Internet Vices

Patrick Moberg compares Web 2.0 social networks/services to drugs and alcohol.

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TIME's 50 Best Inventions of 2009

My personal favorites: The $10 million lightbulb, Smart Thermostat, Teleportation, AIDS Vaccine and the Personal Carbon Footprint.

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An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

Notable: significant increases in JavaScript performance (the chart shows it lagging only slightly behind Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5), border-radius support (but no mention for almost anything else on the Modernizr list), CSS3 selectors and diverting the graphics …

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Statistical significance & other A/B test pitfalls

Cennydd Bowles with words of caution about A/B test results. Great intro:
Last week I tossed a coin a hundred times. 49 heads. Then I changed into a red t-shirt and tossed the same coin another hundred times. 51 heads. From this, I conclude that wearing a red shirt …

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In Defense of Sequels

“But people like sequels!” they say, time and time again when the complaints hit Hollywood over the increasing number of sequels they churn out, year over year. Film critics certainly don’t, but then Hollywood is not in a business to please film …

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Adobe's Open Government: Money Grab or Utter Incompetence?

It's rare that I'll make strong accusations like in the title of this post without adding an extensive explanation for it, but as short on time as I may be, I can't help but express some of my outrage over Adobe's new "Open Government" advocacy website1.
This "Open …

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Your Message Has Not Been Received

Today I discovered that an erroneous system configuration on my website's back-end prevented my contact page from properly delivering email reports. Obviously this is a pretty painful error on my part, and I apologize to anyone who has attempted to get in touch with me …

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Santa Monica Pier

The Santa Monica Pier, large and on black

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Route 66: End

Last night, we arrived in Santa Monica at the Pier where the current official End of Route 66 is. We took some detours and made up for time by taking the Interstate for certain parts, but we saw countless of beautiful things, drove through numerous little …

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Begin: Route 66

To conclude my ongoing road trip with, my mom suggested she fly in from the Netherlands and we drive the entire Route 66 together, all the way from Chicago to L.A.
We started Thursday last week, in Chicago. This photo was taken the afternoon before, so that we …

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Bridge over the Mississippi

View Large On Black

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Becoming a Font Embedding Master

Jonathan Snook with the full run-down on how to get @font-face to work (including on the iPhone, where it is only partially supported).

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So You’re Moving to San Francisco

Alex Payne writes about living in San Francisco and, in particular, on the things he doesn't like about the city.
Having lived there myself for a year and a half, I don't agree with everything he says—for instance, I personally have never had a single real problem …

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How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating

OKCupid releases a wealth of research data about compatibility between race and religion in online dating. Some very interesting results:
Since he’s a Pisces and I’m a Virgo, Chris and I of course think the Zodiac is total bullshit, and it was very gratifying to …

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There is no WebKit on Mobile

Peter-Paul Koch has done a series of tests against 19 different versions of WebKit, focusing on the various WebKit-based Mobile browsers currently shipping on a handful of different phones.
Whilst it's clear that from a JavaScript perspective, the differences between …

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Thank You

Last week I celebrated my birthday online and pledged to donate $3 for every photo people would post of themselves celebrating my birthday with me. I've finally gotten a chance (I am, after all, still in the middle of my road trip) to collect all the photos from …

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Speaking at JS Conf EU 2009

It's already sold out, but for those speaking or attending, I look forward to meeting you in Berlin! For those who'll miss out, my slides will be made available online afterwards.

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Not Worthwhile Anymore

I used to love Northwest Airlines, flying them regularly from Amsterdam to Minneapolis/St. Paul for my yearly fall vacations (until I moved to California in the fall of 2007). KLM and Northwest were an alliance, but while Amsterdam is KLM's global headquarters, …

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Try a new banana

Neven Mrgan tells you things about bananas you never knew, including the sad fact that this delicious fruit is at risk of becoming extinct.

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Two Quotes

I'd like to present you with two quotes. The first is by Steve Ballmer, on January 17, 2007:
“[Apple's iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good …

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