January 2010
65 posts
“We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of...”
– Steve Jobs, 10/21/2008
What I'm missing in L.A.:
People to see Bollywood movies and punk rock shows with. (via my Twitter)
"We the corporations" →
Support the move to amend the Constitution, to protect the integrity of our electoral process following the Citizens United decision.
Microsoft Making Sure Every Phone Sucks But the... →
In recent years, Microsoft had been making a few overtures to the open-source community. But now it looks as if all of that was just a facade. The mobile search contest has become more than just a matter of competition; it is a war between two different views of how the information age should be organized.
Tesla pulls in $465 million government loan to... →
The kind of investment our government should be making. We could have a homegrown electric automobile industry right here in America.
“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court...”
– Justice Stevens’ dissent in Citizens United, the campaign finance case that came down from SCOTUS this morning, striking down the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law.
Watch8 minutes on Obama’s first year, by Lawrence Lessig:
An analysis of what’s really accounts for the failures of this past year, and why regardless of your politics, you should be pushing for real change.
More Lessig. Less of everything else, please.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs, as quoted in New York Times on November 30, 2003
Steve Jobs is the bane of my existence, but this quote is the unadulterated truth.
“Trying to explain why I like a movie like Knowing would be like trying to...”
– Bryan Manning
dylandersen-deactivated20100314 asked: more nexus one info pls
bluebed asked: SPRING BREAK! Hurr, K. is supposed to drive to LA finally. Rock.
“He who doesn’t use his head must use his feet.”
– Our neighboring attorney’s former secretary.
Government 2.0: Activist Paradise, or Treading on... →
I’ve been concerned about this for some time. They say technology is the great democratizer, but access to it is vital. If we stand back and watch access be stifled and net neutrality be defeated, that power of technology will disappear.
Thanks amotion for the link… sort of.
wtfoxnews: http://www.thelocal.se/24374/
me: i'm floored
wtfoxnews: ooooooooooh
wtfoxnews: ba dum psh
me: whoever caused that should be grounded
wtfoxnews: you keep firing away with the puns
me: i'm like a machine pun
wtfoxnews: too meta
“what we’re witnessing in America right now is a broad right-wing effort to hide...”
– Robert Cruickshank, from the Courage Campaign’s Prop 8 Trial Tracker
sigynxvx:crookedhead:paigewich:
MeWithoutYou -...
Ask me anything →
“Play your gloom axe Stephen O’Malley / Sub-bass clinging to the sides of...”
– Sunn O)))