Towards beauty, what is pain?

[Via Gizmodo]

Featuring Darth Jobs dueling Microsoft’s Bill Gates with a lightsaber, tasering Gizmodo’s Jason Chen, slicing the fingers off an iPhone 4 user (“If the hand doesn’t block the phone, there would be no problem.”), and manifesting hologram-style to an enthralled press at Thursday’s Cupertino event, this Taiwanese animation might just be the most accurate telling of the iPhone 4 saga yet. I’m not even going to get into the really disturbing depiction of the Foxconn suicides.

Here’s to the future of media.

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Photo: Mbaratz

Most interesting tidbit from Clair Cane Miller’s “Techmeme Provides Tech News at Internet Speed”:

“Now that Twitter serves as a broadcast platform, Techmeme plans to include cogent 140-character Twitter posts written by influential people as headlines.”

If Techmeme decided to include influential tweets in its headlines, therefore giving them the same value as more labor intensive articles and posts, it could change the game for a lot of bloggers and possibly Twitter itself.

Will we start seeing Twitter accounts rise in the ranks of the Techmeme leaderboard?

In any case … Congrats guys!

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[Via Failblog, what else?]

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Fuck.

Judging by this CGI rendering of an asteroid’s impact on Earth, there would be at least a couple hours between initial hit and total world destruction; i.e. poisonous gases and heat traveling to the other side of the planet. It’s safe to say that the rates of condom usage would fall immensely.

Happy Father’s Day.

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His calls probably get dropped as much as anybody else's.

A parable:

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with Steve Jobs. Across his iPad flickered scenes from his life. As each scene transitioned he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand. One belonging to him and the other to Jobs.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it coincided with the very lowest and saddest scenes of his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned Jobs about it. “Steve, you said that once I decided to follow you, you’d walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why when I needed you most you would leave me.”

Jobs replied, “My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you! During your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints, that was when AT&T dropped you.“

#goosebumps

[Context here: Also, check out the cute little footsteps that follow your cursor.]

It works for iJustine.

The problem with Clair Cain Miller’s “Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?” post is that one could basically write the same thing, every single day.

“There’s a really strong image of what a computer scientist is — male, skinny, no social life, eats junk food, plays video games, likes science fiction,” says Sapna Cheryan, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington who has researched why few women choose computer-science careers. “It makes it hard for people who don’t fit that image to think of it as an option for them.”

Dur. I grew up around engineers, my Dad is one, albeit not a computer scientist, and one day he sat me down and said, “You have two choices, you can either be good at what you do or be a symbol of your sex [as in gender], and if you want to be a sex symbol nobody’s going to take you seriously.”

This is the prevalent attitude in today’s technology industry and while it’s not particularly progressive, it must be taken into account when trying to get actual work done.

My point: The time we spend complaining about being underrepresented and only valued for our attractiveness (I’m looking at you Jolie O’ Dell) is time we could spend getting good at Python, growing our websites, bootstrapping our startups, or you know, breaking news.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a “Hot Girls and iPads” slideshow to upload.

… is fucking genius.

I know three guys (Full disclosure, all three are my friends). The first one built a website that miraculously showed exactly what people were linking to in the cutthroat news-hungry field of tech reporting. The second one made a name for himself being somewhat Internet literate and shocking. And the third, well the third was from L.A.

Over this weekend these three guys, most likely forced to procrastinate on taxes, creatively and collaboratively came up with TechFuckingMeme, a site that turns relatively innocent (well, except for anything written by Dave McClure) tech headlines into what they actually should be:

I especially like “Twitter Slaps Developers in the Face With A Penis …” (We’ve all been there).

Anyway, this is a work of art — And I hope you all finally finished your taxes.

Pic from "If Not The Chronicle Then What" at INFORUM SF

Oh the age-old question of “What is a journalist!?” … Just like in Junior High, please respond with a “Y” or an “N” (or in the case of James O’ Keefe “Fuck ‘N’”).

And while you guys are playing MASH and making cootie chasers and reading/not reading The Chronicle, the aggregators are taking your shitty headlines and ledes and selling ads on them, minimal effort and definitely a lot less bloviating.

There’s a Greek saying that goes, “A man with an empty fridge does not philosophize.”

Hey journalism, your fridge is empty — you might want to step off that podium.