Machete Order sounds like a slightly better way to introduce someone to Star Wars: http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html

An Homage to the Tablet | http://t.co/K62q2zId By John Kirk @Techpinions

During the early development of Safari, I didn’t just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple’s IP address or our browser’s user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on

Brent Simmons wrote a great defense of his proposed “Cocoa Sin” of “Passing model objects to a UITableViewCell subclass”, expanding on the one apparently contentious item in his great list of 20 sins. Go read both posts, he’s so completely right. Except I disagree. I’ve been down a number of…

I moved to New York* last week. Sorry to drop that on you after five months of radio silence. It was kind of sudden. The Boy wanted to move here for work-related reasons and I agreed. That’s the short version. The slightly longer version is that we were never going to stay in Portland forever and it…

I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency.  It was the case of a national sportscaster — I won’t name him, but, alas, most of those old enough will remember the name, which is regrettable — whose sex life had suddenly become the media…

"When I first heard the name 'Safari'" http://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari/ Some inside baseball for you this time. It's a much better name than you think.

Television and media industry are stuck in a wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic: the Release Windows system. Designed to avoid destructive competition among media, it ends up boosting piracy while frustrating honest viewers willing to pay. A couple of months ago, I…

When executives of CBS Records went about the business of preparing for the November 30 release of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the fall of 1982, they knew they had on their hands a terrific album by one of the biggest superstars in the music industry. But they were also a bit concerned, since…

Sacrificing thousands of kids on the altar of racist rightwing fantasies, by @DavidOAtkins http://t.co/R8EHovcL

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the Microsoft Surface over the past few weeks, in an effort to figure out what the company is trying to accomplish. While I have given Microsoft kudos for not blindly copying Apple’s tablet strategy, what they released doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

I remain steadfast in my belief that one of the best examples of the disproportionate value of the iPhone is the fact that we are able to completely ignore the fact that its form factor is horrible to use as a camera. Yes, the internals are amazing, the guts of the camera are terrific, but when…

By Brent Caswell / 12.05.2012 iOS is boring. It’s unconnected. It isn’t flexible. It’s slow. That’s generally the consensus. And while many look to Jony Ive’s new role as the answer, it doesn’t exactly solve these problems. So I thought I would give it a shot. Apple has a serious problem: in this…