Posted in Humor, People, Quotations on Sep 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations by Groucho Marx you don’t find here. More on Groucho Marx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
David Pogue discusses Line2: Turn an iPod into an iPhone. This is amazing, very much like Apple working around ATT by allowing the new iPod Touch to make Facetime calls on a wifi network.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Patterns, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Human landscapes in SW Florida The Big Picture has an absolutely stunning collection of aerial images of housing and other human created landscapes in southwest Florida. I love this stuff, reminds me of macro images of microprocessors.
Posted in Ideas, People, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Jason Kottke posted a clip of James Burke from the BBC series Connections speaking about the history of rocket technology: I hadn’t thought about the Connections series since the late 1970′s, early 1980′s when it was broadcast. I found the entire series and more on youTube in Burke’s area: James Burke Web. You can watch [...]
Posted in Objects, Photographers, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Branislav Kropilak’s Billboards. Viewing billboards from the ground gives them a totemic quality. Wonderful series. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Collections, People, Photographers, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Alain Delorme’s Totems The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Reflections on Sep 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Great series by flickr member Fabio Sabatini: Take me home (I ♥ Tokyo cabs). Shot with a Canon 450D and a Canon 100mm f/2 lens. Excellent night work with fun bokeh from the lights.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music on Sep 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
One Hello World Leave me a voicemail and I’ll write music behind your narrative. Call it a soundtrack to your thoughts. Listen to these, they’re incredible. Somehow reminds me of The Apology Line. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in iPad, Reading on Sep 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
In Study, Children Cite Appeal of Digital Reading Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books. Until you can dog ear and [...]
Posted in iPhone, Opinion, People, Politics, Video on Sep 28th, 2010 No Comments »
A fun promotional video for PBS NewsHour’s new PBS NewsHour iPhone app. Fun to see the usual suspects sporting iPhones. Not sure if Jim actually uses his. I installed it but haven’t used it much yet. Hope to though.
Posted in Tools, Travel on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
A Wider Wi-Fi Stream on Domestic Flights This is great news and I hope Gogo follows ViaSat’s lead. Right now it would be impossible to watch a streaming Netflix movie on a plan via the Gogo inflight wifi system.
Posted in Ideas, People, Politics, Video on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
No Blaring: MacNeil on Emmy, Keeping a Reasonable Tone in Broadcast News I’ve been watching the PBS NewsHour for most of my adult life and the folks who put this show together are like family to me. The producers of the show have done a first rate job of slowly moving the show onto the [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
My First Week with the iPhone Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. This post has been on my [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Sep 27th, 2010 24 Comments »
I’ve been looking for a tool or a collection of tools that work together to allow me to make various lists on my computer (Macintosh) and share them with my iPhone. Shopping lists, general to-do lists, movie lists and more. I also wanted to be able to write free-form text, like notes for this post. [...]
Posted in Humor, Quotations on Sep 26th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations about marriage you don’t find here. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. – [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Opinion on Sep 26th, 2010 No Comments »
This American Life: Crybabies This entire show is great but act three is particularly fascinating: The Squeaky Wheelchair Gets the Grease. In California, a kind of crybaby cottage industry has popped up around, of all things, the Americans with Disabilities Act—the federal law that requires all public places to meet a minimum level of accessibility. [...]
Posted in Adventure, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Sep 26th, 2010 No Comments »
James Lee in Afghanistan James Lee’s simple plan fell apart in the winter of 2007. The former Marine, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, had moved to rural Independence near Bishop, Calif. Lee was trying to control his wanderlust by living the simple life of a construction worker. His plan dissolved when he [...]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Places, Video on Sep 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Between the iPad taking over a piece of the computer world and launching this phone in China Apple stock should break $300 this week. Go Apple!
Posted in Aerial Photography, Canon Powershot S90, Places on Sep 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Over Ontario, California. I had a whole row to myself last week on my trip to California and took this picture on approach to LAX. I haven’t done a lot of shooting out plane windows for a while, preferring to sit in aisle seats on the now crowded planes but during this flight I had [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Sep 24th, 2010 1 Comment »
SHELTER from jason sussberg on Vimeo. This video was being blogged and reblogged recently and my last post on Steven Johnson and my digression into the era of the Whole Earth Catalog got me thinking about Kahn again. We just had our septic tank pumped and inspected and I did some maintenance on the drain [...]
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