The Beast Within » Warrior Poet http://beastwith.in A mental brouhaha, est. 1996. Wed, 23 May 2012 23:49:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Week of tweets: 2012-05-20. http://beastwith.in/2012/05/20/week-of-tweets-2012-05-20-2/ http://beastwith.in/2012/05/20/week-of-tweets-2012-05-20-2/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:00 +0000 WyldKard http://beastwith.in/2012/05/20/week-of-tweets-2012-05-20-2/

  • Week of tweets: 2012-05-13. http://t.co/cxKObiZE #
  • Is there any way to prevent an iPhone from auto-playing a song in the Music app when the phone connects to a bluetooth audio device? #
  • XBox surgery. http://t.co/78SU9qSc #
  • Playing Diablo 3 on a 2010 Mac Mini is just like playing Diablo 2 in 2000: at 800×600 resolution, and constant death by lag. #
  • Using a power-hungry tactile keyboard with the iPad. http://t.co/GScWoJF7 #
  • Set up a Glassboard to discuss D3 if anyone's interested. The invite code is "tnphn". #

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  • Week of tweets: 2012-05-06. http://t.co/DweaCvHR #
  • Fifth Jawbone UP officially dead. #
  • XBox reported red ring of death after freezing up whenever a game was launched. gg Microsoft. #
  • Jawbone UP replacement bands are duds. http://t.co/fEWgQHnQ #
  • Is the Pebble smartwatch worth it? http://t.co/xRqv7ydq #
  • Kitty found a new bed. http://t.co/IlHPzrWk #
  • Always wondered how magnets work. http://t.co/aeeZeNhR #
  • Raw Milk Reality: Is Raw Milk Dangerous? http://t.co/aqEslcYc #
  • Received our order of Nescafe today. Had my first frappe since visiting Greece. Strong caffeine buzz ensuing. #
  • iOS devs: for apps using SQLite, is it considered better practice to start with a skeleton DB as asset, or to generate the DB on first use? #
  • “@LaurenGoode: OH: I can't stop buying stuff on Kickstarter. It's like QVC for dudes.” Truth. #

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  • The Nike+ Fuelband takes on the Jawbone UP. http://t.co/8p8gH9YN #
  • Week of tweets: 2012-04-29. http://t.co/Sjt316mC #
  • You should be able to view a portrait iPhone app when the iPad is in landscape mode, when not zooming the app to 2x. Apple? #
  • Wish you could select more than one trending location for Twitter. Like, several states and select countries. #
  • So wait, Wildfire is real? http://t.co/gP76k8Vl” #
  • There's a curious lack of USB A-to-A adapters out there. Even Radio Shack failed me. #
  • Deleting some older, irrelevent blog posts. On an unrelated note, I wish NVAlt were available on iOS. #
  • Why does @simplenoteapp say I have 950 notes, yet @bywordapp says I have 1147 documents in the respectuve Simplenote-linked Dropbox folder? #

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  • Week of tweets: 2012-04-22. http://t.co/1czvvJAs #
  • Surprised more people don't use three-way calling seeing as it's a standard on most cell phone plans. #
  • Between Corona and Codea, why even bother with Objective-C anymore? #
  • Nike's FuelBand sizing advice was bad; I fell on-the-line between sizes, and sizing up made the band way too big. @NikeFuel #
  • Looks like I'm consuming just over 2GB of data on my iPad cellular connection each month. #
  • It's a shame that VoodooPad for iOS is so crappy compared to the desktop version. #
  • Magnificent mechanical keyboards. http://t.co/HuEH9IGd #
  • Looks like the search window in @bywordapp only looks at titles, not content. Anyone know if the devs plan to change that? #
  • Anyone know the approximate difference in power draw between using a bluetooth keyboard vs a wired keyboard? #
  • Anyone know if Clack Factory is still producing keycaps? #
  • VoodooPad and Trunk Notes need a web client. #
  • Anyone want to buy our Matias Slim One keyboard? Barely used. http://t.co/GuOfTo18 #

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  • Week of tweets: 2012-04-15. http://t.co/SxrLGT8G #
  • This whole provisioning stuff to build an iOS app is not very straightforward. It's very un-Apple-like. #
  • Hey @cnnbrk, your Twitter avatar looks horribly pixelated on a retina iOS display. #
  • Why do all modern car seats force you to bend forward? Do any support normal spinal curvature? #
  • The strap broke on my Rockstar GTA IV duffel because the bag was packed full with ammo. #irony #

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  • Week of tweets: 2012-04-08. http://t.co/iSGASCqG #
  • Happy Zombie-Jesus Day! #
  • So what's Facebook gonna do with all that Instagram data? Sell ads with it? #
  • Need a new washing machine. Anyone have a strong opinion on brand? #
  • They need to make a site like The Wirecutter for home appliances. #
  • Facebook and Instagram. http://t.co/LezFxD3u #
  • Ordered a Nike Fuelband yesterday. Coincidentally, received my fifth UP yesterday. Odds are the UP will be dead when the Fuelband arrives. #
  • The changing face of communication online. http://t.co/j5sBLEzB #
  • Robb Wolf’s Paleo Diet Budget Shopping Guide. http://t.co/uVoHsHzS #
  • Review of the #paleo budget shopping guide by @robbwolf: http://t.co/vH1s4MGG #
  • Does anyone make a more compact power adapter for the Mac Mini? #
  • Why doesn't Facebook offer paid, ad-free subscriptions? #
  • CISPA needs to be rewritten for national security specificity only. It's too abstract at present. http://t.co/J7uTMmb8” #
  • iPad 2 overheated in the sun. It was only 60 degrees out. #firstworldproblems #
  • Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? http://t.co/X2Dphcqe via @readability #

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  • Week of tweets: 2012-03-25. http://t.co/SVgb9NQa #
  • My alum block lasted 1.5 years. Dropped it this morning. #
  • Good argument for a 7.85" iPad, but I still don't see it as likely. http://t.co/6jr2wvT6 #
  • Miserable day of computing at work, today. Not sure if I should blame Windows, bad IT, poor developers, or all of the above. #
  • "Apes" and taxonomy. http://t.co/lUv4OjY5 #
  • Sadly, the ingredients are not what you'd expect to find in pemmican. In fact, the only animal product in it is milk. http://t.co/2VRwkEk3 #
  • Where http://t.co/EJTnVxuk went. http://t.co/i5xSJzHY #
  • I don't know about The Thing, but the _idea_ for this tat is pretty cool: http://t.co/0VwiE22L #
  • Another reason I hate Facebook: no way to send linked articles to Readbility or Instapaper from within the mobile app. #
  • Our fourth Jawbone up, dead. http://t.co/s5qbsas8 #
  • Speaking of the UP, there's a guy on the Jawbone UP forums who is on his 8th band already! #
  • More on keyboards and iPads. http://t.co/MmX9yZXr #
  • Byword for iOS doesn't support the footnote feature for Markdown. That sucks. #
  • The problem with “Paleo”. http://t.co/NqhTCcZP #

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Repeat visitors to the site will have noticed some changes, yet we’ve failed to offer a public explanation. Part of this is because we were first testing things out and wanted to see how it went before we fully commited, but now we’re ready.

Sixteen years ago we launched mendax.org – both a landing page for an abstract organization and the whisperings of an e-zine. In reality, the domain came to house a smattering of ideas and projects, loosely organized into what would become our blog – our central online presence.

When we thought to transition the site away from WordPress a few months ago, it provided us an opportunity to look more closely at the site’s various stages – periods in which we focused on one aspect or another. To be honest, much of the older content was poor, both in focus and presentation, and while we still use the site as more an avenue for spilling recent musings rather than publishing finely edited prose, we feel that the site has matured in recent years insofar as what we post.1 Our focus has narrowed, even though our target audience still isn’t singular.

We considered rebranding the site several times in the past, and even made a half-assed attempt with the WyldKard.com domain name, but we never fully pulled the trigger. We realized it came down to sunk costs, but there remained an emotional attachment to the original domain.2 Still, with several forces colluding at the same time, we recently decided to move ahead with scratching the old domain, which is why it now redirects to our renovated home, The Beast Within.

We say “renovated” instead of “new” because we decided to keep using WordPress after all, so moving all our old content was a fairly simple task.3 The Beast Within will continue to pay homage to the subtitle we’ve used at mendax.org, “A mental brouhaha”, for though we hope to continue focusing the content at the site, we’ll likely still jump around between various topics, as many bloggers are wont to do. In other words, we consider The Beast Within an evolution of the old site, not a displacement.

We hope to write a more concise mission statement moving forward. In the meantime, let us know what you think about the new look.

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  1. A lot of older content was a rehash of interesting news articles we came across, but our commentary wasn’t particularly deep. Had Twitter existed back then, we probably would have used it to link this kind of content, instead of hosting it at mendax.org. ↩

  2. There’s also a practical argument in search-engine-optimization (SEO), but hopefully 301 redirects will resolve this concern. ↩

  3. You’ll find that using an old article address at mendax.org will point your browser at the parallel article on the new site. With the exception of some posts we may delete in the future, most substantive content will not vanish. ↩

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  • Comcast internet service is abysmal tonight. #
  • Week of tweets: 2012-03-18. http://t.co/Uzda6nlI #
  • A Steambox makes no sense. http://t.co/sHjvQBqo #
  • The Walking Dead has a lot of magical weapons that don't require reloading, and have no recoil. #
  • Good read from @raphkoster on in-game economies: http://t.co/B5m0QvX6” #
  • Using Day One to track specific activities. http://t.co/CyOBoEmh #
  • Anyone else find that their iPad 2 charging cable doesn't fit the new iPad as nicely as the cable that came with the new iPad? #
  • Trying out Draw Something. If anyone wants to play, my username is "WyldKard". #
  • What's up with players in Draw Something just writing out the word? And no way to report users? #
  • Need more Draw Something partners, kthx! #
  • So… Spring? http://t.co/jvRVQpKo #
  • Manually dropping Hipstamatic photos into Instagram was annoying. Now the two will partner up. http://t.co/5r02kEAP #greatsuccess #
  • Using Pinterest can be illegal? http://t.co/HrtlRMuw #
  • Non-retina icons really bother me now. #
  • Retina graphics and file-sizes. http://t.co/D9yHN6or #
  • Best armband for the iPhone 4/4S? #

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