The Lie of Willpower →
Many losers actually prefer blaming themselves over recognizing the superior skill of another person.
And many people try to tear down the one who is better, instead of attempting to be better themselves.
The Price of Paywalls for Writers →
Increasingly, the motivations of writers and the motivations of the businesses they work for are at odds with each other. Journalists, enabled by the web, are increasingly defining success according to exposure, and news organizations are increasingly defining success according to the limitation of exposure.
Publishers are trying to artificially create scarcity in an ecosystem based on exposure.
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog) →
My immediate response was to try to log into the server and see if there was anything I could to do keep it from falling over.
Sounds kinda like what we do at work, too. Great article on the Delicious -> Pinboard exodus and a lesson on why you should always stress test.
"Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing— grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
— Joel 2:12-14 (from Ash Wednesday service)
It's Apple's 'Post-PC' World - We're All Just Living In It →
In this new world, Apple no longer has to compete on specs and features, nor does it want to. There is no Mac vs. PC here -- only "the future" versus "the past." It won't be a debate about displays, memory, wireless options -- it will be a debate about the quality of the experience. Apple is not just eschewing the spec conversation in favor of a different conversation -- it's rendering those former conversations useless.While I wouldn't go so far as to render the conversation useless, I do think that the new world is about the ecosystem and the aesthetic experience as much as it is the technology itself. The thing is, Apple's been doing that for years.
Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark →
We're so use to associating the opportunity of taking amazing photographs when it's 80 degrees on a bright sunny day that we can't help feel we've wasted this chance if we didn't make it outside with our camera but this beautiful video on night photography gives you the encouragement to experiment shooting once the sun goes down.
Really cool stuff from Big Bend.
Make: Long-Exposure Signal Strength Pix
How cool would it be to take this concept and turn it into a topological map over, say, a college campus, to be able to see the signal strength represented as actual mountains and valleys?
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.
— James 3:1-2
ENDING SCRIPT - I BLEW UP AND FAILED
— Another great Microsoft easter egg. I mean, if you're going to fail, do so with style...
Who is Winning the U.S. Smartphone Battle? | Nielsen Wire
Great snapshot of the current smartphone landscape.