Week ending Sunday 2011/07/24

Monday 16:40 · Most recent Aquamacs release is kinda flaky for me. LazyWeb: Other good Cocoa-fied Emacsen? [Original.]

Tuesday 00:00 · DJing in the Chillwave/Experimental/Shoegaze room. Now playing Philip Glass "Mishima" #turntablefm turntable.fm/chillwaveexperimentalshoegaze3 [Original.]

Tuesday 01:06 · DJing in the Chillwave/Experimental/Shoegaze room. Now playing Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Martha's Dream ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/chillwaveexperimentalshoegaze3 [Original.]

Tuesday 01:37 · @kahenya you say that like it's a bad thing [Original, responding to @kahenya.]

Tuesday 08:11 · Do “losses from piracy” exist? www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/07/18/Piracy [Original.]

Tuesday 09:12 · @kellyjeanne Yes, but you can knock off pretty well right after the big Laura's-killer denouement. [Original, responding to @kellyjeanne.]

Tuesday 15:09 · @jobsworth They want us to be happy to see them... [Original, responding to @jobsworth.]

Tuesday 16:27 · @joshtpm Empire of the Summer Moon good book about the power and fall of the Comanches. But does go past 1800. [Original, responding to @joshtpm.]

Tuesday 17:55 · Well, yes. The number of users is quite a bit less than the number of devices that have been sold. But they're still big numbers. [Original.]

Tuesday 20:22 · I mean, what proportion of iOS & Android devices are replacing existing ones? Lots. So what; user growth is still world-changing. [Original.]

Tuesday 21:18 · Fotonica: Simple fun very pure game: www.fotonica-game.com/ [Original.]

Wednesday 09:54 · Seasonal Affective Disorder in July #bummersummer [Original.]

Wednesday 11:35 · Wow, dmoz.org is still there? Who knew. [Disclosure: was fired as a dmoz editor 100 years ago]. [Original.]

Wednesday 16:27 · Glanced at one of the Kotlin pages (confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Generics), found I could read all the code. Good sign when first glancing at a language. [Original.]

Wednesday 17:11 · Upcoming gig: Esto es Google: www.estoesgoogle.com/ [Original.]

Wednesday 17:54 · @kamen “los gringos de Gúguel”?! LOL [Original, responding to @kamen.]

Wednesday 18:18 · @kamen gringo, honkie, gwailo, we're used to it, no prob; but I thought “Gúguel” was funny. [Original, responding to @kamen.]

Thursday 08:48 · I'm glad this story is getting some international play: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-flesh-how-ciscos-unmitigated-gall-derailed-one-mans-life.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Seems like Cisco's legal staff went completely off the rails. [Original.]

Thursday 09:27 · Wonderful piece from Jon Udell “The unaugmented mind”: blog.jonudell.net/2011/07/21/the-unaugmented-mind/ [Original.]

Thursday 10:59 · @zerocattle Your son gets a vote on his name, not yours I'd think. [Original, responding to @zerocattle.]

Thursday 20:12 · Going down a YouTube rathole can take you to some interesting places: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsh-Ry8-64c [Original.]

Thursday 20:33 · Greece defaults (i.e. reality is setting in): blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/21/greece-defaults/ [Original.]

Friday 09:08 · eBay Patents 10-Click Checkout: steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/ebay-patents-10-click-checkout.html [Original.]


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