indefensible: john gruber

to be fair, they don't really use quicktime for non-video content anymore!

http://vimeo.com/31926572

YAY!!!

. . .

YAY!!!

he doesn't know what the word "disinterested" means

btw i love john siracusa

otm

people who do apple podcasts really don't know how to speak, eh

which podcasts are you referring to yo

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42

loved that episode and he totally knows how to speak tbh!!!

Congratulations to the Tories.

lol

this is the first interesting point i've seen him make in about 6 months http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/14/microsoft-admosphere

It's like Roger Ebert posting about how he's just noticed that 20th Century Fox in is competion with Warner Bros.

i wasn't being sarcastic, i think it's actually a good observation.

May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has

lolll armchair typographer gruber is still my favorite

Truly funny spoof from College Humor.

★

It has been approved, it is objectively funny

hahaha

the best part of his keynote video was seeing his Field Notes notebook in the back pocket of his dad jeans

http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/siri-for-android-clones.png?w=657

Nevermind the Siri rip-off, what makes this so very Android is all that junk in the status bar in the screenshots.

To be fair I think he's referring to all the icons right at the top.

um yeah

— but to me, Roboto is just the new Arial.

never change~~

rolling in the nuggets

john-gruber-closet-reader-of-pbfluids.html

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/01/03/comments-still-off/

lol how many more articles about this subject do we need from these clowns

But we’re talking about a personal blog, which isn’t a democracy - and furthermore, which amongst other things is a portfolio and a principal branding opportunity for the author.

*makes a jerking off motion with hand*

http://mattgemmell.com/images/readandtrust/badge1.png

Love all these guys who hang on Gruber's every pithy comment and link to the same shit as him.

wow. i thought they were just loosely affiliated; didnt know there was a federation. huge lols at this: http://readandtrust.com/newsletter.php

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the giveaway for these guys is if they have a page labelled "colophon".

wait for only $5 i get an atrticle on FAV TECH DEVICE omg this is unavailable on the internet anywhere

from the people who brought you "the new yorker is too expensive and shouldn't have ads on ipad": what's on my bookshelf?

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Favorite Author: david foster wallace
Favorite Service: instapaper
Resolutions: infinite summer
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Heroes: david foster wallace

some books about stanley kubrick and a beacon, a yardstick

you know kingsley amis categorized misusers of english of english as either berks or wankers. gruber is definitely a wanker.

edward tufte's the visual display of quantitative information, field notes notebook for each month

lol wut is read & trust idgi

read & trust is committed to gathering together the best independent writers available—the ones recommended by the writers you read and trust.

I offer the same service, except I prevaricate a little

Like, I gather the best independent writers available - in a giant basket - but I'm not totally committed to it. I might stop, I dunno

id pay like $3 a month for that

Sold

I guess

should i just wait here

vdqi is a legitimately great book, don't let the helvetica fans put you off.

otm. Tufte's sans of choice is the notoriously weird Gill Sans anyway.

totes, i have the one w/the dog on the cover too

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― joe

hahahaha