A brief history of John Baldessari
Narrated by Tom Waits. I recommend 720p fullscreen. /via David Karp.
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\”Do not disturb\” option in Mountain Lion
According to The Verge Apple has added a Do Not Disturb option to Mountain Lion's Notification Center. (Wow, that was a lot of capital letters.) Might we also see this feature in…
Mushroom potential
If I would have found this mushroom sooner it could have been dinner.
Traffic, or popularity, isn’t always good
Lars Martinson's website usually averaged a hundred hits per day. He submitted an ebook to Reddit and received nearly 50,000 hits in a single day. Great right? Well, not really. He only…
Will apps be announced for the Apple TV next week?
I've had an Apple TV for a while now and I love it. I use it all the time. And, I'm guessing, with Mountain Lion I'll be using it a lot more….
Joe Kraus and the Culture of Distraction
Great presentation by Joe Kraus on the Culture of Distraction and how we're all training ourselves to be less able to focus on any one thing. STOP WHAT YOUR DOING AND WATCH…
The American West photographed by Timothy O’Sullivan circa 1870
Absolutely stunning photography from Timothy O'Sullivan in the 1860s and 1870s. He would have had an amazing Instagram account.
Paul Miller’s year offline is incredibly interesting
Paul Miller, a writer for The Verge, somewhat recently decided to take a year off from the Internet. You can call it a stunt if you'd like to – but it is…
The Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550
CNet takes a good look at Samsung's new Chromebook 5 550. It appears that the launch of Google Drive has done wonders for Chrome OS.
Instagram filters for Adobe Lightroom
Casey McCallister has put together some great filters for Adobe Lightroom that resemble the filters in Instagram. Some say they aren't perfect replicas but I couldn't see how they could be. I…
Jodie Foster reads Carl Sagan’s Contact
Yesterday, while I was sick on the couch, I did what I usually do when I'm sick. Watch Contact. I've never read the book from which the film was adapted – Carl…
The Middle Ages: Then vs. Now by Pleated Jeans
Pleated Jeans presents – The Middle Ages: Then vs. Now. I still carry around a leg of turkey from time-to-time. /via Laughing Squid.
Jay Torres and food truck etiquette
I love street food. Jay Torres, who used to work on a food truck, has some great lessons in food truck etiquette to share. Listen up. I’ve been wanting to write something…
A tribute to the AeroPress
Adam Lisagor of Sandwich Video presents AeroPress "Ritual": I laughed out loud (or, LOL'd as the kids say). /via Jay Torres.
Bits about being or feeling finished
I think everyone who is addicted to their work runs into this problem of constantly feeling like there is more to do. And let's face it, all of us that have been…
Google removes 1 million links a month from search results
David Kravets for Wired: Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software from its search results — with about half…
Matt Mullenweg on a much more simple WordPress
First, yes please. Now, Matt Mullenweg on what tablets should mean to WordPress: How we democratize publishing on that sort of platform will not and should not work like WordPress’ current dashboard…
Coda 2 and Diet Coda now available
Coda 2 and Diet Coda are now available. 50% off until tomorrow. Just picked up my copy. Take that Duke Nukem.
gTar – The first guitar that anyone can play
Speaking of Kickstarter (I've mentioned it many times). gTar, a guitar-playing learning tool that uses an iPhone to teach you how to play, is a new project on Kickstarter that seems to…
Justin Kan’s first programming experience
Justin Kan about his first experience using programming on the job: A couple more hours of applied effort and I had a macro that looped through all the images in a directory…
Om Malik interviews Kickstarter founder Perry Chen
Om Malik sat down with Perry Chen for a really great and in-depth interview about the success of Kickstarter. I think, we’re able to offer people the ability to overcome that one…
Pete Rose: Here Now
A great short film about Pete Rose day-to-day. I hired Pete Rose in Atlantic City in 2003 when I worked for a sports memorabilia company to sign autographs. Out of the 45…
TechCrunch isn’t about tech
An excellent point by Alex Payne on something that always bothered him about TechCrunch: For a publication with “tech” in the name, technology only ever seemed ambiently present in TechCrunch’s reporting. Software…
Coda 2 and Diet Coda available May 24th
Not-so-hot on the heels of my interview with Panic in September 2009comes Coda 2 and its sister? iPad app Diet Coda – both available on May 24th. Coda 2 looks like an…
Farhad Manjoo spends a week with Bing
Like Mahdi Yusuf's month-long foray using DuckDuckGo Farhad Manjoo spends a week with Bing. His first impressions were good: The new Bing is like the old Google—your results are presented on a…
GitHub for Windows
GitHub just released GitHub for Windows. Remember what I said about GitHub for Mac? And about git getting easier? It goes ditto for this application.
Open Graph tags using the Viddler API
Fellow Viddler team member Jeff Johns explains how to use the Viddler API to generate Open Graph tags. One possible use case? Making your video thumbnail, and playable video, appear on Facebook's…
Adobe Shadow
Interesting project by Adobe – Shadow is a way to share your current browser's location with a bunch of different devices. In the demo embedded here it shows how easily it would…
How Yahoo! Killed Flickr
Matt Honan of Gizmodo: The site that once had the best social tools, the most vibrant userbase, and toppest-notch storage is rapidly passing into the irrelevance of abandonment. Its once bustling community…
The downsides of experience
Justin Kan pontificates about experience and how he at one point thought experience was worthless. However, once he had some experience he began to believe it to be very valuable. It does…