point number one will be mind-boggling for culture as a whole.

 

Jon C Welch points out the “use Comic Sans for idiots” trick – marvelous – attributed to PZ Myer.

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