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Weet for Mac Review

My review of Weet at The Technology Charge.

Weet’s high configurability and robust feature list set it apart in a crowded market. Loren Brichter was supposed to release Tweetie 2 for Mac months ago, and continues to cryptically hint that an update will come one of these years. That’s not enough for me, and I doubt it is for anyone else. There are other solid alternatives, like Nambu and the skinnable Kiwi, but neither combine beauty, speed and power in the same manner as Weet. Even more impressive is the fact that the app has reached this level of refinement in such a short amount of time. That’s as good a sign as I know.

In the Life of ‘The Wire’ by Lorrie Moore

Awesome deconstruction of the best TV show since the invention of television.

Really? Ya think?

Shocking revelations, brought to light by Fast Company:

Although it is not due to be released for another ten days, the report says that an employee misread pressure data, giving the go-ahead to replace the drilling fluid with seawater. As a result of using the lighter liquid, natural gas shot up the pipeline and exploded on the rig, killing 11.

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Touchy-Feely

Latest article over at The Technology Charge. Here, I share my thoughts on Apple’s recent multitouch desktop patent filings.

Is the Mac dead? No. Conventional computers will always do the dirty work — tasks that require the precision of a pointing device and the power of a quad-core processor. Think Steve Jobs’ pickup truck analogy. But is the Mac dead in its current iteration? Probably.

Personal Story of Progressive Father and his Transvestite Four-Year-Old Son

ridikulouz:

Very interesting.

I suspect stories like this will become much more prevalent over the next generation. Here’s hoping to the eventual disappearance of firm gender roles in society.

Playing Life

A short story I wrote for school back in March has been published on Teen Ink magazine’s website. It’s some pretty trippy shit, so I can’t really give you a summary; you’re better off just reading and reflecting. Here’s a peek:

Claudius Cipher is an actor, and life is his play. And as a performer of life rather than a liver of life, he will do anything and everything he can to make the story more interesting and his presence felt.

If you enjoy it (or the opposite), don’t hesitate to give it a rating and maybe even a comment. If it gets enough praise, the editors might select it to be published in their monthly print magazine, which would look very nice on my college applications…

Sneak: Fixing the background 'bleed'

I recently came up against an issue in Safari where the background colour of an element seemed to ‘bleed’ through the edge of the corners when applying both borders and a border-radius (see the image above). After seeing David Cole tweet about the same issue I resolved to find a solution,…