When I went to New Zealand last year, I decided to take my bike with me. I’d have a van the whole time, so moving it around with me would be easy. And Air New Zealand allowed me two free bags, one of which could be a bicycle. If you’re interested in travelling with your …
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What Mark Fiore is doing with his Pulitzer Prize money
Newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore — whose app is now in the iTunes Store — had this to say: Since winning the prize brought attention to Apple’s policy of rejecting iPhone apps that “ridicule public figures” I figure the least I can do is devote more resources to ridiculing public figures.”
More app store hypocrisy
Earlier this year, the nuns on Cupertino’s app store approval team removed 5000 applications for having sexual content. Fine. Be a prude. But what makes this funny is that Apple’s left hand doesn’t know what its right hand is doing: the music store will sell you D12’s Nasty Mind, which contains lyrical gems such as …
UPS = United Parcel Storage
How does it make sense for UPS to keep my package in a warehouse — 19 miles from my house — for two days?
Ride Snowboards’ phone number
To reach Ride Snowboards’ customer service, call their parent company, K2 Sports at (206) 805-4800‎. Then push 1 (for customer service), 2 (for snowboards), 2 (for Ride) and 2 (for consumers).
Don’t cancel
Liz Danzico wrote a great little essay on two flaws in our culture: Saying things we don’t mean to be “polite” (“Let’s get together soon”) Agreeing to do something and then cancelling on the person The post is concise and thoughtful — read the whole thing — and concludes with this: 4. Don’t cancel Ever. …
There’s a reason he was denied bail
From the January 9, 2010 Herald Sun:
Facebook doesn’t understand Canada
When you update your Facebook account and link your interests and activities to the new community pages, Facebook automatically assigns a picture to represent each interest. Sometimes that doesn’t work very well:
Disc name as user interface
I recently installed Windows 7. Having installed Snow Leopard many times, I was curious to see how it would compare. Before you even get started, you see an example of the little details Apple pays attention to, but Microsoft is too lazy to care about. Insert the disc in to your drive. The Mac OS …
Xcode and the run-on sentence
Last night, I ran Software Update and updated Xcode. Here’s the description Apple provided: Xcode 3.2.2 is an update release of the developer tools for Mac OS X. This release provides bug fixes in gdb, Interface Builder, Instruments, llvm-gcc and Clang optimizer, Shark, and Xcode and must be installed on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow …