Dave Metzener's Posterous

Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as individuals, and by extension, how likely they are to be followed.

A great style guide for Twitter! Please folks, if we all follow a standard style, Twitter will be an incredibly useful source of information.

According to Lucasfilm, the Star Wars saga is slowly but surely making its way to the HD format. Are you really gonna pony up to own these films again? And again...and again?

NO! I will not go out and buy yet another copy of Star Wars. I have VHS and DVD versions of the first 3 movies (IV, V, and VI), and I have DVD versions of all 6 movies. I'm not about to go out and buy 6 more DVDs, Blu-Ray or no.

I'll be renting them from Netflix.com when the time comes that I want to watch them in HD.

Great video by Hoggworks Studios about the Gizmodo iPhone 4G fiasco!

Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control:

127.0.0.1        gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        www.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        m.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        gawker.com
127.0.0.1        www.gawker.com
127.0.0.1        m.gawker.com

The person at fault is the shithead who stole the phone, not some overworked engineer drinking beer.

Please vote with your attention and do the same. Thanks!

(Thanks to @sebastianlewis for the idea.)

Update: I can’t believe there are some people defending Gizmodo’s actions. Let’s put the shoe on your foot:

1. You’re drinking beer with some friends.
2. You leave your wallet behind at the bar.
3. Some stranger finds your wallet and opens it up. Inside is a naked picture of your partner.
4. That stranger finds a website that wants to post the picture and they sell your wallet intact for $1.
5. Your partner finds their naked body on the Internet. Shit hits the fan. HARD.
6. The site that posted the pictures looks at the ID in the wallet and calls up with an offer to return the wallet. “Don’t worry, all the money’s still there!”
7. Then that website posts another article saying how dumb you were for leaving your wallet behind. And instantly millions of people associate your name with a stupid mistake.

How do you feel now?

Update: If you’re the kind of person who forgets that you edited your hosts file, use Marco Arment’s IP address of 66.135.33.106 instead of 127.0.0.1.

I'm right there with him. This whole iPhone 4G thing has gone way out of control and gizmodo is right in the middle of it.

I've followed his suggestion and told my /etc/hosts file to take me to 127.0.0.1 when ever I accidentally attempt to head over to gizmodo or gawker. They don't deserve the hits until they reconcile.

Amazing real world/CGI animation!

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Now that's a great pic! :)