November 20, 2009
Apple's Mistake

I think this is one of the best criticisms of the App Store process yet:

How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn’t like?
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November 9, 2009
Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition"

Great article about Cayce Pollard from William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition.  I have an article sitting in the wings on Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer that I really need to do something with.

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October 13, 2009
Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

A Must Read. I’ve come across SEO experts in the past, and been mighty unimpressed with their “recommendations”.  One company I worked with paid thousands of dollars to an SEO and started getting worse engine placement.  (I had a moment of victory when I managed to capture the #2 spot on Google for their company name by just having decent content that happened to mention them).

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October 12, 2009

Chrysler Turbo Encabulator (via docah)

This MUST be a hoax video.

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October 9, 2009
NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations

I love conspiracy kooks.

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October 5, 2009
PJF's Pages - Journal - Facebook Privacy talk at BarCampMelbourne now on-line
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October 2, 2009
PJF's Pages - Journal - Dark Stalking on Facebook

The start of a potentially interesting series on Facebook privacy and how to get around it via Facebook’s own APIs.

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September 25, 2009

Single Ladies - Beyonce (via PomplamooseMusic)

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Decoding Jackson Pollock | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

I loved Pollock before, and I love him even more now.  A biographer of Jackson Pollock describes how his partner, an art historian, discovered Pollock’s own name embedded within his work, Mural.

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September 23, 2009

It’s Party Time! (via cabel)

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