Police Truck - Dead Kennedys
Reflecting on our loss of liberty and freedoms post-911, I am reminded of how amazing this band, and Jello Biafra specifically, were. Keep fighting.
Microsoft thinks people love their PCs. They don’t. They’ve been chained to them for years. They want to be set free. The iPad allows for that. Tying Windows to their don’t-call-it-post-pc strategy is dangerous for Microsoft. Disdain is starting to outweigh comfort. Further, there are no more windows in this world for chrissakes!
MG Siegler is a great tech writer. He really nails it in this article. Yes, Metro does look good, but the idea of a dual-mode OS is horseshit. People love the iPad because of the simplicity of iOS. They want to leave behind the complexity of traditional desktop computing. You can’t just put a pretty bowl over the cat crap in the dining room and pretend their isn’t shit on your floor.
“Said ‘shits for real, man’ like I don’t know”
So good.
Ween - Chocolate Town
Quote of the Month: Fuck That. This is the Big Leagues.
John Gruber on David Pogue’s review of the Samsung Chromebook:
Really? Why? Would everyone have praised Apple for its “noble experiment” if the $500 iPad had been too big and heavy, felt like it was worth only $180, and was “a 3.3-pound paperweight” when offline? Fuck that. This is the big leagues. There is no credit for trying.
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains - A Take Away Show
Genius.
Weezer - Paranoid Android
A solid effort from Weezer, this is probably the best I have heard from them since Pinkerton (I’m old and cranky, OK?). I’m not sold on Rivers’ mid-western accent in the sustained “What’s that?” line, or in the song in general, but it keeps this version honest.
Also: dropped a whole-step.
Attention to Detail
Something we all struggle with.
One Year Ago: Flash on Mobile Will Be Awesome by Early May
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sat down with the Wall Street Journal to respond to Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash one year ago today. In the video interview, Narayen, goaded by poor interviewing by Alan Murray, talks down Apple and the iPad as a bully keeping out the open system that is Flash.
Galen Gruman in InfoWorld writes the following:
But Flash objects are often slow to load, and some would not function. That’s an issue Flash also has on Android, as my colleague Neil McAllister discovered in his extensive Flash tests. It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that Flash and mobile don’t mix.
So, three-and-a-half years after people started bitching about lack of Flash on iPhone, two years closely developing Flash for QNX and a year after this grandstanding and Flash on mobile is still a turd.
Apple is obviously wrong, right?
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
There are so many reasons that Canada is awesome. Gordon is high in that list.
Great article about how bad Flash sucks on mobile devices (Chen and Issac are careful not to single out the Playbook, even though the article is about that device). I love this quote:
Even though Adobe touts the plug-in as a “write once, run anywhere” runtime environment, the story right now is more precisely, “write once, work sometimes, on some devices.”
And here is some great spin from Adobe:
There’s a pretty complex hardware and software stack here,” explained Danny Winokur, vice president of Adobe’s Flash runtime software division. “It starts with the silicon and goes all the way down to drivers and the OS. Issues at any layer in that stack can be exposed when any piece of content comes into play and affect the stability that users are having.
Good job, Danny! If you talk way over people’s heads they will just nod and accept what you said as cogent, even if it is total white wash.
RIM has been banking on Flash as the killer app that can challenge the iPad. And they have been working on it for two years. And it still sucks.
