February 2011

Week of tweets: 2011-02-27.

February 27, 2011

The Semiotics of Meat: a Paleo Deculturalization Program http://bit.ly/e4jFtS # The upcoming Smurfs movie looks horrendous. Who green-lights this shit? # How long before the MacBook Air gets Thunderbolt? # "…we're just recognizing that surviving on a diet and being healthy on a diet are different." http://bit.ly/e2a23Z # Dear vegetarians: http://bit.ly/hSdtfd # Between our Nespresso [...]

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The Prius EV speed limit.

February 25, 2011

Our 2010 Prius has an annoying problem, and it’s all about the EV. It’s nice to cruise around a parking lot without using gas, but the EV speed limit is inconsistent. Not only can you not cruise around at-will until the battery is depleted (the EV mode shuts off if you accelerate or move too [...]

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Who to trust less: governments, or corporations?

February 24, 2011

When someone residing in Europe pointed out to us how distraught they were that online companies like PayPal require seemingly irrelevant banking information just to handle money already in the account, something occurred to us: in general, Europeans are very sensitive about privacy issues as far as commercial entities go. That is to say, they [...]

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The iPad can’t do work?

February 22, 2011

We’ve already written about our iPad serving as a Mac replacement for most tasks, but there’s still a misconception out there that the iPad can’t do work, which is akin to the iPad not being a suitable device for creating content. The latest perpetuation of this myth comes courtesy of TUAW. What the iPad does [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-02-20.

February 20, 2011

Overheard a lady yelling at her two daughters to "shut up." #youmaynotbeagoodparent # GreenPois0n jailbreak goes untethered for Apple TV. http://flpbd.it/bP5Q # A jailbroken Apple TV is the cheapest media center available; the jailbreak easily triples the Apple TV's value. # What if the rumoured smaller iPhone is based on the iPod nano, and won't [...]

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Apple TV 2G, aTV Flash, and Greenpois0n.

February 14, 2011

We held off on buying aTV Flash for the 2G Apple TV because we didn’t want to deal with a tethered jailbreak; the idea of having to connect our Apple TV to a Mac whenever it needed a reboot or lost power, was too much of a hassle to bear. So we waited. Fortunately, GreenPois0n [...]

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