Posted in Audio, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, People, Social Software on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Marco Arment on Planet Money This is a great interview. The Planet Money guys are brilliant and Marco gets right in sync with their style. Marco made and sells one of my all time favorite utilities: Instapaper. In a nutshell, if I start reading an article on my computer and want to finish it or [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Video on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
Interview with Michio Kaku December 23, 2010 on the evolution of civilizations Micho Kaku is a theoretical physicist who’s incredibly articulate, funny, and fascinating. His site contains numerous interviews and lectures. Dig around after listening to the one linked to above, he’s quite an amazing person.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, People, Process, Video on Jan 21st, 2012 No Comments »
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player LACMA has a great exhibit up: California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. Worth seeing if you’re in the area. Deborah Sussman, whose work is included in the exhibition, talks about her early history with Charles and Ray Eames and her long career as an influential designer.
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Marshall Soulful Jones, part of Team Nuyorican 2011, 2nd place finishers at the National Poetry Slam in Boston, perform “Touchscreen”. The Bowery Poetry Club NY. Brilliant, down to the head movement. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Disability, Food, Ideas, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 5 Comments »
Incredible. What an uplifting video. Go Wimpy. [via Devour]
Posted in Animals, Ideas, Video on Jan 10th, 2012 1 Comment »
Absolutely incredible. I wonder if other animals who live in groups and forage have a Waggle dance to describe directions? [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 9th, 2012 4 Comments »
Guy English: How I’d Build an Apple Television Set The piece of Guy’s essay that appeals to me most is this: So if you’re in an Apple based household the odds are good that your new Apple TV will be able to talk to one of your other devices and get the required network info [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion on Dec 29th, 2011 4 Comments »
Let me preface this by saying I love the Netflix service and have for years. Even with the price increase it’s worthwhile and both the DVD rental part of it and the streaming part of it work like clockwork for me. However, I was really put off by their recent failed attempt to split the [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPhone, Process on Dec 28th, 2011 No Comments »
British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot I’m not sure Nick D’Aloisio has “hit the jackpot” but he’s come up with an interesting app for iOS devices. He built it to speed up his own use of the web for study and research. The BBC piece is mostly focused on the fact that he’s [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Dec 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
A quick pay it forward video. Very nice. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
This is great, less for the LED robot, more for the style of the instruction. Having a video like this makes building almost anything a heck of a lot easier. And, for those who like instructions in list form, here you go. I think the “maker movement” and instructional videos like this are the missing [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Dec 19th, 2011 4 Comments »
Apple’s Work on Wearable Computer Concepts Includes Wrist-Wrapping iPod with Siri Imagine an iPod Nano wristwatch that’s also a bluetooth-connected communicator. Makes perfect sense, the question isn’t if Apple will make this, more like when. Not sure I want to have even a short phone conversation talking to my wrist but for some things I [...]
Posted in Ideas, NPR, Tech Stuff, Tools on Dec 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’ “We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business,” he says. “We feel this is really in that spirit, that we provide a resource to the community that individuals would not be able [...]
Posted in Disability, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Social Software on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Introducing Memo Touch, a tablet designed for elders with short-term memory loss While the implementation may not be the best, this is a killer good idea and it allows family members to log into the account and set up reminders. Of course, someone might write an app like this for iOS and then one could [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Nov 29th, 2011 3 Comments »
Great Australian piece on marriage. Very well done all the way through to the end.
Posted in Ideas, Video on Nov 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Michael from sauce does a great job in explaining a number of fascinating cognitive concepts including Déjà vu. I love thinking about this stuff, or at least I think I love it. I thought I loved it. What were we talking about again? [via wimp.com]
Posted in Ideas, Places on Nov 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Ilya Marritz has an amazing story on All Things Considered: NYC Taxi Medallions Fetch ‘Unbelievable’ Returns. In New York City one needs a “medallion” (permit) to drive a taxi. There are only 13,237 taxi medallions in New York and have been since the 1930s. Listen to the story, it’s incredible.
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Nov 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Square update Watch the video, it’s quite spectacular. I have a Square account. It’s free. Highly recommended. Works on iPhone or iPad. Amazing. PS: Thanks Edward.
Posted in Architecture, Audio, Ideas, NPR, Process on Nov 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Terry Gross (Fresh Air) recently interviewed Kate Ascher on the topic of How The World’s Tallest Skyscrapers Work. Fascinating stuff. Kate’s book The Heights looks good. What struck me in this interview is that the world’s tallest building (at the moment), The Burj Khalifa, built in Dubai is a very modern building built in a [...]
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