In what has to be the best headline I have seen today, Laura Sanders writes:
Even after 28 days of a back-to-normal schedule, the formerly jet-lagged hamsters still showed learning and memory problems.
That is a bit concerning if you frequently travel – at least you should be concerned about it.
A nice look at some interesting things relating it the history of Windows, my favorite is the ‘Whistler’ logo they had.
Perhaps a better way to fight the TSA on this is to start demanding airports opt out and hire private security firms that do not use these methods. In fact perhaps we should start boycotting airports that continue to use TSA.
Sign an online petition to ask that the Department of Homeland Security discontinues the use of the Porno-Scanners. Please take the time to do this, it is all online.
I was curious to read the first post John Gruber did for Daring Fireball, what is linked here is the oldest post in his archives, which seems to be his first. I thought this bit was funny:
And, if you have a lot more money than the Daring Fireball does and want to take advantage of the new machines’ built-in support for dual displays, you can use this rebate offer to buy as many monitors as you want. Sweet.
I don’t think I recall another time where he refers to himself as ‘the Daring Fireball’ – overall a good read and still great writing even at the outset of the blog.
BTW, do any readers know if he has ever talked about the name Daring Fireball before?
A great site with this mission:
here you
won’t find
miles of strip malls, fast food
restaurants, sterile department
stores and the same ol’ same ol’.
but:
here you
will find
original, independently-owned
boutiques, cozy world-class
cafés, charming urban villages
of friendly, diverse people and
one-of-a-kind experiences.
Awesome.
A great video that Engadget has up comparing the Playbook and iPad. Three things that strike me:
Gizmodo got leaked body scan images take a look at these if you think I am blowing things out of proportion and look at these images and look how the ‘viewer’ gets an actual image of the person and the scan. Gizmodo notes that these are of much lower resolution than the ones being employed by TSA.
Yay! Freedom!
Don’t you feel bad for them?
From the site:
Intrvws is a collection of interviews with creative professionals from around the world, hosted by Ian P. Hines.
I have only read one of the two first (lack of time) interviews posted, but it was really good. If you are into this kind of thing I encourage you to check the site out.
Very cool. Note that he is not wearing New Balance shoes in these photos…
No typing or keyboard references at all. But James Kendrick does offer these gems:
I’ve read on the web that the Tab is just a Galaxy S smartphone grown bigger. I’ve tested Samsung’s smartphones, and find the Tab is exactly as described, and that’s a good thing
and:
Think of the online activities you do on an Android phone that would be even better on a larger screen, and you have the primary usage scenario for the Galaxy Tab.
Yay a really big Android phone, it’s not a tablet!
Nice walkthrough with screenshots by Mashable for those of us with no Facebook account. Also I will never purposefully email someone with a Facebook email account – mark my words.
Rafi Sela on how Israel manages airport security:
Even today with the heightened security in North America, they will check your items to death. But they will never look at you, at how you behave. They will never look into your eyes … and that’s how you figure out the bad guys from the good guys.
Makes TSA look pathetic.
Richard Knox:
Brenner says if Rez’s dose calculation is right, pilots and very frequent fliers could exceed the recommended annual radiation dose limit of 250 microSieverts. That would require going through the scanner 250 times, by Rez’s dose calculations, rather than 2,500 times, by the government’s.
These things are just bad no matter how you slice it.
A great write up on the Kindle 3 from Justin Blanton, including this nugget:
The Kindle is for long-form reading—nothing else—and I hope it stays that way forever.
I so very hope that they bring a lawsuit against this guy, I would love to hear a Judge being forced to rule on the legality of the over reaching means that TSA uses to force citizens to submit to this absurd crap.
(I do apologize to readers who are tied of hearing about this, but this issue is simply too important to sit by and do nothing.)
A great interview between the L.A. Times and Oliver Reichenstein of iA (best known perhaps by readers for their great Writer iPad app). This is much more than just talking about Writer or iA, Reichenstein talks a lot about the direction tablets are taking:
The lean-forward/lean-back change is hard on the iPad, but if you have a program that helps you just do one certain task, iPad can be useful. It’s that single-mode atmosphere that makes the iPad fun and strange at the same time.
A nice beta build of 1Password for Windows – 1Password is one of the best programs you can get for your Mac, and it appears they put a lot of time into making it great for Windows as well. Windows users, check this out ASAP.