Whether health care should be rationed has become an important part of the health care reform debate. Critics of the Democrats’ general plan have said that government shouldn’t ration health care. The response from some has been some variation of this: In truth, rationing is an inescapable part of
Marco Arment on Apple’s product design philosophy, while responding to Neven Mrgan’s thoughts on the Apple tablet: Apple is incredibly good at designing products that we really want, even if we don’t recognize that immediately because we’re blinded by the past or obsessed with the wrong
Everything indicates Apple will soon release a tablet device, possibly this fall. As usual, details are scarce; the only thing that seems like a given is the screen will be less than ten inches. We know very little about the device, or even if it will be released, but this
I saw Funny People tonight, and it is one of the rare films that connects thoughts which have come and gone, flutterings of insight that did not quite make it. It connects them into a cohesive whole, making what before was brief moments of illumination into understanding. The movie may
The Voice Central developer talked with Apple about his application being removed. Here is the transcript. (Via Daring Fireball.) There are no questions being answered — just a series of “I can’t answer that,” or “I can’t help you with that” stock replies. Apple, look. I know that AT&
John Gruber wrote Monday that for newspapers to survive, non-content creating divisions must be eliminated: What works in today’s web landscape are lean and mean organizations with little or no management bureaucracy — operations where nearly every employee is working on producing actual content. … And it’s not really
Alex Payne on the future of feed readers: I’m not sure what the solution is here. Feed readers as we’ve known them are dying, but it’s as yet unclear what will take their place. Filtering feeds for relevance algorithmically seems all but fruitless; filtering through the social
Writing and reading weblogs should not be a lonely affair. Over the past year, I have seen a number of Fever readers in my subscriber data, and sometimes a “site.com/fever” entry would appear in my Mint referrers list. For many of these referrers, I did not know they
A new page went live over the weekend: patronage. For those of you who truly enjoy reading TightWind, and would like to help support my writing in return, you can now do so. The amount is up to you. As noted on the patronage page, this is not a subscription
Iranian protestor on Twitter: 60% of Iran’s population is under 30, we control this country now, not you old pricks that live in the 12th century. You can arrest us… kill us, but you can’t stop us. We will not live in a country that doesn’t follow
I was never satisfied with TightWind’s last design, and I suspect you weren’t, either. It was more enjoyable to read it in a feed reader than on TightWind, and that isn’t right. So yesterday, a new design went live. I have been working on it for the
Sometimes I come across old things I have written, discarded, and forgotten about. Here are two things I found today. I am not sure when I wrote them. Blindsided by reality Hurried by our life; From place to place we go, A merry-go-round; not getting Anywhere but where