Nokia CEO Stephen Elop admits what anti-Apple trolls never would. Bravo, sir! Admission is the first step to recovery.
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Miscellaneous Ruminations of Aayush Arya
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Aayush Arya is India Editor and Apps Co-Editor at The Next Web. You can find him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter or Google+, or drop him an email if you need to contact him.
An amusing discussion on my reddit thread
- A (possibly racist) reddit user: How can you afford such an expensive monitor? That’s like tens of thousands in Indian currency, right?
- Another reddit user: Pro tip: There are rich Indians too.
Dell sent me six replacements for my defective monitor and then a notebook.
My continuing Dell saga is now posted on the venerable reddit.
“Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable.” —John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Marco.org: Ode to the App Review team
I wasn’t always a fan of Apple’s requirement that all App Store submissions be reviewed by a fairly opaque process before release, which often led to confusing or unfair rejections.
But over the last year, I’ve grown to appreciate app review and the immense staff it must take to operate at its…
I’ve been meaning to write something of this nature myself but I could never have done as good a job with it as Marco has done. Highly recommended.
(Source: marco)
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
(via Daring Fireball)
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Whatever happens, for the next two or three years, Apple is in terrific shape. It has incredible momentum. And you know — no one’s made money betting against Steve Jobs in a very long time.
Alan Deutschman
“How Steve Jobs ‘Out-Japanned’ Japan” by Jeff Yang for SF Gate
(via Daring Fireball)
Why do people laugh at creationists. This is a series of videos (about thirty in all) that take video footage of religious nutjobs making ridiculous pseudo-scientific claims about the creation of the earth and systematically and scientifically tear them apart. Watch a few of these if you have the time. Chuckles will ensue.
Here’s a choice quote from a creationist called Kent Hovind, who taught science for fifteen years and claims to have a PhD:
You say, “Come on, is it possible to cover the earth with water? Well, theoretically, one drop of world will cover the water…one drop of water will cover the world, if you spread it real thin.”
He’s off by a factor of about a trillion! That’s like saying that the distance of the moon from the earth is less than one millimeter.
Introducing Notificant!
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With scheduled notifications that sync via the cloud and can be fired on any Mac of your choosing, Notificant is the notification assistant you never knew you wanted.
I have launched my software company Caramel Cloud and our first web service and Mac application Notificant. Go ahead and buy it from the Mac App Store, you know you want to. And do follow us on Twitter @caramelcloudsw. Thank you.
Steve Jobs’s greatest gift to the company, I suspect, is that his enthusiasm is always on the Next Big Thing, no matter how big the Last Big Thing was.
John Gruber (Daring Fireball)
Girls who post self-portraits and say ‘I look ugly’ should know that we all know girls who think they’re ugly don’t post self portraits.
“My Argument With God” by Ricky Gervais
How I went from Jesus-loving Christian to fun-loving infidel…in one afternoon.
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A lesson in photography, courtesy a random Facebook user: Go out in the middle of the day, center everything in the frame, have the subject stare straight into the camera and, for that added touch of creative genius, position them behind a giant, ugly plant.
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Couldn’t not reblog. (via goobimama)
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