Quite tasty.
Stuff of Interest
An extension of fitzage.com.
Feb 04
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Feb 02
» The Religion of Coffee – Can You Go Too Deep?
Excellent perspective. Not just for coffee, either.
My poor little iPhone.
Feb 01
“ InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman thinks the iPad will kill the netbook. The Macalope would argue the netbook never really existed…
» Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider Blog: Why is Everybody So Angry about Apple’s iPad?
Quite good. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but humorous and insightful.
Jan 29
Jan 28
» Excellent iPad overview
Includes a very good comparison between iPhone OS and Android.
“ Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies in the world that can say that. And from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. Software aside (which is a huge thing to put aside), it may well be that no other company could make a device today matching the price, size, and performance of the iPad. They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass.
Jan 25
Playing with this Chuck iPhone app.
Jan 22
Tucson tornado warning. Hilarious!
Jan 21
» An Apology. | ZachIsHere
Impressive.
Tweet Thief
A couple days ago a friend sent me a DM alerting me that he had spotted one of my tweets in someone else’s feed, unattributed. Now I’m not so narcissistic as to get that upset about someone stealing one of my tweets, but the more I thought about it, the more the principle of the matter really got under my skin.
The user is @ZachIsHere. Looking a little further into his feed, I started to notice several other tweets that didn’t really match up with his general style of posting, and, a few of them I recognized as tweets I had read from other users. And after a little creative Googling I was able to find numerous instances that he has plagiarized other people’s work.
It’s one thing to inadvertently post an amalgam of words and ideas on Twitter that have been shared by other users. Any one of us has done it, and with millions and millions of logical 140-character combinations out there, surely there’s bound to be some concurrence of thought and humor once in a while. But it’s quite another matter to knowingly and intentionally re-post someone else’s tweet as your own. Not cool.
I sent @ZachIsHere an @reply informing him that this behavior violates the Twitter Terms of Service and asked him, politely, to take the tweets down. He refused, and went so far as to block me altogether.
So because I’m not the type of guy to keep my mouth shut, I’m posting this here to call him out publicly. Plagiarism is douchey. Refusing to stop and subsequently blocking the guy who asked you to stop is even douchier.
If you feel so inclined, re-blog this and send @ZachIsHere an @reply with your thoughts on the matter.
Below are some of the instances of his plagiarism that I was readily able to find:
Jan 18
Check out what I just found in my Apple t-shirt archive.
Jan 14
