Technology

My iPhone now has a huge crack in its screen. This is the kind of thing that's only supposed to happen to other people.

Wait, people still go to the Google home page?

As far as I can tell, the Get Mail button in Mail.app is the equivalent of a crosswalk button at a traffic light. Total placebo.

Writing some heartfelt lyrics for the Comcast hold music.

If a corporation is legally a person, then Comcast must be a prostitute, since it seems to think I'm paying it to fuck me.

I haven’t tried the Wired iPad app yet, but my nodding-in-agreement bordered on headbanging when I read this:

Let’s make this clear once and for all: at the current surface and resolution of the iPad, multi column layouts for long screen texts are sentimental nonsense.

JetBlue, I love ya, but burying your web check-in process in Flash is a total dick move.

Such an awesome idea!

Hey, @dribbble users who don't use @dribbble, either get in the fucking game or give your accounts to people who will.

Your weekly Comcast call about your awful service is usually dropped by AT&T, and you realize that there is a god, and that he's an asshole.

Somehow, it's been years since I last did a Photoshop batch process. Forgot how satisfying it can be.

Using a Windows PC almost every day for the last seventeen months has left my soul a withered husk.

Cloud computing would be pretty neat if there was such a thing as a reliable ISP.

Tech Retail 101: Restrict at least one register to people who want to make a simple purchase with no obnoxiously time-consuming questions.

Ours is not to question why. Ours is but to make another goddamned trip to Radio Shack.

I strongly agree with almost everything in here.

Is AT&T even shittier than usual for anyone else lately? Nearly 50% dropped calls the last couple weeks and sound cutting out constantly.

"Hello. I pay to use the service that pays you to serve its customers."

"I can't help you."

AT&T, I can't wait to dance on your ashes.

Keep the dream alive, Comcast. Maybe one day it really will be my router's fault.

In addition to Remind Me Later, the Adobe Updater needs a Go Fuck Yourself button.

Awesome. I’m thinking about making a screen saver for myself inspired by this.

Netflix's removal of my friends' ratings from its movie pages may be the single most disappointing redesign decision I've ever encountered.

I have to admit that I’m more intrigued by these concept videos than I am by the iPad. Gruber makes a good point about MS vaporware, though, so I’ll believe it when I see it. I hope I do see it, though. I would probably get one of these.

Ads on Facebook are a strange breed, but this one takes the cake: yfrog.com/2eni0xp

"If From contains 'facebook' and Subject contains 'suggested', move message to Trash."

Why won't @Adobe let customers create their own CS bundles? I want 6 apps. No bundle has them all; each bundle has at least 3 I don't want.

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There comes a time on every Apple announcement day, good or bad, that I'm ready for everyone to just shut the fuck up. That time is now.

It's funny how photos of Apple prototypes in 2010 are of the same quality as photos of the Loch Ness Monster in 1934.

Comcast should make a promotional clock app for the iPhone that tells you the time in five-hour windows.

The Submit button on boltbus.com breaks in Google Chrome. In the time it took to rebook my tickets using Firefox, the price went up $2.

I can’t decide which one to get.

This is a first: A visit to Radio Shack in which I clearly could not find what I was looking for, and no one pounced or even looked at me.

Any recommendations for a good 1/8 inch headphone extension with button/mic/volume controls compatible with the iPhone?

Annual RSS purge complete. I highly recommend it. Dump all your subscriptions, enjoy a week of silence, and see which ones you come back to.

Um. Oh my god.

Just when I thought they couldn't be more helpful, my friends at Microsoft are teaching me how to party! youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-Yp…

As always, the details are perfect, and I’m especially fond of the all-caps post on the Facebook wall.

Me: "Internet's been out all day." Comcast: "Unplug and replug the modem." Me: "Still no dice." Comcast: "We'll send a guy in two days."

Reading through letters from 15 years ago, concerned about archiving today's decentralized digital correspondence (Twitter, Facebook, etc).

Scowling hard at my latest batch of referrer spam from Bing. Somewhere in Redmond, a dog whines at the low rumble his master can't hear yet.

Relieved to find that in my time away from Flash, it has not ceased to be buggy as fuck.

Great night bidding farewell to analog television with friends and spirits, courtesy of @jyllish, @iamrumz, and Peaches.

A message from a coworker hoping to borrow a Zune charger begins with "Yes, I know."

I can’t wait to see where this goes.

Reminding the world that dehydration is a computer's preferred state.

Steve Jobs thought Segway would change the world. I just thought YouTube might teach people to hold a video camera steady.

Craigslist is the new Marilyn Manson. boston.com/news/local/massach…

When the internet craps out, the first thing I think is, "Did I pay the Comcast bill?" That Catholicism burrows in like a tick.