Author Archives: Dan Studnicky

Coda 2 Will Be Half Off On Thursday

Not upgrade pricing, but a generous discount to new and old users. I’ll use this opportunity to cross over to the Mac App Store version because that’s the way things are going. Edit: more here

The end of fish

I blame trendy people who eat a lot of sushi. The end of fish, in one chart – The Washington Post

“98% of Facebook is women telling each other how great they look.”

And the science behind that claim is represented in a Facebook Power Users infographic. Female Power Facebookers Post Statuses More Often 6: Number of status updates the average male facebook user made. 21: Number of status updates the average female … Continue reading

“Tell me all about the innovation in the Foo Fighters…”

Bob Lefsetz on Donna Summer, I Feel Love, and why people should get over the disco and electronic music hate. I Feel Love Relate: Why Did/Do People Think Disco Sucks?

Story Arcs – A Bridge To Nowhere Sometimes

1 A while ago I wrote about how super heroes dominate comic books and how that puts me off as someone just starting to read them as an adult. Somewhere I read that I should check out Y: The Last … Continue reading

Boing Boing profiles Matt Bors

Bors was the cartoonist who did that Steve Jobs strip. Alt Cartoonist Receives High Praise from Establishment – Boing Boing Check out Matt’s comics

The Podcasts Are Too Damn Long

Gedeon Maheux agrees. Podcast To Oblivion

Shut Your Lid and then Open It Back Up

After years of a PC/Mac gaming dry-spell a bunch of games have hit me all at once: namely Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Lone Survivor, and Diablo III. If you don’t want your games to look like garbage on … Continue reading

Please Learn To Write

Michael Lopp on this “Learn To Code” thing. I think that in the 21st century the most valued employees are going to be the ones who can communicate clearly and the ones can automate $work.1 Please Learn to Write $work … Continue reading

50 Years Of Government Spending In 1 Graph

If all you watched was cable news you’d think that defense spending is still around the 50% we saw in the 1960s. 50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph : Planet Money : NPR