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Just a few more: an angry Kryptonian, a stupid, stupid rat creature, and a crazed rocket-launching scientist bear.

Handy!

Worth it. I think.

“House Stark’s allies are far-reaching”.

Quite pleased with the app–much lighter than ArtStudio, with 1/5 as many tools and no layers, which means less time pondering how to draw and more time actually drawing. I’m posting them to my Tumblr account regularly, but I’ll bring show some over here every now and then:

Great piece by Anil Dash on the whole Readability/Instapaper kerfuffle. Came off as perfectly reasonable, and raises a good point about how all this has happened before:

Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.

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And the only survivors will be the competitors with inferior products who don’t have nearly as good an experience, as much passion for innovation, or as much love for the web. What those competitors do have, in some cases, is $100 million in venture capital funding. Enough to wait it out while these two tiny little bootstrapped players get torn apart by their own fans.

I find Dash’s writing much more balanced, well-written and easily digestible than the antagonistic your-words-then-what-I-think-you’re-saying responses from “the other side”. Whatever happened to writing long, thoughtful pieces? Oh wait, link-blogging, sorry.

As for what I use, I saved and read this artice in Instapaper, but I possess some kind of completely irrational hatred towards it and Marco for two ridiculous, trivial reasons: (a) the personality he portrays on his Twitter feed and podcast (his blog is fine), and, more importantly, (b) that stupid prompt on the cookie-directed Instapaper login page that says to enter your password “if you have one — you probably don’t”. I totally have a password! Screw you and your presumptuous ass! Meanwhile, take my $12/year in subscription fees.

Another good one by Dave Pell, on his Tweetage Wasteland blog:

Wanting to focus and being irritated by distractions and interruptions is nothing new. I’m sure my dad missed a few of my childhood moments while he was at the office. But now the office is seamlessly connected to games, music, texting, email, social networking, entertainment, and everything else. The hierarchy of things worthy of earning our focus has largely collapsed. If it glows, it’s worthy.

His NextDraft mailer is worth subscribing to, too, if you can spare just a few minutes a day to catch up on interesting news that doesn’t revolve around tech bloggers echoing or sniping at one another.

A playable job application by Marius Fietzek to Double Fine Adventure (they of the ridiculous KickStarter campaign). Very nicely done, and all that nostalgia!

I nearly died reading this comment thread on Facebook:

A young man comes out to his friends, hopeful that they’ll be accepting and supportive, and they are! Except when it comes to the design of his coming out blog post. Tolerance only goes so far, and these geeks just can’t accept someone being honest with himself and his loved ones if he doesn’t at least have a grasp of CSS.

“Have you told your family that you don’t use style sheets? That’s the hardest part.”

Ah, Blackboard:

Short version: I love CUNY and I love public education. Blackboard is a parasite on both. Writing free software is the best way I know to disrupt the awful relationship between companies like Blackboard and vulnerable populations like CUNY undergraduates.