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Corey Doctorow strikes gold with “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook”. It notes my least favorite aspect of the site, the informational email with no information at all:
Emails from Facebook aren’t helpful messages, they’re eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to discover that Fred wrote “Hi again!” [...]
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I’ve got a programming blog
Here’s the link: http://codinginrot26.wordpress.com
It’s called Coding in ROT26. If you don’t understand the title, you probably won’t be interested in its content. Essentially, I wanted a site I can use for cool stuff I discover while coding. I wrote my first post tonight, entitled Screen Scraping Google Spreadsheets exported as HTML.
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The Menu bar: Transparently awful
Whoever gave the go-ahead on adding transparencies to everything menu-related needs to get run over by a train. It’s distracting and focuses your attention away from the text of the menu. This is a double whammy, considering you’ve already been distracted from an application’s window the menu. To make [...]
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No more del.icio.us auto-posts
I’ve been experimenting this week with those “daily del.icio.us” posts, but I’m getting rid of them. Those entries are polluting the page and making a mockery of my goal to only post useful/interesting content. Think about it: Even if I write 3 posts a week, auto-posts of my bookmarks would account for seventy percent of [...]
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Seriously, who at the NYT comes up with headlines like “Apple Backs Down on Premium Prices for Unprotected Music“?
“Unprotected” is what I expect from Judd Apatow. “DRM-free” is what I expect from my music.
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