A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria

Clearly the door is open for someone to build the app that dominates this software niche. I guess the question is if the niche is large enough and if there is anyone out there willing to do it. I would love to see Adobe kicked to the curb in this space!

The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style | A Hamburger Today

Senator Charles E. Schumer Open Letter to Apple

Imagine if politicians took the time to write letters about important things. I tried, but I can’t.

My Year Of Everything: B. E.

A. G. G.

R. E. S. S. I. V. E.

A good friend of mine was feeling career-blocked last week, and he asked me for advice. I dusted off a pitch I’ve given a few times before:

Pretend you’re giving it all up and going back to school in a year. Act like you have one year to make it work before you…

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Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.

The more important question is- would anyone notice there wasn’t a baseball All-Star game played this year?

Sen. Robert Menendez urges MLB players to boycott Arizona All-Star Game - ESPN

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Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple after profits tumbled at the Japanese giant for the first time in six years.

Satoru Iwata, the Nintendo president, is understood to have told his senior executives recently to regard the battle with Sony as a victory already won and to treat Apple, and its iPhone and iPad devices, as the “enemy of the future” .

Nintendo should be worried. The Wii is purely a gimmick device. I play iPhone games daily, PS3 occasionally, and haven’t turned on the Wii for close to a year now.

from: Rivals are invading its patch, but Nintendo is ready to go to war - Times Online

Microsoft spends a lot of money creating crappy advertisements. from: CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising

Microsoft spends a lot of money creating crappy advertisements.

from: CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising

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Here’s what happened: On his Mac, Ryan pulled up a site called Eco Zoo. It is, seemingly, a pretty intense example of Flash development — full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters. Then, he pulled up the same thing on his Nexus One. The site’s progress bar filled in and the 3D world appeared for a few seconds before the browser crashed. Ryan said (paraphrasing), “Whoops! Well, it’s beta, and this is an intense example — let’s try it again.” He tried it again and got the same result. So he said to the audience, “Well, this one isn’t going to work, but does anyone have a Flash site they’d like to see running?” Someone shouted out “Hulu.” Ryan said, “Hulu doesn’t work,” and then wrapped up his demo, telling people if they wanted to try more sites they could find him later and he’d let them play with his Nexus One.

—Sounds exactly like what I would expect from Adobe and Flash.

from: JeffCroft.com: On the Android Flash demo at FlashCamp Seattle

I was expecting it. That is, that the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, would drink more than the dumb, who scored low. Look at the other correlates above. But I’ve rarely seen such a stark near-monotonic trend with Wordsum. You can try to control for variables. Race doesn’t matter much for what it’s worth, the trends stay pretty much the same if you constrain to whites. I decided to check the “Bible” variable, which measures literal interpretation. As expected controlling for fundamentalism eliminates much of the Protestant vs. non-Protestant difference, as well as exacerbates the sex difference (fundamentalist women are much more teetotaling than men), but it really didn’t effect the rank relation on many categories. The regional and Wordsum difference remains even among those who are fundamentalists or irreligious. I think this points to the social aspect of drinking. Even if you like to drink, if you’re circle of acquaintances tends not to, you won’t get a chance to drink as much. Conversely, if drinking is expected, there’s more pressure to bend your norms to please your friends. (via People of class drink alcohol | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine )

I was expecting it. That is, that the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, would drink more than the dumb, who scored low. Look at the other correlates above. But I’ve rarely seen such a stark near-monotonic trend with Wordsum. You can try to control for variables. Race doesn’t matter much for what it’s worth, the trends stay pretty much the same if you constrain to whites. I decided to check the “Bible” variable, which measures literal interpretation. As expected controlling for fundamentalism eliminates much of the Protestant vs. non-Protestant difference, as well as exacerbates the sex difference (fundamentalist women are much more teetotaling than men), but it really didn’t effect the rank relation on many categories. The regional and Wordsum difference remains even among those who are fundamentalists or irreligious. I think this points to the social aspect of drinking. Even if you like to drink, if you’re circle of acquaintances tends not to, you won’t get a chance to drink as much. Conversely, if drinking is expected, there’s more pressure to bend your norms to please your friends. (via People of class drink alcohol | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine

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Bourdain also revealed his simple strategy for getting his daughter to avoid McDonald’s: Tell her “Ronald McDonald has cooties.
Anthony Bourdain charms at the State - Minneapolis / St. Paul Restaurants and Dining - The Hot Dish