Showing posts with label Steve Jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Jobs. Show all posts
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Gawker: On second thought Steve Jobs was actually kinda of a dick in many ways
Leave it to the people at Gawker to speak ill of the dead. But I have to say all this postmortem adulation for Steve Jobs is getting kind of over the top. No wonder some call the obsession some people have with Apple, Jobs, and all things Mac a cult. Irony alert: This blog post is being written on a MacBook.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Weblog
A country boy girl can survive. Even in 1980's Michigan. (Ann Arbor Chronicle)
"Now [Bonnie Jo] Campbell has published Once Upon a River, a big novel that--even as its title indicates--picks up some big American ideas. The character who lives on this river is a sixteen-year-old girl, and its watershed is a slightly fictionalized version of the Kalamazoo River's, but it's a river that has been found before in American writing, one we move down both to discover and to move beyond ourselves.
Her protagonist is Margo Crane, a beautiful and solitary child, more at home in a rowboat than in front of a TV (I don't think Campbell ever even mentions television or the movies in this book!). To say that Margo is a member of 'the rural poor' doesn't come near to the place where she lives. To say that she 'lives off the grid' would indicate that she knows what the grid is--she doesn't. To say that she suffers neglect and abuse is to find easy labels for the complexities of her life. Although we know the time period is around 1980, there is no mention of movie stars, of popular music, of the rise of Reagan, of hostages in Iran. One character says to Margo, 'You seem like a girl who was raised by wolves or something.' "
Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs? (CNet News)
Apple never did that that well when it was run by people other than Jobs. I fear for Apple when he goes. And given his health issues that could be any time.
Arrogant bastards. Customer asks for itemized bill, Verizon tells her to get a subpoena (Slashdot)
The final sunset of the British Empire: U.K. Army tells its soldiers not to shoot bomb-layers
It might upset their families don't ya know? (Small Wars Journal)
The bottom line on the New Atheist movement: "They are not hardheaded skeptics bringing the light of reason to the ignorant masses. They’re merely another identity movement for propping up the upper-middle-class booboisie’s self-esteem." (Taki's Magazine)
The Forever War's best new weapon of choice: The aerial drone (Economist)
Because jet fighters and bombers cost a lot to design and build and their pilot's cost a lot to train and because aircraft carriers are just too damn vulnerable to anti-ship missiles these days.
Pirates attacking ships more but succeeding less (Danger Room)
This is the kind of business Xe (nee' Black Water) should have gone into.
Her protagonist is Margo Crane, a beautiful and solitary child, more at home in a rowboat than in front of a TV (I don't think Campbell ever even mentions television or the movies in this book!). To say that Margo is a member of 'the rural poor' doesn't come near to the place where she lives. To say that she 'lives off the grid' would indicate that she knows what the grid is--she doesn't. To say that she suffers neglect and abuse is to find easy labels for the complexities of her life. Although we know the time period is around 1980, there is no mention of movie stars, of popular music, of the rise of Reagan, of hostages in Iran. One character says to Margo, 'You seem like a girl who was raised by wolves or something.' "
Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs? (CNet News)
Apple never did that that well when it was run by people other than Jobs. I fear for Apple when he goes. And given his health issues that could be any time.
Arrogant bastards. Customer asks for itemized bill, Verizon tells her to get a subpoena (Slashdot)
The final sunset of the British Empire: U.K. Army tells its soldiers not to shoot bomb-layers
It might upset their families don't ya know? (Small Wars Journal)
The bottom line on the New Atheist movement: "They are not hardheaded skeptics bringing the light of reason to the ignorant masses. They’re merely another identity movement for propping up the upper-middle-class booboisie’s self-esteem." (Taki's Magazine)
The Forever War's best new weapon of choice: The aerial drone (Economist)
Because jet fighters and bombers cost a lot to design and build and their pilot's cost a lot to train and because aircraft carriers are just too damn vulnerable to anti-ship missiles these days.
Pirates attacking ships more but succeeding less (Danger Room)
This is the kind of business Xe (nee' Black Water) should have gone into.
Monday, June 6, 2011
weblog
A review of Francis Fukuyama's new book (Steve Sailor, American Conservative)
Diversity weakens not strengthens. You can't separate race and ethnicity from political organization no matter how you try.
The sheep leading the wolves; Nietzsche on the modern state (Michael Kleen, Alternative Right)
"Nietzsche saw socialism as the driving force behind the “perfect State” (der vollkommene Staat), or the State taken to its ultimate modern expression. With its striving for a comfortable life for the greatest possible number, Nietzsche imagined this State would choke the life out of the geniuses who had previously found themselves at the top of the social ladder."
Next year's Steve Jobs bio already a bestseller (Lance Whitney, Cnet)
"The upcoming authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs won't be out until next March, but it's already a bestseller on Amazon thanks to a flurry of preorders."
Diversity weakens not strengthens. You can't separate race and ethnicity from political organization no matter how you try.
The sheep leading the wolves; Nietzsche on the modern state (Michael Kleen, Alternative Right)
"Nietzsche saw socialism as the driving force behind the “perfect State” (der vollkommene Staat), or the State taken to its ultimate modern expression. With its striving for a comfortable life for the greatest possible number, Nietzsche imagined this State would choke the life out of the geniuses who had previously found themselves at the top of the social ladder."
Next year's Steve Jobs bio already a bestseller (Lance Whitney, Cnet)
"The upcoming authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs won't be out until next March, but it's already a bestseller on Amazon thanks to a flurry of preorders."
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