You can order the t-shirt here.
via MG
Michael Heilemann talking about Twitter’s latest API changes and, more specifically, the news it killed it’s Mac client:
It may take years, but if it really is Twitter’s intent to kill the desktop client, it will definitively mark the end of my use of the service. The API changes hurt me on principle, but killing the desktop clients actually hurts my practical use of Twitter as a service. Most days I’ll have the client open on my secondary monitor and occasionally glance at the stream to see what’s going on out in the world as I work. Contrast with Facebook, which I open maybe twice a day unless I specifically receive a notification.
Which do you think I interact with more often?
Since I only have a single screen, Twitter is off to the side but always open. It’s my secondary way of getting things to read and my primary source for news. Facebook get’s checked three to four times a day if you include any chance I might have in the morning and in the evening.
If the desktop client – or all Twitter desktop clients – go away, so will I. App.Net is looking pretty cheap right about now.
Little easter eggs like this are everywhere in their icons.
via Shawn Blanc
I hate that these kind of stories only come around once a year. But the NY Times is running this article which says the Bush administration was repeatedly warned of an attack by Al-Qaeda instead of a single warning weeks before:
The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that "a group presently in the United States" was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be "imminent," although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.
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Yet, the White House failed to take significant action. Officials at the Counterterrorism Center of the C.I.A. grew apoplectic. On July 9, at a meeting of the counterterrorism group, one official suggested that the staff put in for a transfer so that somebody else would be responsible when the attack took place, two people who were there told me in interviews. The suggestion was batted down, they said, because there would be no time to train anyone else.
I try not to think "what if" or "if only". We have a job to do: rebuild downtown New York; make that skyline a symbol again. Learn from the past, sure, but don't sulk and think of regrets or missed opportunities. Learn from what happened and make things better.
Poster is an iPad only application for WordPress publishing. It's the best blogging app for iOS… period. And I've tried them all.
It was just updated to 1.2 which adds support for uploading images, custom slug settings, and introduces a monospaced font for the editor. Of course, the big sell (for me, at least) is markdown support. It converts your markdown to HTML when you publish a post. The same great features of supporting custom fields, etc, are also there.
This app far surpasses the official WordPress offering. It's not even close.
If you use WordPress, get this app now.