Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.

That is just complete BS.

"We know it’s not always easy to upgrade your browser (or force an upgrade on a client), but we believe it’s necessary to offer the best Basecamp we can possibly make. In addition, we’re not going to move the requirements on Basecamp Classic, so that’ll continue to work for people who are unable to use a modern browser."

My fellow nerds are excited. I want to join them. But I can’t, not legally, because I live in Canada. From what I can gather, North Americans will have to wait until May for the show to turn up on television. And because legal download methods and DVD releases tend to follow broadcast releases, there’s no legal way for Canadians to watch Sherlock now — at least not one that I’ve discovered. There are DVDs and Blu-ray versions one could order from the U.K., but they don’t work in most players here. On the version of BBC’s iPlayer that works in Canada, the second series is not available.

Kinda brilliant.

"The Heritage G2 table radio, is an update of Revo's Heritage model, now with iPhone compatibility, a new iPod/iPhone remote control application and a digital amplifier that reduces power consumption. Most importantly it has a pre-programmed Monocle 24 button to take you direct to our live stream."

The ideal loop is short enough that you can still feel the spark of your idea and you’re still curious to find out if the decision was right or not as you click through the implementation. You can’t fully judge a design until you’ve tried it in action. The clothes simply look different when they’re on. If there are too many changes to evaluate at once, we can’t tell which of the changes contribute to the improvement or regression and how those changes suggest future steps. Moving in one direction in one feedback cycle is easy. Moving in ten directions in the same cycle is too hard.

But this is hardly customer service.  It’s actually getting in the way of a customer who’s trying to self-service because there’s no one around who can answer a basic question about the store’s confusing layout.  It’s anti-service.

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This is embarrassing to even look at. I don't understand how blackberry sells this crap.

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BetterSource Safari 5 Extension

BetterSource shows the document source in a new tab, with line numbers, and colour syntax highlighting.

Grateful acknowledgments to SHJS - Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript and jQuery, both used in this extension.

Great way to view source, very similar to chrome.

Until European Union authorities began leaking the document’s text, the Obama administration was claiming the accord was a "national security" secret.

National security. Sure.

A portmanteau, plural: portmanteaus or portmanteaux or portmanteau word, also commonly known as a "wombo" (word combo) is a blend of two (or more) words or morphemes into one new word.

People who aren’t willing or able to compromise on their needs regularly are much more likely to be Windows customers. The Windows message is much more palatable to corporate buyers, committees, middlemen, and people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them: “You can do whatever you want, and we’ll attempt to glue it together. It won’t always work very well, and you might not like the results, but we will do exactly what you asked for.”

When you install a Chrome extension, it often puts an icon in your navigation bar for quick access. The problem is, sometimes that icon can be pretty ugly. Here's how to change those icons to something better looking.

Reader tombotek discovers where those icons are stored:

On a Mac, the extensions folder is in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions.