Highlights, lowlights, links, and implicit geek nostalgia from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream:
Confirmed: everything you ever thought about Apple fanboys is true. Can’t argue with science. http://is.gd/dPn9P
As a metaphor, this will not go far in dispelling the suspicion that Apple users will purchase anything Apple-related http://is.gd/erjiA
Remember Back To The Future III where the cowboys make fun of Doc Brown for saying ppl run for fun? How much worse is Farmville?
I honestly don’t understand why no one is working on Android DOSBox, but I’d kind of like that to stop being that.
Status of ongoing effort to port VIC20 games to the Wii: uneven
We can’t just admit that Wave was kind of a silly idea that didn’t really solve any problem that anyone had?
RT @hotdogsladies: Apparently, Google had wanted to turn Wave off weeks ago, but nobody could figure out how.
Impressively comprehensive http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/
RT @codinghorror: ABOUT YOUR F’ING WEBSITE! http://goo.gl/BC9H
It took me a month to figure out that Twitter’s OAuthcalypse is what broke the Yahoo Pipes I use. Because tracing YP failure is impossible. Because it sucks.
Kind of brilliant: http://is.gd/fBmBZ (via @sshivell)
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