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Redub LLC, Don't Make Me Scroll: "What the screen lacks in dots per inch it more than makes up for in dots per inch per second." (via) - Michael Sippey

Reason #4789, our IT manager sends out fantastic holiday gift ideas. > **To:** Six Apart SF Office **Subject:** Cruel Like Me If you have a Mac lover in the family and a cruel streak, I have lots of spare Macbook... - Michael Sippey

A chat from this morning, prompted by the apple + lala post. > **friend:** Spotify just needs to launch in the US **me:** or i need to move to the uk **friend:** I can't believe somebody hasn't figured out an... - Michael Sippey

I'm enjoying the competing stories on just how much Apple paid for Lala: * AllThingsD: Lala's Fire Sale That Wasn't: What Apple Really Paid * TechCrunch: Lala was Bought by Apple for $17 Million, Not $80 Million If you're Apple,... - Michael Sippey

Filmosophy reviews You've Got Mail. > I have been at some point in my growing up, so in this movie, so in love with the whole thing of it, that I wanted to buy armfuls of white t-shirts and olive... - Michael Sippey

Lost's Damon Lindelof in an interview at TVGuide.com: "In Season 1 it took them eight episodes to build a raft; in Season 5, they jump through time four times in a single episode." - Michael Sippey

Dean Allen shuts down Favrd, and kicks off a new version the same discussion we've been having for 10+ years now. On the one hand, our linked-to blogger, Jeffrey Zeldman: > That a community may no longer please its creator... - Michael Sippey

Claudine Ise has a great post up at Bad at Sports about happening upon the Chicago Transit Authority's fabled Holiday Train. > Everyone is grinning, laughing, excited that they’ve found the CTA equivalent of the golden ticket. Me most of... - Michael Sippey

Khoi Vinh on the tradeoff of convenience v. highdef / hires: "You could re-interpret the idea of convenience as a format’s interface — if it’s easy to use, if it provides affordances commensurate to the needs of real users in... - Michael Sippey

So on a second watch of the Sports Illustrated tablet concept reel, I was struck by something fundamental: while the content looked great and a magazine interlaced with full-motion content is definitely fun to look at and page through, they... - Michael Sippey

Matt Jacobs has updated his Canabalt scoreboard; it now includes data summarized by day, and scores for individual users. Plus, check out the beautiful chart! - Michael Sippey

I know I'm late to this party, but I just have to say that as a music lover the combination of music blogs, Pandora and Lala is amazing. Project for 2010 that I'm starting one month early: monthly playlists in... - Michael Sippey

At Today and Tomorrow, Unstilled Stills by Laura Brothers; animated GIF interpretations of Clyfford Still paintings. Amazing. (Which reminds me of this San Francisco Art Institute MFA show that we saw once where one of the grad students' work was... - Michael Sippey

David Jacobs points to OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch's post on Google DNS. (Thanks, David!) The graf that DJ pulled is interesting, but so is this one: it means that Google is bringing awareness to a wide audience that there is... - Michael Sippey

The Sartorialist on Bill Cunningham: "Everytime I think I've accomplished a little something with this blog, I think of him and realize I have another 35 years before I can even start feeling that way." - Michael Sippey

Tired: vanity domains. Wired: vanity IP addresses. - Michael Sippey

The New York Times doesn't even try to hide their Googly jealousy anymore. On Monday it was David Carr comparing Google to Al Qaeda with his 9/11 metaphor, and today it's TV critic David Genzlinger laying it on thick with... - Michael Sippey

I love today's installment of ">pictures for sad children. - Michael Sippey

From Google Quick Search Box, my new favorite preferences dialog.* A new approach for "progressive disclosure," hiding all the "way under the hood" stuff down below the fold where users won't see it unless they scroll. (Then again, if you've... - Michael Sippey

Sasha Frere-Jones unpacks Susan Boyle's hit record, emphasis mine: "One reason that Boyle’s success might not have much to do with popular music is that, **compared with television**, popular music isn’t that popular." - Michael Sippey

Very clever, and great use of the Twitter API. - Michael Sippey

I'm sure this cost more than six million dollars, however: Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts. > After Petruzziello recovered from the microsurgery he underwent to implant the electrodes in his arm, it only took him a few days... - Michael Sippey

Great op-ed from Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld in today's WSJ proposing a startup visa. The challenge with getting something like this passed is having congresscritters understand this key point: "Would it work every time? Of course not. It would... - Michael Sippey

Word is trickling out of Bell Labs that Alexander Graham Bell is developing a device that will supplant the telegraph. While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist's horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph, though fatigue from magnetic waves is inevitable in the use of each. This is a minor complaint, however, as we could scarcely imagine using such a device for more than a few minutes a day. Update: Meanwhile, back in the real world, F.... - Michael Sippey

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Arianna Huffington: "Let's be honest, while promiscuity is not good in relationships, it's great for those looking for news and information." - Michael Sippey

Here is the first test comment to kick things off. This comment was submitted via the blog's comment form. - Mark Carey

Testing commenting in Twitter and friendfeef on mt-hack's blog - Hans Mestrum from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I really like the execution of the @joinred campaign today on Twitter; good use of the product, one click simple install of the @joinred theme, and a subtle use of CSS styling to change the color of tweets coming from... - Michael Sippey

Your new favorite music blog for the next...let's say...20 minutes. - Michael Sippey

Jason Kottke pointing to Greg Allen's project building Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione dining table out of Ikea parts (whoa) led me to a recent post of Greg's on Gerhard Richter's 4900 Colors Version II. Which he then connects nicely to John... - Michael Sippey