I can't count the number of times I've had this exact conversation. On the one hand, I hope RSS reading does catch on. On the other hand, I love having this conversation over and over. It's a conundrum, really.
This is the reason I love the Internet - the portion of this conversation that happened off the air was infinitely more interesting than what was on it. I love the Daily Show not because I always agree with it, though I frequently do, but because it's about the only place I can find intelligent discourse. Thiessen, as far as I'm concerned, is completely wrong, but he argues his point as convincingly as he could have. And Jon lets him (mostly). A great watch.
The Reddit comments are the best part: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bao9n/were_can_i_buy_these_balloons/
Dirty Discs
You need to clean a skipping DVD or CD, but as a bachelor you don’t have any sissy cleaning fluids? Soak a washcloth with vodka or mouthwash.
Alcohol is a powerful solvent, perfectly capable of dissolving fingerprints and grime on the surface of a disc. A $5 bottle of Listerine in your medicine cabinet may do the job as effectively as a $75 bottle of DVD cleaning fluid. Also, swabbing your copy of “Lost Weekend” with Stoli instead of fussing with a Discwasher kit is a lot more manly.
Lots of great tips in this article, but this one takes the cake for me. About 99.9% of the time, just rubbing the disc on my shirt does the trick, but this is a heavier-duty option that works perfectly, using something I've already got plenty of. Mouthwash. Not vodka. Promise.
I was listening to This Week in Tech a few days ago (or weeks...it's all blurry), and heard something really interesting. Leo LaPorte, who hosts the thing, called Twitter "the water cooler of the Web."
Absolutely fascinating, and so much more in depth than I ever would have thought would be available. Now I get why Aaron Sorkin jumped at the chance to make this into a movie, and I can't wait to see it.
"The Internet is like Mexican food. It's all the same ingredients, just in different combinations!"
Multitasking
The patent “Message protocol for controlling a user interface from an inactive program” addresses the act of a foreground application remaining active while an application running in the background is also processing. So yes, multi-tasking. Many believe the iPhone doesn’t have multi-tasking capability, but technically it does run some of Apple’s built-in apps in the background, such as the phone and the iPod.
How a Google phone would look without it
If you’re typing an e-mail on a Google phone and you get a phone call, the phone app would immediately close the e-mail, or the call would go straight to your voicemail box. Listening to your Android phone and want to browse the web? Tough beans: You can only do one at a time. It’ll be a familiar feeling with video game consoles, which only let you run one game at a time.
F-U-N-N-Y. Apple is trying to patent something that not only doesn't it functionally include in the iPhone, but the one thing people wish it did include the most.
Sports meets geeky - it's the greatest thing that's ever happened in the universe.
Hi! My name's David Pierce, and I'm the Founding Editor of Digitizd (http://digitizd.com). This is the place where I post links, tips, and anything else I come across that's not long enough for a whole post, but that's worth sharing with everyone.
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