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The new iPhone OS will have an interface for physical peripherals. "A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for personal and urban informatics that's going mainstream?" I missed this new feature in all the cut+paste celebration.
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One computer scans incoming calls for the Caller ID number and then broadcasts the number over the network to various devices. Looks like something fun to hack around with.
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That's not Chernobyl, it's Detroit. [via kottke]
First Flowers
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Funny image demonstrating the difference in Google's suggested queries for various phrases. "how 2..." yields different suggestions from "how might one...".
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This reminds me of a great line by Borges where he said monkeys could talk if they wanted to, but if they did humans would put them to work.
Music Share: On Green Dolphin Street
On Green Dolphin Street is my favorite jazz standard. I just never get tired of the melody. Here's the 1958 Miles Davis Sextet version featuring Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley:
And for contrast here's the same song recorded by Chet Baker a year earlier with a complete lack of urgency, West Coast style:
See Also on YouTube: Sonny Rollins 1968 where the structure of the song is hanging on by a thread.
(You can get both tracks on Amazon for 99 cents.)
And for contrast here's the same song recorded by Chet Baker a year earlier with a complete lack of urgency, West Coast style:
See Also on YouTube: Sonny Rollins 1968 where the structure of the song is hanging on by a thread.
(You can get both tracks on Amazon for 99 cents.)
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"This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need." [via migurski]
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People share and vote for their favorite command-line snippets at this site, and these are the most popular. Didn't know about "sudo !!"—that's worth the price of admission right there.
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Cameron expands on the Economist article: "...while the average Facebook user communicates with a small subset of their entire friend network, they maintain relationships with a group two times the size of this core."
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"...people who are members of online social networks are not so much 'networking' as they are 'broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren't necessarily inside the Dunbar circle'..."
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SBJ's talk at SXSW about the future of news. "...in times like these, when all that is solid is melting into air, as Marx said of another equally turbulent era, it's important that we try to imagine how we'd like the future to turn out and set our sights on that, and not just struggle to keep the past alive for a few more years."
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"Las Vegas casinos increasingly pay attention to their customers - their likes, dislikes, moods and patterns - in order to create an engaging experience." This was my favorite talk at Gel 2008.
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"What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09."
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"It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves -- the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public -- has stopped being a problem."
On the Plane
Caltrain Trains
Old Pyra Office
350 Townsend
Giant Value
Lunch at Taqueria Can-Cun
