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My new article, "Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel". #RIPNelsonMandela
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$399/year for @Jessicalessin news site w great name The Information!
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Another great @BW cover: The rise and fall of BlackBerry: An oral history
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via The Latest from VanityFair.com http://www.vanityfair.com
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from Daring Fireball Leo Kelion, reporting for BBC News on the announcement of an upcoming smaller, reversible USB plug: USB cable developers have announced that a forthcoming version of the connector’s plug is to be reversible. It means users of the Universal Serial Bus cables will no longer have to worry which way round the part is facing when plugging it into a device. The specification is due to be completed by mid-2014, and the first product on the market by 2016. It will neuter one of the advantages Apple’s proprietary lightning cable currently has over the USB system. As far as I’ve been able to determine, the USB Promoter Group hasn’t released any photos or illustrations of this proposed new adapter, so who knows if it’s even designed yet. In the meantime, if the above timetable holds, iOS device users will have been using Lightning adapters for four years by the time this hits the market. The Lightning adapter epitomizes what makes Apple Apple. To the company’s fans, it provides elegance and convenience — it’s just so much nicer than micro-USB. To the company’s detractors, it exists to sell $29 proprietary adapters and to further enable Apple’s fetish for device thinness. Neither side is wrong. Apple doesn’t give a shit what everyone else is doing. To some, that’s what makes Apple great. To others, it’s what’s wrong with Apple. One side thinks, Why in the world should we have to wait until 2016 to have a smaller, reversible plug? The other side thinks, Why in the world would you want a proprietary, non-standard, expensive plug?
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from Daring Fireball Great Frank Sinatra story I’d never heard before: It was hardly the right moment for Sinatra to get up on stage at Melbourne’s Festival Hall and describe Australia’s female journalists as “buck-and-a-half hookers”. A furious Australian press howled for blood. Sinatra refused to apologise and sparked an extraordinary chain of events that resulted in the cancellation of Sinatra’s second Melbourne concert, a black ban of his private jet by airport refuellers and a three-day siege at Sydney’s Boulevard Hotel. […] Sinatra even suggested calling the admiral on board the American aircraft carrier in Tokyo Bay and asking him to sail into Sydney Harbour and send a helicopter to land on the roof of the Boulevard.  ★ 
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RT @jenica26: "Have they learned nothing? Will they never?" Elsevier is taking down papers from
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We just rolled out a new homepage for @goexposure featuring some awesome content & an editor demo!
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The New Yorker's Mandela cover is a hell of a thing.
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Why the modal overlay is killing the value of your content. By @drcongo
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Photo comparison shows how much purebred dogs have changed in past 100 years
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is the best open source solution, but it is not defined as a standard... #jsconf
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Day 5: JavaScript: Taking Off the Training Wheels by Tom Ashworth
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#Programming in movies vs. programming in real life with @m_janko. #hacker
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RT @couchpotatoadam: It you call your company Apostrophe, there's really one thing you should get right in your advertising slogans.
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RT @adam_messinger:
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