January 2012
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September 2011
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March 2011
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Open Letter To The World →
We stand at a unique time in our history, the rise of the internet and computer technology have contributed to an unparalleled rate of prosperity for the First World.
We have created for ourselves and empire unlike any other, a global network of constant trade and communication, a new age of technological advancement. We have come a long way from our humble roots in the Industrial Revolution...
February 2011
15 posts
finnsblog asked: Hey! Its Finn the Human, do you like Adventure Time? Submit your favorite Adventure Time posts and I will publish them!
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“4CHAN was a community of people who delved so deep into the shittyness of...”
– 4chan-er
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they...”
– Socrates, 400 BC.
Seems like more of a human trait than a quality of youth at any particular time. Fuck you, Socrates.
There is Superstition
The other day I was playing Ludo on the iPad with my brother and cousin. It was our favourite boardgame as kids, and I’m surprised it continues to give us a thrill.
Now when it comes to throwing dice, you’re always rooting for that magic six. There’s no better feeling. I remember as kids we’d try to throw the dice in a particular way and if that produced a six more than...
Dell’s SEVENTH monitor replacement is a dusty,...
I was convinced that after the story frontpaging reddit Aayush would get the best of treatment. Little did I realise how dumb and stupid Dell can be. Read on.
aayush:
After I made a video about it and wrote about my wretched and ongoing experience with Dell the last time on reddit, the post garnered immediate and significant attention and shot to the top of the front page within a couple of...
On Why Milind Alvares Left Facebook [but then came... →
ramymajouji puts me in the spotlight, as he quits Facebook:
Editor-in-chief of Smoking Apples (and all-around vulgar Internet clown) Milind Alvares wrote his own piece — in a form of an open letter to his Facebook fellows — on why he decided to leave the “world’s most popular social network”. […]
For some reason — he doesn’t really explain — Alvares came back to Facebook and decided to...
January 2011
14 posts
Shitty Themes
This post is ALL WIN.
cenarios:
I really HATE most of the blogs I read. No no I don’t mean the content [I am reading them aren’t I?] I mean the layout.
I FUCKING HATE THE SIDEBARS
What’s the deal with having huge ass panels on the left & right of your main content? All they do is distract. I have seen this on blogger, wordpress, & even tumblr.
Blogger seems to have NO themes with...
“Taking a paid app and making it free for a short time will cause it to have a...”
– Steve Streza, on the phenomenal response he had making his Mac todo app free for a day.
The most controversial thread on the internet →
All that you’ve secretly wanted to say, and more.
The Death of Platforms
soupsoup:
Facebook isn’t going away, neither is Twitter, nor Tumblr. No offense to Tumblr but in a perfect world, we wouldn’t have any of these platforms. In a perfect world everyone would have their own piece of the web that they own entirely. The tech savvy have this, so far as they don’t own the datacenter that their server physically resides in. That’s about the last mile of anyone owning...
Joshua Topolsky: Dear Michael Arrington →
joshuatopolsky:
Dear Michael Arrington, despite the fact that your latest post on TechCrunch is simply the work of a comment troll in blog form, I will respond to your unsubstantiated, inaccurate allegations because I feel they do harm to Engadget’s brand and my name. I realize that doing so will simply provide more fodder for your overactive imagination, but feel compelled to say what I...
The most creative trolling on facebook photo tags... →
Unbelievable, the level of detail. NSFW though.
http://bieber.ly/ →
Because your urls could use a little more bieber.
“Searching Google is now like asking a question in a crowded flea market of...”
– Marco Arment — Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
It’s surprising that the search engine is getting worse. Either spammers are getting better at the game, or Google wants people to visit these spammy websites since they’re primarily the ones littered with Adsense...
Why I love Steve Jobs' interviews
I love watching interviews of dignitaries in the tech industry — The Engadget Show is my favourite thing in video. Actually I think I like watching interviews, because at the end of it I’m quite dissatisfied at the lack of any truthfulness in what they say. Basically PR-speak that gets you absolutely no insight into what actually happened, or what the interviewee truly believes on a personal...
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant...”
– Confucius
December 2010
27 posts
“No, it’s not because I own an Apple computer where (as I’ve heard) Flash...”
– Sreeyesh: Why I hate Flash®
The chicken loving mallu speaks from the other side of the fence (where I hear they still use Windows as their primary desktop OS).
Flash did a great job back when jQuery and HTML5 were non-existent. Really, God bless Flash for those times, or we’d have had a...
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All smiles
I’m writing this to clarify something: whether this happens to everybody, or that I’m a freak.
I remember as a kid, whenever I got sick or in some kind of physical discomfort, my dad used to sit by the bed and explain to me scientifically how the body works, and why I was feeling so. I don’t know what the reason was, but I remember an uncontrollable giggle erupting. Yep, all...
“Advertising is not cool. You’re not as cool if you have advertising. But...”
– Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already?
Just sent in my $20.
“The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you;...”
– Richard Stallman, on Chrome OS notebooks.
Man’s got a point.
You're a photographer when... →
jorgeqfolio:
I’m a member of the Nikon D90 Group on Flickr and there’s was a thread started where subcribers were asked to respond to the statement “you are a photographer when…” There’s 2 pages worth of responses so far and I selected my favorite 10. What makes these special is that are very easily applicable to me and you’ll find yourself smiling because you’ll see yourself in them as well.
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