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Rohan Anderson: So after breakfast we all ventured out to the front yard to say hello and goodbye to the birds. The girls loved the soft feathers and the sounds they made, but when it came time to kill them they knew what needed to happen. I was rather proud of them, they saw my

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Watercooler 1.0 is a Twitter and App.net client byTroy Gaul. It looks interesting but I might wait for 1.1 based on the reviews before I pick up a copy. /via John Gruber.

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Gizmodo did a side-by-side comparison of Google’s new Voice Search app on iPhone and Siri. Google wins every single time. I’ve been using Google a bit on my iPhone 5 over the last 24 hours or so and it is blazingly fast. Siri, obviously, is far more integrated into iOS and can open applications, set

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This Monday marks the 140th and final episode of No Reservations to air on Travel Channel. On the one hand, I’m sad to see what is easily one of my most favorite shows go off the air, but on the other I realize that after doing something for so long it is good to shake

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When I first read the news that Disney was acquiring Lucasfilm, ILM, and Skywalker Sound all in one deal I tweeted that I didn’t understand how all of these companies – along with the rights to Star Wars, partial rights to Indiana Jones, Lucas Arts and much, much more – were only worth $4 billion.

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This time-lapse video of Hurricane Sandy over New York City starts getting interesting around the 1:00 mark. It starts gettingdevastatingaround the 2:00 mark. Pay close attention to the water level. /via Laughing Squid.

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Richard Dunlop-Waters of The Brief: As of yesterday, 25 percent of the nation’s cell sites were not operational, across 158 counties in 10 states. And around 25 percent are also still without broadband access. Outages will only get worse and Sandy travels across the country. In case that quote doesn’t make it obvious, that is

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Shawn Blanc: The iPad mini is the first iOS device (iPod touch not included) that I haven’t pre-ordered or waited in line for. Partly because I’m prejudice against that non-Retina display, but also because I just don’t see the iPad mini being worth it for me. As an additional device to use for reading and

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Turns out Shawn noticed the very same things that I did.

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Heilemann, who has been writing about Star Wars for years and is a self-proclaimed Star Wars historian, jotted down his thoughts on the deal and he agrees with me: On second glance, it’s a staggering deal. Remember, this isn’t ‘simply’ Star Wars; it’s all of Lucasfilm, including the Indiana Jones franchise, and films like Willow

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John Gruber on the iPad mini: It’s really light and easy to hold one-handed. The hardware design — chamfered edges, less tapered back, metal rather than plastic buttons — strikes me as better, more elegant, than that of the full-size iPad 3/4. But it’s disappointing to go non-retina after using the retina iPad for the

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Though iOS 6.0.1 is a .x.x release it actually has a fair number of bug fixes. Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard Fixes an issue that could cause camera flash to not go off

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My favorite iPhone application for shooting black and white photos, Hueless by Curious Satellite, just got a massive update. Even though the update would be worth paying for again it is available for free to current customers in the App Store. I’m looking forward to seeing what Curious Satellite does with the upcoming Huemore.

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From space Sandy didn’t look like much more than a few clouds. But, she was much more than that. /via Jason Kottke who still does not have power 4 days after Sandy made landfall.

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WordPress.com recently published a new page dedicated to showcasing how bands and musicians can use the service to its full potential. I’ve always been surprised that WordPress.com didn’taggressivelygo after moretargetedverticals (besides VIP publishers) like music, movies, and so on. MySpace, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter all make boatloads of cash off of these verticals and WordPress.com

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The price? Four Instagrams. Dean J. Robinson: Lots of people I follow on twitter [sic] (pretty much all of them actually) are Star Wars fans of some description – and the general consensus is that while they are quite surprised by the announcement they don’t necessarily have negative feeling about it. In fact many seem

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Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

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Speaking of Instagram… Instabar is a free app to view your Instagram feed on your Mac.

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Mig Reyes writes about the redesign of the 37signal’s blog: More often than not, company blogs are littered with pitches for their product. I don’t want to throw new job opportunities at you right away. I don’t want to ask you to subscribe to our RSS feed when you haven’t even read anything yet. These rules informed

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Before, After. Oh, and that rose was nothing to mess with.

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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.

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Wynkoop to release a stout beer made with bull testicles. So, there’s that. /via Laughing Squid.

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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

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I’m totally jealous and inspired by this woman’s rooftop garden in South Korea. Simple, great use of space, economical, environmental.

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We recently started three new batches: Chardonnay, Zinfandel, and Riesling.

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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.

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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.

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If you’re a fan of Jameson, I can recommend Slane Castle.

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You can tell how wet and soft the ground was from the wheel tracks. Maybe the last time of the year?

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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.

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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

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These fall rains are causing tons of mushrooms to pop up all around our property. Some, like these, are big and colorful.

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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

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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

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Thanks to the iPhone 5’s new panorama feature. Expect more of these in some awesome locations.

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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

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