Watching “The Office” just makes me sad for how bad Rainn Wilson’s new show is.
Dan Lyons leaving Valleywag. Good riddance, I say. #BringBackBiddle
We now return you to your regularly scheduled march of global capitalism.
OMG I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one.
The day Valleywag descends into nonsensical conspiracy theories is the day I stop reading this tripe. #BringBackBiddle
Manages to sum up how I feel about wine and this stupid music player all at once:
“You know how every once in a while you buy the $40 bottle of wine instead of the $8 one, thinking you’re gonna have a special dinner or something?” Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson wrote over instant message. “And you get home, and you make the salmon or the pasta or whatever and you light the candles? And you pour the wine, swirl it like they do in Sideways so that it looks like you know what you’re doing… you bring it to your lips and after smelling it—it smells like wine—you have a sip? And it’s like… yeah, I guess this tastes good or something, but really it just tastes like wine?
“The Pono Player is kinda like that, but for music.”
I finally found a desktop mail client I actually like: hello Postbox!
The Nib did a set of cartoonist responses to Hebdo. While I don’t agree with all of them, they’re all worth reading.
Reading More Awesome Than Money. An instructive example: Websense, a technology ostensibly used to filter “objectionable content” in schools, was used by a number of repressive regimes during the Arab Spring. Let that sink in.