indefensible: john gruber

Sadly, the punning possibilities of 'mac-gruber' have only just now suggested themselves to me, when surely that meme wave was beaten into the ground by now.

THIS is your FAVORITE FEATURE??

loool

software signing is actually not a terrible idea; in fact many linux distributions have cryptographically signed packages using keys that are signed by the distributors. And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.

All the work I do on my mac is in the terminal or a web browser anyway so new OS X features rarely mean much to me.

me too. the last time i upgraded OS X for some reason other than "it came with the new computer" was 10.4.

And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.

I really, really hope that transpires

I knew the Dow was imprecise and rather arbitrary compared to something like the S&P 500, but the more I learn about the Dow the more nonsensical I realize it is.

find a new zing james

found one

https://twitter.com/#!/totallyslutsky/status/171666559666888705

:D

http://twitter.com/#!/jdalrymple/status/170699109177634816

http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/172054760323690497

o dammmn

a signpost in life

he linked to The Oatmeal today, pretty indefensible imo

ppl on the internet hate everything eh

If your interested in a deep, thoughtful take on the problems Mac developers are running into with sandboxing...

2008-2010: I remember when it was unique to see people using a Mac. I remember when people thought my having an iPhone was unique..

Don't even get the point of writing that other than as a beacon, a yardstick for the guy's impeccable taste.

/tech-thoughts/

My Thoughts About Purple Suspenders Over the Years

1990-Writing this post: Was I ever capable of dressing myself?

Best part about his site: the "in partnership with mediatemple" graphic. mediatemple hosts a number of tech/design sites for free, and those sites indicate that somewhere, usually in the footer. This guy is paying for their cheapest plan and still has a big old logo conspicuously displayed at the top of the page.

^ actual good zinging

I have to hand it to mediatemple, their sponsorship has paid off so well that the cargo cult thinks they're making the next hot site just by putting the logo on the side, even if they're still paying for that "privilege"

in partnership with angelfire

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzupz2luBf1qafhi5.jpg

loooooool xp

Incisive, informed content curation.

http://twitter.com/#!/daringfireball/status/180424385470021632

i like how he arbitrarily decides to refer to the new ipad as iPad (3)

ya that's awful

Why would he not call it "the 2012 iPad"

Why I ask you

(3)

srsly that shit has to stop. he doesn't call it the MacBook Air (3) or the iMac (14), does he? ffs. I bet he'd drive a Porsche 911, but he wouldn't call it a 911 (7), either.

Porsche 911 (Never Forget)

Get the feeling he'll be eating some serious Mike Daizey claim chowder after this weekend's This American Life.

we all will be, james. we all will be.

I guess the iPad (3) is made on a production line of robots and not hand-assembled by poorly-paid Chinese slaves, right?

i guess all chinese workers are 'slaves,' right?

john gruber is awful, i mean really just terrible, worse than paedophiles, but i feel like maybe james overdoes it a bit

all im saying.

what did br00ks do to his favicon

i have hacker news in google reader and the shade of orange they use is fine but whatever shade he picked doesn't look so great

what in the hell is wrong with you?

probably should be asking yourself that question

this american life mike daisey retraction transcript, p interesting, warning PDF http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/special/TAL_460_Retraction_Transcript.pdf

is there a transcript of the original show

the original show is just excerpts from his stage show and apparently you can download the script of that from his website

Love how all the Read & Trust bloggers are now flying over to China to investigate Foxconn for themselves.

wanted to say something re the tendency to criticize chinese factories as sweatshops, in that its not an accurate characterization of foxconn et al, which is not to say theyre great places to work, just that theyre un great places to work in somewhat different ways than a sweatshop, i found this description from mo tkaciks steve jobs piece compelling

When imagination is off the table, you get coverage like CNN’s Foxconn series, in which CNN interviews a disgruntled Foxconn employee complaining of “dehumanization” and, lacking anything terribly sensational or sordid, asks her if she might be able to quantify that. We learn that the job entails sticking more than 4,000 stickers onto iPads each day.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/02/22/the-book-of-steve-jobs-apple