Year: 2012
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An excellent video essay about Photography from Richard Koci Hernandez
A great video from CNN? Believe it. This is an excellent video essay about photography from Richard Koci Hernandez for CNN. /via Mike Matas on Twitter.
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Hipstamatic was playing the wrong game
Austin Carr in a retelling of the Hipstamatic story for FastCompany: "By March of 2011, when Hipstamatic hired its new designer, Laura Polkus, Instagramhad already rocketed to 2.2 million users, and was growing by 130,000 users per week. But Polkus says the team largely ignored Instagram. “There wasn’t a whole lot of attention paid there,” says…
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Rooftop gardening in Bukchon, Seoul, South Korea
I’m totally jealous and inspired by this woman’s rooftop garden in South Korea. Simple, great use of space, economical, environmental.
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Slate window manager
Slate is a free, open source window manager for Mac OS X. In short, it binds key combinations to make it a bit easier to manage your application’s windows. An example is: ALT Left Arrow will move the current focused window left 10% (by default). This is the default configuration file and you’ll more than…
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The ballsiest beer ever
Wynkoop to release a stout beer made with bull testicles. So, there’s that. /via Laughing Squid.
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What if you exploded a nuclear bomb at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?
This is what makes Randall’s new series so incredibly good: In 1962, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote a memo discussing eight possible novel weapon systems, all of which looked like they’d be possible in the near future, and outlined the potential military uses and dangers of each. This memo has been declassified, but was never published.…
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Wedge 0.3.3
Wedge is a Mac client for App.net that I really like. It just hit 0.3.3 with a slew of updates. The rapid development of these clients, the feedback loop, and the growth of App.net is all very compelling and fun to be part of once again.
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Watching @veen via Be Square
I’m loving Be Square on the iPad over coffee in the morning. Oh, and Jeff Veen’s "How the Web Works" is great. As always.
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Freshly cut
You can tell how wet and soft the ground was from the wheel tracks. Maybe the last time of the year?
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How to flip food in a pan
Chef John from Food Wishes: "Up and down is very lame. Back and forth, shows your game." My kitchen floor would have appreciated it if I had learned this a lot sooner than I did. /via Boing Boing.
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Apple Maps uses far less cellular data than Google Maps
Team Onavo: "Our data experts performed an identical series of activities on Google Maps and Apple Maps that included searching for several US cities, addresses and airports and zooming in and out to locate specific locations. On Google Maps, the average data loaded from the cellular network for each step was 1.3MB. Apple Maps came…
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Camera adds iPhone 5 low-light support
Scott Meinzer at Camera : "Apple has added the ability for the sensor in the iPhone 5 to take pictures at 4 times the sensitivity. If you’re a camera buff this means the ISO can go from a limit of 800 before, up to 3200 now!" Camera was always too slow to use on my…
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How the people of CERN work
Jeremy Keith, after visiting CERN in Switzerland: "According to most established social and economic theory, nothing should ever get done at CERN. It’s a collection of thousands of physics nerds—a mixture of theorists (the ones with blackboards) and experimentalists (the ones with computers). When someone wants to get something done, they present their ideas and…
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The mushrooms multiplied
These fall rains are causing tons of mushrooms to pop up all around our property. Some, like these, are big and colorful.
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Twitter favorites, now less valuable
Me, in July 2009: So that is why I use Twitter’s favorite feature to help me save links for reading later. For at least four years I’ve been subscribed to the RSS feed for my favorites on Twitter. That RSS feed is now gone. One of the features I found most valuable on Twitter is…
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Be Square
If you can’t be there, Be Square; a great resource for people that like to virtually attend conferences that they can’t attend for one reason or another. /via Tina Roth Eisenberg.
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Netbot for iPhone and iPad
Things are getting very, very interesting. Tapbots releases Netbot, a Tweetbot-esque client for App.net for both iPhone and iPad.
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NY Times for iPad in HTML5
Have a NY Times account? And an iPad? You might want to give their new web app a try. All in HTML5.
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Paul Haddad on Twitter’s limitations
Paul Haddad about the new user token limit for third-party clients on Twitter: "For iOS, there’s no danger of hitting that anytime soon,” he said “For Mac, it’s really hard to tell. It’s definitely a lower limit, but then there’s going to be fewer users as well. We’ve never really been keeping track of user tokens…
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The ultimate #travelfeet photo
Thanks to the iPhone 5’s new panorama feature. Expect more of these in some awesome locations.
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App.net – Now $5 a month or $36 a year
App.net is no longer $50/yr. You can choose to pay monthly at $5 or for the year at $36. Is this a response to Tent.is coming out for free with a $12 a month plan for "early adopter" status? I don’t know. But either way, if the way forward is going to be a paid…
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James Bond – Skyfall theme song by Adele
It is a bit of a moving target at the moment (presumably it is being removed as quickly as possible) but a preview of Adele’s theme song for the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall can be found right here. Update: Within seconds of me posting this link it has vanished yet again. Doing [a search…
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Souvenirs Entomologiques
Jean-Henri Fabre, circa 1879 in Souvenirs Entomologiques: We all have our own talents, our special gifts. Sometimes these gifts seem to come to us from our forefathers, but more often it is difficult to trace their origin. A goatherd, perhaps, amuses himself by counting little pebbles and doing sums with them. He becomes an astoundingly…
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Stop wishing, start doing
Seth Godin: If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can’t influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It’s merely a distraction. That second part is very hard for me.
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The Great Discontent interviews Jason Santa Maria
Solid gold. Jason Santa Maria recalls his journey into design in his interview on The Great Discontent: From the beginning, whenever I was in a position to tutor or mentor someone, I was always up for it. I want to leave a mark in a way that helps other people to be better and if…
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A reminder of why we love photography
James Duncan Davidson: The light did its thing a few times. For a little bit, it looked like the sunset was going to get lost in clouds rolling in from the west. But then we got a reprieve and sunset kicked in in a wonderful way. We all picked a bit of a different thing…
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My island on this ocean
Me, over four years ago: As it stands I post what I’m currently doing to Twitter, I am testing out Pownce with mobile blogging, events, links, and files, I post mobile phone photos to Flickr (as well as the occasional screenshot), videos go on Viddler, bookmarks end up on Ma.gnolia, tasting notes end up on Cork’d, and my thoughts on Appleproducts find their way…
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Tent.is
Tent.io is a decentralized Twitter-esque social networking "protocol". Tent.is is for those of us that would like to use Tent.io but don’t feel like managing our own server. I have no idea where this is going to go, but I signed up anyway to poke around. This is an interesting time in the social web.
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Simplenote for iOS updated for iPhone 5
Simplenote for iOS, an app I use every single day, is now iPhone 5 ready. Grab it!
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A smile only a mother could love
Alexandar Safonov’s bull shark photos are awesome. All of his work is.
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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
Bret Victor: Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan system, I felt I should respond with two thoughts about learning: How could I possibly avoid linking to this? See also: Inventing on Principle.
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How Flat Work Environments Kill Successful Companies
Matt Van Hoven: Bottom line, flat structures create confusion about where power lies, because eventually someone has to be in charge – whether because a client demands it or a job won’t get done unless someone takes charge. Van Hoven leaves off an important point; it really depends on the type of start-up whether or…
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iPhone as a plane ticket, a Passbook experience
Scott McNulty flies across country using the new Passbook app in iOS 6: It seems to me that Passbook is a clever idea, but honestly having my eTicket with the QR code emailed to me (or just using the one displayed in the United app) would have been simpler. Once you get the ticket into…
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Mayer: Yahoo won’t bother unless a product can ship within 6 months, reach 100 million people, and add $100m to the company’s top line
This was eluded to in Kara Swisher’s aforelinked piece but it wasn’t spelled out quite as well as this, by Nicolas Carlson at Business Insider: Mayer’s rule: If a new product can’t be shipped in six months, and if it doesn’t have a realistic shot of reaching 100 million users or generate $100 million toward…