a long long time ago, in a galaxy far away:
December 2013
Posts
49 minutes? Really? Dec 24
Commentary
- Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why
- Out of Ten
- Confident consumers step up borrowing as incomes rise and total debt declines
- Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
- Wood Tie
- Reform ECPA: Tell the Government to Get a Warrant
- Southwest Airlines offers iOS users $2 iMessaging
- Dad Arrested For Picking Up Kids At School By Foot
- Gruber: Eff Your Review
- Up in Arms
- Reform ECPA: Tell the Government to Get a Warrant
- Amazon Prime Air drones revealed on 60 Minutes, aim to deliver in half an hour
November 2013
Posts
iPad Air vs iPad Mini Thoughts Nov 27
PayPal and Square Cash Nov 26
Fight for the Future: More education, less cutesy graphics. Nov 25
Nate Goebel. 1981 - 2013. Nov 5
Quotes
Buying a gun in Texas for your girlfriend is easier than a prepaid SIM card.
So long as the law remains silent on the workplace rights of gay and lesbian Ameri...
Commentary
- Microsoft 'Scroogled' ad uses 'Pawn Stars' to rip Google Chromebooks
- The Psychology of First-Person-Shooter Games
- The Supersized American Turkey
- Why are big retailers trying to kill Thanksgiving?
- For Sale: Pastie
- Towing is Extortion
- Oklahoma Drops National Guard Benefits For All Couples To Avoid Serving Same-Sex Couples
- Life in IKEA is impossible
- Facebook Photo Shows Mischievous Moment - Wife Fired, Husband Only Told Off
- Welcome to Dinovember
- Google BBS Terminal
- Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary"
- The US needs to retire daylight savings and just have two time zones one hour apart
- Meet badBIOS, the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps
- Top 5 Mistakes Journalists Make about Sexless Japan
October 2013
Posts
Seriously, stop it with the flash. Oct 23
Quotes
Keeping the government open and paying our bills should not be cause for celebrati...
Commentary
- The ocean is broken
- Hyundai Hates To See 'Burn Notice' Fade Into Miami Sunset
- The Utter Failure of my Windows 8.1 Upgrade
- Podcast App Playback Speeds
- Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1
- Anki Drive
- This is how a Helsingin Sanomat journalist tried to save Nokia
- Dick of the week: John Boehner
- Lack Hat Stand
- Weird T-Shirt Line Aims At Disrupting Facebook's Auto Tagging
- Kindle Paperwhite review: Ebook reader gets warmer, faster
- FastMail's servers are in the US: what this means for you
- LA students override iPad restrictions, threaten program
- Maduros Accuses Opposition of Electric Sabotage
September 2013
Posts
Pastie, Linode, and Security Sep 28
Quotes
Touch ID is not a “strong” security control. It is a “convenient” security control.
I bought a paper book today - the first in a very long time. Can someone remind m...
Commentary
- “Sealed For Your Protection”
- To Hell with Backups
- iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor gets completely misunderstood
- Design flaw that blows my mind
- Netflix exec: Canada's broadband caps "almost a human rights violation"
- Californian Prisoner Strike Breaks
- Royal Shell Begins Bodo Compensation Talks
- Malawi Sells Presidential Jet
- Subtexts in Apple's Sept. 10 iPhone event | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- How Did Wal-Mart's IPhone Discount Defeat Apple's Price Controls?
- CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now
- Apple sued for false advertising after dividing up the final 16 episodes of Breaking Bad into two seasons on iTunes
- Daily Kos: Stephen Colbert shows the ghoulish side of Fox's Eric Bolling
- If you advertise your app like this, I hate you
- Crop vs. Full Frame: Excuse Me While I Rant
August 2013
Quotes
For a moment let me just address the white people. You know how we feel at the ai...
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most their government to...
Commentary
- Facebook friends could change your credit score
- Why They Cast Ben Affleck as Batman " Brianbeise
- 5 Terrifying Statements in the Leaked Climate Report
- A very mild defense of in-app purchases « John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site
- A Guide to the Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Officials Use to Mislead the Public About NSA Surveillance
- White House Changing Its Story On James Clapper's Role In Independent Surveillance Review
- DF: How the iPhone and Bad Decisions Killed BlackBerry
- The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency
- Slow Death by Panda
- Beams and potato chips
- Why Nathan Myhrvold Sucks Donkey Balls
- Life of a stranger whole stole my phone
- Young girl dies in India after being set on fire in rape attempt.
July 2013
Quotes
20 years for a warning shot against a known abuser versus no time at all for killi...
I understand that religion makes it easier to deal with all the random shitty thin...
Your message was not sent because the SMS limit was reached. Please try again late...
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve be...
Commentary
- Apple Says SVP Bob Mansfield “No Longer” on Executive Team, but Gives No Explanation as to Why
- The Rough, Gummy Tragedy of NeverWet
- History for Trayvon
- emojitracker: realtime emoji use on twitter
- Dubai jails 'raped' Norwegian woman
- Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance
- Have you ever been to prison?
- Lawyer: Apple Should Protect Me From My Porn Addiction
- The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
- Future Cars
- OverCloak
- Pay extra fees because you're driving a hybrid?
- College Sports
June 2013
Posts
Pastie DoS attack continues Jun 13
DoS Attacks Jun 12
Quotes
Liquid tungsten is so hot, if you dropped it into a lava flow, the lava would free...
Commentary
- Why Have Sex?
- My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89
- What it would look like if planets were closer
- How I crashed my hang glider (or why you should accept failure)
- Privacy, Secrecy, the Web, and Ads
- U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
- The Art of Great Fisheye Photography
- 150 days without videogames
- Voice
- The Dawn of the Voice-to-Text Era
- App-controlled digital shades for your windows
- The Cord-Cutting Fantasy
- NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
- Prism by JohnDesq Imaging
May 2013
Posts
Blast from the past May 31
Pastie T-shirts - now in multiple colors May 8
Pastie T-Shirts on Teespring May 7
Quotes
America prays for god to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for god to destroy...
The way that boy looks at the Galactica, is precisely the way I look at the Galact...
Commentary
- The Real Story About Apple’s Taxes
- SQLite FTS3 and FTS4 Extensions
- requestAutocomplete()
- THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace
- Wine tasting is bullshit.
- Amazon Coins: A Terrible Idea For Consumers
- The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle
- TED: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
- French Legislators Pass Same-Sex Marriage and Adoption Bill
- CommandQ - Never accidentally quit a Mac app again
- MacBook Pro tops on best-performing Windows laptop list
- Is democracy in crisis?
- Two Promising Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years From Earth
April 2013
Alfred. I haven't fallen in love yet, but today it completely blew me away. It knows "ical" means "Calendar" and "ichat" means "Messages". Kudos to whoever added that intelligence."/>
Posts
Java required... really, Drobo? Apr 26
Hope Amarra Caskey Apr 25
One small step closer to sex with robots. Apr 24
Even if your boss is watching... Apr 23
Guns vs Terrorism Apr 19
Hyperlapse Apr 10
Goodbye LIMIT and OFFSET Apr 5
Time-Lapse | Earth. Wow. Apr 5
"No it’s wickness." Apr 3
Quotes
If there is a hell it’s got to be full of very interesting people.
Commentary
- Couple's Second Child Dies After Faith Healing Failure
- And we wonder why they hate us?
- Rails AB Testing - Simple ABs
- 3D Printing is Here
- Gruber: "thanks to Microsoft"
- 100 Billion: Intelligent Life in the Milky Way
- Pupil
- Strange medicine
- Ricoh GR
- No Population Bomb
- Less terrorism or better government intervention?
- Technological Conservatism
- Passcode lock for apps
- The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency
- Automakers Recall Vehicles over Shrapnel Concerns
- How to make a great Passport photo
- Rainy Cafe
- Mosaic
- Robot Sex Revolution
- Massive bot network is draining $6 million a month from online ad industry
- Surprise: Register Of Copyrights Expected To Call For Reduction In Copyright Term
- FSB can tap your Skype without court order
- The Government Might Want To Legalize Phone Unlocking, But Unfortunately It Signed Away That Right
- How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
- You Suck at Retina
- French Senate debates same-sex marriage
- Why Photoshop is Ruining Landscape Photography
- U.N. Approves Global Arms Trade Treaty
- Vimeo 62085613
- Youtube S0q34b8rrhs
March 2013
Posts
About Time Mar 22
Commentary
- What Ali Wore
- The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
- Panic in Greek pharmacies as hundreds of medicines run short
- The Small-State Advantage in the U.S. Senate
- While I like DST
- TED: Giant Squids!
- Lumio, yes please.
- Open and Shut
- Tax Sugary Drinks to Fight Obesity
February 2013
Commentary
- Bulgaria rallies continue as government quits
- Swimming in Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools
- Buying a Gun? States Consider Insurance Rule
- China acknowledges 'cancer villages'
- FDA Approves Argus II Bionic Eye
- Daintree Rain Forest
- How to Think about Guns
- French National Assembly Approves Gay Marriage and Adoption
- "I wasn't smiling"
January 2013
Posts
Apps: Think about your post-customer experience Jan 29
Will a real product website please stand up. Jan 22
Just Kiss Me Jan 17
Retina-enabled Tumblr in 5 minutes Jan 9
Nap Time Jan 6