From the category archives:

Opinion

Statistics are f*cking with your mind, America

February 12, 2010

Just now, on the morning CNN Headline News, I saw a quick stat in honor of, I can only imagine, Valentines day.
And it pretty much embarrasses women.

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Flash Apologists are Legion

February 10, 2010

It’s times like these that I almost hate blogging. I read what might be the most insightful article comparing and contrasting Flash and HTML5 that I’ve ever seen, yet I’m compelled to belittle the crap out of the content. Why? Because this wasn’t about HTML5 at all! It was about excuses for Flash.
In Ray Valdes’ [...]

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Job boards suck, and here’s why

November 28, 2009

There’s a lot to be desired as a freelancer looking for short to medium term work. Many sites are crowded with junk, look and function horribly, provide little to no customer service, or have such a loose vetting process (looking at you, Craigslist) that you’d be hard pressed to find a worse waste of your [...]

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Three Wolf Moon is Taking Over

October 15, 2009

I was just alerted that we have an internet meme creeping out into the real world. Courtesy of Martin J. Wagner, Project Manager for all podcasting initiative at IU (such as the fabulous IU Podcast Portal). Previously a sort of internet joke, these T’s are all over the place now.

Amazingly, someone even painted it on [...]

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The world doesn’t need bigger optical storage

October 11, 2009

PCWorld reports that a “next new thing” optical disc outsizing even Blu-Ray is on its way:
TDK has developed a prototype optical disc that can hold up to 320GB of information — that’s more than six times the current highest-capacity media available. The 12-centimeter disc has 10 recording layers, each of which can store 32 Gigabytes. [...]

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