Just a reminder: I'm writing another weblog over here. It's documenting my year of only listening to music from 2010 and I would love any suggestions you have.
An astronaut on the International Space Station is taking pictures of the Earth and sending them to Twitpic.
Make-A-Face.org. Do it.
Two recent posts about punishing a large group over one person (or company's) actions:
First Derek Siver's post titled "Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake".
Next John Scalzi's post about Amazon's actions this past weekend regarding the Macmillan pricing disagreement. Don't let the unfortunate use of the word "fail" here discourage you from reading it.
I had to turn in my computer from my old job, so this weekend, against my better judgement and facts, I bought a new Macbook Pro. Here's a list of things I had to install on it:
I'd heard a bit about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be something like a "Jackass Guide To Finding Good Drugs In Liberia". Last night I saw CNN is running a special where they present some of the stories, so I figured it must be worth looking into and it was. I was only going to watch a couple of parts before I went to bed and ended up watching the whole thing.
I should warn you, it is extremely graphic and sad.
A thread on MacRumors after the launch of the original iPod in 2001.
What I find most interesting about this thread is how ignorant people were of what Apple was really doing. Given the launch of the iPad, we're all a bit wiser (we'd like to think) of what Apple intends on doing with the device, so this time the arguments aren't just about how limited the device is in hardware features, but how closed the thing is to anything not approved by Apple.
I'm staying out of this whole iPad debate because I find the entire thing a colossal waste of energy. I am in the middle of trying to launch this company, get work, and adjust to my new life. The last thing I care to fixate on is what Apple does with Apple's money to make money.
I am a zealot about me, and less about standards, DRM, or whatever argument of the day is. Perhaps I'll regret it later, but for now it's fun to watch this stuff play out. Mostly I think because it's not a major investment, something I'd really like to try out at our house, and like the AppleTV won't be the only game in town for very long.
I thought I had big news: Dooce has signed a development deal with HGTV. How cool is that?