July 17, 2008

Well, to address #2 first, I was talking about the feature of the iPhone where, instead of going to the punctuation menu, you just tap spacebar twice at the end of a sentence and it inserts a period and a space. It’s a quick way to end a sentence. If you don’t have an iPhone then it’s totally understandable that you didn’t know what I was talking about.

#1) But couldn’t it at least pick up on some of the easier ones to recognize? I’m sure I could be completely off base.

buchino:

1. In many Latin languages, and often even in English, it’s the tone of our voices that connotes a statement or a question.

Going to the game today. This is a quick statement that could be an answer about a subject or a statement about your own plans for the day.

Going to the game today? This is a question asking about a subject.

2. The only reason that two spaces were used after a period during the ‘typewriter’ age was because original typewriters had monospaced fonts — the extra space was needed for the eye to pick up on the beginning of a new sentence. That need is negated w/proportional space type.

In other words, stop typing the space bar twice. It’s not correct.

dalasverdugo:

Thought: Don’t sentences that are questions have a syntactical signature that is machine recognizable? If yes, couldn’t the iPhone be made to know when to insert a period when you hit double spacebar and when to switch to a question mark?

Most of the time when I text someone, I’m asking them a question, so I’d rather the double spacebar tap be a question mark personally.

Thought: Don’t sentences that are questions have a syntactical signature that is machine recognizable? If yes, couldn’t the iPhone be made to know when to insert a period when you hit double spacebar and when to switch to a question mark?

Most of the time when I text someone, I’m asking them a question, so I’d rather the double spacebar tap be a question mark personally.

via Alex Christ Superstar
via Alex Christ Superstar
cjaythedjaysportland.muxtape.com
Muxtape of music from the bands in that MTV vid.

mariaaa:

“In the following video Dr. Norihiko Ishikawa from the Department of Telesurgery and Geomedicine at the University of Kanazawa uses the da Vinci robotic surgical system to fold origami cranes. Research like this could only have been performed in a Japanese environment, and we in the Occident can simply watch and learn.” —DiVinci minimally invasive surgery system

Your mind doesn’t really get blown until the very last shot.

MTV News report about Portland. Please don’t move here or you’ll make it too expensive for those of us already in town.
Moog ladder filter tattoo. (via matrixsynth)
Moog ladder filter tattoo. (via matrixsynth)
July 16, 2008
Index of ftp://ftp.rit.edu/pub/mac/
I really wonder why this directory is still there.

livejamie:

rocketboom:

This master singer sings “Rainbow Road” from Mario Cart.

(Thanks Silentobituary)

I can die happily now.

Fucking brilliant.

Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers?

blakewhitman:

If they involve people, then yes, they do.

I think without a Community Manager you could waste a lot of time developing features the community has no desire for. Plus, if you didn’t have a Community Manager, there’s a good chance that by the time you get done building your website, the people who are using it will be uninspired.

Also, the engineers at Vimeo are very happy that they don’t have to deal with some of the emails Blake and I handle. If they had to deal with the junk, they wouldn’t be able to focus on actually making the site. If they chose to just ignore everything except crucial emails, the communty would not feel cared for.