May 2012
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ListenSo The Flaming Lips wrote a song for the Oklahoma...
May 27th
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May 15th
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May 1st
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April 2012
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A nice run down of various touch interfaces. →
Apr 30th
John's Tumblr: "Because that's where the money... →
lilly: I’m pretty obsessed with mobile & tablet these days. It feels like we’re reinventing so much of the world, so quickly — it’s just an amazing time of transformation. And I’ve finally come around to what Steve Jobs said a couple of years ago at D: computers as we know them — with keyboards &…
Apr 29th
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Apr 21st
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Apr 16th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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March 2012
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Mar 29th
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Aaron Schaap: Why you don't need a programmer →
At this point when I’m talking with the soon to be entrepreneur about this “simple” production requirement in their ever passionate vision of the future, I have just one thing to say: “You don’t need a programmer - you need a technical co-founder”. I say this for a variety of reasons that I may write about later but the main one is that you shouldn’t outsource your core competency - that...
Mar 29th
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Is that blogging?: Why Coding is Not The New... →
The ability to code does not confer the ability to communicate directly, but rather to newly organise pre-existing modes of communication such as language, images and sound. While new hardware and software will ultimately offer potential to interact in new and exciting ways (video telephones, brainwave sensing, etc), the programming of these innovations are not the communication that these...
Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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Me: It's ok reading is bad for you anyways.
Wes: I know, right. So much time consumed. Tv's 40 min. So much healthier.
Me: Right?! I 100% agree. When people argue that video games are bad, it's really because they're too much like books.
Wes: Hahaha
Me: Sad but true.
Wes: Yeah. That's what I don't get: "video games are bad, kids ought go pick up a book." Same thing, asshole. Yeah, one requires a tiny bit more wit and imagination. But you're gonna knock a kid for 3 hours on Mario Kart instead of 4 hours in what, Hardy Boys? Hank the Cowdog? Piss off.
Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
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My mom called to tell me that she didn’t want to finish Mockingjay, so she skipped to the end and found out who Katniss loved. After seeing that is was the boy she liked, she went back and read the whole book.
Mar 14th
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Mar 13th
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“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world,...”
– Orson Scott Card in his introduction to Ender’s Game
Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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