indefensible: john gruber

"terrific"

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/15/joe-smith-paper-towel

lmao after seeing that i was going to start a thread about TED talks that treat you like a fucking child

see also: How To Tie Your Shoes

95% of ted stuff is such glib stupid bullshit, but this is like that lifehacker article about "how to hack your mashed potato for one recipe so that it feeds two people"

confession: i was charmed by paper towel dude

if everybody didn't get gas on 05/18/12 think of how big a message we'd send to those oil companies

TED is crossing the territory into vince shlomo shamwow territory

you followin me camera guy *dries hands with only one paper towel sheet*

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649

i don't get it. what is this guy's shtick? he's like the internet-era's garrison keillor?

Combined with John Dvorak of PC Magazine

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/25/the-talk-show-002 can someone break down this podcast brouhaha for me?

Web standards are important, and Daring Fireball adheres to them. Specifically, Daring Fireball’s HTML markup should validate as either HTML 5 or XHTML 4.01 Transitional

there is no such thing as XHTML 4.01 Transitional

lol

http://brooksreview.net/2012/05/amazon-nerf/

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http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/25100349521/melange

i can name six of eight

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Great Cthulhu, I can name four.

I only spotted Groobs, o well

what kind of things would i have had to be interested in to know who these people are?

yardsticks

oh, they're famous yardstick moguls

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/09/surrogates-willis-10shot-670.jpg

you guys always forget the beacons

hay guys YARDSTICKS and MUSTACHES and BEACONS right hahahahahahahah

notoumas but I still don't get who these ppl are

people who write blogs about products mostly I assume

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/16/whats-that-sound

get em, john!

lol

haha. those apple-community-supporting assholes!

man this ipad memo stuff is wearing thin. Even that link he posted, the guy finished the book on a Mac. Yes you can do bits of creation of the iPad. But Macs are way better at most of it. And that should be OK. iBooks: on iPad. iBooks Author: on Mac.

i guess you didnt get the memo

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/20/ellison-island or like feed the hungry idk

there's a reason that fucking tightarse is the sixth richest person in the world

fucking tumblr, no i don't want this guy's wisdom on my dashboard

Ben Brooks puts up a paywall LOL

damn howm i gonna get my ben brooks fix now

Man that was a lot of words to get across "I think I am worth literally twice as much per year than even John Gruber ever thought he was worth for his RSS feed"

NB Gruber now easily makes six figures across his various channels, seems to have no qualms about it.

would be weird if he had qualms about it

I’ve long suspected that Mayer preferred the iPhone to Android as a user. She was into Instagram while it was iPhone-only. She’s sent multiple tweets — September 2011, June of this year — using Twitter for iPhone. And her husband just tweeted that he’s switching to the iPhone from BlackBerry.I’ve long suspected that Mayer preferred the iPhone to Android as a user. She was into Instagram while it was iPhone-only. She’s sent multiple tweets — September 2011, June of this year — using Twitter for iPhone. And her husband just tweeted that he’s switching to the iPhone from BlackBerry.

kinda crepey level of detail here

lol pasted twice apparently!

grubby's review of mountain lion doesn't even mention gatekeeper (his favorite feature)

did people really wait in line to buy precious releases of os x cause

lol precious releases

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/happy-10th-birthday-daring-fireball/261061/

It's a blog not just about Apple, but about excellence.

His voice can be muscular and rigorous.

But he maybe best understands excellence as it relates to blogging.

he can still better articulate what's fun and compelling about link-sharing (which he's been doing since before we deemed it curation) than anyone

Apple, Gruber's Beatrice, is engorged as a company

He hasn't written, for a long time, an engaging description of a laptop or an account of an anthropomorphized interface element.

It is a testament, still, to the power and potential of writing on the web, to the blogger as auteur

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