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Using IM (instant messaging) to access application isn’t exactly new anymore. Imified is a good a example. But really, only geeks develop this, only geeks use this, and only geeks get excited by this.
Remotely controlling applications by sending text messages through IM is essentially just a new protocol for telnet.
What is interesting is how this very [...]
Wow. I thought I didn’t care for Gladwell’s brand of slick packaged pop-intellectualism. It looks like The Register has even less patience than I.
Gladwell has made a career out of handing simple, vacuous truths to people and dressing them up with flowery language and an impressionistic take on the scientific method. Hive minders seem to love [...]
I don’t usually like to write about myself. But I read something recently from an incredibly unlikely source that crysalizes why I’m such a curmudgeon. That source is Entertainment Weekly’s article on the 2008 People’s Choice Awards.
The only thing I can hope for is this: When people like Kid Rock and Adam Sandler take to the [...]
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