If You’re Feeling Sinister…

Well, time for bed.

"The iPhone is boring only to the rumor mongers who published every blurry picture of a motherboard they could get their hands on and the simps who think a feature checklist determines a gadget’s merit."

— Curious Rat - Home – Boring (via df)

"In many ways this is a dream that’s been turned into a terrible, unresponsive nightmare."

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Choice quote from Nilay Patel’s video review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.

The whole review was painfully hilarious (or hilariously painful?) but then I was sad for Samsung when I realized this is an actual shipping product.

Three Things That Should Trouble Apple

Guy English:

If I watched the first season of Community via Netflix streaming and now want to rewatch it on my TV as fed from an Apple TV? Make it work. I don’t care how. If you want to pop up a dialog thats asks if you’ll charge me $4.99 to $9.99 for the privilege, I’d pay. Let me pick what I want to watch, regardless of the source, and let me watch it. I have very little allegiance to the network that funded the show — I want the content. Figure out how to make that work.

Fans want to watch their shows. They’ll pay to make that happen. Everything else is mired in entrenched interests. Find a way to make that happen and we’ll all agree that Firefly jumped the shark during its seventh season.

(Source: daringfireball.net)

"Unless you kept posters of 1980s-era minivans on your wall as a kid instead of a Porsche or Corvette, you are not going to find the U2412M to be an attractive display."

— From AnandTech’s review of the Dell U2412M, a mid-$300 16:10 IPS LCD monitor.

The 25 Least Influential People Alive

Drew Magary for GQ (December 2011):

15. Léo Apotheker:

Quick, everyone! Who’s the exact opposite of Steve Jobs? It’s gotta be the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company whose new tablet computer was so shitty that it was considering getting out of making PCs entirely. HP’s TouchPad was just like the iPad, if the iPad has been designed to obliterate entire sectors of the digital economy. Two thousand years from now, anthropologists will dig up a TouchPad and marvel, “Jesus, this thing looks like a piece of crap. Put it back in the hole.”

My Stellar faves

Lately, I’ve been spending more time on my Stellar and Twitter accounts than on Tumblr. Both services offer more frictionless content consumption than Tumblr, and I don’t have too much time these days to write anything insightful anyway.

Now if Stellar adds support for Tumblr likes, it would truly be a good overview of my favorite things from around the Internet.

Drinkify

Created for Music Hack Day Boston 2011, Drinkify uses the Last.fm and The Echo Nest APIs to concoct sonically appropriate cocktails to accompany the music you’re listening to.

The Doghouse Diaries – Siri

"For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees."

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Another quote from the same article:

It’s not so much that I despised Windows PCs, but that it felt like Microsoft and the PC makers despised them, like they all have no respect for their own platform.

"The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney board meeting in Orlando, Florida, just after the company had bought Pixar, the innovative animation factory, and spotted Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a hallway. It seemed like a good time to introduce himself. “I am George Bodenheimer,” he said to Jobs. “I run ESPN.” Jobs just looked at him and said nothing other than “Your phone is the dumbest fucking idea I have ever heard,” then turned and walked away."

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Excerpt from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Gruber suspects it’s the much maligned Mobile ESPN Samsung ACE.

(Source: twitter.com)

I visited the Apple campus.
But that’s all I’m allowed to say.

I must get this t-shirt. Must.

(Source: ilounge.com)

Google+ doesn’t want me to have friends. Sorry, Stephen.

The robot who considers towels

(Source: kottke.org)