As soft and absorbent as the leading brand.
› The condition of Shawn Blanc’s iPhone 4
In fact, even the usefulness of the iPhone 4 actually increased thanks to software updates and the App Store. […]
Would it be stretching it to say that the iPhone 4 (and now, 4S) is like fine wine?
It sounds better than that. It improves as you use it. It we’re talking about fine wine, this is wine that leaves you with drinkable pee. In your face, Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
› Farmers Strain to Hire American Workers in Place of Migrant Labor
This is America, but it must apply to Britain and other places too:
Six hours was enough, between the 6 a.m. start time and noon lunch break, for the first wave of local workers to quit. Some simply never came back and gave no reason. Twenty-five of them said specifically, according to farm records, that the work was too hard.
I didn’t pay much attention to the radio dramatisation of Samuel Pepys’s diary this evening, but it seemed that even in the seventeenth century there was tension - the sort of tension that the article linked here should address. (Apparently, Pepys’s builders were from the part of Poland called Essex, so maybe we’ve become a bit more tolerant.)
(Source: marginalrevolution.com)
Well, rats, I just deleted my WordPress database by accident. Amazingly, I have a fresh backup, but so far that hasn’t been a lot of help.
So I’m playing with Tumblr for a bit. It’s nicer than I remember. I might even stay here, although that sounds unlikely.
› Martin Amis’s father’s English language
Kingsley Amis is Martin Amis’s father. That makes sense, actually. The thing is, Martin Amis doesn’t call his daddy Kingsley Amis “Daddy”, but rather “Kingsley Amis”, but it turns out that that doesn’t feel too incongruous.
