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Typora is a slick, minimal, multi-platform, Markdown editor. Quite nice.

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.” —Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

It looks like you could win a pair of Marty’s Nike MAGs from Back to the Future Part II. Enter to win for $10. All proceeds go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

I love watches. Consequently, I really like this subscription service – only $29 monthly – for a new watch each month from Wrist Society.

Open Whisper Systems’ Signal protocol and its implementation in their Signal app is exactly how an encrypted messaging platform should work if you truly want privacy and security. When a subpoena is issued, there’s not much to share.

Dave Winer continues to pump out slick, little apps like screen2.io. He is having a debate party on there tonight for the vice presidential debate. Check it out.

The reason Microsoft’s attempts in the hardware space fail is their constant discontinuation of products. Consumers are not going to buy hardware from a company when they know the products won’t last more than a year or two. Ergo, new hardware products will not be purchased dooming them to the cycle of failure.

The sad fact of these random attacks is that they are becoming more and more random and senseless. “This is jihadism as impulse, as excuse. It hardly matters, because the result is always the same: a pile of bodies, a world of pain and grief.” [via The New Yorker]

You are the star of your life story. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and even Snapchat among others provide a place for you to share that story with the world. Let’s face it, not everyone is a bestselling author. You can read this site for proof; however, the bar for interesting material has fallen quite low thanks to these social media platforms. While the inanity of everyday life may provide the occasional chortle, the inflated tragedies of first world problems are decidedly boring at best....

After much casting about and grumbling over speed and security and various other issues, it looks like WordPress is still holding strong as the CMS of choice. Whether it is due to familiarity with customization or the ease of sticking with it despite some of my recent irritations with it, I don’t know. I do know that I usually don’t like meta talk on the site, but here it is anyhow....