“The problem is that you bought yourself a shiny espresso machine that only takes pods distributed by the manufacturer. So even if you buy the hippie’s beans, you can’t make yourself any coffee with them because the machine won’t take them unless they’ve been shipped to the manufacturer and packaged into little special pellets.” – …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Departing
“I recently deleted Facebook, Twitter, RSS, and Flipboard from my phone, and have been very happy with the result. Today, I am deactivating my Facebook and Twitter accounts. This is not a decision motivated by Lent, and I have no idea at this moment when or if I will reactivate them.” – J Ben Deaton
Being Honest with Yourself
“There’s one difference. Mine doesn’t save the page, it just pretends to. And that’s good enough.” – Dan W. on his Instapaper Placebo Reminds me of a fantastic Twitter-esque service I thought of a few years back. It would have a ‘compose tweet’ box just like Twitter and when you clicked ‘Tweet’ the box would …
#titanic { float: none; }
The story of the Titanic’s demise as written in jQuery. In terms of geek humor, this achieves ‘sudo make me a sandwich’ status.