04.06.12 |
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Slate writer Patrick Radden Keefe:
Betty, the writers tend to deny us those redeeming, sympathetic moments. As an artistic matter, this may be unassailable; in real life, some adults really are vapid children with few redeeming qualities. But on a show where each character possesses a distinctive ratio of vinegar to sugar, Betty feels out of proportion to me. She’s almost all vinegar, and that strikes me as cruel.
It’s late in the week for Mad Men commentary on Sunday’s episode, yet Patrick nails it. Something about episode 503 felt very off – I think Betty’s storyline had a lot to do with that.
04.06.12 |
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After a week of hard work with lots of CSS editing and cross platform testing, version 2.0 of my personal site is now finished and launched. Welcome!
It’s been a long time coming. The last year has seen a dramatic experimentation on my part with blogging and social media with fairly uneven results. I’ve tried regularly flogging Twitter, cropping and posting shots up on Tumblr, even committing myself to a 700 word plus rant here on my personal site, yet nothing seemed to feel fully comfortable.
So for now at least I’m getting back to basics. Here you’ll find a mixture of Daring Fireball-esque link posts that I find interesting; tech, design and film stories predominate. I’ll also occasionally be posting more extended, traditional blog posts, though I’m aiming here more for a happy medium size, probably 500, 600 words tops.
Hopefully you enjoy the layout. It’s an HTML5 based WordPress theme written pretty much from the ground up. It’s simplistic, letting the typography (go FacitWeb!) shine with a lighter, milder color contrast than I’ve used before. It’s also fully responsive, built on a 24 column variant of the Skeleton grid system; that should make for comfortable reading on your iPhone, iPad, Android or other mobile device of choice.
Comments or questions are always appreciated. Enjoy.
04.05.12 |
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Just when you thought the Final Fantasy series couldn’t get any more irrelevant…
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When you see a free, 50 minute set of Vimeo essays on The Wire popup online, it’s pretty much a no brainer.
04.05.12 |
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In app browser, send and archive, and more.
Best of all:
Thanks to your amazing support, we feel confident that Apple might revise its position on the Push API. We’ll submit a first version of Sparrow 1.2 including it. This might delay Sparrow 1.2 validation but we’re already working with some partners to include Push in future versions of Sparrow without needing Apple clearance.
Push is coming. If Apple can’t help us yet, we have other ideas.
Hell yes.
04.05.12 |
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Great idea by developer David Kaneda. Totally should come in handy during my cross browser testing phases.
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Programmer James Hague:
When I sit down to work on a personal project at home, it’s much simpler. I don’t have to follow the familiar standards of whatever kind of app I’m building. I don’t have to use an existing application as a model. I can disregard history. I can develop solutions without people saying "That’s not how it’s supposed to work!"
That freedom is huge.
Having recently knocked out some side projects of my own recently, James really hits it on the head. If you’re a developer and don’t have the time space to go off and run with your own thing on your own time, you’re missing a big growth opportunity.
04.05.12 |
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Finally caught up with Take Shelter late yesterday evening, and Michael Shannon’s performance completely blew me away. Yet that ending…I won’t spoil anything, but if you’ve seen the film, there’s a pretty in depth discussion here over at the Criterion Forum regarding exactly what happened.
04.05.12 |
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It’s certainly made the horn since The Talk Show podcast, but this is big news. Weight and heft has been the big pain points for iPad usage; it’s why my iPad generally stays in its case while my Kindle and iPhone get very heavy use. A (cheaper?) 7.85″ iPad could change all that, especially with full compatibility of existing iPad apps.
04.04.12 |
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Brett really outdid himself on this one. Assuming it stays updated (even though for now I am a happy Notesy user) this is going to be a really valuable resource.