January 2012
17 posts
Apple-Foxconn tale goes well beyond Apple, and... →
This story, that comes on the back of a New York Times investigative report on the supply chains used by major tech companies in the west, gets all bitchy that said report focuses on Apple.
Just a few days ago Apple, and their legions of apologist bloggers who make sane people want to puke, were openly masturbating over how much money the company made during the last financial quarter in profits...
“A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories,...”
– So Apple really doesn’t make things in the United States because the above would be considered unreasonable, dictatorial and perhaps even cruel. Because most western employers would never do such a thing and most western workers would, rightfully, tell their employer that the job would get...
“Red-faced bank officials would not comment, but sources say the funds were...”
– Considering the money would have weighed about 98 Tonnes (metric) if it was in US Dollars we doubt he would have been able to just wander off down the street with it even if he could have withdrawn the cash.
BBC News - Indian teacher’s shock at his $9.8bn bank balance
“Intelligent lighting ? Walking at night and light goes out as houseowner...”
– People like this are the reason we don’t make progress.
BBC News - Light pollution: Is there a solution?
“I cannot understand why the home button needs to appear when you’ve made this...”
– http://alanzeino.tumblr.com/post/15917457226/androids-broken-software-buttons
Amazing that people like Mr Zeino can cross the road without being run over by a truck.
The phones of CES 2012 | The Verge →
Not sure what a “phone enthusiast” is but we should all hope never to meet one!
“No one just skips on into the abortion clinic at 20 weeks, giddy with excitement...”
– Asshole No One Likes to Run Graphic Bloody Fetus Ads During Super Bowl
Acer's AcerCloud unveil is a blatant iCloud ripoff... →
The Verge better knock this petty crap off pretty quick or the sites going on the “not worth reading because it’s full of trivial horse shit” list, and that’s not a list you want to be on.
Why Siri is all hype - Forbes →
The comments section of this article is why it’s becoming embarrassing to own Apple kit. The piece was linked to by long time unofficial Apple PR rep John Gruber. What follows is a series of vitriolic attacks because somebody points out that giving your cell phone voice commands is actually slower and less productive than doing it by hand, which it is.
“Options include bringing in Arnold Schwarzenegger to yell at people to...”
– Alternative games dance makers could play instead of The Place Prize.
Article19™ Offbeat: The Big Game
“Second — and this is the point almost nobody seems to get — an over-borrowed...”
– Paul Krugman at the New York Times
“Here in TheLab™ we’re running out of reasons not to have the [old] Boyz...”
– The Ballet Boyz, keeping it real facile for the masses…..
Tumbled
Our Tumblr timeline view indicates that posts to Tumblr have fallen off a cliff recently. This has to stop, or rather start up again so we shall be Tumbling a whole lot more from this moment on, starting with this very Tumbl about how we don’t Tumble enough on Tumblr and why the fuck is this website called Tumblr anyway, what the fuck has Tumbling got to do with writing………
The Reddit Joke →
It’s hard to know if the design of Reddit is some sort of inside, ironic joke that nobody gets or if it’s just a joke!
December 2011
3 posts
“People stand in line for the new iPhone because they believe Apple cares.”
– A comment that is fucked up beyond the point of human reason.
If Samsung doesn’t care about customers, how can it hope to keep them? | The Verge
Push Over →
If you see anybody using one of these, push them over, they absolutely deserve it.
November 2011
2 posts
5by5 | Hypercritical #42: The Wrong Guy →
Listen to as much of this as you can stomach on the book about Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. They (Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa) sound like a cliched couple of dickish nerds whinging about Star Trek on a bad tv show.
Weirdly though there is an affiliate link to buy the book in the pages footnotes. Apparently being a hypocrite is no problem, if you’re a dick!
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
This guy’s a fucking idiot, plain and simple. Funnily enough he makes a reference about dance at the end of the piece asking if we really want to express our interaction with technology through the use of just a finger?
Yes, we do. You know why? Because if I want to call up an email I don’t want to have to do it through the medium of dance.
Pillock
October 2011
2 posts
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BBC News - Home Secretary Theresa May wants Human... →
Yeah, we bet they want to axe it! As for the “British Bill of Rights” the idiot Cameron is proposing presumably this would contain some sort of “you have the right to be an intellectually bone idle, working class hero, a-typical Brit who doesn’t fight for anything”.
September 2011
8 posts
/Film →
Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Page 2, we have to split this post over a BUNCH of pages. Click the link above to continue the second page of Page 2.
No, you split the stuff over multiple pages so you can increase your ad impressions. Don’t you hate it when websites treat their readers like fucking idiots?
That’s like Article19 splitting a video into 10,...
A Business Insider retrospective – Marco.org →
content is king, nuff said!
Obama: 'This Is Not Class Warfare; It's Math' |... →
“Either we gut education and medical research or we’ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations have to give up tax loopholes that other companies don’t get. We can’t afford to do both. This is not class warfare; it’s math.”
The Big O. has spoken!
Bystanders rescue motorcycle driver trapped under... →
Awesome! Nuff Said!
Never Forget
There are lots of videos, writings and musings around at the moment, for obvious reasons, regarding September 11th. A lot of those pieces are called “Remembering 9/11” or a variation thereof. Our point is this though. How can we remember it, when we are never allowed to forget it?
Pricks →
The only conclusion that we can come to as to why people don’t have comments on their website is because they are such collosal pricks who write about such colossaly pointless crap they would be swamped with either:
A: other colossal pricks telling them how awsome they are or
B: normal people telling them they are colossal pricks
“Tablets Empowering Users”? The only thing...
The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air - Interactive... →
The New York Times always does an amazing job with these things.
August 2011
2 posts
Virtuoso →
We wonder why, here in TheLab™, this particular video has been watched more than twenty thousand times? Is it because of the stellar dance making, the big blue sky, the photography? What do you think?
Missing e {browser extension for tumblr}: What's... →
noxdineen:
Lame. When somebody builds a tool that makes using your app better for a large number of your users you help them as needed, not shut them down because your own interface is less appealing.
missing-e:
Well, I might as well break it to you.
It is unlikely that Missing e will come back. If it does, it won’t be the same.
Please note that what follows is my interpretation of...
July 2011
6 posts
CrumplePop Blog →
Awesome news, Crumple Pop will be developing all of its plugins for FCPX. This is truly game changing news!
Never bloody heard of them or their stuff.
“Design can help a little, but sadly design cannot save lives”
– Mr Starck jumps the shark in so many ways with that one simple comment.
Tell the designers of the flare gun, life vests, crash helmets, air bags, cannulas, etc that their work was not instrumental in saving lives.
French Visionary Starck’s Advice to Designers: Create Fewer Useless Products |...
Messing With Medicare - NYTimes.com →
Paul Krugman, one of the few who can parse economic policy for non-economists.
Norwegian national tragedy unfolds on Web |... →
Shameless, pointless, wretched link bait. Unfortunately you have to link to it to illustrate it. A tech website has no reason to be reporting this situation other than to cash in on web searches and links.
Were the tech media to be believed, social media is responsible for pretty much everything when really all it’s responsible for is being a massive waste of time.
Why Apple dares to change your apps | Video |... →
Another fat guy with glasses who isn’t a video production professional gives Apple a blow-job when he has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Who pays these pricks to write things? Oh right, Macworld does!
June 2011
7 posts
Jeffery Harrell: The FCP X FAQ, that petition, and... →
jefferyharrell:
“Branding and positioning are not open for public scrutiny, and making a lot of noise about how the program is or isn’t advertised just reinforces the idea that a bunch of insecure self-appointed “professionals” are feeling threatened by democratization and the lowering of barriers to entry.”
Mr Harrell has made some good points but now he’s just descending...
Nothing is Real
It occurs to us that the invention of sites like Instagram, HDR on mobile phones and those wretched phone apps that auto vignette every damn photo that anybody takes we no longer have any idea what something actually looks like anymore.
HDR is fucking ugly, so stop it, would you please!
Peanuts Rights Holder Shuts Down Peanutweeter. →
Sometimes TechDirt is good and sometimes it’s bad and sometimes it misses the mark by a million miles.
Rights holders had the Peanutweeter website pulled because it took existing works and then replaced what the characters were saying in the strips with random tweets. So far so what.
Problem is a lot of the tweets include swearing. Why the hell would the rights holders for the Peanuts...
BBC News - Icann increases web domain suffixes →
Nothing more than a lame money making excercise for ICANN. Apparently it will cost $185,000 to apply for the name you want. Why is http://drink.coke easier to find or figure out than http://drinkcoke.com?
It’s not going to make the web easier to use, it’s going to make it harder.
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Sparkle: a free software update framework for the... →
Sparkle rules, OSX App Store, not so much. Starting one app so you can update another app is not intuitive and how often do you open the App Store unless you are actually looking for an app?
7 tags
May 2011
13 posts
“why can’t you get good fish and chips in England?”
– some random scottish dude!
4 tags
