People are complaining about the wide bezel around the display, but without that, where would your thumbs go? You don’t want your thumb that’s holding the device to cover on-screen content or register as a touch. Trust me, it’s just right.

If you are a Motorola Droid owner you know exactly what Gruber is talking about.  False positives all day, every day.

Source: ABoyAndHisComputer.com

Apple product releases are generally polarizing and controversial.  The peanut gallery can argue about the ridiculousness of the iPad’s name all they want, but it seems many missed an important detail. As an individual who respects Apple as a marketing machine, and as an Apple shareholder (full disclosure much?), of particular note is the Apple A4.  Apple is back in the semi-conductor game and not only did they spit out a chip, it looks like they spit out a DAMN GOOD CHIP.  Gruber may have said it best…

Apple doesn’t talk much about the technical details of the iPhone. They never talk about CPU speed or the name of the chip being used. They don’t tell you how much RAM is in there. Part of their vision for moving computers from technical culture to popular culture is about getting away from defining these things by their technical specs. So the prominent talk about A4 is telling. This is something they want us to notice… They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass.

I may be considering a maxipad or a medianpad with wings (32gb + 3g) if I don’t convince myself it’s actually an iMac i want.  … but what I’m most considering is the implications of AAPL at $300/share.

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1. Don’t make “Top X” list posts.  People will likely forget them tomorrow.  Unless of course, it’s this particular post.
2. See #4.
3. See #2.
4. See #1.
5. See #5.

I can taste a better internet already!

I named the theme “Overtones” and was designed for Wordpress 2.9.1 drawing inspiration from Shawn Blanc and Daring Fireball.  If you would like to use it for your own WP site please let me know and I’ll clean it up for distribution.

That’s when I found this.

Information About Recent Activity

Whether we display a story on your profile is now controlled by the privacy of the content itself, rather than an additional setting.  For example, only people who can see both your Wall, and the Wall to which you posted would be able to see a story about you writing on a friend’s Wall.  You cannot completely turn off recent activity stories anymore.  However, if you want to remove a particular story that currently shows up, simply click the “Remove” button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it.  Provide feedback about this change here.

So how do you turn off recent activity on Facebook? You cannot completely disable recent activity stories anymore.  This leaves you three options.

1. Constantly Monitor Your Wall to Remove Activity
Well shoot, you spend approximately 47% of your work hours on Facebook anyhow.  But I’m guessing you MIGHT have something better do.

2. Neuter Your Facebook
Turn off your wall.  It’s not a horrible idea and, in fact, you may find yourself mainly interacting with people you actually care to interact with.  Hell, you might even e-mail them, pick up the phone, or *GASP* meet up with them to see how they’re doing.  But let’s face it.  The whole point of Facebook is mutual stalking (damn, you’re creepy).  This option just plain sucks.

3. Bitch and Moan
Now we’re talking.  The most amusing part of the excerpt above is the last line.  Facebook already knows you hate not being able to turn off your recent activity.  So go to The Privacy Suggestion Page and tell them you want to be able to turn your recent activity off. They won’t be surprised.

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On the kottke meme.  One or more nights spent in each location.  Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.  The city marked with an ** I consider permanent residence.

The year is 2000.  I am in English class at a high school in an affluent neighborhood.  I am assigned a list of vocabulary words and am told to use them in a sentence.  I do so, but one up the challenge and create a story series about a fictional family in my weekly vocabulary exams.  The year is 2001.  My friend’s kid sister tells me my English teacher, one Ms. Elizabeth Waller, has raved about my vocabulary stories to the class below me.  I feel suddenly validated as a writer.  Thank you, Ms. Waller.

The year is 2009.  I am in the habit of complaining about my job.  A friend tells me how he truly laughed out loud at my “status messages” regarding micromanagement and general office antics.  I am once again validated in my wit and literary skill.  A year earlier I had resolved to write a book, but at this point I forget the premise.  It matters not.

The year is still 2009, sadly.  Every Friday I wake up at the buttcrack of dawn to meet with a group of men to further our understanding of the world.  I imagine us as the freemasons, or better yet, the beginning of some powerhouse think-tank with the power to make the freemasons feel as if their liberties are completely taken away.  We are in charge now.

You can call it pride, arrogance, or even naivety… but my mission is to change the world.  I will do it with my story and I will affect one character at a time.  i’m starting with the character of you.  Your story is now blended with mine and we’re setting out on a journey.

One day we may look back and see this as a defining point in our lives where we crossed over from boring to awesome.  May, but probably won’t.  It’s closer to the truth to say that perhaps you will speak in to my life and I will attempt to somehow move you in the way you think.  And in that movement of poking, proding, irritating, and infecting that somehow you would see that there is a greater purpose to all that is here that we claim to live for.

I will write.  You will read.  And together, we will be set free.

Source: Signal vs. Noise