Tesla sort of opens up its patents
Tony Stark, I mean, Elon Musk on the Tesla company blog: At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology…
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Yaron Schoen in Net Magazine
My good friend, and co-writer of Space Bits, Yaron Schoen was recently interviewed in Net Magazine — which takes the name Creative Bloq online for inexplicable reasons: I honestly am not so…
Adam Magyar
Joshua Hammer on Matter/Medium in Einstein’s Camera: Adam Magyar is a computer geek, a college dropout, a self-taught photographer, a high-tech Rube Goldberg, a world traveler, and a conceptual artist of growing…
Jurassic World
Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, is coming next June. E! Online has a few preview images and says this about the synopsis: Jurassic World takes place 22…
Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces
Bret Victor designs tools. Tools that help you see, or measure and analyze, what you’re working on while you’re working on them. I’ve mentioned him before. This latest presentation by Victor describes…
The Pirates of Pangea
Last night I stumbled across this tweet from Neill Cameron on Twitter. Which I favorited. Which automatically syncs with my Unmark account. Which led me to his new site this morning. Which…
How Jurassic Park went digital
The special effects in Jurassic Park were originally planned to use animatronics, stop-motion animation, and other traditional effects of the time. But, contrary to the opinions of some, a few “mavericks” at ILM…
It is that time of year again
On average I save the lives of three or four of these each time I mow my lawn.
Just Down The Street
Also, an Instagram crop.
Learn Swift dot tips
Want to learn Swift, the new programming language from Apple? I’d say start by watching the WWDC Session videos. Then, hit up this curated list of Swift resources. /via Marc Edwards on…
The greatest show on earth
Horace Dediu: For them WWDC had a great deal of meat. Indeed, for them, it was probably the most significant event Apple ever staged. Again, agreed. It took all my strength not…
Why we write
Mandy Brown: You cannot know what you know until you’ve written it. As you write, you learn what you know—or, more likely, what you don’t know, which, let’s face it, is most…
Back to Apple
There are hundreds of thousands of third-party apps that you can use on your computer, phone, and tablet. Some of them are amazingly good and far better in a number of ways…
h2ocolor: Fisherman III by Paula Visnoski in Middletown, Rhode Island
Paula recently submitted her work to the gallery and I immediately fell in love with this piece from her watercolor archive.
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Space Bit: Top 3 Public Observatories on Earth
Me, on Space Bits… Did You Know? The Griffith Observatory was used as a shooting location for none other than MacGyver’s home in episode 1 of the now iconic TV series. Later…
Mercator projection — Africa vs Greenland
This is why I do not like the Mercator projection.
A Tribute to Discomfort: Cory Richards
A Tribute to Discomfort: Cory Richards from Blue Chalk on Vimeo. Time to get the DSLR out. /via Jeff Sheldon on Twitter.
Let’s force Mozilla to change how passwords are shown in Firefox
Mid-summer last year Elliot Kember discovered that Chrome saves passwords in plain text on your computer and, with a few clicks, anyone sitting at your desk can see them. This made some…
Dandy Sunset
I’m a kayaker
Last weekend, for the first time in my life, I went kayaking! I loved it so much, I went again the next day. For the last few months I’ve spent a lot…
DuckDuckGo Safari
Huge news for DuckDuckGo. Safari in Yosemite will now have DDG as an option for a search engine. Remember Fred Wilson’s graph from a few days ago? You can expect that spike…
How not to install OS X Yosemite
Dan Eden lets us know how not to install OS X Yosemite: The moral of the story; don‘t install 10.10 just yet. And if you do, make sure you‘re not an impatient…
Living up to your (business) ideals
My friend Geoff DiMasi, of the great P’unk Ave, on A List Apart: We always cared about our work and had good relationships with our clients before, but intentionally pursuing projects that…
The 3 biggest takeaways from WWDC keynote
Ted Landau: Make no mistake: this was a historic keynote. It’s hard to overstate what Apple did today. If you’ve ever written and released any amount of software in your life it…
The best WWDC Keynote ever
Yesterday’s WWDC Keynote was, in my opinion, the best WWDC Keynote ever. In fact, it was their best presentation since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007. If you haven’t seen it…
Thoughts on the WWDC keynote
Jim Dalrymple, of The Loop: There are a few things that struck me during the WWDC keynote presentation this morning. The first, and perhaps most important, is how much fun the Apple…
You’re Using Instagram Wrong
Jeffrey Kalmikoff on Medium: I effectively stopped looking at my Instagram feed, but did continue to use it to take, filter, and post photos (to Facebook). Early this year, in an effort…
I say, it’s OK to use HTML
Jonas Downey, of Basecamp, on Signal vs. Noise: It would surely be easier to do that with 8 simple, straightforward HTML files than with some custom WordPress installation that’s several versions out…
More thoughts on the future of WordPress themes
Chris Lema, on how things have changed in the WordPress theme industry: Today people treat themes like IKEA furniture – easily replaced and never intended to last for years or decades. He…