Posted in Music, People, Video on Mar 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo.
Holy shit, Reggie Watts is a genius, no two ways about it. Wow. Blow this up full screen with HD on for the full “stack.”
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Mar 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Building a Better Teacher
But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm and [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Mar 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
My friend Mamen documents the Holi (festival of colors) last year at Stanford.
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 25th, 2010 No Comments »
NY Times Lens: Syria Changes, to a Point
Ed Kashi’s images of daily life in modern Syria are incredible.
Do you like going to Syria?
It’s a funny thing. I do like the idea of going there. There are moments where I actually like being there. But in general, I find it to be a bit of a [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Ways into Shakespeare’s Othello
English teacher Sabrina Broadbent leads a masterclass on Shakespeare, using her expertise to engage a group of Year 10 students.
Let me state up front, I’m a poor reader, was a poor student, hated Shakespeare, and at this point in my life I’m as cynical as ever about education.
But, I have to say, [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Feb 20th, 2010 8 Comments »
‘Family Guy,’ Palin and the Limits of Laughter
This is an excellent piece by New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff.
Andrea Fay Friedman has her act together as does Gail Williamson, executive director of the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles:
“Within ‘Family Guy,’ the character was fully included, well-rounded, dynamic, not dealing with stereotypical Down syndrome issues,” [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Feb 19th, 2010 7 Comments »
Markus Schwarze has some incredible images both on flickr and on his own photo site which is excellent: Markus Schwarze – Picture of the Day.
Not only is his photography first rate but his presentation with text and graphical elements is excellent.
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People on Feb 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Frugan Living
Excellent collection of ideas for living cheaply off the waste of others. It helps that the author, Fairfax is an attractive woman.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Feb 19th, 2010 10 Comments »
Bill Gates gives a well constructed and clear talk on how climate change and energy innovation fits into his work on global poverty and then goes further to discuss an idea he has for nuclear power. Fascinating, well worth watching.
Posted in Ideas, People, Tech Stuff, iPhone on Feb 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Meet the guys behind Pocket God
This is an interesting development story: two guys make a quick and dirty iPhone game app, it’s not very good, users post terrible reviews and give them feedback on how to make it better. The two developers take the feedback and release version 2 quickly, incorporating many of the suggestions. [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad on Feb 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
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 that’s not [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
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 and [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Photographers on Feb 2nd, 2010 2 Comments »
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.
Tim [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Steven Frank on the iPad
Steven takes us through a short history of computing explaining why some of us have a hard time making these leaps when companies like Apple come out with products that make large leaps rather than small incremental steps. Beautifully reasoned and written.
Posted in Events, People on Jan 31st, 2010 8 Comments »
My wife’s first husband and my good friend David Darling has won a Grammy Award for his album Prayer for Compassion.
Congratulations David.
Congratulations also go to Mickey Houlihan who engineered and produced the album.
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense
Andy Inhatko’s first impressions of the iPad.
…the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies:
Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features?
Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list of specs … but [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, People, iPad, iPhone on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
Steve Lohr has written an excellent piece discussing the back story on how Jobs thinks and works.
…Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into [...]
Posted in People, Video on Jan 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Watch the entire 10 minute clip or fast forward to six minutes and watch the Nicholas brothers dance. Some of most amazing “flash” dancing you’ll ever see. Don’t forget, in those days this was all done in one take.
Watch it full screen and enjoy.
[via Boingboing]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse.
This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in People on Jan 28th, 2010 7 Comments »
Palo Alto, California. I was just visiting my friends Manish, Mamen, Samir and Aisha and Mamen asked for a picture of her and Aisha. We had a blast taking lots of images and they all worked out in one way or another but I liked this one best.
My friendship with this family goes way back [...]
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