Recently, The Verge covered an announcement that future USB connectors will finally be reversible. This is great news for anyone who has desperately attempted to correctly orient a USB connector for some hard to reach port while striking a pose that would make yoga instructors wince. At the end of the brief, The Verge gives […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
Good news! Apple has finally released an update to iWork on OS X. The bad news, at least for some, is this new version appears to be a complete rewrite. As such, the latest version of iWork has lost features. Gruber pointed out during The Talk Show that while ire and disappointment are justified, users […]
A few weeks ago, a bunch of hoopla was made about Marissa Mayer’s decision to drastically cut back on Yahoo’s telecommuting. All of the commotion I have read or heard seem to uniformly condemn her actions as petty, controlling, and bad for business. While I am sympathetic with the work from home cause, I also […]
I am generally fit, which is to say I am trim and with some noticeable muscle definition given the right light. Despite accusations of genetics, my physique has been largely achieved through diet and exercise. The last 15 years has been filled with miles of running increasingly supplemented with various body weight workouts. In addition […]
A recent theory of mine is that awkward non-sequiturs are directly proportional to strength in associative thinking multiplied by an ability to retain trivial information. I made a comic to represent this theory. Enjoy!
This past month has brought me three pieces that have tweaked my interest in gender/sexuality issues. The first came from John Siracusa’s gracefully retired Hypercritical where he talked about misogynist nerds who rage against so called “geek girls.” The second is Jezebel’s defense of the now defunct Nice Guys of OkCupid tumblr, and the last […]
Borderlands is a classic multiplayer dungeon crawler with first person shooter mechanics.Traditionally, dungeon crawlers like Diablo or Baldur’s Gate do not require much skill. Defeating bad guys can usually be accomplished in two easy steps: walk into general vicinity of bad guy and press button. The game will then take care of the actual aiming, […]
Obama’s reelection feels more impactful than I expected. I can’t quite put my finger as to why, but I have a few theories. First off, Republicans were quietly confident that Obama was a one term president. They garnered momentum coming out of the midterm elections and immediately employed an obstructionist agenda to effectively stall government […]
Anyone with a basic interest in American Football has been made fully aware of the NFL’s use of scab refs this season. The term “scab” can be offensive with certain context and tone, but I find the term rather apt given the situation. Rather than address the actual problems with the NFL Referee Association, the […]
http://allthingsd.com/20120916/google-and-alibaba-continue-warring-over-acer-phone/ Right or wrong, this isn’t the first time Google has allegedly strong-armed a hardware vendor out of using a competitor.Alibaba designing a Java based OS to benefit from an existing Android ecosystem seems awfully similar to Google designing Dalvik to benefit from an existing Java ecosystem.What if instead of Acer, the hardware vendor in […]