photo 1 Mar lonelysandwich:

SHAKEDOWN!

Shakedown E-Street

lonelysandwich:

SHAKEDOWN!

Shakedown E-Street

text 21 Feb Fake Steve speaks truth

Also worth considering: We charge $99 per year for a MobileMe subscription. Google gives you the same stuff and all they ask for is, um, permission to totally invade your privacy and to “monetize” (God I hate that word) your personal information. You think your personal information is worth less than $99 a year? Then you’re getting a hell of a deal with Google. The rest of us would rather spent $99 and keep the contents of our email to ourselves.

photo 21 Feb soupsoup:

apsies:

Johnny Weir meets Stephen Colbert

soupsoup:

apsies:

Johnny Weir meets Stephen Colbert

via Soup.
link 18 Feb Lifehacker Gina Trapani to Aid White House in Goal Setting»

soupsoup:

Lifehacker’s founding editor Gina Trapani has just announced that she’s joining Expert Labs, the government-oriented independent think tank led by Anil Dash and funded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her first project: deploying her Twitter-based decision making software called ThinkTank for the White House.

The Obama administration announced the joint project with Expert Labs in a blog post earlier this month. As Trapani described it today: “The President has identified a series of scientific and technical challenges that are as important to the future as the moon landing was. And we want to help drive feedback on that list, and even suggest what other items should be on there that haven’t been included.”

This is huge!  Everyone should be doing their part to help Anil help America.

via Soup.
quote 17 Feb
If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the door of only one office in Cupertino, California - Apple’s headquarters - to demand changes to code or content. Users no longer own or control the apps they run - they merely rent them minute by minute. Hope lies in more balanced combinations of open and closed systems, such as that embodied by the traditional Apple Mac - or phones based on the Android operating system from the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of hardware, software and telecoms companies. Android Market is the approved counterpart to Apple’s App Store but, in this case, users are also free to go off-roading, installing any code they like. Android is a canary in the digital coal mine: will its more open model survive should people load suspect apps and find they cannot make calls any more? Mr Jobs ushered in the personal computer era and now he is trying to usher it out. We should focus on preserving our freedoms, even as the devices we acquire become more attractive and easier to use.
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Jonathan Zittrain (via azspot)

The world needs more JZ


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