Justin starts a blog

himmelsblog: dbreunig: The typing styles in our apartment...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:58:57 -0500

dbreunig:

The typing styles in our apartment visualized. From top down: Megan, Drew. (Via Flowing Data)

Ah yes, the Mavis Beacon technique. (Drew — you’re too young to remember that?)

Wait, she doesn’t really exist?

The answer to the iPhone's poor battery life

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:24:36 -0500

bijan:

The iPhone is good at many things but battery life isn’t one of them.

To make matters worse, you can’t swap out the battery.

I carry the power cord around me everywhere when I’m traveling and I’m always plugging in. But that isn’t easy to do. Many coffee shops (also known as my traveling office) don’t have exposed outlets. And sometimes, I get so caught up meeting a founder that I just forget to plug in.

Then my iPhone goes from phone to brick. We’ve all been there and it sucks.

So i recently picked up the Just Mobile Gum Pro battery pack. A fully charged battery pack can charge my iPhone 2-3x times via usb.

I brought it with me on this trip to San Francisco. It’s been a life saver.

Try turning off your push email. I don’t think it’s really push, it’s just a notification that tells your phone to go get your mail. My battery life went from hours to a full day and a half. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_e-mail#Apple_iPhone_and_iPod_touch

laughingsquid: A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:16:27 -0500

laughingsquid:

A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On eBay

Party of No

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:38:50 -0500

Party of No:

evangotlib:

mikehudack:

ericmortensen:

think4yourself:

azspot:

Paragons of fiscal discipline, every Senate Republican today voted against reestablishing “pay-as-you-go” budgeting rules that mandate that any new spending must be paid for. The rule passed on a 60-40 party line vote.

Now dare them to vote no on new nuke plants or offshore drilling.

"Dear Sir, Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:16:41 -0500

“

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

”

- Mark Twain (via jacobjoaquin from Letters of Note) (via ultrafastx)

Will we see more JD Salinger work published?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:29:25 -0500

While he was living with Maynard, Salinger continued to write in a disciplined fashion, a few hours every morning. According to Maynard, by 1972 he had completed two new novels.[77][78] In a rare 1974 interview with The New York Times, he explained: “There is a marvelous peace in not publishing…. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”[79] According to Maynard, he saw publication as “a damned interruption”.[80] In her memoir, Margaret Salinger describes the detailed filing system her father had for his unpublished manuscripts: “A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this ‘as is,’ blue meant publish but edit first, and so on.”[81]

JD Salinger Wikipedia

Last night our President made an impassioned plea to Congress, to the media, to corporate and...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:53:55 -0500

Last night our President made an impassioned plea to Congress, to the media, to corporate and special interests. He asked them to stop lining their pockets with wealth and power, just for a moment, and do what’s right for the people they’re supposed to be serving. They sat and listened politely, stood and clapped at the appropriate times, and then went back to business as usual.

The real failure is our own. If we want any sort of meaningful change we have to whip up the same kind of frenzy that got Obama elected in the first place. We have to demand representation. We have to fight teabaggers with phone banks and canvasing. We have to talk, and gather, and march.

Call me a cynic, but I don’t see it happening. We’re all too busy worrying about what Steve’s thinking, or what’s changing the mythical game, what’s beautiful, or what gives us the lulz. I’m just as guilty as the rest of you. Instead we’ll stand by, get nothing, and grumble about how our great savior Obama has let us down. Call me a cynic, but I think we’ll get exactly what we deserve.

Keep on hatin' haters

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:41 -0500

You’ll all be lining up for one of these and singing its praises by summer.

kevin: Steve Jobs at home in 2010

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:42:12 -0500

kevin:

Steve Jobs at home in 2010

86400: johnwilkestooth: 86400: geisen: jdel: caro: I used...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:32:04 -0500

86400:

johnwilkestooth:

86400:

geisen:

jdel:

caro:

I used to live five blocks north of the East Village’s “Curry Corner.” One of these restaurants is the one in which Kate Hudson and Jay Mohr have the date from hell in 200 Cigarettes, but I can’t recall which one it is because “the one with the hot peppers in the window” is not specific enough.

(via Cityfile, Flickr user pamela.wang)

I also lived around the corner from here at one point, and one of my best friends from college lived one building over from this place (right above the Blue Door DVD/porn shop). You’d be amazed how many different ways you can put Taj Mahal in the name of a restaurant (Taj Mahal, Raj Mahal, Taj, etc).

I also lived a block from here for a few years. I enjoyed the occasional tenacity of the guys on the steps when they were looking to fill their seats.

This is the sort of thing I miss about the East Coast. Until I remember that I own a house. A WHOLE MUHFUGGIN’ HOUSE, BITCHES! ACROSS THE STREET FROM A BLUES CLUB. AND A GAY BAR. AND A PAWN SHOP.

Um, well, yeah, it starts to fall apart at some point, but believe me, it’s a muhfuggin’ nice house.

East Coast for Life, dickhead.

Oh whatever, PA isn’t really the east coast anyway. Do you have any Atlantic coastline? Hm?

I live around the corner from this now. It’s actually a bit annoying to walk past because for some reason large crowds like to congregate there and block the sidewalk. I suppose it must be difficult to choose one over the other.

Windows 3.1 in your fucking browser

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:59:30 -0500

Windows 3.1 in your fucking browser:

whileyouwereout:

dingeundsachen:

datn:

WOW.

And it’s all DHTML. Double WOW! Inspect element on minesweeper.

Three Reasons BNE is a Douche

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:43:00 -0500

ericmortensen:

justinday:

wreckandsalvage:

At the risk of sounding completely uncool, I think this guy is a douche on par with balloon-boy’s dad and every other publicity-seeking, talentless, egomaniacal dickface in our society.

Here’s why:

1. Three-letter stickers in a nondescript vanilla font are not creative. If you’re tagging to protest against advertising, which everyone can agree is mostly crap, why not try to make something creative? Maybe because you can’t.

2. Tagging is worse than pissing to mark your territory. At least piss has distinct odor and pheromones unique to the individual expelling it. Three-letter stickers all look the same and boring. See #1. If I saw someone pissing on my building I’d probably tackle them and rub their face in it. If I see a BNE sticker, I tear it down. Bad art deserves to be punished. It’s the only way the bad artist learns.

3. You’re not a fucking victim. The statement below about having to look at the billion-dollar company’s logo sounds like the whining of an asshole. You’re some egomaniac douchebag with enough money to print tens of thousands of stickers and travel all over the world, not a victim of corporate irresponsibility.

Companies advertise to spread ideas. The idea behind a Starbucks logo on a billboard is “we have coffee, want some?”. The idea behind a BNE sticker on a street lamp is “look at me”. Which of these two is offering something useful to society?

dpstyles:

““I don’t see other graffiti writers as my competition anymore,” B.N.E. said. “Now I’m going up against the Tommy Hilfigers, Starbucks, Pepsi. You have these billion-dollar companies, and I’ve got to look at their logos every day. Why can’t I put mine up?””

—

B.N.E., the Graffiti Writer, Gets a Manhattan Exhibition - NYTimes.com (via tedr)

+1. Two times. Fuck BNE.

All true, until written down. And reblogged. We’ve thrust BNE into relevancy.

Yes, because the best thing to do about any problem is ignore it until it goes away.

Three Reasons BNE is a Douche

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:35:00 -0500

wreckandsalvage:

At the risk of sounding completely uncool, I think this guy is a douche on par with balloon-boy’s dad and every other publicity-seeking, talentless, egomaniacal dickface in our society.

Here’s why:

1. Three-letter stickers in a nondescript vanilla font are not creative. If you’re tagging to protest against advertising, which everyone can agree is mostly crap, why not try to make something creative? Maybe because you can’t.

2. Tagging is worse than pissing to mark your territory. At least piss has distinct odor and pheromones unique to the individual expelling it. Three-letter stickers all look the same and boring. See #1. If I saw someone pissing on my building I’d probably tackle them and rub their face in it. If I see a BNE sticker, I tear it down. Bad art deserves to be punished. It’s the only way the bad artist learns.

3. You’re not a fucking victim. The statement below about having to look at the billion-dollar company’s logo sounds like the whining of an asshole. You’re some egomaniac douchebag with enough money to print tens of thousands of stickers and travel all over the world, not a victim of corporate irresponsibility.

Companies advertise to spread ideas. The idea behind a Starbucks logo on a billboard is “we have coffee, want some?”. The idea behind a BNE sticker on a street lamp is “look at me”. Which of these two is offering something useful to society?

dpstyles:

““I don’t see other graffiti writers as my competition anymore,” B.N.E. said. “Now I’m going up against the Tommy Hilfigers, Starbucks, Pepsi. You have these billion-dollar companies, and I’ve got to look at their logos every day. Why can’t I put mine up?””

—

B.N.E., the Graffiti Writer, Gets a Manhattan Exhibition - NYTimes.com (via tedr)

+1. Two times. Fuck BNE.

Good riddance to tumblarity

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:29:27 -0500

Notice that Tumblr is much more substance and much less pretty pictures and auto-meme-reblogs lately? I hope tumblarity never comes back.

The trouble with convergence

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:28:20 -0500

Sure, cable is the new land line. People are canceling in droves and heading for platforms like Boxee, Roku, and others. Here’s the rub though. None of the stuff we worked so hard to build for the desktop works in the living room. We can’t effectively measure drop-offs, or even views in some cases. We can’t run any of the innovate ad products that we’ve spent so much time building, in fact we can’t run any ad products at all. These problems have to be addressed before we will effectively get to the living room.

Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:44:47 -0500

Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009:

mikehudack:

soupsoup:

(via go)

If you build it, they will come.

Google and Palm built it, and they did not come.

They didn’t come because their store sucks or is non existent.

GPOYW Post-beers-post-board-meeting edition.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:32 -0500

GPOYW Post-beers-post-board-meeting edition.

Hacking the Peek into the TwitterPeek

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:19:18 -0500

So I know that the standard Peek already has some support for Twitter via PeekApps, but since that’s in closed beta I decided to roll my own. I’ve optimized my setup so that only mentions and DMs come through, and so that replies “just work”.

First I setup a gmail box for my incoming tweets to go to, and then set that up as my peek address. Ok pretty simple so far.

Then I wrote a script called twitterpeek which polls for mentions and DMs, formats them just right for the peek, and forwards them to my special gmail box. This just runs in a cron once every few minutes.

Next I whipped up the converse script, peektwitter. This takes incoming messages sent to a special address, parses them, and forwards them on to Twitter. I take advantage of the way my peek formats replies to include all the pertinent information to send the tweet. This one is a bit trickier to set up, since you’ll need to configure an MTA (I use postfix) to use this as a filter for your special address.

Now I’ve got a nice little Twitter device. Since it’s only sending me mentions and DMs I can turn on the notifications full blast. I’ll continue to do my everyday following via Tweetie, and use this for conversations on the go.

I see this poster on the way to work now. Jackie Chan, Billy...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:23:30 -0500

I see this poster on the way to work now. Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus AND George Lopez?! Awesome. Just awesome.. I feel like I’m living in a setup for a Simpsons or Family Guy bit.

jacobjoaquin: (via -clu-)

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:55:05 -0500

jacobjoaquin:

(via -clu-)