Dave's Wibblinks http://www.diaspoir.net/ Mainly links to stuff I find interesting. Not too much editorial these days. en Copyright 2012 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:31:34 +0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Today's Wibblinks 02/02/2012 (p.m.)

  • Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces | Smarterware

    "These tiny touchscreen mobile computers we carry around in our pockets are the ultimate multi-tool. I use my phone to read, shop, watch, listen, cook, play, navigate, share, jot, photograph, and chat, so I organized my apps just like that. The guiding question for where each app went was What do I DO with it? Here's a screenshot of my first pass at a verb-based interface using folders on my iPhone."

    tags: tools interfaces

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  • Latest News Columns & Insight from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

    "Governments the world over must maintain low spending and leave income in the hands of the individuals who earned it. They will spend it much more efficiently than the government can. Andrew Strain, North Point"

    tags: hong kong right-wing bullshit toxic moronic

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    This just reads like the usual toxic nonsense that right-wingers spout: "only rich people are worthy of money, and taxes are theft". It's especially galling in a place like Hong Kong, where most of the population lives in subsidized housing, enjoys public healthcare, public education, public libraries, public transport, and enjoys a high standard of public safety thanks to a relatively modest level of taxation levied on some very rich people.

    I always get the feeling that many Randroid types feel themselves to be John Galt if they have any business success in Hong Kong, without realizing just how much public largesse goes into that 'cheap' workforce they feel entitled to.

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  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.

    But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq Presario was unplugged then plugged back in. The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The Google did not load.

    tags: internet fix hero humour

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  • Brian Basham: Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power - Business Comment - Business - The Independent

    In attempting to understand the complexities of what went wrong in the years leading to 2008, I've developed a rule: "In an unregulated world, the least-principled people rise to the top." And there are none who are less principled than corporate psychopaths.

    tags: psychopaths power business

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  • Latest News Columns & Insight from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

    "Plus, Kim junior is fat, which is emphasised by the way the close-cropped part of his hair-do offsets his chubby jowls. The old guys are gaunt, particularly the shrouded Jang. Clearly, therefore, Little Big Kim is saying that Kim the Elder's days of lobster, cognac and outre hair are not over yet, for so long as he's around." Is someone in the SCMP actually paying this guy to write this drivel?

    tags: scmp drivel

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  • This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

    Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.

    tags: freedom libertarianism guardian

    • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.
    • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.
    • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.

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  • Free printable staff paper @ Blank Sheet Music .net

    Useful Site!

    tags: music sheetmusic printable

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  • Hong Kong Stock Market News | Stock Quotes & Finance News from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

    "It has five LCD monitors - two of them on touchscreen iPads - a Mac Mini, three Apple keyboards, an iPod docking station and runs its own Wi-fi hotspot." Touchscreen iPads?  As opposed to the boring iPads that require a keyboard and mouse?

    tags: hongkong scmp reporting

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  • Want to really Repair Permissions on your Mac? Try this. | TechBlog | a Chron.com blog

    Apparently, when you use the Disk Utility in Repair Permissions – a standard troubleshooting maneuver in OS X – it doesn’t actually repair the permission settings on folders and files in your Home folder. That’s where your documents and many applications reside. There’s another Repair Permissions tool hidden away in Lion, and Jeff directed me there.

    tags: apple repair troubleshooting osx mac

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  • The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams' color comic strips, animation, mashups and more!

    That's my job described in the middle panel.

    tags: dilbert comic

  • More Fun With Siri Dictation « Jim Rhoades / Crush Apps

    After figuring out how to use Siri dictation to quickly add items to a list in Paperless, I discovered some other commands it recognizes – based on this article about Dragon Dictation (a third party app for dictating text). While Siri doesn’t seem to recognize all of the things that Dragon Dictation does, here are the ones that have worked for me (this is not a comprehensive list, if you know of any others please post them in the comments – and I’ll add them in).

    tags: dictation apps iPhone

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (PAX 2011 D&D Game)

    A theatrical (and undoubtedly hilarious!) Dungeons & Dragons experience took place during PAX Prime at the historic Paramount Theater in Seattle. This latest adventure of Acquisitions Incorporated (starring: Wil Wheaton, Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Scott Kurtz, and Chris Perkins) was originaly broadcast live Saturday, August 27th:

    tags: PAX roleplaying game dungeons_and_dragons paul_and_storm

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  • The "very scary" Iranian Terror plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

    To begin with, this episode continues the FBI’s record-setting undefeated streak of heroically saving us from the plots they enable. From all appearances, this is, at best, yet another spectacular “plot” hatched by some hapless loser with delusions of grandeur but without any means to put it into action except with the able assistance of the FBI, which yet again provided it through its own (paid, criminal) sources posing as Terrorist enablers. The Terrorist Mastermind at the center of the plot is a failed used car salesman in Texas with a history of pedestrian money problems. Dive under your bed. “For the entire operation, the government’s confidential sources were monitored and guided by federal law enforcement agents,” explained U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, and “no explosives were actually ever placed anywhere and no one was actually ever in any danger.’”

    tags: Iran security_theatre

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  • Food Timeline: food history & vintage recipes

    Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? So do we!!! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve. (via making light)

    tags: food history timeline culture cooking

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  • steve on Devour.com

    tags: Devour.com steve jobs video

  • Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

    tags: steve jobs stanford speech apple inspiration

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  • SEO for Non-dicks - Matt Legend Gemmell

    Anything else is trickery, and an attempt to cheat the system. It may work for a while, but eventually you’ll be found out and rightly penalised. By going for search engine abuse instead of actual optimisation, you’re dooming yourself to eternally be finding new ways to deceive people and reduce the effectiveness of the very technologies you’re relying on. That seems sleazy, depressing, ignoble, tiring and unsustainable. It’s also why any job title including “SEO” is seen as slimy at best, and often not a real job at all. Stop wilfully conflating optimisation with being a slimy liar. Stop being a dick on the internet. Write something interesting, and keep doing it for months and years. SEO will then follow naturally.

    tags: sep right

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