Apple posted a wonderful video to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYqsaJk_U8) supporting the It Gets Better project. What a great project. Here’s Pixar’s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4MR8oI_B8), which is equally as good. * Member of the Read & Trust network. (http:
Shawn Blanc reviews Tweetbot. Take-away: It’s not that Tweetbot has any remarkable new features that other Twitter clients don’t. It’s that every element of it has been thought through.
Kevin Drum’s “simple truth” (http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/just-simple-truth): But hey — sometimes the truth hurts. And all Obama did was speak the simple truth. In the past decade, Republicans slashed taxes, started two wars, approved a big unfunded entitlement, and presided over an economic
Making the future happen also means creating a different business. But what makes the future happen is always a business’s embodiment of an idea of a different economy, a different technology, a different society. It need not be a big idea; but it must be one that differs from
Adobe just announced a SDK for touch devices to interact with Photoshop. What most excited me, though, is in their demo video of what can be done with it, they’re using Matt Gemmell’s Finger Tools concept UI.
Amazon will sell an ad-supported Kindle for $114, $25 less than the ad-free WiFi Kindle. Bizarre; $114 is an odd price to choose and $25 isn’t much of a price reduction for looking at ads every day on a device whose entire point is to be a
Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released his 2012 budget proposal earlier this week. Ryan deserves credit for his proposal, if only because it actually addresses the main driver of our debt: entitlement spending. Before I give my thoughts on it, though, I’ll briefly summarize what his
After being accused of quartering a supporter of al Qaeda, American citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi was extradited from Britain and placed in solitary confinement: The federal government established SAMs in 1996 for gang leaders and other crime bosses with demonstrated reach in cases of “substantial risk that an inmate’s
You’ve been spending a lot of time thinking the result is what matters. You have a bright and shiny goal in mind that is distracting you with its awesomeness. It is this allure of awesomeness that is the continued reason why you keep searching around your house looking for
Ross Douthat comments on Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget proposal: It puts flesh on the bones of the standard-issue conservative pledge to limit government’s growth, and it does so not with evasive pledges on process (like the risible idea of a balanced budget amendment) or dishonest suggestions that
Apple has a new ad out for the iPad called “We Believe,” and it’s quite well done. It reminds me of something I wrote last August: This is because PC applications work through abstraction; that is, rather than manipulate content directly, we work through three intervening pieces: our physical
The New York Times has a wonderful profile of the architect Peter Zumthor. “I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly,” Zumthor has said in describing his philosophy. “Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from