The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios…
The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006 article by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing columnist Thomas Friedman’s repeated use of “the next six months” as the period in which, according to Friedman, “we’re going to find out…whether a decent outcome is possible” in the Iraq War. As documented by FAIR, Friedman had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a half years, on at least fourteen different occasions…
Gity is a Mac app for Git.
I enjoy using Git via the command line but prefer viewing staged changes with some visual flourish. Gity is the most visually clear way to do that that I’ve found.
I had a bit of trouble with the “Install Terminal usage…” menu command, but flipped through the source code and figured out it was just creating a symlink as follows:
ln -f -s /Applications/Gity.app/Contents/Resources/gity /usr/local/bin
Glenn Greenwald, writing at Salon, is concerned the due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality. (via newsweek)
This seems like more of an argument for why Bachmann and Perry are completely unfit to become president.
(via newsweek)
Seriously uncertain how I survived before Homebrew. So easy. Once installed type something simple like:
brew install nmap
And you’ve got nmap installed and on your PATH in under a minute.
Apple’s going to be fine. Steve’s most extraordinary work isn’t the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It’s rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.
Fuck, I’ll miss him, though. I’ll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he’ll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.
He’s a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.
I’m a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn’t be faked and won’t be soon matched.
—Danilo Campos puts into words better than I could my feelings about Mr. Steve Jobs resigning.
