A List Apart strongly opposes United States H.R.3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly
Air France Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.” And absolutely everyone obeyed. I know
CSS ’ simplicity has always been one of its defining, most welcome features. CSS style sheets are just long lists of rules, each consisting of a selector and some styles to apply. But as our websites
Things to Tax The supercommittee was a superdud — and we should be glad. Nonetheless, at some point we’ll have to rein in budget deficits. And when we do, here’s a thought: How about making increased
New York has turned large swaths of Broadway over to bikes, benches and cafes. Los Angeles is going all-in on a plan to turn its car-addicted populace into rail commuters. And Minneapolis, the frostie
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has an interesting post today about being a developer for Apple's ecosystem . We'll leave aside for now the fact that Jeff isn't and has never been an Apple developer and is, in fact, a strong proponent of Microsoft's developer stack. Despite that flaw, I usually enjoy…
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them a
CINEMA 2023 Fall Film Festivals The Awards Insider team reports live—from the mountains and near the canals—on this fall’s buzziest films. LIVE FROM VENICE & TELLURIDE Don’t miss out on our Labor Day
Even Android 4.0’s most-impressive new features don’t feel like they’re part of a well-thought-out vision Photograph by Samsung. In mid-October, a big yellow truck pulled into the Google campus and pa
I remember when I first reviewed Instacast for the iPhone back in March, declaring it the Twitter of Podcast apps. While possibly dramatized, what Instacast has done for mobile podcasts is what Loren
The dousing of seated, non-violent students with a chemical agent at U.C. Davis should provoke a call for restraint. These images show their experience is not unique. Police dressed in riot gear at U.
I’m home alone right now, and great googly moogly is it boring around here. My wife is out of town on some urgent family business, so my personal interaction with others has been limited to pushing my
Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which
It’s that most depressing time of year for any tech pundit: the time just after Apple’s autumn iOS event. That’s it for new products for the rest of the year; it’s a drought that won’t break until Jan
The past two years around this time, I've laid out the Mandel Plan for a revamped college football postseason. It's a detailed, practical and -- most importantly -- realistic model for a plus-one playoff that more often than not would solve whatever BCS controversy hovers over a given season.
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Exhibit A in the case against Walter Isaacson’s flawed Jobs biography: Malcolm Gladwell in last week’s New Yorker, arguing that Jobs was “a tweaker” : In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from
I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games. In practice, it’s none of these. Granted, I’ve only spent two days wi
Steve wept. And unlike Jesus, who famously wept over the death of Lazarus and the fate of Jerusalem, Jobs cried over just about everything. He cried at the beginning of Apple after Woz's father pushed
When I was developing an RSS reader, users often asked me if I would make it sync via Dropbox (or WebDAV or iDisk or similar). For a while, years ago, before Dropbox existed, my reader did sync by wri
I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick , though I'd be curious to know if it goes back further. The idea of representing relationships between people as n
Developers Explain Changes in Growl 1.3 Speaking of Growl themes , the developers of the popular notification system for OS X have seen a bit of confusion after the release of version 1.3 on the Mac A
Our son was born March 12th, 2009 . He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but c
You probably cannot beat Georgia Tech if you cannot force passing downs. And I have hated the "Same old Clemson" sentiment this week as much as I knew it was. A) Georgia Tech is pretty damn good (occa
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português One morning, my wife Eleanor woke up, turned over, and said, “I am not looking forward to this day.” I asked her why. What came out is that
Op-Ed Contributor A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked li
Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone By Choice In the fall of 2007, Marco Arment was working as lead developer at Tumblr, the social network and blogging platform, when he noticed that he kept losing the links to interesting stories that he didn't immediately have time to read. So…
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“You’re going to build a what ?” That’s what Tony Fadell’s wife, Dani, said to him in 2009 when he told her his idea for a new company. Fadell is one of the most sought-after talents in the world of g
The overwhelming majority of Apple’s earnings, product sales, and new customers are now based on the iOS platform, which consists of: A 3.5"-display pocket computer/phone A 3.5"-display pocket compute
It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something e
Media Platforms Design Team Originally published in the October 2008 issue UPDATES (2011): Tom Junod on Steve Jobs's death and dying UPDATE (2012): Tom Junod on Steve Jobs, One Year Later ***** One da
Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007. [ Video plays ] Ka
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