New photoblog launches at msnbc.com
Things have been busy at work lately. My pal and colleague Martin McClellan (aka @hellbox) designed and built this (along with the folks at Newsvine) and it’s just incredible. Quite an improvement over the previous iteration of our photoblog (I know because I built that one). I love the huge photos and clean design.
TJ put this together and he’s awesome. I played the role of “uncoordinated white dude number 2”. Everything that was great about our contribution is because of Sam, everything that’s lame is my fault. And we had a great time.
Thanks, of course, to Merlin, Scott and Adam for being, well, you.
It’s easy to glorify Verizon as an iPhone owner, because AT&T is so awful. But Verizon sucks, too — just in different ways, for the most part.
Marco does a great job reminding us all why we shouldn’t be so happy to jump into the angler fish jaws of Verizon. Their network may be better than AT&T’s (though even that’s not a given, impossible though it may seem) but they’re still an evil, awful phone company. Verizon’s only going to be all to happy to gouge every iPhone user as much as possible.
Don’t wish for an iPhone on Verizon, wish for something altogether different with all of that spectrum we were promised with the digital TV switchover.
(via justbreathe-)
The data suggests that people who are Tea Party supporters have a higher probability"—25 percent, to be exact—“of being racially resentful than those who are not Tea Party supporters
—Christopher Parker, who directed a study on the teabaggers for by the University of Washington’s Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality. Full results.
Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone
Most of the bookmarklets you really want in one handy place. (Thanks, Josh!)
According to the RIAA, the Pirate Bay has stolen about 46 times more dollars than actually exist on Earth
—Cracked on how the Pirate Bay is sort of like a lamer Robin Hood.
Every other state on the border should emulate what Arizona has done
—Sarah Palin, heaping praise on Arizona’s awful immigration law. Now, does that border just mean Mexico or does it include Canada, which shares a long, unsecured border with Palin’s beloved Alaska? How are we supposed to profile Canadians in that case – ask ‘em to say “about”?
Portland pig cook-off followed by brawl over the provenance of pork
Complete with egoistic chefs, headbutts, broken legs, a tasing (tasering?), pepper spray and a strip club! Oh, Portland.
This blew my mind when I saw it. That’s a photo I took for Salt & Fat, the food blog that Neven and I do, in a post about quinoa. Not just a photo, though, a photo featured in a screenshot, in the app store, for what is hands down one of the greatest apps I’ve used in a long while, Instapaper.
I can’t I imagine anyone reading this doesn’t know Instapaper, but it has quite literally transformed how I use the web. On any given day, I’m bombarded with more text than I could possibly consume and Instapaper makes all of that manageable. If someone IMs me a link or if any of the two dozen tabs I’ve got going are more than a few grafs long, I send them straight to Instapaper and digest them when I can, usually on the bus home or while battling demons in the wee small hours. It’s one of the most useful, well thought out applications I’ve used and Marco deserves every bit of praise that he’s received.
Thank you for including us, it’s truly an honor to hold such esteemed company.
