Archives for February 2012

Matty the Angry Chihuahua

February 13, 2012 | Filed under: Rants

Speaking of swinging dead cats, I can’t plow through my RSS feed without coming across someone* linking to MG Siegler, formerly of TechCrunch and now a venture partner at CrunchFund. And Dan Lyons, formerly Fake Steve Jobs, just posted a doozy of a post where he calls Siegler: “Matty the

iPad Note App Review

February 13, 2012 | Filed under: Software

I’ve spent a fair amount of time the last few weeks testing different note-taking apps for the iPad. You can’t swing a dead a cat in the iTunes music store without hitting one these days, but I’ve done my due diligence and looked at most of the major ones.

You Don't Say

February 12, 2012 | Filed under: Politics

Marco Ament: Nate Anderson thoroughly disassembles RIAA CEO Cary Sherman’s New York Times op-ed, a blabbering, rage-filled diversion-fest so badly conceived and written that it makes me question the editorial standards of The New York Times. Welcome to the club. We have T-shirts.

Reading xkcd with Reeder

February 9, 2012 | Filed under: Software

If, like me, you are a fan of the web comic xkcd, then surely you are aware that part of the fun of each comic is the pithy text contained in the title attribute of each graphic. A DFW-style footnote for each comic, if you will. The problem when viewing