And stressed parents, too. Here’s what you do. It requires you to buy into Apple, but hey, you want your parents to be happy, right? Put all your photos into iPhoto or Aperture. Buy all the grandparents some sort of iPad. You may have already done this due to wanting to reduce your technical support […]
Here’s a Storify of some tweets I wrote. Some people liked it. [View the story "The Day The Barges Opened" on Storify]
Recorded for posterity. Larry Page wants to set aside part of the world for experimentation. Balaji Srinivasan thinks Silicon Valley should create an opt-ou” society where existing governments cannot meddle. Chamath Palihapitiya says value is only created in Silicon Valley and that Valley companies transcend power and are the eminent vehicles for change and influence, […]
With Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s Genuine People Personalities, Douglas Adams was envious nine a future where companies would get the tone of voice of everyday Internet-of-things objects such as doors and lifts depressingly wrong.
Do this: defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE It turns off the back/forward two-finger swipe gesture for Chrome only.
Tonight I had my first legitimate Apple Maps outrage. We needed to get to 1233 SE Stark St in Portland. In Google Maps, if you search for 1233 SE Stark St, you get this: It’s a pushpin in the right location, titled “1233 SE Stark St”. In Apple Maps, you get this: If you’re paying […]
So we found out today that LinkedIn’s iOS apps have been sending calendar data in plaintext in order to support a new feature – giving you background information on the people you’re meeting that day. Which, on its own, is potentially a pretty useful feature, and a nice way of bringing to life the more […]
Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work. – Elon Musk interviewed by Wired in August 2008.
I’m in New York for a friend’s wedding and it’s one of those occasions where I’ll break out the DSLR for some nice(r) photographs. The thing this time has been to get a replacement 50mm f1.8 lens because the one I have, fantastic as it has been, has decided to separate itself into two substantially […]
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 6th from 16:26 to 06:51: What Do Animals Think? | Animal Intelligence | DISCOVER Magazine – Temple Grandin thinks animals may think like autistic humans. Wittgenstein, Ludwig [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] – "So if a lion could speak, Wittgenstein says, we […]