mike.mode3.net

I’ll say it again, I’m not the iPad’s target user (I love my laptop too much) and just because I enjoy using Apple products doesn’t mean that I’m going to buy every single product they produce? If someone likes Dell computers, do you give them a hard time when they don’t buy the most recent crapfest of a consumer laptop?

No. No you don’t.

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Fellow-feeling…is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests, which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate together for a common object. A very large share of the rancor of political and social strife arises either from sheer misunderstanding by one section, or by one class, of another, or else from the fact that the two sections, or two classes, are so cut off from each other that neither appreciates the other’s passions, prejudices, and, indeed, point of view, while they are both entirely ignorant of their community of feeling as regards the essentials of manhood and humanity.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Our Disembodied Selves and the Decline of Empathy | The Art of Manliness

Teddy Roosevelt. My favorite Republican.

Graphite, WiFi only Kindle

Well, crap.

Looks like I’m buying a Kindle.

marco:

Know why the iPhone 4’s antenna grip got tons of attention but there aren’t stories about the same sorts of minor flaws on other phones?

Because if there’s a minor flaw with whichever Droid Xtreme Edition or HTC Whatever is being hyped by the gadget blogs this month, who cares?

… which is what I’ve been trying to say, but put far more eloquently than I could.

Reblogged from Marco.org

Where the hell is Angola, Indiana, and why does AT&T think I’m interested in seeing their new store there?