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The “everyone should learn to code” movement isn’t just wrong because it falsely equates coding with essential life skills like reading, writing, and math. I wish. It is wrong in so many other ways.
Look at that, Intuit is taking on Square.
The hardware actually looks pretty good, but the software and website looks dated, in comparison to Square’s simple and frankly beautiful designs.
It will be interesting to see how well their monthly pricing option works, because the lack of a monthly fee is the first thing all the merchants I’ve spoken with have mentioned, when discussing their decision to use Square.
PayPal’s competing offering has yet to launch… still.
There’s a difference between a missed opportunity and a complete fuck-up.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
I still love Flickr and think it could reinvigorate itself, given recent signs, but will not be placing any bets.
Peak Condition (via Laura Jane Favela)
Peak Condition is an interview-style short film about a delusional slice of toast and a naive but well-meaning raccoon. The maladjusted pair inhabit a universe in which Toast’s unusual ideas about reality reign supreme.
The toast makes some good points.
Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus.
The testable web is so much safer. No choices are hard, and no introspection is necessary. Why is B better than A? Who can say? At the end of the workday, we can only shrug: We went with B. We don’t know why. It just works.
Coldplay’s tribute to Adam Yauch, last night at the Hollywood Bowl.
Say what you will about Coldplay, this is beautiful.
Fascism doesn’t go away. It waits for optimum breeding conditions, like a virus in deep tissue. It must not be forgotten, and it must be guarded against constantly. We don’t have the right to act surprised when its sick bloom again mars our fields.
I would love to attend a same height party.
I heartily endorse this idea.
I also heartily endorse a “reverse height” party where the shortest would be the tallest and vice versa.
Who wants to take bets on that party looking like the Stanford Prison Experiment before it’s over?
IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT INDUSTRY YOU CALL HOME, YOU’RE NOW A TARGET FOR DISRUPTION.
I’m not talking about a domesticated wolf. I’m talking about wild wolves. Let’s have wild wolves protect the trains. If the wild wolves become tame, replace them with more wild ones.
1953
Seattle, Washington. Members of the Seattle Tubing Society in full float.
(via Burt Glinn and dreams like that)
If we don’t look this stylish next time we go cabrewing, I’m going to be sad.