January 2012
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“people who use getglue are the worst, generally”
– Bobby
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“man this microwave dinner takes 9 minutes”
– Drew
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“Realistically, when do you think the babies will start?”
– Kady
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People be drinkin' →
Binge drinking is more common among those with household incomes of $75,000 or more, but the largest number of drinks consumed per occasion is significantly higher among binge drinkers with household incomes of less than $25,000 – an average of eight to nine drinks, the report said.
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“I remember one that was funny, it was called The Personal Touch, and it was a...”
– Louis CK
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Regarding ebooks
One thing I’ve not heard much of is the ability for publishers and authors to discover when people read books, how quickly they read them, and where they stop reading them. Information like this probably won’t inform authors how to write, but it might be a boon to publishers.
Something similar occurred when video games made a big switch to digital distribution and instituted an...
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No butter in Norway? Swedes will enjoy Christmas... →
I’d rather be a battered EU citizen with a mouth full of buttery cookies than a filthy rich Norwegian eating unbuttered toast
Apparently Swedes hate Norwegians.
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Misconceptions about iOS Multitasking →
If someone tells you that all the apps in the multitasking bar are running, using up memory or sucking power, they are wrong.
When you hit the home button, an app moves from Active to Background and quickly to the Suspended state where it no longer uses CPU time or drains power.
An app may request an additional 10 minutes of Background running to complete a big task before becoming Suspended.
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Inbox 10,000: Some Thoughts After A Month Away... →
Of those tools, Gmail is the best. But it still sucks. It takes several seconds to send even the simplest message. You have to worry about subject lines. You have to worry about properly formatting your message because that’s the norm. You have to hit several buttons. Then you have to wait for a response.
Everything’s amazing, and nobody’s happy.
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WatchThe re-enactment is REALLY weird, right? Like, that’s not something that is normally done. Right?
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