August 2010
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My predictions for Apple's 2010-09-01 media event
iPhone — iOS4.1 ship for immediately after the event with a fix for proximity sensor problem. They’d bloody well better.
iPod Touch — I reckon front and back cameras, but the rear mounted one might not be the full-spec autofocussing 5MP one the iPhone 4 has. I think Apple will prefer to keep the design slimmer instead. Some hoopla around Game Center. Retina Displays are...
Charlie Brooker discusses the "Ground Zero mosque" →
They keep calling it the “Ground Zero mosque”, incidentally, because it’s a catchy title that paints a powerful image – specifically, the image of a mosque at Ground Zero. … The “Ground Zero mosque” is a genuine proposal, but it’s slightly less provocative than its critics’ nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it’s not at Ground Zero....
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Sniff Petrol: "More mass demonstrations in the US" →
There were mass protests in the United States this week over plans to build a brand new Formula 1 track on American soil.
‘We don’t want this kinda thing round these parts,’ said one man who lives close to the site of the proposed track. ‘This here is America. These Eur-o-peens can’t jus’ walk in and build some fancy race track with “corners” and other things I don’t understand and am...
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My first ever post for TUAW is live →
And just like that, I became a pro blogger, or at least a slightly less amateur one.
On Tony Delgrosso, and Tumblr breaks →
(First, an aside for my non-Tumblr readers: Tony Delgrosso was a member of our happy little community who, it recently emerged, has been using an age-old combination of lies and manipulation to insinuate himself into the affections of a number of our female posters (for example, and here’s another story — there seem to be at least half a dozen of these.))
I had a strong reaction to...
Sticking my nose where it doesn't belong.
emzbulletproof:
thedza:
do-over:
sistaflapjack:
lindstifa:
It’s not my story to tell. I’m not a notch on his bedpost. I could have been and might have been had I not heard about the other women (and his wife) when I did.
But it didn’t and I wasn’t and it’s not my story to tell.
If it is your story and you choose to tell it I will support you and stand by you. Fiercely.
Ditto. There...
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July 2010
65 posts
Boycott Bill Murray for a Better America! →
Nuts. I wish I had a Van of Laziness though.