Readability is awesome and has almost supplanted my use of Instapaper. The linking thing, eh, probably a misstep. The whole "they are taking money given in publishers' names" is completely bullshit afaik because they take money, and offer publishers the opportunity to have some of that money, but they don't say "this money is definitely going to the publishers."
Lots of self-righteous anger going on, imo.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
how do u ppl use readability?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
On longer-form articles I run across either while browsing twitter or just the web or ilx or whatever I'll add them to Readability, then sit at home after work and read the articles while I'm eating lunch or having a beer after work on my iPhone or iPad.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
i push the back quote button and it magically reformats a website
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
all you posters sleeping on my post about the major "indefensible: john gruber" story of a generations
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
it was a good post
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
"Badass."
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
"Filed for future claim chowder."
"Agreed."
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Hilarious."
caek, did you read the transcript of the interview with the FLA president linked from the ABC news article? It kind of twists the light the report is read in, for me, in that he paints the factory in an average-to-positive light for China and there are a number of issues with worker perception where management hasn't communicated either the right regulatory materials or detailed the safety mechanisms already in place.
I think Gruber's dropping it because he's a lazy ass and doesn't really want to contrast how factories operate in multiple countries. Most people don't, but as a beacon he's kind of dropping the ball, sure.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/BenjaminBrooks/status/189404356888629249
― markers, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
and here I thought that dude looked like a mid-80s stereotype of a "professional" in his picture, it turns out he thinks he's in Ferris Bueller
― mh, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
what is with these people and describing themselves as 'raconteurs'?:
http://i.imgur.com/FKqUv.png
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
if you took the bio lines and the twitter descriptions of these dudes you're going to find a lot of interesting words like that
to my shame I think I have a social network profile somewhere that probably still says "flâneur." urgh
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
u can tell by his bio line what a great storyteller he is
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
The Yankees have numerous rivals. The Red Sox (division). The Mets (cross-town). The Dodgers (11 World Series matchups). But these Yankees — this particular squad — have a bigger rival. Father Time.
Father Time??? r u srs
Time’s effects, even against Rivera — the most graceful and elegant ballplayer I’ve ever seen, the closest thing in sports to an ageless wonder — are ignominious. The Yankees often win, but in the end, time always wins — the one opponent against which even the Yankees will forever be underdogs. To struggle against time is to struggle against the inevitable. We all know you can’t beat time, but the joy of these aging Yankees is that sometimes you can get lucky and race ahead of it for a while. But now this.
What the fuck, what is the point of this, why not just post that insipid poem about the One Great Scorer
― raw feel vegan (silby), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
~time always wins ~ thinks abt it
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Boom, done.
― diamonddave85, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
"terrific"
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/15/joe-smith-paper-towel
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
lmao after seeing that i was going to start a thread about TED talks that treat you like a fucking child
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
see also: How To Tie Your Shoes
95% of ted stuff is such glib stupid bullshit, but this is like that lifehacker article about "how to hack your mashed potato for one recipe so that it feeds two people"
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
confession: i was charmed by paper towel dude
― stet, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
if everybody didn't get gas on 05/18/12 think of how big a message we'd send to those oil companies
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
TED is crossing the territory into vince shlomo shamwow territory
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
you followin me camera guy *dries hands with only one paper towel sheet*
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649
― markers, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
i don't get it. what is this guy's shtick? he's like the internet-era's garrison keillor?
― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Combined with John Dvorak of PC Magazine
― mh, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/25/the-talk-show-002 can someone break down this podcast brouhaha for me?
― caek, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Web standards are important, and Daring Fireball adheres to them. Specifically, Daring Fireball’s HTML markup should validate as either HTML 5 or XHTML 4.01 Transitional
there is no such thing as XHTML 4.01 Transitional
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://brooksreview.net/2012/05/amazon-nerf/
― markers, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
...
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/25100349521/melange
― markers, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
i can name six of eight
― markers, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
3
― stet, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
0
― Mordy, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Great Cthulhu, I can name four.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
I only spotted Groobs, o well
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
what kind of things would i have had to be interested in to know who these people are?
― Mordy, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
yardsticks
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
oh, they're famous yardstick moguls
― Mordy, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/09/surrogates-willis-10shot-670.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
you guys always forget the beacons
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
hay guys YARDSTICKS and MUSTACHES and BEACONS right hahahahahahahah
― brony ver (s1ocki), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
notoumas but I still don't get who these ppl are
― Mordy, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
people who write blogs about products mostly I assume
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/16/whats-that-sound
― markers, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link