Jason Clarke

Alex Bogusky:

When I say don’t put your iPhone next to your head it’s not my opinion. It’s actually stated in the iPhone manual.

My partner Rob Schuham recently sent me a blog post about the RF radiation and it mentioned that Apple, in the iPhone manual, suggests that you keep the phone 5/8″ away from your body. I wasn’t sure I believed it, this being the web and all. So we pulled out our iPhone manual here at the Cottage, and sure enough there it was. 

I don’t like this one bit.

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Jason Kottke:

Much of the village on the Thai island of Koh Panyee is actually floating; the island is too rocky to build much of anything on land. So when a group of kids wanted to start a soccer club, they built themselves a floating soccer pitch.

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Brett Terpstra:

The long-promised 2.0 (yeah, I skipped 1.0.8) is finally here. Please download it here, as the application filename has changed to “nvALT” and Check for Updates won’t work properly. It also uses its own preference files and database now, so you’ll have to rebuild your preferences when you first launch it.

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. Notational Velocity is the best note-taking app on the Mac, and nvALT is a fork of it that adds an impressive feature set to an already awesome tool.

If I was a programmer, I’d want to be just like Brett.

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Derek Sivers, quoting Vonnegut:

“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”

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Official Twitter blog:

Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today. We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this. For now, we’re going back to the drawing board to explore the best possible experience for in-app notification and discovery.

I’ve been percolating on a full post about this, but briefly, I don’t get why Twitter wants to push users into engaging with toots from outside their own timeline. They must be able to see just as we do that the vast majority of what’s trending on Twitter is utter garbage.

My theory is that they’re all too aware that it’s garbage, and they want to try to get more quality trending topics by getting more users engaged with them. If my theory is right, I doubt that their approach is going to work.

Another thought is that it’s a way to try to encourage casual Twitter users to follow more people and become more engaged with the service. If this one is correct, Twitter had better be careful about not pushing their power users away in the process of trying to engage the casual ones. Personally, I switched from the official Twitter app for iPhone to the very capable TweetList Pro (iTunes link), and I have no intentions of going back, DickBar or not.

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Linked List

I feel like I get asked questions about this daily. I try to respond the best I can, but here is how this works.

Have you ever wondered how to get a Daring Fireball-style linked list using WordPress? Ben explains how he does it in this epic look at how his site runs.

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