May 2013
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April 2013
52 posts
Instapaper acquired by Betaworks →
instapaper:
Big (and very good) news!
Innnnnteresting.
“This is a verbatim bit of text from one prompt in Star Trek: “Work...”
– From the Polygon review of Star Trek: The Game (of the Movie based on the Show).
That’s also a Justin McElroy line, FTR.
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Apple invention would allow for peripheral-based... →
spytap:
I’ve always wondered why using an encrypted dongle or external device as your password never took off. It would seem to be far a more secure scenario to require A) access to some piece of hardware that B) has a rotating call-and-answer style encryption system (I’m sure there’s a term for it, but as an encryption novice, I don’t know the term) that uses a set of databases or tables on...
thisistheverge:
Kirk Hamilton: “The corner of my Xbox Dash is just people slowly eating McDonald’s wraps, on a loop.”
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I would pay soooo much money...
for a version of Tumblr that automatically cut out all the “Ask/Response” posts.
I’d also probably use tumblr more.
Word to the wise: always consider your audience. Especially on days like today.
The more you want to be heard, the more you need to need to think of what they CAN hear.
kickstarter:
What Kickstarter project has the most backers?
“Well,” I asked myself, “why not?” Why must a film explain...”
– To the Wonder Movie Review & Film Summary (2013) | Roger Ebert
From Ebert’s last review.
The Private Beta For Donna →
This new digital personal assistant—an iOS app—has gone into private beta. Named after The West Wing’s Donna Moss, Donna is part of what is easily going to be the next great software battlefield after email clients.
Remember how I said the Saga incident was a...
for ComiXology?
Then how I took that back?
Well I’m taking back the take-back:
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To our customers -
In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.
As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps...
