Longer-form posts and essays.

Instabar

Speaking of Instagram… Instabar is a free app to view your Instagram feed on your Mac.

Signal vs. Noise redesigns

Mig Reyes writes about the redesign of the 37signal's blog: More often than not, company blogs are littered with pitches for their product. I don’t want to throw new job opportunities at you right away. I don’t want to ask you to subscribe to our RSS feed when you haven’t even read anything yet. These rules informed the layout: content…

Why Tent.io seems more promising than App.net

Bruno Grande at App Storm: "In essence, instead of one entity having control over a medium like Twitter, a standard is made, allowing any person or company to implement the medium, which remains interoperable." Today at Viddler HQ, around the new handmade, reclaimed pine Viddler table, the lot of us were discussing App.net, Tent.io, Twitter and the state…

The new Viddler table

This is what Viddler always needed.

Picasso, Matisse and Monet paintings stolen from Dutch museum

Reuters in Amsterdam: "Thieves have stolen paintings byPablo Picasso,Henri Matisse,Claude Monetand other famous modern artists from a museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police say." My money is on Thomas Crown.

Microsoft begins Surface preorders… no, wait.

According to The Verge: "Microsoft listed its Surface pricingat its online Microsoft Storethis morning, indicating that pre-orders will be available shortly." And then, promptly: "Update: Microsoft's online store listing has now gone offline." So, they tried. That was nice of them to try.

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 Polkus, who was…

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.

How gentlemen dress in the fall

We break out the wool.

Winterized garden

Before, After. Oh, and that rose was nothing to mess with.

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. Freeman’s son, science…

The ballsiest beer ever

Wynkoop to release a stout beer made with bull testicles. So, there's that. /via Laughing Squid.

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 likely want to…

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.

Making wine

We recently started three new batches: Chardonnay, Zinfandel, and Riesling.

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.

Angry Birds Star Wars – November 8th

This time, the pigs aren't the Rebels.

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.

Slane Castle Irish Whiskey

If you're a fan of Jameson, I can recommend Slane Castle.

In the lines

Hello Pinot

Blame, I mean, thank my niece Kalie for this.

Freshly cut

You can tell how wet and soft the ground was from the wheel tracks. Maybe the last time of the year?

The end of the road

I had nothing to do with this one. I think.

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