Wonder if the NeXT Cube I bought for 20 bucks is going up in value.
― errant flynn, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
It's labelled "Eternal Flame" on the XKCD site xp
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
cf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/JFK_grave.jpg
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
ugh comparing jobs to kennedy makes me feel ill
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Local Apple Store has their the lights, as if they're trying to create some weird chapel-of-remembrance atmosphere in there.
At work today I have had about ten times the usual number of requests for new iMacs & MacBooks :S
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
has dimmed their lights
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
i would think they'd take the day off at the apple store
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa whoa whoa there's money to be made here.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
ask not what your ipad 2 case can do for you
― stet, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
symbolism:
the flame that does not go out vs. the browser that always beachballs
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, October 6, 2011 8:25 AM (2 minutes ago)
in a somewhat tacky confluence of marketing, i received an iPhone4S spam mail around the time of Jobs' death yesterday.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Image-conscious highly polished presenters advancing certain approaches, trying not to be caught out by anything they wanted to keep secret and not always succeeding, being inspirations nonetheless, dying in sucky ways...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
And playing Gregorian chants. Occasionally, the soft sound of weeping can be heard, but otherwise, silence.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but i literally cried the last time i reread his inaugural address. i think the messages they presented are qualitatively very different, and the message of kennedy's life i think is a much higher thing to aspire to than YAY A MOUSE YAY A GUI YAY ITUNES YAY FARMVILLE ON IPAD
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2zfrfdk.jpg
^ posted from her iPhone
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
you'd think surely someone had already hacked a "here's to the dreamers" think different commercial together with a b&w photo of jobs and birth/death dates by now as the closing frame, fading to black, then just the apple logo in white but can i find it on the youtubes, just to chortle grimly at it, to what purpose i know not? can i fuck
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Bob Garfield OTM
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
can you fuck?
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe it was rhetorical, along the lines of "am I blue?"
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah classic jfk rhetorical q imo
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder how many of Apple's slave laborers in china committed suicide when they heard this sad, sad news
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
take it to the overseas slave labour thread imo
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
D-
― (silby), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
no ILM steve jobs RIP but what's on your iPod thread yet?
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Not until you start one.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
sorry guys, slipped into glaswegian for a second - i blame the return of rab c. nesbit to the airwaves
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
believe the proper spelling is "can i fuc"
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZrOZd.png
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
guilty LOLs
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting, detailed tribute here from the Residents:
http://www.residents.com/home/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsngqptiDM1qzinpio1_500.jpg
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― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
are you fucking kidding me
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
horrible
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't been this enraged by someone using technology to mourn since I first encountered ;_;
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
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― (╯°□°)╯︵ ya, (╯°□°)╯︵ ya for real (gbx), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
i was playing devil's advocate on this thread for a while, but kill these people. kill them all.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
did sum1 already post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSFFpDuGZU&feature=player_embedded
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
not kill--just maim
xpost
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
co-sign
― DaTruf (Nicole), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/6/1317887081412/Beijing-China-A-child-loo-004.jpg
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
this is great
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977507,00.html
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://memeburn.com/wp-content/uploads/cracked-iPhone3-New-York.png
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA&feature=player_embedded
― per metal injection (Eazy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
^^ Jobs's own voice-over vs. the Richard Dreyfuss v.o. used in the final version.
xp i hope that person smashed their own phone when they heard the news
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, come on. Love the guy's products or no, but as a dude Jobs was a total inscrutable cipher. Sort of like Howard Hughes had his OCD manifested itself as Machiavellian ambition.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Apple Store Robbery Interrupted by Jobs Mourners
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=128673.54928.140818
Best part is the police report that mentions the store's "owner passed earlier this afternoon."
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/gty_steve_jobs_reaction_14_dm_111006_ssh.jpg
Mario Spinetti sits outside the Apple Store on West 66th Street after hearing of the death of Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., in the early hours of Oct. 6, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ap_jobs_reaction_2_dm_111006_ssh.jpg
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link