Author Archives: Justin Yost

Living World – How Did LEGO Become More About Limits Than Possibilities?

It’s a lit­tle depress­ing when I pick up a Lego kit and have to turn it down because of this issue.

Apple Outsider – Hollywood Still Hates You

It bears repeat­ing, the vast major­ity of piracy is peo­ple just try­ing to get con­tent the eas­i­est way.

Michael Tsai – PDFpen and iCloud

My largest long-term fear of OSX is that Apple will slowly turn off the abil­ity for appli­ca­tions to be use­ful with­out using the App Store and thus some Apps may just not exist any­more (SuperDuper is the easy example).

whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments

Want to do com­ments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an arti­cle ele­ment inside your main arti­cle element.

inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection

That is prac­ti­cally the def­i­n­i­tion of great soft­ware, caus­ing your users delight in the every­day workings.

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best

EFF high­lights some of the largest sites that par­tic­i­pated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.