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We’re used to seeing modern landmarks in their completed glory, but we gain a new appreciation for those familiar monuments when we see them in progress, and remember all the labor that went into bringing them to life.

AT&T’s “It’s Not Complicated” ads are among the funniest on TV. Adweek takes a look at how they’re made.

Thanks to RemObjects for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS this week. Oxygene for Cocoa is a new and modern programming language and development tool chain for creating Mac and iOS apps.

It is not a bridge or an abstraction layer, but full-featured language for the Objective-C runtime, giving you direct access to all the great APIs of the platform and letting you create truly native (in every sense of the word) apps.

The language is based on Object Pascal (but this is not your daddy’s Pascal!), it is well-rounded and provides many advanced language features that will change the way you look at writing code.

And as if that was not enough: if you are so included, the same great language also lets you natively target Android/Java and .NET development, as well – time-proven and well established on those platforms for many years.

Find out more at remobjects.com/oxygene.

Cheers little man.

Kristina Bjoran:

Startups are a special breed. I’ve worked with startups at varying stages of their life cycles, and I’ve become fascinated with what determines success. I’ve identified a few elements that can be controlled.

Guys don’t remember that stuff. He’s screwed.

An annual gathering of technologists passionate about creating great things.

Looks like an interesting conference that includes Black Pixel founder Daniel Pasco as a speaker.

Regina Dugan:

Dugan shows a pill that can be ingested and then battery-powered with stomach acid to produce an 18-bit internal signal. After that, the swallower’s whole body becomes a password.

But how does it show you ads?

Another great reading list from Longreads.

It’ll probably be the best movie made all year.

A Nova Scotia high school has created a curriculum where every subject — from physics to design technology to dance — centres on hockey.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. And we wonder why our kids are so far behind in the basic skills.

The iMore Show 351 is up, with Peter, Rene Ritchie, Derek Kessler and special guest David Barnard (of App Cubby).

Porn could come to Google Glass as early as this week, with the first X-rated app set to be launched for those who have the £1,000 gadget.

Porn directors last week announced plans to use Google Glass eyewear for X-rated films to explore the ‘full potential’ of the technology.

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

ShortsHD presents THE SHORT FILMS OF MATTHEW MODINE, a collection of short movies directed by the award-winning actor of Vision Quest, Full Metal Jacket, and The Dark Knight Rises. This retrospective follows Modine’s career as a short filmmaker over the last two decades beginning with his first short, WHEN I WAS A BOY, that he co-directed with Todd Field. Also included in this collection are SMOKING (written by David Sedaris), ECCE PIRATE (filmed during the making of Cutthroat Island), TO KILL AN AMERICAN, I THINK I THOUGHT, and the award-winning JESUS WAS A COMMIE, co-directed by Terence Ziegler. Each short includes an all-new video introduction by Modine.

This is a no-brainer. The collection is only $7.99 to pre-order through iTunes and it’s available next week. I ordered it.

This time, Rolfe Winkler at the Wall Street Journal is taking potshots at Apple for not announcing anything at the D conference. Asshole.

In Dan’s absence – Jim is joined by Myke Hurley – to discuss Tim Cook at the D11 conference and WWDC Expectations.

Special guest Myke Hurley.

Sponsored by Mailchimp and Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME5 for 30% off).

Marco Arment has sold The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman,

Analog Camera – the fastest and easiest way to take, process and share photos.

Nice looking app.

The Sweethome is the sister site of The Wirecutter, our electronics leaderboard. It’s a list of the best home gear, each item chosen mindfully and with many hours of research, interviews with the world’s most knowledgable experts and testers, all in service of backing up our own testing and opinions. It’s not a blog. We don’t do news and we don’t post multiple times a day–we just want to help you pick out great gear and get on with your life.

The Wirecutter is a great site and it looks like The Sweethome will follow in its footsteps.

For the record, having food stuck in your beard is not a con.

Hiroko Tabuchi for The New York Times:

Although Sony sells hundreds of products as varied as batteries and head-mounted 3-D displays, it so happens that Sony’s most successful business is selling insurance. While it doesn’t run this business in the United States or Europe, Sony makes a lot of money writing life, auto and medical policies in Japan.

Its financial arm accounts for 63 percent of Sony’s total operating profit last year. Life insurance has been its biggest moneymaker over the last decade, earning the company 933 billion yen ($9.07 billion) in operating profit in the 10 years that ended in March.

I’m happy that Sony is making money in one portion of its business, but I find it really sad that the maker of the iconic Walkman is selling insurance.

The national treasury released a new plastic bank note in November 2011, and they have received hundreds of emails from residents who are convinced that the bills have an added fragrance.

’They all have a scent which I’d say smells like maple? Please advise if this is normal?’ wrote one concerned citizen.

Canadians are so cute.

The Wall Street Journal can’t help but post stupid shit about Apple.

Thanks to RemObjects for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS this week. Oxygene for Cocoa is a new and modern programming language and development tool chain for creating Mac and iOS apps.

It is not a bridge or an abstraction layer, but full-featured language for the Objective-C runtime, giving you direct access to all the great APIs of the platform and letting you create truly native (in every sense of the word) apps.

The language is based on Object Pascal (but this is not your daddy’s Pascal!), it is well-rounded and provides many advanced language features that will change the way you look at writing code.

And as if that was not enough: if you are so included, the same great language also lets you natively target Android/Java and .NET development, as well – time-proven and well established on those platforms for many years.

Find out more at remobjects.com/oxygene.

We posted about cat beards, so it only seems fair.

Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe’s poorest countries, former company executives and Irish officials have said.

That’s the opening to a Reuters story where they try to convince people they dug up this dirt on Apple. The only problem is that Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are the ones that revealed this during the senate hearings earlier this week.

Reuters assholes.

These tips for taking wedding photos are hilarious.

Don’t get photobombed by death. LOL!

Cat bearding.