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Don’t Track Me: Anti-Google Video Plays on Times Square - Read Write Web

Rick Rubin wins the award for Best Initial iTunes Store Ping Profile: “music enthusiast.”

Rick Rubin wins the award for Best Initial iTunes Store Ping Profile: “music enthusiast.”

Apple has 160 million iTunes accounts with credit cards, and now it’s flipping on a social network in iTunes 10 called Ping. This will be about as close to hanging out with all your friends at the record shop as we have been able to get on the Internet.

I wonder how many credit cards Facebook has.

Apple: ‘HOLD YOUR HORSES FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD.’

Apple: ‘HOLD YOUR HORSES FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD.’

Funding To Edit 200 Hours Of Pirate Bay Documentary Footage Raised In Just Three Days | Techdirt

Organization built on providing an anonymous, seemingly unstoppable avenue for stealing movies, tv shows, and music raises money to produce movie about itself.

Video: Flash on Android Is Shockingly Bad - NewTeeVee

“That’s seconds per frame, not frames per second.”

Fuck Yeah Strutting Leo

I love the Internet.

The first vision, which could be called “the cable-ization of the Internet,” has been described in arresting language by ISPs, including AT&T, Time Warner, and Verizon. Over the past year, they have submitted comments to the FCC arguing that by delivering Internet content to their customers, they are engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment. They compare their role to that of newspapers and cable TV operators, and boldly assert their need to exercise “editorial discretion” (quoting AT&T) over all content that is carried over all their networks, trying to hang their hat on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Citizens United that swept away decades of campaign finance rules while bestowing breathtaking free expression rights on corporations.

Leslie Harris: Why Al Franken Was Right About Net Neutrality - Huffington Post

And Google is now trying to help Verizon and these other evil ISPs to gain the very “editorial discretion” they seek and destroy the Internet as a driving force for moving humanity forward.

Fuck Google.

Fine, you guys were right. The 17-inch is a tad large if you commute, which I am more often, and plan to do more regularly if I can find a good office co-op in Chicago (recommendations welcome). So out with the 17-inch, in with the 15-inch 2.66GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro… and a glossy display. I know, I know, but I just don’t work in places where it’s an issue, and I’ve missed how colors pop with glossy. This one has to stick around a while, and 7 is my favorite number—how could I resist splurging a little?

Fine, you guys were right. The 17-inch is a tad large if you commute, which I am more often, and plan to do more regularly if I can find a good office co-op in Chicago (recommendations welcome).

So out with the 17-inch, in with the 15-inch 2.66GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro… and a glossy display. I know, I know, but I just don’t work in places where it’s an issue, and I’ve missed how colors pop with glossy.

This one has to stick around a while, and 7 is my favorite number—how could I resist splurging a little?

This is how I feel about buying apps - The Oatmeal Click through for the full comic, which is painfully funny because it’s pathetically true.

This is how I feel about buying apps - The Oatmeal

Click through for the full comic, which is painfully funny because it’s pathetically true.

Apple support document: Vintage and obsolete products

Apple defines “vintage” and “obsolete” as the terms are used across its product lines. Obsolete products include the Apple II, the original iBook, and the device you’re about to purchase tomorrow.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Darth Vader, rocking a great film mashup quote.

Darth Vader, rocking a great film mashup quote.

But should Mozilla and Opera offer H.264 decoding in future versions of their browsers, the Web will finally have a universally-accepted, royalty-free, high-quality video codec for use everywhere.

Analysis: Royalty-free H.264 may clear way for HTML5 video standard | Macworld

I’m a member of the Napster generation. Unique circumstances back then helped MP3 to become almost a universally accepted format across operating systems and devices seemingly overnight (whereby ‘seemingly overnight’ I mean ‘ok, fine, maybe it took around 1-3 years’). Flash sort of became the MP3 for video, but only on the Mac and PC—Adobe mostly gave mobile devices the middle finger until Apple published Flash’s obituary.

Why it’s taken the video industry so long to pull its head out of… somewhere, and create an ‘MP3 for video’ is far, far beyond me.