“Those ‘specialists’ at the ‘Genius Bar’ offer a level of service comparable to a Starbucks barista.”
—newb geniuses? sad but true, exactly baristas.
February 2012
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The interesting thing about the tablet market, after all, is that there is no tablet market. It’s just an iPad market.
—Matthew Yglesias
” —the rest of you just continue fooling yourselves
“Ed Rollins: “If we are only the party of Wall Street and country clubbers, we will quickly become irrelevant.”
—dude, you already *are*
“Republicans being against sex is not good,” G.O.P. strategist Alex Castellanos told me mournfully. “Sex is popular.”
—maureen dowd makes another funny.
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Oscar de la Renta’s Next Big Act
- WSJ.com
” —i cannot forget that calvin trillin revealed, his real name is oscar renta>
“Glenn Greenwald’s eloquent evisceration of Frank VanderSloot”
—and no one eviscerates like glenn
“A Lancet editorial opposes the American Psychiatric Association’s controversial proposal to re-categorize grief reactions as a mental illness in the upcoming edition of the DSMD … often referred to as the Bible of psychiatry.”
—by whom? by shrinks with prescription pads?
“What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account …”
—bruce on the g.w. years
“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream …”
—bruce, guardian uk interview
“Much of the excitement about the internet and virtual reality is generated by a sense of what it will become,” Nicholas Mirzoeff wrote in 2008, going on to describe Gibson’s hyperurban hyperrealities as “quintessentially modernist.” But 2008 was, like, *years* ago.”
—via 3quarks
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Ever see a plane in the sky and wonder where it’s headed?
Siri knows.
Tell Siri to “ask Wolfram what flights are overhead.”
” —scary, fun.
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Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide
- Slashdot headline
” —this is not the question.
“
Did Apple make a mistake by skipping Super Bowl XLVI?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooooooo.
” —the macalope. suffering fools since like forever.
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In the early days, people who knew how the Internet worked “were mainly using it to fuck off. We thought it was important to fuck off.”
Chris Locke, The Bombast Transcripts
” —an so it is, and so it shall be
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Joanna Stern: I could go on and on about how much better the touchpad experience is on the Air, but the big question I’ve always had is: why? Why is it that other laptop makers haven’t mastered the touch experience and Apple has been able to make it work so fluidly, even with another operating system?
Gruber: Because no one other than Apple gives a shit about doing the hard work to get things like this right.
” —that’s why.
“Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You!”
—slashdot
“Fact That No One Likes Him May Be Hurting Romney”
—borowitz of course
“… the Koch brothers recently held another “super-secret billionaires’ meeting” to prepare for the 2012 elections. This effort is expected to channel tens of millions of dollars into the election and once again shape the outcome … Shaped by America’s most wealthy and powerful, the media confuses and divides the public on a range of important issues and obscures the saddest reality of all: democracy’s been turned on its head.”
—these are sickening times
