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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 on Twitter’s blog sent out to hundreds of thousands via the @Twitterads Twitter account and retweeted to more than 1.5 million.

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 quarter were iPhones.

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 16Mbps-down/3Mbps-up only bumps my upload speed to 5Mbps—but it adds another $40 per month onto my bill. I know I said that upload speeds trump price, but there are limits. It doesn't trump price quite enough for me to justify almost $500 more per year for a measly additional 2Mbps.

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 their athletics, competitive upbringing.

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.

Dropbox is bringing the Chooser, Saver, and the Datastore API to iOS and Android.

Nice. And still ahead of iCloud. 😛

Take a look at these two pictures:

Image 1 | Image 2

There's a lot being said about the typography in iOS 7.

For example…

It's still in beta, so things can change.

I think there's some weird part of humans - or me, at least - that enjoys the occasional trip to the woodshed.