July 2011
10 posts
Daily Tip: How to Disable OS X Lion Auto Correct... →
A great idea on the iPhone (where errors are frequent enough to warrant automatically correcting them) and a terrible idea on the desktop (where it mis-corrects words that aren’t in its dictionary far more often then it corrects actual misspellings).
“Page One extension for Safari and Chrome fixes them, automatically displaying...”
– Page One: Banish Multi-Page Articles (Global Moxie). I think I like that it takes the Instapaper approach of only doing this on sites that already offer single-page views.
“solutions require more than a nice slab-serif typeface and some white space”
– Designing a big news site is about more than beauty » Nieman Journalism Lab
“The “both sides are at fault” people have to know better; if they refuse to say...”
– The Cult That Is Destroying America - NYTimes.com
America's 'detainee 001' – the persecution of John... →
Frank Lindh, father of ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh, explains why his son is an innocent victim of America’s ‘war on terror’
Google’s patent problems – Marco.org →
Man oh man, I sure would love to see Google devote serious resources to lobbying for a fix to the software patent problem that is hobbling our industry.
Hell, these days it’d probably be cheaper for them to buy patent reform from Congress than it would be to buy an effective patent portfolio in the private sector.
When software offends: The Pantyshot package... →
This isn’t about software offending, and it’s not about censorship either. It’s about having an asshole in your community. Since the community in question has a board of governance, they can decide how to respond. I hope they can look past the free-speech straw man and stand up to this bully.
