Andreessen is completely right: Startups are overvalued, stuffed like Christmas ducks with cash they don’t really need, and since they’re staffed by inexperienced kids with no oversight, they’re spending that cash. This is a big problem, a big and obvious problem, and Marc Andreessen is right: We should worry.

But what he’s not saying is that all of these worrisome things are happening because he has made them happen. Marc Andreessen is warning us, essentially, about Marc Andreessen. It’s not a good sign when a man, no matter how large it would appear his brain is, tries to distance himself from his current agenda.
—Sam Biddle, Valleywag

These idiots deliberately bending their iPhone 6’s reminds me of this old Tom Green skit:

There are no guarantees.

There’s at least one guy going to extreme measures to remove the bump in the iPhone 6 caused by the protruding camera lens, but I’ll tell you this: I’d rather have a deliberate lens bump:

…than whatever this shit is that Samsung did with their Galaxy Alpha:

[iPhone image taken from Apple.com, Galaxy Alpha image taken from The Verge]

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Prevues Of Coming Attractions

For all that BlackBerry has done to make the Passport a productivity tool, its design felt like it was fighting me more often than it was helping me. Between the awkward dimensions and odd keyboard layout, I never felt comfortable with the Passport in my hands and never felt comfortable getting work done on it. Being comfortable with your tools is essential for a Power Pro: it should get out of my way and just let me get done what I need to get done. Too often, the Passport didn’t get out of my way.
—Dan Seifert, The Verge

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[image taken from The Verge]

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Sunday news shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox failed to cover the People’s Climate March, a massive protest against climate change being held September 21 in New York City in conjunction with events in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Meet the Press, Face the Nation, State of the Union, and Fox News Sunday ignored the event, which is being touted by participants as “the largest mobilization against climate change in the history of the planet.” The Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel briefly mentioned the march on ABC’s This Week while arguing that national security concerns surrounding climate change are not receiving adequate attention.
—Timothy Johnson, Media Matters

According to this chart, iOS 8 penetration is already over 30% among Apple users in 5 days. My question is, how the hell have all you people been able to download this thing? I’ve been trying since Friday.

I love that Samsung’s new phone is not only a rip-off of the iPhone 5, but now it’s also dated with the new iPhone 6 out:

I give Samsung maybe 6 months before they drop the chamfered edges for the rounded edges of the iPhone 6.
Image taken from Phandroid.com

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This week Michael and Bryan discuss range of motion for your thumb on the new iPhones, how easily the human brain gets conditioned to new gadgets and interfaces, how they both hate carrying things in their pockets, the life cyles of gaming consoles, the TV industry being done with plasma screens, NFL’s new iPad-like Devices, the days before HTML5, Minecraft and the Second Fappening. The episode opens with a 1972 Beetle EMPI exhaust.
Weekly Exhaust – Episode 17