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This article on Kait Weston parlaying her YouTube success into a career reminds me of what my friend Dave always says about American Idol: it's genius, because the buying public is literally voting on what they'll buy. It's irrelevant what the judges think - they're for show - the voting public is constantly refining their […]

Steve Jobs did it. Einstein supposedly did it. Even Charlie Brown did it. So did this woman, for a year, and she wrote about it.

I still have an eMate 300, and this article explores connecting one to Mac OS X. I miss the handwriting recognition. It was quite good, Simpsons jokes aside… Or, let me put it this way: it was less frustrating than Siri speech recognition and network availability.

Michael Tsai with the first of the news.

How stupid are some companies? Seriously? The tweets look completely real, but SFGate discovered that while the Twitter users who are featured are real, their tweets are not. The users featured raving about TV commercials never said anything of the kind, and were unaware their profile pics and accounts were being presented in a post […]

That's one for every five words of content.

WordPress WXR file splitter for Mac OS X - Suhas Tech

Proving that MLB still has a long way to go… :facepalm:

TUAW has the story: But then a funny thing happened. Last week, Verizon reported its earnings results from Q2 2013 and the results were better than what most analysts were expecting. Last quarter, Verizon activated 7.5 million smartphones, of which 3.8 million units were iPhones. Put differently, nearly 51% of all smartphones Verizon activated last […]

Like it's 1984 all over again! Samsung (as always), and even Google.

Upload bandwidth has always been constrained. On DSL lines, it's often 8x slower than download bandwidth. People consume more than they create, yes, but people are creating more and more these days. A good article from are on this: Since I'm on a Comcast business-class connection, the next tier up from my current tier of […]

I've never cared for the "everyody wins" nature of modern youth sports, and I care quite a bit less for the fact that girls are excluded from sport by way of people looking down on them competing as if it's not "lady-like" or some such nonsense. This article explores the link between successful women and […]

TidBITS: Explaining the Apple Ebook Price Fixing Suit - that's about all you have to read if you haven't been following it too closely.

Uh, yeah. I feel like the Bond movies just keep getting a little worse each time. Edit: The three things wrong with Skyfall adds a bit more to it.