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Re: Scripting News: I'd love to buy a podcast player

Nick Bergus — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:02:09 -0000

Google's "Listen" Android app does all of these things except No. 1. I use it daily. One thing that you might find a drawback is that it uses Google Reader to manage subscriptions.

Re: http://hurtling.tumblr.com/post/1374324241

Nick Bergus — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:30:16 -0000

That these rules confuse people still boggles my mind.

Re: Scripting News: OMG, Twitter is suggesting people to follow?!

Nick Bergus — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:48:07 -0000

When I looked yesterday, they said you're like@BiellaColeman and Mariva H. Aviram @mariva. Right now it's showing @JessicaKRoy and @LilyQ, both NYU students. You should be able to look at your own profile page (not your timeline).

Re: Scripting News: OMG, Twitter is suggesting people to follow?!

Nick Bergus — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:15:44 -0000

On individual pages, Twitter is (or was earlier, it seems to have since disappeared) posting more people "like" (whatever that means) that user. Twitter says I'm "like" podcaster Dan Benjamin, and you're "like" Gabriella Coleman (@BiellaColeman) and Mariva H. Aviram (@mariva) who both have fewer than 1,000 followers. That bit might actually be useful. Maybe.

Re: U of I administrators tread carefully on supporting 21 bar entry age

Nick Bergus — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:16:13 -0000

I read Sally Mason's statement as her being unwilling to take a real stand.

Re: http://deathofapig.tumblr.com/post/562327347

Nick Bergus — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:18:51 -0000

There, I fixed it, you pedantic jerk. ::smile::

Re: http://deathofapig.tumblr.com/post/560990988

Nick Bergus — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:31:43 -0000

I'm guilty of romanticizing pre-industrial food myself. There are obvious consequences to coat-the-world with pesticides tactics. But like most things, the best route is a thoughtful one; eschewing one-size-fits-all solutions and, instead, thinking case-by-case. More work but generally better results.

Re: Droid 2.1 Update Coming Today

Nick Bergus — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:22:41 -0000

A serious question that I haven't seen the answer to anywhere: What would prevent the addition of additional home screens to the stock Android OS build?

Re: Metaphors: Burger King and, sigh, the Titanic

Nick Bergus — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:32:13 -0000

Howard, we gotta keep this cheap, so we're a strict Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V operation here ;)

Your point is a good one: "good" journalism isn't always as expensive and hard-to-produce as the Titanic passengers would have us believe. Thanks for offering up the simile.

Re: http://hurtling.tumblr.com/post/409679628

Nick Bergus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:13:24 -0000

15 hearts.

Re: I want a new Twitter client for Android

Nick Bergus — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:45:48 -0000

A good point. I would prefer a simple client that does a few things really well to one that has a ton of features (especially ones I don't really need) that sorta work.

One of my biggest complaints is the user interface. Twitter.com's sucks, but a Twitter client's doesn't have to.

Re: http://hurtling.tumblr.com/post/370993576

Nick Bergus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:02:47 -0000

This dickhead now has protected tweets. Did he every reply to your request?

Re: TwitReport

Nick Bergus — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:35:27 -0000

Would it be possible to add a link to new followers' Twitter profile at the top of the report? I find myself wanting to wanting to look at the profiles.

Re: listbrowser.org: davewiner's "droid-users" list

Nick Bergus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:10:35 -0000

I just picked up a Droid today. Digging it so far. @bergus

Re: Death of a Pig

Nick Bergus — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:43:36 -0000

That's a good point, Sam. Obviously, modified animals raises questions (perhaps there are ethical questions about crossbreeding animals, too, but we've been doing that for thousands of years that it's not really thought about). Don't we constantly battle with solving problems that our solutions to other problems cause?

Re: Ten Things You May Not Know About Twitter

Nick Bergus — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:59:08 -0000

ReadWriteWeb has a story (http://www.readwriteweb.com... about how the image was posted to iStockphoto and not a custom Twitter design.

Re: Hurtling Toward the Void - It looks like my dance card over the next eight...

Nick Bergus — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:27:14 -0000

When are you going to be in Chicago?

Re: Death of a Pig

Nick Bergus — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:26:16 -0000

"While fair officials don't require participants in the competition to fry their entries, spokeswoman Sue Gooding concedes most savvy vendors reach for their deep-fryers."

"He wraps butter in dough before frying, so the finished product resembles an especially greasy biscuit."

"'Salad's the threshold,' [Abel Gonzales] says. 'If anyone could deep-fry salad, I'm up for it.'"

The story is full of great quotes, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Re: My own private URL shortener

Nick Bergus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:12:17 -0000

Once I figured out I needed to upgrade to PHP 5, it worked like a dream. Thanks, Phil. Nice work.

Re: So that’s what happened to the unicorn… “Biblical... - Did I Just Tweet That?

Nick Bergus — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:25:31 -0000

See also: "The Unicorn" by Shel Silverstein.

Re: In the interest of efficiency, I should probably set up my work e-mail to autoreply to every message from my boss with three letters:

Nick Bergus — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:58:52 -0000

Pissed I can only heart this once.

Re: Jamie (Internet remix) - Incredible Pictures Formed by Thousands of US...

Nick Bergus — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:05:52 -0000

Why not? Simple: there are no toy soldiers on the Internet.

Re: Death of a Pig

Nick Bergus — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:21:58 -0000

You know, it's odd: I've also started yelling at kids who play their music too loud and have their asses hanging out of their pants.

Re: tr.im announces shutdown (Scripting News)

Nick Bergus — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:31:37 -0000

Great, but how can I get a list of the URLs I've shortened? I can't even cut and paste them into Notepad now.

Re: tr.im announces shutdown (Scripting News)

Nick Bergus — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:27:20 -0000

This pisses me off, too. I haven't done the dev work you have, Dave, but suddenly I don't have access to a ton of links that I have shortened and shared. And there is, seemingly, no way to even get a list of them from tr.im.

This is the problem with closed systems. What if the same thing happens at another shortener? Or at Twitter itself?