Archived Posts: April 2009 to January 2008

What If Apple's Tablet is an iKindle?

A couple of loosely connected thoughts: Microsoft, as we knew it in the 1990s and the first half of this decade, has fallen. Windows 7 could be fantastic (even though the word is that it won’t be), but MS is...

On Professionalism

To rail against social norms you don't agree with presumes that the society in question (yourself included) are disciplined and intelligent enough not to need them.

Strike A Light, Guv'nor

Links and errata for July 22, 2008.

You Must Flickr Every Meal

Links and errata for July 21, 2008.

We Can't Have Nice Things

Y'all develop web sites?

Oh, The Dem Unity!

Links and errata for Friday, June 27.

Two Minutes Snark

Links and errata for Wed, June 25.

Two Minutes Snark

Links and errata for Tuesday, June 24, 2008.

Pregnancy Boom

Free day care is what those of us in the armchair economics game call a "strong incentive."

David's WWDC 2008 Predictions

In which we go on record so you know we were right.

Sustainable

In which we reflect on something ironic.

Relativity

Let me ask you something, internets: how long is “too long” for an un-replied-to, un-acknowledged e-mail message to sit in one’s inbox? When I started thinking about this issue sometime last week, it was solely in a business context. But...

Google is Drinking 37signals's Milkshake

In which we stick up for the little guy.

Xbox 360 Is Your New Bicycle

In which we upgrade.

They Shoot Racists, Don't They?

So, apparently despite suggesting Barack Obama is the Democratic frontrunner only as what Keith Olbermann termed an “equal opportunity stunt,” Geraldine Ferraro is not a racist. Nor are Michael Richards, Dog the Bounty Hunter or Bill O’Reilly. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes...

iPhone SDK First Impressions

In which we nitpick.

Oscars Space Madness 2008

In which the prize is finally announced.

The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development

http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/thinking/the_immutable_laws_of_web_design_and_development.php

Putting The 'Backward' in 'Backward Compatibility'

In which Microsoft is dumb.

If An Oscars Game Falls In The Forest...

In which we realize we've forgotten something important.