February 16, 2010
A conversation I have every month or so

dwineman:

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring you.
Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to you?
Website: Fuck entirely off.
Me: (gives up, switches to computer)
Website: Oh! Hi! What can I help you with today?
Me: What are your —
Website: Hang on, I’m loading the music.
Me: Really.
Website: You’ll love it. It’s “Girl from Ipanema” arranged for steel drum and keytar.
Me: No, you don’t have to —
Website: Loading…
Me: All I want is —
Website: I SAID DOT DOT DOT.
Me: (drums fingers on desk)
Website: There we go. Isn’t that nice? It’s… what’s the word. Ethnicky.
Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?
Me: What. Are. Your. Hou. Rs.
Website: I… I don’t know.
Me: (goes to Denny’s)

8:12pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/393711221/a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or-so
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February 16, 2010

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

8:00am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/392705051/augmented-hyper-reality-domestic-robocop-on
February 11, 2010

Just finished Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. Great sequel minus one major contradiction. In the first book the Daemon influenced the MSM.

9:56pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/384793164/just-finished-freedom-tm-by-daniel-suarez-great
February 2, 2010
Missing the point

The personal computer of 2010 is hard to understand for novices and people who struggle with abstract concepts. Macs, PCs, all of them.  Folks, it’s us, the freaks who understand drive partitioning, regular expressions, virtual disk images, task switching, and shell scripting — we’re the exception.

12:46pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/367199735/missing-the-point
February 2, 2010
The Days of Miracles and Wonder

9:39am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/366994065/the-days-of-miracles-and-wonder
January 29, 2010

RT @billburton44: #questiontime will be on wh.gov soon (the video is loading now) and replayed on cspan at 8

6:56pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/360348491/rt-billburton44-questiontime-will-be-on-wh-gov
January 27, 2010

RT @barkingmoose: I just heard Nintendo has a game system called the Wii. I’m sorry, but do they not even test these product names? Fool …

7:37pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/356927204/rt-barkingmoose-i-just-heard-nintendo-has-a-game
January 27, 2010

RT @BenKuchera: Best name for the iTablet yet: A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

11:13am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/356289146/rt-benkuchera-best-name-for-the-itablet-yet-a
January 27, 2010
xkcd - Retro Virus

xkcd - Retro Virus

7:57am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/356083644/xkcd-retro-virus
January 25, 2010

Power out in south end of Burlington. Thank you laptop battery.

12:57pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/352863822/power-out-in-south-end-of-burlington-thank-you
January 23, 2010

RT @mattyglesias: Plouffe joining White House team: http://bit.ly/6rqe1K

4:48pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/349569119/rt-mattyglesias-plouffe-joining-white-house
January 23, 2010
01/20/10 PHD comic: '63% of internet readers will like this comic'

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
title: “63% of internet readers will like this comic” - originally published 1/20/2010 

For the…

3:49pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/349492010/01-20-10-phd-comic-63-of-internet-readers-will-like
January 23, 2010

Quix (http://quixapp.com/) has Pukka integration (bottom of help page) http://bit.ly/7QqfaE

1:38pm  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/349326411/quix-http-quixapp-com-has-pukka-integration
January 20, 2010
Walking Edge: Canvassing With GPS

Here’s one new election tool that’s being employed in the Massachusetts Senate race: Walking Edge, a smartphone application and database that tells canvassers where undecided voters and…

9:51am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/344381380/walking-edge-canvassing-with-gps
January 20, 2010
Secure checkout with Google: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch

Secure checkout with Google:




Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch

9:47am  |   URL: http://jimbrayton.com/post/344378137/secure-checkout-with-google-uploaded-with