A Billion Suns: flightlog of the Rocketpilot

Recording my journey past the billion suns of the Internet.

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Life in Australia

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Wallpaper for iPhone 6: 70s edition

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A matter of style

Haven't tumbled in ages! And so I was a bit surprised to realise my Tumblr theme had vanished entirely, probably from some half-arsed attempt to update it ages ago. So now I'm just going to quietly rebuild it with Foundation 5.

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I'm trying to prove a point that there is a fan base for a solo Black Widow movie. Please reblog if you'd watch it.

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A couple of my friends pointed out this absurd LinkedIn post from the gentleman behind the actual monetary success of the popular webcomic Penny Arcade, Robert Khoo. Here it is in full — http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov — but allow me to summarize:

"We want someone...

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Been a while since I've posted! This one moved me to a reblog.

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(via White City Stadium Box by BBC Centre) That blue box in the middle of the image, there? Probably the exact phone booth that inspired Doctor Who writer Anthony Coburn to make the TARDIS a police box.

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For all the chaps who are so upset, furious, offended, affronted that people mocked the Catwoman #0 cover, I have a few words of counsel.

First, please understand that the critics are not complaining that the cover is “too sexy”. Perhaps someone somewhere has said that the cover is “too...

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Outstanding post about the counter-outrage over the absurdly awful Catwoman cover art. You know the one I mean.

[nickdouglas]

There is a large portion of the population that relies on the carbohydrates and energy in our regular beverages. When my son gets home from school, he needs a pick-up with calories and great taste.

Coke executive answers questions about sugary drinks – USATODAY.com

Mike Bloomberg tosses ultimate softball, Coke exec manages to injure herself with bat

(via nickdouglas)

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Space Cadet Mural

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Andy Baio thinking the big thoughts again.

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TRUE BLOOD makes a lot less sense if you assume Sookie is a Time Lord in a chronic state of post-regenerative crisis.

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I also want to mention a term people in the VC-world consider derogatory, which is “lifestyle business” where someone builds a site, and brings in enough money to support themselves. Investors see that as a bad thing, and it boggles my mind sometimes when I think about the twisted world that produces that kind of idea. I've had discussions with VC investors where they hear about my business and dismiss it as "just a lifestyle business" and I've come back with "hey, it's a pretty good lifestyle, probably a better lifestyle than yours, probably a better lifestyle than if I accepted five million dollars from you."

A Whole Lotta Nothing: My Webstock Talk: Lessons from a 40 year old (now with transcript)

Matt Haughey is an inspiration.

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"My new iOS app uses Facebook for logins" is the new "It only runs on Windows".

Wise words from @danbenjamin.

[dbreunig]

A sign of the times: Is It Old? checks a link for staleness before you share.

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Link freshness checker. Clever.

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Facebook has announced a new profile page layout called “Timeline” that will be launching for all users soon. Unfortunately, the timeline appears set to join the long...

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Ugh.

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I can announce today that over the next few weeks, I and ministers from across the coalition government will review every aspect of our work to mend our broken society, on schools, welfare, families, parenting, addiction, communities, on the cultural, legal, bureaucratic problems in our society too; from the twisting and misrepresenting of human rights that has undermined personal responsibility, to the obsession with health and safety that has eroded people's willingness to act according to common sense – and consider whether our plans and programmes are big enough and bold enough to deliver the change that I feel this country now wants to see.

England riots: Cameron and Miliband speeches and reaction - live | Politics | guardian.co.uk

You heard it here first. Human Rights and Health & Safety: the causes of a broken society.

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On June 30 Twitter made good on their threat of requiring OAuth flow for third-party Twitter clients in order for them to receive Direct Messages.

Fortunately we submitted Hibari 1.1.4 to Apple on June 27.

Unfortunately it turns out that wasn’t nearly enough time.

On June 30 Apple rejected...

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Not good enough, Apple.