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Courtesy of Lifehacker comes this nice little tidbit:

iPhone/iPod touch only: The iPhone has sported a .com keyboard shortcut for making quick work of URLs in Mobile Safari since it was released, but reader George points us to an expansion to this keyboard shortcut that can save tons of time for entering email addresses and non-.com URLs. […]

Seriously, this is AWESOME: Mario Paint Composer. Mac & Windows versions available; if the Mac download link isn’t working, check the forums, the link is in there.
 (Via Lifehacker)

George Carlin has shuffled off this mortal coil as of yesterday. The LA Times provided the article I read, although it’s being reported everywhere. His comic wit will be missed. In his honor, one of the greatest comedic routines ever:

So I really love typography. I mean, seriously. I read I Love Typography, download free fonts all the time, keep looking for ways to use swfIR or sIFR in my websites, and otherwise utilize beautiful typefaces.
So when I came across this article by Jon Tan, I devoured it. It’s a study of the paragraph as punctuation, […]

Just a quick heads-up to anyone who comments, I’ve modified my comments field to have some markup available. You can click the buttons, and it’ll format, or, if you know Markdown syntax, you can type it in directly. There’s also now a live preview to aid you in creating your comments. Give it a spin […]

So I’ve been posting a lot of links, reblogs, quotes, and media lately, but nothing of a more personal nature. Life seems to have settled into a bit of a routine, which is probably why I haven’t bored anyone who happens to be reading (comment! I love comments!), but I felt the desire to write […]

Awesome list. Thankfully, I’ve somehow managed to learn many of these, which is pretty f’ing excellent. Some favorites include:

#3 – Use Google Effectively – Google knows everything. If you’re having trouble finding something with Google, it’s you that needs help.
#5 – Drive a Manual Transmission Vehicle – There will come a time when you’ll be stuck without this knowledge.
#16 – Travel Light – Bring only the necessities. It’s the cheaper, […]

The article I’m quoting/linking to here is a thought exercise more than anything, but, as such an exercise should do, it is thought-provoking. Philip Greenspun asks: “How much would it cost to convert the entire U.S. fleet of passenger cars, which collectively burn 40 percent of the oil that we use, to electric cars?” He […]

Inside Mac Games quoted a story on Gamesindustry.biz about an encryption chip that could make it nigh impossible to pirate a video game. One of the most interesting part of the article is the fact that Nelson Bushnell, founder of Atari, is quoted as saying “There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that […]

John Gruber, one of my favorite writers, opines this in reference to this article by Saul Hansell, in a report for the NYT Bits Blog on current negotiations between Apple and the major music labels:
So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t […]