Linkology: The Best of the Internet 2/5/2010
Like smart web content but hate juvenile comment bickering? Shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that you can apply to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites (YouTube, I’m looking at you).
Speaking of comments, Engadget put them on hiatus for a while and the folks over at Macheist have decided that their version of Daring Fireball with comments was running too counter to the spirit of the original. Good for them. I’ve always felt we should respect the intentions of writers and other creatives and not impose what we think would be best just because there’s technology that allows us to do so.
IDC reports that Apple’s iPhone continues to outpace smartphone industry growth on a worldwide basis. Thought exercise: imagine what the numbers would be if Apple had more than one domestic carrier. (I have a feeling you won’t have to imagine for too much longer.)
10 products that did well during the recession.
As a science nerd, I’m fascinated by this theory of horizontal gene transfer which postulates that the dominant form of evolution was not among ancestors but between non-related species and organisms.
Comcast rebrands as Xfinity, which leads me to believe that Comcast brass must have come to the conclusion that their name was so synonymous with negative customer sentiment that it was a safer play to walk away from an incredibly established household brand name than to resurrect it. Comcast claims that the rebrand has nothing to do with distancing itself from the old name but instead better reflecting its new product/service lineup.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tweets his support for repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’. Regardless of your stance on the topic, if there’s a more concrete sign of new media’s presence in modern society, I’m not sure what it is.
Finally, Ray Bradbury on how he found his voice as a writer – which, as any writer or aspiring writer (including yours truly) knows, is one of the craft’s major challenges.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
