Robert Loomans

marco: Patent pending. NEW iPhone 4 antenna booster! Just...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:11:38 +1000

Patent pending.

NEW iPhone 4 antenna booster! Just $29.99. Really works!*

* As tested compared to licking your hands and squeezing really hard in a weird way that most people are unlikely to do accidentally at the same time that their hands are wet and they’re transferring a lot of data. Results not guaranteed.

Love it :)

Damn, Gizmodo.

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:05:00 +1000

marco:

Did you really need to publicly shame the poor guy with his full name and photo?

Don’t you think he feels bad enough already?

Did that really add anything to the story?

You just took a dark time in this man’s life — caused only by his negligence, not malice — and made it much worse. For what reason? Did you make anyone’s lives better by having done that?

Very strongly seconded. Last thing this poor bastard needs is a public humiliation served out to him too.

Imagine waking up the next morning without that prototype: how awful you would feel? Not only a hangover, but the hideous sickening feeling of knowing your arse is going to be handed to you?

"I tell people that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of ‘news’ is..."

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:22:55 +1000

“I tell people that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of ‘news’ is ‘something that hardly ever happens.’ It’s when something isn’t in the news, when it’s so common that it’s no longer news — car crashes, domestic violence — that you should start worrying.”

- Bruce Schneier (via charliepark) (via marco)

Very cool… tumblr staff: Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:52:05 +1000

Very cool…

tumblr staff:

Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s new Tweetie options, we’re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.

The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we’ve been able to take advantage of a ton of native features:

Retweeting = Reblogging

Replying = Reblogging w/ commentary

Favoriting = Liking

“@david” = ”http://david.tumblr.com/”

Conversations = Reblogs

To try out Tumblr in Tweetie 2, tap “Accounts” → “+” → enter your username and password → tap the gear icon → enter “http://tumblr.com/” in both fields.

For Twitterrific, tap ”Sources” → “Edit” → “Add a New Account” → enter your username and password → tap ”Advanced” → set “Base URL” to “http://tumblr.com/” and disable “SSL”.

"In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:54 +1000

“In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementation of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit. And so if you’re the one responsible for the cost of buying servers, or reliability-if you’re on call for pages-it helps to actually know what’s going on under the covers and not trust everyone else’s libraries, and code, and interfaces.”

- Brad Fitzpatrick (via marco)

"Normal people do have one thing figured out that we geeks don’t: sometimes, it’s okay to not have a..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:45:10 +1000

“Normal people do have one thing figured out that we geeks don’t: sometimes, it’s okay to not have a computer around.”

- nrbd (via marco)

marco: Cynical-C Blog: (via Paul Scheer) On November 20, 2009,...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:59:41 +1000

marco:

Cynical-C Blog: (via Paul Scheer)

On November 20, 2009, at a Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio, Sarah Palin held a book signing event in support of “Going Rogue”. Palin’s supporters wanted her to run for the presidency, but they weren’t exactly sure what she’d do as president. Short on specifics, most of them were uncertain what her policy positions are. They just felt that they liked her. She’s “real”. And that the solution to all of our country’s problems—health care, energy, the deficit, unemployment, and the economy—was to cut taxes and lower spending, and Palin, they said, would solve them by doing just that.

This is one of the scariest movies I’ve seen in a long time.

This is why democracy doesn’t work as well as it could…

Karen & Jake

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:30:08 +1000

Karen & Jake

Tumblr is nice

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:22 +1000

Tumblr seems to have a very nice, discoverable interface…

Maybe I don’t want to use Wordpress anymore.

Hmmmm….