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This just in: Mashable op-ed states the obvious
In a ridiculous, duh-inducing article, author Chris Taylor explains how Apple doesn’t make money on apps because their product focus is in hardware. *crickets* This profound insight should surprise exactly no one as anyone who has observed Apple anytime in the last 10 years or so, or — as the author pointed out — pretty…
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▶ Slighter – Outbreak (Halloween 2013) [DOWNLOAD!] by SLIGHTER
Slighter brings us a fiendishly excellent track for Halloween, a zombie-infused breakbeat track called “Outbreak” (get it? there’s a pun in there…). The track opens with a moody sound collage and dark ambient intro that reminds me of old school Skinny Puppy. Check it out and download it now! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/116466455″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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Longtime BitTorrent search engine, isoHunt closing its doors
Bowing out from isoHunt isoHunt was one of the longest running torrent-related sites. Unlike other sites, isoHunt previously evaded lawsuits by never actually hosting any torrent files, instead aggregating links from various external sites and serving as a search engine.
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John Cage – Williams Mix
People like to think that Skinny Puppy were pioneers in creating what was eventually known as Industrial Music. But pieces like this by John Cage (which pre-dates Puppy and Einsturzende Neubauten by about 30 years) is where Industrial’s real origins lie. I still want a recording of “Imaginary Landscape No. 4”, but barring that, here’s…
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Theme update and a mad dash to fix broken stuff
So Museum Core was pushed live to the WordPress.org repo today. Of course I immediately switched my blog from the Twenty Fourteen theme I was testing to Core because, you know, it’s my freaking theme. And immediately I ran into some issues. If you are using Core and experience any of these, here are the fixes.…
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Nginx config with WordPress multisite on DreamHost
Probably I should post this on the DreamHost wiki BUT I wanted to throw this out that I figured out a solution to an issue I was having on WordPress multisite since migrating to nginx… The problem The issue is that, while permalinks were working as expected, images were all broken, particularly when you were on…
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Little Boy Wearing a Monkey Hat Waiting for the US Government to Reopen So That He Can Go To the Zoo
Little Boy Wearing a Monkey Hat Waiting for the US Government to Reopen So That He Can Go To the Zoo.
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Don’t ask what I’ll be doing tomorrow
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First female employee
In this Wired article on Dropbox, the fact that Dropbox hired Facebook’s “first female employee” was mentioned. I’m not interested in how Dropbox is acquiring talent — though I happily use Dropbox and look forward to more app developers incorporating Dropbox into their platforms. Rather, I’m interested in this “first female employee” thing. Because a…