August 2009
24 posts
WatchEngadget: PS3 Slim’s Japanese commercials
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project -... →
simply amazing. A beautiful preservation of old school recordings on cylinders.
Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions →
Interesting read about the appstore process. I love when Apple’s forced to be more open than there usually tight fisted virginity. (they still manage to be somewhat vague though)
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Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by... →
interesting installation that creates an online profile by searching the web for mentions of you.
beautifully designed too.
thanks swiss-miss
I-phone-home ~ Checking in on the iPhone apps that... →
Ladies and Gentleman welcome to 1984, except big brother isn’t government but tons of small data mining software companies which have now started to jump on the iphone band wagon.
The iphone is an always connected, GPS location aware, computer which also carries your entire list of contacts.
some apps are very willing to grab as much of this data from you as they can. So buyer beware.
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my powerbook g4 →
One man’s loving tribute to a great laptop. The titanium powerbook g4! great read and Sam’s a great illustrator check out the rest of the page explodingdog
CHAIRWHORE.COM →
The existence of sites like this reaffirms my faith in good taste, love, truth, justice, and geekdom
11 essential iPhone apps for designers | Designer... →
I’m what one could call a designer by proximity. So it’s with quite a bit of giddyness that i share this list of iphone apps for designers. Personally i feel a lot safe having a typography manual in my pocket. Wouldn’t you?
Should You Worry About Data Rot? - NYTimes.com →
Data Rot is a shitty analogy Mr. Pogue but the meat of the article is very informative. Tech changes quickly. I have a stack of floppy’s and Zip Disk that i assume i could read if i went to the trouble of finding a usb ZIP drive but i’m pretty certain it wouldn’t be easy.
In short the best back-up for your digital life is analogue.
paper will forever* be readible by people...
TheMacGamer | Carmack & Mustaine Talk Doom... →
self promotion of a sorts
Get Great Gadgets. And Keep Them. - Last Year's... →
In the 90’s not upgrading from a Pentium 1 to a Pentium 2 meant nearly instant obsolescence. Things moved quickly and even newer versions of office needed the latest and greatest. That isn’t so much the case any more and this site is a wonderful ode towards making good use of last years gadgets.
via swissmiss
