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President Obama has appointed Edward Tufte to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, “whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds”. Outstanding.
Just like with Apple’s iPhone commercials, the ad focuses on how the device actually looks and works and what it can do. So good.
Saved, perhaps, by the iPhone. They turned a profit last year and expect $100 million in revenue this year.
He’s very kind to state that DF was an inspiration. I stole the intermingled short-links-and-longer-articles format from Kottke, though.
Interviews, readings, and more, “lovingly collected by Ryan Walsh in early 2009”. It’s a gold mine.
Big news for the Mac as a game platform:
If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play. […] By using the…
Whatever happened to programming?
Today, I mostly paste libraries together. So do you, most likely, if you work in software.
Since I had willingly allowed my MobileMe subscription to expire, I no longer had access to Apple’s Back to My Mac service for accessing my home Mac remotely. Although the feature was definitely…
Breaking News With The Social Hammer: TPUTH
Okay I know what you’re thinking — why is some genetics testing service being reviewed on Stammy’s tech blog? Well for one, because 23andMe is at the forefront of technology that is…
Although not a device I’ll likely be picking up on launch day, the iPad seems to be taking hold as the device it was intended to be. I’ll be honest; my initial reaction to the iPad was a generic…
Guidelines for meeting the Dalai Lama:
A photograph of a February meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama sparked some interest:
The subtext of the single photograph of the meeting, released…
Very interesting, but note that this is not a demo of a device, or even of actual software. It’s a demo of a concept. I’d wager money that we’ll never see an actual product from Microsoft that…
“White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background,” wrote Jan Tschichold in 1930. And just as you cannot ignore white space, you cannot ignore silence, as it’s the white…