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The smartphones I've owned so far
The smartphones I've owned so far
I have been meaning to write about this for a while, talk about my history of using phones and messing around with them
The smartphones I've owned so far
[theme] The phones I've owned so far — tmo
[theme] The phones I've owned so far — tmo
I don't know how I happened across this blog, but one of the posts on here is The smartphones I've owned so far, which seemed like a fun ...
[theme] The phones I've owned so far — tmo
WorldWideWeb: A Simple Web Server Utility for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
WorldWideWeb: A Simple Web Server Utility for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
Early today The Iconfactory released their latest app, a simple web server utility called WorldWideWeb. Solidly developer-focused in scope, the app serves files from a local directory to an automatically generated URL, making these files available to any device on your local network. While there are sure to be more inventive use cases for such
WorldWideWeb: A Simple Web Server Utility for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
WorldWideWeb, Part II • The Breakroom
WorldWideWeb, Part II • The Breakroom
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
WorldWideWeb, Part II • The Breakroom
Gawker
Gawker
Gawker. It's a website on the internet.
Gawker
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
The Art of the World Premiere
The Art of the World Premiere
Trailers come and trailers go. Expectations rise and reality come crashing back as the game approaches release. Sometimes, the right…
The Art of the World Premiere
Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the 'Instapoets'
Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the 'Instapoets'
With almost 2 million followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation
Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the 'Instapoets'
A Remark.as Meetup (another one!) - Events - Discuss Write.as
A Remark.as Meetup (another one!) - Events - Discuss Write.as
So this past Saturday, June. 4, 2022, there was the Remark.as Meetup, and it was a lot of fun to chat with the folks there, so we think it should be done again! This Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM CST is the next time we wanted to get together there, in the Remark.as Cafe in the chat box above the comments area. Nothing else needs be done, just show up and enter the chat and start meeting people! Fun to discuss things with other bloggers/writers. Hope to see/meet any/all of you there ...
A Remark.as Meetup (another one!) - Events - Discuss Write.as
Soldiers were given $4 for ‘invasion money’ on D-Day in 1944
Soldiers were given $4 for ‘invasion money’ on D-Day in 1944
Deb Kiner, pennlive.com On June 6, 1944, Howard Whitman, New York Daily News Correspondent representing the combined American press, described the soldiers boarding ships headed to the beaches of Normandy. Whitman said American soldiers were eager “to get on with the Big Show.” The Big Show was D-Day during World War II...
Soldiers were given $4 for ‘invasion money’ on D-Day in 1944
Urban Commuter
Urban Commuter
Lessons learned from commuting to large cities
Urban Commuter
The Unmeasured Self — Hide the Eraser
The Unmeasured Self — Hide the Eraser
I long resisted any sort of fitness trackers. I realized a long time ago that whenever I found out about the measure of a thing that just...
The Unmeasured Self — Hide the Eraser
Victims of History | Federico Perelmuter
Victims of History | Federico Perelmuter
The novels of Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto capture the contradictions of life in Latin America in the middle of the 20th century.
Victims of History | Federico Perelmuter
The Almighty Gun | Rafia Zakaria
The Almighty Gun | Rafia Zakaria
Worshipping at the altar of gun rights has turned the U.S. into a society that tolerates episodic rituals of child sacrifice.
The Almighty Gun | Rafia Zakaria