What I'm saying elsewhere...
“The following may be a bit hyperbolic, but follow me: The iPad is the world’s first truly convergent TV/computer. It’s the device that’s been promised us for years, and its time has come, in 2010, within reach of a couple generations raised on TV and one raised on the computer. Yet it is neither a TV that computes nor a computer that shows TV. It is a new thing. The new thing, in fact.”
- lonelysandwich - iPad TV
- lonelysandwich - iPad TV
Create Tumblr Bookmarklet in Safari on the iPad — Ken Clark:
Just found this and testing it out now
Smokescreen:
Smokescreen provides live translation of Flash to Javascript+HTML5… which means Flash becomes available for the iPad & iPhone ecosystem (with some caveats).
Jane Sibbery gives it all away:
Jane Sibbery is giving away all of her albums, complete with artwork, for free.
The Google Job Experiment (via alecbrownstein)
Absolutely brilliant.
“3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.”
- Why I Hate 3-D (and You Should Too) | Print Article | Newsweek.com
- Why I Hate 3-D (and You Should Too) | Print Article | Newsweek.com
“At Stanford University I visited William Dement, the retired dean of sleep studies, a co-discoverer of REM sleep, and co-founder of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. I asked him to tell me what he knew, after 50 years of research, about the reason we sleep. “As far as I know,” he answered, “the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.””
- Secrets of Sleep - National Geographic Magazine
- Secrets of Sleep - National Geographic Magazine
“No matter what one chooses, and no matter how one reads Apple’s intentions, there’s something perhaps even more insidious going on among the programming public. Specifically, a large number of developers seem to think that they have the right to make software for the iPhone (or for anything else) in Flash, or in another high-level environment of their choosing. Literally, the right, not just the convenience or the opportunity.”
- Ian Bogost - Flash is not a Right
- Ian Bogost - Flash is not a Right
The Yes Men: Hard Work Is A Weapon :: Articles :: The 99 Percent:
More Monty Python than Michael Moore, satirical agitators the Yes Men are trying to change the world one unsuspecting audience at a time. Masquerading as representatives of the WTO, Dow Chemical, and Halliburton, among others, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno have wreaked havoc at conferences around the world, humiliating the heavies of corporate greed by sending up their true agendas.