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No Copyright Intended
On October 26, a YouTube user named crimewriter95 posted a full-length version of Pulp Fiction, rearranged in chronological order. A couple things struck me about this video. First, I’m surprised that a full-length, 2.5-hour very slight remix of a popular film can survive on YouTube for over six weeks without getting…
Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag
Update Kindle 5.0.3 has fixed the hole to allow for jailbreak. Upgrading an already jailbroken Kindle Touch is fine as the update does not remove the custom key to allow custom packages. If you on 5.0.3 and have not already installed the key, there is a new jailbreak.
Apple using patents to undermine open standards again
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What’s New In Emacs 24
Part one of my annotated NEWS file for Emacs 24
JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
Announcing Amber.js
A little over a year ago, I got my first serious glimpse at SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple used to build MobileMe (now iCloud). At the time, I had worked extensively with jQuery and Rails on client-side projects, and I had never found the arguments for the "solutions for
Knuth and the Unix Way
Another great post
Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
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Standing Up For Android
Shifty Jelly’s counterargument to some of my Android opinions, which provides a concrete data point showing that money can be made on Android, concludes with this:
Standing Up For Android
It seems these days you don’t have to go far to find people that want to belittle Android, often for reasons they feel are perfectly objective and valid. I’d call out Marco Arment and J…