Is Apple Evil? (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
The way I see it, Apple is distinguishing between appliances and computers. The iPod, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV are appliances. If performance on these appliances falters, Apple looks bad. The MacBook, iMac and Mac desktop line are computers. Apple knows people expect to do what they want with computers, and that bad things sometimes happen on those machines. I really don’t see Apple extending control into computer applications as it does for apps on appliances. That would be suicide.
Posted on January 28th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
How did I miss Matisyahu’s “On…
How did I miss Matisyahu’s “One Day” as 2010 Olympics song? http://bit.ly/ah2PeA Also, “Waving Flag”/”One Day” mashup: http://bit.ly/ah2PeA
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RT @JesseBrown: Well this is j…
RT @JesseBrown: Well this is just shameful http://bit.ly/9GjUzN (CBC’s new licensing options for posting articles.)
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RPy2 – A simple and efficient access to R from Python
“rpy2 is a redesign and rewrite of rpy. It is providing a low-level interface to R, a proposed high-level interface, including wrappers to graphical libraries, as well as R-like structures and functions.”
Posted on January 27th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds – A List Apart
I’ve been thinking about using SVG for some elements of my site. The lack of decent, free vector graphic editors for Mac OS has deterred me from going this route, however. This guide mentions the options available for using SVG for web page backgrounds.
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