indefensible: john gruber

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

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

― joe

hahahaha

otm

Can we make an ILX "Classic & Dud" readers' network?

you have to pay 51 cents a day to have access 2 it

and you need a colophon

Better title would be "Suggest & Ban".

you need to say "bullshit" at least once per newsletter too

maybe include the phrase "coffee nerd"

sorry to break the lolz momentum but "vdqi"?

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

― jung money (diamonddave85), Wednesday, January 4, 2012 12:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

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hah

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Meanwhile:

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XD

Wonder if Marco's sudden anti-comments stance has anything to do with the shitty, unfriendly beautiful, simple new "blogging platform" he's developed? It doesn't yet support commenting, natch.

It's so beautiful and simple, all you have to do is download it from github, extract it to your server, edit the config.php file, and Zzzzzzz

i still haven't read most of siracusa's lion review, but hypercritical owns

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xxp would be funny to fork marco's blog engine to add comment support

There was a good bit on either this week or last week's Talk Show where Gruber claims to have only ever used PayPal once.

http://daringfireball.net/members/

Oh.

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/01/05/11-things-rim-did-right-in-2011/

http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2012/01/one_minor_point_on_the_comment.html

(bynkii also indefensible, but it's nice to see them all fighting)

Not sure if bynkii.com is a site I can read & trust.

I mean comments on blogs are also more or less indefensible imo so it's just one big indefensible charlie foxtrot

I care only about quality and control of every single beacon and yardstick.

A few things about this dialog bothered me, as a developer:

• The forced use of beacons and yardsticks

hahaha i have that article open in a tab right now but it's too long :-(

omg

The use of “their” to refer to the singular “publisher”.
^^ English pedants hate this but it's reasonably acceptable according to some style guides

as for the "zip code" versus "ZIP code" thing, I had no idea it was supposed to be an acronym and I don't think common usage is as such anymore? Last I checked, LASER is no longer required to be in all caps either

pretending that there is a universal style guide is disgusting savagery imo

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/01/09/definition-of-a-tech-migraine/

Love how Gruber has taken the @parislemon trend for referring to Google+ as "horseshit" and has brought his expertise and knowledge to the fore left his mark on technology journalism changed "horseshit" to "bullshit".

Truly a beacon, a yardstick for our times.

I honestly don’t know what’s worse: if Google is so institutionally delusional that they actually believe this isn’t giving Google Plus a tremendous advantage (fair or unfair) over every other social network in the world, or if Google thinks so poorly of everyone outside the company that they think anyone is actually going to buy this line of bullshit. The best case scenario for Google is that Eric Schmidt, in his new role as chairman, has turned into a loose cannon who should just shut the fuck up.

One idea: Apple could add a “Ping” tab to each of the store-related iOS apps — iTunes, iBooks, and App Store. Another idea: Apple could break Ping out into its own standalone app, and allow this app to make purchases of any sort of iTunes Store content. I like the second idea much better, at a glance. But perhaps it’d make sense to have dedicated Ping tabs in each app — you might want to follow different people for music recommendations than apps and books.

ha

btw gruber, sielger, 65% market share does not constitute monopoly

The best case scenario for Google is that Eric Schmidt, in his new role as chairman, has turned into a loose cannon who should just shut the fuck up.

this sentence truly serves as a beacon, a yardstick for good and reasoned writing

speaking of bullshit, i found this quote from sub-gruber read&truster to be particularly terrible writing:

It’s hard to breathe during this 20-minute interview of David Steel, Executive Vice President of Strategy for Samsung North America due to all the bullshit in the air.

people who call bullshit on everything all the time are the worst

They will never be short of work. Ah hurr hurr.

Don't ever accuse Gruber of not posting bad news about Apple five days after the rest of the internet. He's risking his iPhone 5 review unit and who wouldn't want him to lose out on such a major blogging exclusive?