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

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

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.

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…

Things are getting very, very interesting. Tapbots releases Netbot, a Tweetbot-esque client for App.net for both iPhone and iPad.

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.

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…

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…

Scott McNulty flies across country using the new Passbook app in iOS 6: It seems to me that Passbook is a clever idea, but honestly having my eTicket with the QR code emailed to me (or just using the one displayed in the United app) would have been simpler. Once you get the ticket into…

Chris Dixon has a good post about the shift from sales-driven software efforts to product-driven software efforts. Thus enterprise software went from being about sales (one-to-one) to being about marketing (one-to-many). Marketing requires crafting a compelling message, figuring out the right channels and then optimizing. But the most effective marketing isa compelling product that can…

Speaking of Duncan… James Duncan Davidson on Maps in iOS 6: I might be in the minority here given the raised pitchforks in many quarters, but I like the new maps in iOS 6. Yes, a lot of people are running into holes in the data set. Others are finding that the queries that they…

Glenn Fleishman for TidBITS on how to turn on Messages for your phone number on your Mac: The Messages app in Mountain Lion can now send and receive iMessages using an iPhone’s number as the identifier with a combination of iOS 6 and the recent OS X 10.8.2 update. Good tip. /via James Duncan Davidson.

Chad Williams has a great list of features in iOS 6 that are new that you may not have heard about: The auto-dim feature got significantly improved in iOS 6. The best improvement is brightness adjustment in the lock screen. Before, in a dark room, I would be blasted with the iPad or iPhone’s default…

Today I’m receiving an iPhone 5 that is Verizon-ready. I’ll be upgrading from an iPhone 4 on AT&T. Below are my live notes, as they happen, during this experience. It should be fun! Notes, in order. (the page will refresh automatically when I publish new notes) [liveblog]

I don’t mention Amazon or the Kindle as much as I mention Apple and the iPad on my blog. But don’t let that be any indication of my ignorance of how good the Kindle product line really is. Eliza has had a Kindle for a long time. Loves it. Adores it. Prefers to read on…

Justin Blanton, in a piece only a veteran-nerd-blogger-type like myself could enjoy all the way through, is dancing on two directions to take his blogging technology. On the one hand, he’d like to stop worrying about the entire stack and just get down to writing. On the other hand, he wants to be up to…

Everyone has an echo chamber that they’ve unwittingly built up around them. Your interests, friends, environment, and location are all factors in determining what your experiences are, what you know, and what you don’t know. It can be limiting. How can you tell if you’re in an echo chamber? Ask yourself; Is your experience and…

Steven Spielberg: I’ve resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I think Steven learned a little something from his friend George’s mistakes. Steven is, however, all for restoring his older films into higher quality formats as he’s currently…

The way I use lists on Twitter is pretty straight forward. I hand-curate about a dozen lists into categories of things I’m interested in. Over the years I’ve seen people complain that they don’t want to do the heavy-lifting of managing these Lists. But I’ve found that lists is a feature that has kept Twitter…

Andy Adams of The Theme Foundry: I’d like to suggest that competitors like Squarespace are going to start eating WordPress’s lunch on the “ease of use” front if WordPress does not adapt. Adams goes on to say how important the theme customizer is to helping WordPress to keep its competition at bay. Remember, Matt Mullenweg…

I’d take the time to link to theinnumerable tweets and blogposts I’ve read about photogs being burnt out and fed up with carrying tons of photo equipment. But we’re all feeling this. We’re all sick and tired of lugging around these monstrousbags full of our lenses, filters, lights, and bulky cameras and we’re opting to…

Andre Torrez waxes on about how he’s slowly coming to the realization that we all need to back away a bit from the streams of the web: I’ve been posting about this a bit, but I think my time off pushed me even further along to where I was going. I won’t say “off Twitter”,…

Jim Ray on why they made Evening Edition: Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels as your friends’ baby photos and fart jokes. Evening Edition is a refreshing break away from the realtime stream of terrible news coverage…

Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable sums up the Neilsen study: A new Nielsen study reveals 19% of respondents prefer using Netflix to watch TV programs — up 8% since a year ago — instead of movies or both equally. I would argue that this study revealed very little data of interest. Netflix’s movie catalog hasn’t grownsignificantlyin many,…

Om Malik has a different way to look at the success and failure of Digg: If the yardstick of success is making money for the founders, employees and the investors, then Digg will go down in the annals of web history as a colossal failure. However, if your yardstick of success is defined by a…

Codex 99 which is "either an occasionally updated weblog or incrementally expanded website about the history of the visual arts and graphic design" has an excellent feature on the maps of Gettysburg. Really incredible. Worth some coffee reading time. /via Coudal Partners.

GitHub: Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. The amount? $100,000,000. Even in today’s money this is a fair amount of capital for GitHub to have on-hand. What will this be used for? GitHub mentions, in several of the quotes posted to various tech news outlets, that they…

Jason Kottke, today: It’s funny that so many of the things that make Twitter compelling weren’t actually invented by Twitter but by the users and developers. It is true. Linking, @replies, #hashtags, photo sharing, location sharing, and much much more all came from the community and the developers that built cool tools ontop of Twitter.…

Matthew Ingram wrote a good piece entitled Why links matter: Linking is the lifeblood of the web for Gigaom. First, about giving credit: In the days when newspapers ruled the world of information, giving credit to other outlets was (and often still is) discouraged. Rewriting or “matching” a story that someone else broke — or…

Google recently scuttled a few of their products with very little fanfare. What worries me, and others, is that one day Google Reader will be on this list. I think it is only a matter of time.

Adam Curry, arguably one of the two people that invented Podcasting (of course, I’m referring to Dave Winer although there were others), has some thoughts on Apple’s new Podcasting app and how he feels they’ve left the door to discovery wide open and how Podcasting could be rebooted. Considering that a podcast is no different…

Remember when Facebook’s iOS application was used during an Apple keynote to show how great an app could be built by third parties? In fact, when Apple only allowed mobile web applications on the iPhone and when they began allowing native applications Facebook was used as a shining example for both ways of building an…

The Theme Foundry, who is arguably doing the best work in professional WordPress theming, just announced that all of their themes already support WordPress 3.4’s new theme customizer. We’ve been keeping an eye on WordPress 3.4, and now that it is released we’re proud to announce that our 4 most recent themes (Portfolio,Chalk,Duet, andAnthem) support…

This is going back to mid-May but I’ve wanted to chime in on this NPR article about Pizza Delicious in New Orleans and their attempt to use Facebook Ads to drum up some more business. The campaign cost them $240 — almost $1 for each new Facebook fan they got from the campaign. "Is that…

I use Google Maps almost daily. Not just for traveling or directions but also to explore the world around me. So, I’m happy that Google is investing time, energy, technology and lots of money into Maps. I’m not too happy about this bit from Frederic Lardinois at AOL Techcrunch: Google doesn’t want to say when…

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 IT NOW. 🙂 My take? I think I’ll develop a training program that works the opposite way. Over a year ago in a…

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 does. It’s not a matter of a responsive stylesheet or incremental UX improvements, it’s re-imagining and radically simplifying what we currently do, thinking…

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 working with computers since about the time we learned to ride a bike are addicted to our work. We love it. However, by…

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 News Feed whenever someone links to your website.

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 now feels like an exurban neighborhood rocked by a housing crisis. Yards gone to seed. Rusting bikes in the front yard. Tattered flags.…

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 make testing a site layout or web app on all of your devices at once. Pretty slick.

The problem with advertising is that the customers will always be the advertisers and they will always want value for their ad spend and value typically comes from compromising the viewer’s experience. Countless well-meaning, tasteful, and respectable people have taken a swing at making friendly advertising that is both respectful of the viewer and valuable…

Steven Thompson took his journal from 1976 and made it into a blog. It took off. He was offered a publishing deal. But he turned it down and decided to run a Kickstarter campaign instead. I thought it would be a clever idea to do my 1976 high school journal as a blog but I…

Sebastian Krger does it again with ‘Sean Penn’: His work is amazing.

My friend Kyle Neath on the GitHub blog: Today we’re rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. Remember when I said this, shortly after GitHub released GitHub for Mac: If Git is easy to use more people will use it and therefore more people will sign up and pay for…

So, let me get this straight. The guy that wrote, produced, and directed an amazingly successful blockbuster movie about how greedy, evil people were mining the natural resources of another planet to the detriment of thehabitatand natives is now funding mining on extraterrestrial bodies? Got it. /via The "I said hot when I meant warm"…

Andy Baio’s Waxy.org is one of my favorite blogs and it recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Baio recalls a few posts from each of those 10 years in his post marking the milestone. I can remember where I was when a few of these posts were published. I’m just happy I, and our team at…