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A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T

Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product — when the stars align, and the hardware is great and the ecosystem is great and the apps are great and the whole experience is great, and everything you do just makes everything else better, and you’re totally on a roll and can do no wrong — when that happens, you do not go out and try to fuck it all up by discouraging people who love your product. What you do, instead, is you fix your fucking shitty ass network you fucking shit-eating-grin-wearing hillbilly ass clown! [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]

Worth reading.. twice.

And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country.

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Glenn Beck’s New Movie is a Hard Sell

In New York, Beck sold 17 tickets. In Boston, another 17. And in Washington, D.C., the hotbed of political activism, his tearful film drew only 30, Raw Story has found. [the raw story]

Get up off that high horse.

Taiwanese man beats World of Warcraft

“A character named “Little Gray” on the Wrathbringer server has completed all 986 of the game’s ‘cheevos, killing 390,895 creatures and finishing 5,906 quests along the way.” [Joystiq]

I was under the impression that it couldn’t be beat and this isn’t work of The Onion. It really makes you wonder: How many hours did he invest into this game?

Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine. [Stuart Fox of Popular Science]

Seriously interesting that this isn’t coming from The Onion.

Hosting Your Windows 7 Launch Party

The sad part is that Microsoft created this and it couldn’t be any more far fetched.

The only party I could see Window’s users partaking in is the “Ditching Windows for Anything Else” party.

Oh thank God, someone Cabel Sasser made it better:

If you’re hosting a Windows 7 launch party it’s the end of the world as we know it feel free to post a comment. I hope this post has no such comments.

Dating Montage

This is real, real good.

“I enjoy all aspects of data processing.”
[Thanks Clark!]

The People of Walmart

Every once in a while I find myself strolling the isles of the local Walmart for one good reason: I’m curious to see what’s going on and what brings 19.7 million people per day to the warehouse-on-steroids every day.

That is, until today. I don’t think I’ll ever have to step foot inside the jungle of low low prices ever again. I’ve turned to the internet once again to get my entertainment fix.

The website of the day is, drumroll… People of Walmart where you can find a 400lb woman doing a split, a 300 pounder wearing a bikini and my ultimate favorite feature: submit your own “wal-creature.”

Let’s face it; we all have seen the people who obviously don’t have mirrors and/or family and friends to lock them in a basement, and they all seem to congregate at Walmart. It’s not everywhere that you can shop for milk at 10 a.m. next to a 400lb mother of 6 wearing a pink tube top, leopard tights, and hooker heels.

Well put.


People of Walmart.


Ninjawords: A censored Dictionary curtosy Apple

Daring Fireball:

The developers behind Ninjawords, Matchstick Software, have released an iPhone version, currently available from the App Store for just $2. Here’s how they describe it:

Excellent article about Apple’s app censoring of – essentially – a dictionary.


Mario and Princess Sex Tape

College Humor has done it again.

Mario and Princess Sex Tape


HTML5 Canvas Experiment

9elements:

Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.

Awesome experiment using the HTML5 canvas. It also uses the Modernizr javascript framework.