Dogs and sleds The Big Picture has a great collection of dog sledding images from various parts of the world.

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Kottke on Chatroulette Jason Kottke reviews a new video conferencing site called Chatroulette (chat roulette). Connect with random people all over the world, no moderation, no rules, just a video and voice connection with god knows who or what on the other end. The site has no appeal for me but Kottke’s review of it [...]

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Apple’s iPad Michael Arrington, Walter Mossberg, and David Carr discuss Apple’s new iPad on the Charlie Rose show. Mossberg is brilliant but all of them, including him, miss the idea that it’s not just the form factor that’s a game changer, it’s the simplicity. The iPad is may be the first computer appliance and while [...]

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Microsoft’s Creative Destruction Former Microsoft employee Dick Brass on how the company has failed to innovate over the years. Some of us have seen this pattern brewing at Microsoft for years. Couple this with the idea that the release of Apple’s iPad seems to be less about hardware, more about a statement that some (maybe [...]

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Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012 Having recently flown on both Virgin America and United on wifi enabled planes, I can say that even in coach where there’s little room for a laptop computer (an iPad would be perfect here), having access to the internet in flight is [...]

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John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not) The influential site Daring Fireball, John Gruber’s web site that covers all things Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and Apple in general is a weblog with the commenting feature turned off. On popular sites like DF moderating comment threads can be a full time job [...]

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Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]

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Japanese Macaque monkeys The Frame has a wonderful collection of images of macaque monkeys in Japan. Love the last few images that show all the photographers around the hot springs. Fantastic.

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Why are you so terribly disappointing? I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn’t have this or that expected feature, how it can’t do live video chat, doesn’t have Flash, the bezel [...]

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All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore [EPUB is] a free and open standard format created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and it’s designed for reflowable content that can be optimized to whatever device is being used to read a book file. The IDPF has championed EPUB as a single format [...]

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