by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 12, 2010 | Asides
I’m just wondering how it’s possible that they have an unpadded pole on a luge run? Seems insane to me. Luger killed in sled crash during Olympic practice run | via latimes.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 11, 2010 | Asides
Holy Smokes… Sure, read the article, but be absolutely certain that you read the comments. Ouch. Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login | via ReadWriteWeb
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 10, 2010 | Asides
From Daring Fireball: Special issue of Hamish Hamilton’s excellent literary magazine, “A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others.†Designed by our old friend...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 5, 2010 | Asides
Apple? Google? Who cares? You need to know Dropbox | via CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Andy nails perfectly the beauty of Dropbox. It’s a simple idea with far-reaching consequences. I can make some changes to this column here on my desktop, grab my netbook from the living-room...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 5, 2010 | Asides
Mensches. Report: Apple paying 15 percent refund on broken 27-inch iMacs | via CNET News
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 31, 2010 | Asides
As is so often the case, John Gruber gets better goods than the rest of the world… UPDATE: Arnold Kim has a few more tidbits. And one DF-reading little birdie emailed to say that while the gist is right, the Wired transcript is clearly paraphrased: “He...
