Angry Birds Star Wars – November 8th
This time, the pigs aren't the Rebels.
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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…
Slane Castle Irish Whiskey
If you're a fan of Jameson, I can recommend Slane Castle.
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.
Freshly cut
You can tell how wet and soft the ground was from the wheel tracks. Maybe the last time of the year?
Hello Pinot
Blame, I mean, thank my niece Kalie for this.
In the lines
How to flip food in a pan
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…
Reeds
The end of the road
I had nothing to do with this one. I think.
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…
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…
Do not open
Umm. Whoops?
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…
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.
Twitter favorites, now less valuable
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…
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.
DJ
Derek Steen. In town.
Jeff & DJ
They are happy with their shirts. Jeff Johns & Derek Steen
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.
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.
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…
The ultimate #travelfeet photo
Thanks to the iPhone 5's new panorama feature. Expect more of these in some awesome locations.
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…
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…
My white shoes
While most of my friends hate them, I love them. $3 at Goodwill.
Second fire of fall
Don't worry, I won't take a photo of every fire. Wait, maybe I will.
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…
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.
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…