February 2012
5 posts
Why Rick Santorum would have killed my daughter →
January 2012
15 posts
EatingAsia: In Hanoi, Old and New Ways With Coffee →
I’ve had the egg coffee drink that this article describes in Hanoi. So delicious. And the rooftop perch that the café affords is a great spot from which to take in the lakeside scene.
1936 NY Times Letter to the Editor from "Old...
c-raig:
What it means to be “Chinese” in Hong Kong |... →
A well-written and well-informed article about the distinction between Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese. Must-read.
Prada Fall/Winter 2012 « The Sartorialist →
The Sartorialist shares some photos from the Prada Fall/Winter 2012 collection. Quite refined.
The Restart Page →
Vintage OS restart experiences. Pretty awesome.
“Both Chicago airports are closed right now because the pilots are all out making...”
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December with the Nokia Lumia 800
j0ejack:
In mid November, I upgraded my aging Nokia E72 to the new Nokia Windows-based Lumia 800. At the time, I couldn’t find many reviews of the phone that weren’t pretty superficial copy and paste jobs of the press release or spec sheet. I also couldn’t find any reviews from the point of view of people like me - upgraders from previous Nokia smartphones. The Nokia loyalists that presumably...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
5 posts
Complimentary.
I chatted with an acquaintance this evening who is not American. By way of a compliment, he observed that one of the distinguishing characteristics of an American is that we assume that everyone else is good-natured and honest. (He further observed that we operate on that assumption until it’s proven wrong.)
Trenchant. And correct, in my view. It’s an operating assumption that has,...
iCloud: A Quibble.
I was under the impression that the new iOS 5 and iCloud combo would provide seamless syncing of iWork documents not only among iOS devices (iPhone, iPad), but also with the iWork apps on my Mac. That is not the case.
Instead, iCloud allows you to download the documents that you’ve been editing on your iPad (for example) and edit them using the iWork apps on your Mac. But it does not...
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
4 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
April 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
6 posts
November 2010
8 posts
