Why do we forget our childhood?
Author Archives: paulschreiber
yay ireland
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg.
harcourt in NYT
They call him The Star Maker of the Semipopular. Groan.
blair’s solution.
stop giving every cow in Europe two euros a day. (via jesse).
readability bookmarklet
here’s a quick readability bookmarklet. it makes the background white and the text black. tested in Safari 2.0. looks like this: <a href=”javascript:document.body.style.color=’#000′;document.body.style.background=’#fff’;”>bw</a>
wil shipley talks
Delicious Monster’s Wil Shipley gave a talk to students at WWDC 2005. His slides are now online. Well worth a read. And damn funny.
mac os x on intel
Developers Speak Universal Binary: As long as Apple picks the fastest chips, they could be tortilla chips for all we care. —Wil Shipley
one way to handle pensioners
Salon reports on the NBA pension fight: For years, about 85 elderly ex-players have been fighting to get NBA pensions. The response from the league and the union: Drop dead. Half of them have.
finally, real broadband
100 MBps in NYC.
the eff, explained
i tell everyone the EFF is “like the ACLU for the Internet.” mike had a great quip. he called it “amnesty international for nerds.”