Brandt Kurowski

Travis Kurowski, who covers lit mags on his blog, Luna Park Review, estimates that there are now as many as 2,800 magazines. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

If these properties are so well implemented and so useful to the mobile Web, they became de facto standards ; let’s turn them as soon as possible into de jure standards through W3C standardization. Hear hear! I am also calling Apple and Google to remove support for the “experimental” versions of a property when the final one is implemented and... - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

So here’s a thought: maybe traditional social values are eroding in the white working class — but maybe those traditional social values aren’t as essential to a good society as conservatives like to imagine. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

I Can Read ebooks - http://icanread.com/ebooks...

Tweetbot makes your iPhone bigger, thanks to Readability - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

is there a decent OS X twitter client that respects "don't show retweets" settings from http://twitter.com? i don't need to see every 🔃

White House May Look to Compromise on Contraception Decision - NYTimes.com - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012...

i wish that the reading experience at http://www.nytimes.com/ was as pleasant as http://bostonglobe.com, particularly on mobile devices

we can adjust every font-size on the page by using media-queries to change the font-size set on the BODY or HTML element according to viewport width - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

The error rate for hand-counted ballots is about two percent. All voting systems have nonzero error rates. This doesn’t surprise technologists, but does surprise the general public. There’s a myth out there that elections are perfectly accurate, down to the single vote. They’re not. If the vote is within a few percentage points, they’re likely a... - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

oh wow, OS X HiDPI is *sweet* on the living room Mac mini!

next time i get a new phone, i need to ask for a number that wasn't freshly recycled from a deadbeat with collection agencies hounding him

i don't understand why GMail's archiving paradigm hasn't been widely copied over the last 7 years. where are the clones/competitors?

iTunes store credit is 20% off at BestBuy. Time to stock up for future app purchases! (or music/movies/tv/books) http://www.bestbuy.com/site...

The author mentions the rise of for-profit businesses increasingly running prisons in the U.S., but I don’t think he makes the point strongly enough. There is now a corporate interest in the U.S. lobbying for such things as mandatory minimum sentencing. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Wasserman says the Justice Department is saving its legal firepower to challenge restrictive voting laws passed by Republicans in half a dozen Southern states since 2010. The laws require proof of citizenship to register to vote, cut back on early voting, curtailed voter registration drives and required voters to produce a government-issued ID... - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Steps to reproduce problem: 1. Open any app. 2. Boom! http://twitter.com/brandtk...

Steps necessary to reproduce the problem: 1. Open any app. 2. Boom! http://twitter.com/brandtk...

I've always thought people who were suspicious/cautious w/ OS X updates were paranoid, but 10.7.3 just hosed my system. EVERY app segfaults!

The style system matches rules by starting with the key selector, then moving to the left (looking for any ancestors in the rule’s selector). As long as the selector’s subtree continues to check out, the style system continues moving to the left until it either matches the rule, or abandons because of a mismatch. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

“My eyes feel like they’re dirty” (via Mind-Blowing Installation Makes You Feel Like You’re Walking On A Cloud | Co.Design: business innovation design) - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Spent Musket Oil. Yeah, I’m sure the ladies will start lining up once you put a dab of this on. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Obama For America just robocalled me and apologized for not being able to connect the call. WTF? don't dial then!

Digitals by Chris Crutchfield: “One day I got an email, an sms, a phone call, a Facebook message and two tweets all within about 5 seconds of one another. This video is a re-manifestation of my brain’s interpretation of that event.” - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Rhode Island City Enraged Over School Prayer Lawsuit - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...

Turning the ‘Buffett Rule’ Into Law - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...

When I start reading, the form of the book quickly disappears. Just as I don’t notice the individual letters in each word, I stop noticing the layout, the font, the paper, the binding, and every other physical artifact because I’m focused on the writing. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...

Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ Update Expired Podcasts v2.2 - http://dougscripts.com/itunes...

Yo Apple, why you gotta leave my app stuck in "Processing for App Store" so long today? How about you show a developah some love?

In descending order, the most popular fonts from the Typekit library, based on the number of people who have marked them as a favorite. - http://brandtkurowski.tumblr.com/post...