David Jacobs's Profile

This is David Jacobs's Typepad Profile.

Join Typepad and start following David Jacobs's activity

Join Now!

Already a member? Sign In

David Jacobs

Upper West Side

"If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you."<br /> — Kevin Garnett

Interests: sleeping, blogging, baseball, parenting, espresso, reading, IMing.

Recent Activity

Pokémon R

In the classic Pokémon games, you have a team of 6 Pokémon that you use to battle against other trainers. In battles, type match-ups are very important, as some types of moves are “super effective” against other types. For example,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2019 at hello typepad

Comment

The Book of Prince

When writers ascribed alchemical qualities to his music, they were ignoring the literal meaning of the word, the dark art of turning base metal into gold. He would never do something like that. He reserved a special disdain for the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2019 at hello typepad

Comment

At my age, it’s supposed to be over for me. So I...

At my age, it’s supposed to be over for me. So I had to treat it as though it were over… ‘If I didn’t have a career, what would I do?’ I would try to learn.” Good interview with NO... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2018 at hello typepad

Comment

Welcome, MarsEdit 4

I'm certain the vast majority of posts I've written here have been composed in MarsEdit, and now there is a new version! I happily paid to upgrade... now if only MarsEdit could somehow get me to write more! via blog.blankbaby.com Continue reading

Reblogged Dec 7, 2017 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs is now following Sarah

Dec 26, 2014

David Jacobs is now following Sarah

Dec 26, 2014

David Jacobs added a favorite at Noisy Decent Graphics

Jun 11, 2014

I Have Opinions about Apple's Rumored Acquisition of Beats by Dre

It's been formally requested in our office that we institute a moratorium on #beatstweets, but I've had a note to blog this post relating Apple's redesign of iOS 7 to the structure of the fashion industry since last July. The... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2014 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs added a favorite at mlkshk

Jan 1, 2014

David Jacobs added a favorite at Kokochi

Jan 1, 2014

Bagels, In Order

A superior remix of Bagels, In Order: Sesame Everything Pumpernickel Cinnamon Raisin Rye Salt Whole Wheat/Whole Grain Onion Garlic Poppy (Via NZLE.) Continue reading

Posted Oct 25, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

Frequently Asked Questions about Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr

All of these questions are variations on "Why did Yahoo! spend one-third of their cash on hand to buy a company that by all accounts is about to run out of money?" Read this post, and hopefully these questions will... Continue reading

Posted May 19, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs added a favorite at Adventures in the Pointless Forest

Apr 3, 2013

Google's Turn to the Dark Side

According to BuzzFeed, Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+: According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 14, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

The Near Past

Story from the near future: foreign govt hackers launch app w/ spying backdoor at #sxsw, pwn everyone's phone data. (Maybe already have!)— elipariser (@elipariser) March 9, 2013 This actually happened in the near past, not even the near future, in... Continue reading

Posted Mar 9, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

Yes!

Commented Feb 26, 2013 on Keynote Graveyard at hello typepad

1 reply

Keynote Graveyard

This has long been one of my favorite slides in 29th Street Publishing's deck. Lev, not quite two, reads the New York Times' Book Review while sitting in his mother's lap. The point of the slide is that reading apps... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

(Re)Introducing the Microcontent Client

In its ideal implementation, the microcontent browser is a combination of a desktop software application and well-designed web services, interacting together to parse our existing HTML, XHTML, and XML documents into tomorrow's semantic web. via dashes.com It feels a little... Continue reading

Reblogged Feb 11, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs added a favorite at Andre's Notes

Jan 29, 2013

Chris, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcz_kDCBTBk

Commented Jan 26, 2013 on Whatever Happened Happened at hello typepad

1 reply

Whatever Happened Happened

Overheard at Sundance, 2007: No seriously, hear me out. Let's say Sith artifacts can enable their bearers to travel through time (there is semi-canonical precedent for this), why not reboot the franchise? I'm SURE I can get ABC on board,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 26, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

Announcing Maura Magazine

Bloggers by nature are readers, writers, editors, social media experts, system administrators, designers and publishers. As tools improved, some of these specializations became less necessary and the barrier to entry lowered — for instance, TypePad and Wordpress obviated the need... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2013 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs added a favorite at alaina browne lives here

Jan 7, 2013

It's the Weekend

The hottest new app is The Awl: Weekend Companion. It's got voting machines by Maria Bustillos, cooking for Sandy refugees by Emily Gould, original artwork, the guy who wrote the OTHER Cloud Atlas, the Y2K bug, the backstory of the... Continue reading

Posted Nov 30, 2012 at hello typepad

Comment

David Jacobs added a favorite at nataliepo

Nov 30, 2012