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Re: pic.im | Image for http://pic.im/8ZR

moustache — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:48:44 -0000

I am shocked by this shocking display of sensationalism.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:45:58 -0000

If you marketed yourself as The Punning Sign Maker you would be booked solid, I'm sure. Sadly I don't think our guy did this on purpose.

Re: How to use CSS in a River of News aggregator? (Scripting News)

moustache — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:59 -0000

I designed this about a year and a half ago when I wanted to use River of News on my iPhone: http://www.studiomoustache.com/blog/2008/01/20/.... Here's the source code for it: http://studiomoustache.com/tests/nytimesriver.html

Re: Comments on the NY Times piece (Scripting News)

userX — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:05:06 -0000

The SUL has distorted the "natural" process of discovering information -- and the creators / disseminators of that information -- that previously existed on Twitter. I think the idea is that there was a more or less "free market" for followers' attention that the SUL has now distorted.

The celebritization of Twitter is a separate matter. Oprah's popularity is independent of the Twitter platform. The SUL, obviously, is not.

Re: Comments on the NY Times piece (Scripting News)

moustache — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:25:21 -0000

I'm not trolling here, just trying to understand where you are coming from: How does the celebritization of Twitter hurt the way you use the service? I've read all of your previous posts on the topic, and can't figure out how Ashton Kutcher having 1 million+ followers in any way affects you. The only thing I can guess is that you are upset Twitter is telling people they may be more interested in what AK has to say than yourself. Which is (sadly) true. It would be nice if Twitter had better discovery features so people who might be interested in what you have to say could find you, but you can still do the same things you did pre-SUL to find new people and let other people find you.

To say that people on the SUL haven't earned their follower count is ridiculous. Oprah has spent years building her community of followers, so it only makes sense for them to gather together on Twitter when they have the opportunity. And no offense, but a single mention of Twitter by her is more of an "investment" in the service than anything you, Scoble, or Guy have ever done. That's not a knock against you, just a testament to the the enormous reach she has.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:03:54 -0000

If anyone wants to join my new band Black Crystal, shoot me an e-mail. I'm looking for theremin, washboard, sitar and jew's harp players. And two backup dancers.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:43:37 -0000

Yeah, that must have slipped through the cracks. The shame!

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:31:29 -0000

Perfect except for the awful Surly scrawl logo stickers I need to replace. And the the shifter cables are a little too long. And I need to put on the sliver headset cap and spacers instead of the black ones. And maybe I should have a front mini rack. But other than that, perfect.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:46:03 -0000

Apparently the $150 version includes "a vellum envelope with replicated era-specific ephemera." I can not imagine any ephemera from the early 1990s that I would pay $150 to have replicated.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:14:49 -0000

Whoa. How did I not know about that archive before? You just made my night.

Re: Chrome vs Firefox (Scripting News)

eas — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:44:38 -0000

I couldn't agree more. This post made me realize that the Firefox add-ons I consider must-haves help work around performance & stability issues.

I like that people at Mozilla are trying to push the user experience forward, but I'd rather they focus on getting the basics right first.

Re: Chrome vs Firefox (Scripting News)

moustache — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:32:49 -0000

I was a loyal Firefox user from back when it was Phoenix until this fall when I switched to Safari after Firefox 3 started acting too unstable on my Mac. After adding an ad blocker and web inspector it's become just as good as Firefox ever was, and a whole lot faster and more stable.

I think "the plot" now is developing killer rendering and Javascript engines, then getting out of the way and letting the web drive innovation. Browsers are merely infrastructure at this point. Look at Mozilla Labs and browsers like Flock - they aren't as exciting or innovative as the web is, and aren't able to adapt nearly fast enough. Web browsers are a mature platform, and the days of major browser innovation are behind us (until someone comes along and completely changes the game, of course).

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:08:22 -0000

Basically it's an app that lets you find out what color things are. You use your camera to take a picture of something, then you use this app to highlight a region and find out the exact color (well, as exact as the iPhone's crappy camera can get). I take pictures of stuff all the time because I want to use the colors in my design work, but by the time I've gotten the photos off my camera I forget why I took the picture to begin with. Really though I'm just doing this to learn how the whole app store thing works, so that when I have a killer idea I want to do it won't be completely new to me.

Re: Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem (Scripting News)

moustache — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:12:29 -0000

Zappos does this on their product pages (e.g. http://zapp.me/7290477). Yet another reason I love them so much.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:10:45 -0000

After reading about the nightmare you've been through, I feel like even more of a baby. Glad to see you're doing better.

But yeah, I pass out nearly every time I give blood, get a shot, or get a tattoo. I even passed out before I had knee surgery when they were just describing the procedure.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:28:21 -0000

I'm going to guess that you will also love BLDGBLOG: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:31:40 -0000

I love Strange Maps! And thanks for the West Wing clip – I hadn't seen it.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:55:04 -0000

It was definitely my favorite Microphones song for the longest time, but the newer Mt. Eerie stuff is so amazing that I don't know if I Felt Your Shape even cracks my top 5 Phil Elvrum songs anymore. My favorite these days is probably Great Ghosts, or maybe O My Heart. But really, it's all beautiful and I love it all.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:46:08 -0000

That's generally a good sign

Re: As much as I like San Francisco, I'm sure not here very much

moustache — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:49:02 -0000

Seattle is definitely happening, don't worry!

Re: As much as I like San Francisco, I'm sure not here very much

moustache — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:17:08 -0000

Here's the link from the email I got: http://www.virginamerica.com/va/search.do?metho...

You guys should totally come out to visit. SF is a little nicer than Boston this time of year.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:21:10 -0000

When I first tried to add FB Connect, somehow a bunch of spaces got prepended to the FB application key in the disqus settings. It caused an error but once I took those out it worked just fine.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:19:20 -0000

In addition to it defaulting to Windows on startup, they were kind enough to install Norton Anti-Virus on the mac partition. It's worlds faster than my old Macbook Pro though.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:37:36 -0000

Anytime! Although your actual guitar skills may just make my pretend guitar skills seem childish and pathetic.

Re: Mark Allen

moustache — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:53:38 -0000

I've downloaded it but couldn't get it to run on my mini. It worked fine on my laptop though so I have to look into it more. I think it looks really promising.