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.
Blog
Longer-form posts and essays.
Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
Topics: AI, blogging, photography, programming, projects, Signboard
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 ask for help…
Do not open
Umm. Whoops?
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 iPhone 4.Since upgrading…
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 in at 271KB…
The ultimate #travelfeet photo
Thanks to the iPhone 5's new panorama feature. Expect more of these in some awesome locations.
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 before this, so…
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.
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.
Jeff & DJ
They are happy with their shirts. Jeff Johns & Derek Steen
DJ
Derek Steen. In town.
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.
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 I have knowledge…
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.
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 quick reckoner, and…
Second fire of fall
Don't worry, I won't take a photo of every fire. Wait, maybe I will.
My white shoes
While most of my friends hate them, I love them. $3 at Goodwill.
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 on Soundcloud for…
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 social networking solution…
These are my woods
More exploring is sorely needed.
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.
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 toTUG.n. What a…
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 to focus on….
Simplenote for iOS updated for iPhone 5
Simplenote for iOS, an app I use every single day, is now iPhone 5 ready. Grab it!