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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…
This is what Viddler always needed.
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.
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.
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…
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.
We break out the wool.
Before, After. Oh, and that rose was nothing to mess with.
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…
Wynkoop to release a stout beer made with bull testicles. So, there's that. /via Laughing Squid.
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…
I'm totally jealous and inspired by this woman's rooftop garden in South Korea. Simple, great use of space, economical, environmental.
We recently started three new batches: Chardonnay, Zinfandel, and Riesling.
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.
This time, the pigs aren't the Rebels.
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.
If you're a fan of Jameson, I can recommend Slane Castle.
Blame, I mean, thank my niece Kalie for this.
You can tell how wet and soft the ground was from the wheel tracks. Maybe the last time of the year?
I had nothing to do with this one. I think.
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.
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 now gone and…