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Jason Perlow speaks in favor of Apple’s new Lightning connector, and talks about connector problems in the Android space.

Wired:

Buckyballs are officially discontinued. If you don’t have any Buckyballs or Buckycubes and don’t get some soon, you never will.There are more than a billion of these magnets in consumers’ hands and only 24 reported incidents of children under 14 ingesting them. Skateboarding is statistically 890 times more dangerous than having Buckyballs.

As the story points out, you can still buy Buckyballs for a limited time and the company will continue to make other “Bucky-like” products.

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The Verge:

From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Omni published dispatches from the world of science and some of the most iconic science fiction stories of the late twentieth century, including William Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” (May 1981), Ted Chiang’s “Tower of Babylon” (November 1990), and Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat” (April 1991). The print magazine folded in 1995 — though an internet version lasted somewhat longer. Now, as of earlier this fall, the Internet Archive has a near-complete run of Omni, free for download or viewing online.

If you are “of a certain age”, you’ll remember Omni. It was kind of a precursor to Wired but much more out there.

This may be the most wonderfully demented and funniest thing you watch all day.

io9:

If you didn’t catch Pixar’s latest feature Brave in the theaters, you may have missed out on La Luna, Enrico Casarosa’s stellar short about the moon’s custodians: a young boy, his father, and his grandfather. Hit play and let yourself be transported to a magical world where you can sweep up the stars and a child must learn to find his own way.

I like it.

Aaron Mahnke released a new e-book that he says will help take the friction out of doing your freelancing work. Sounds like something we could all use.

Think about how this could eat away at Google’s business, especially considering newspapers in Brazil only saw a 5% drop in traffic.

Hilarious. […]

Hurricane or not, Comcast wants it Cable Box back.

DavidMahler:

One man’s quest to find the greatest headphones ever made!

Holy crap. This is without a doubt the single most exhaustive review of anything I’ve ever read in my life. Utterly insane the amount of time, money and effort this guy poured into this review. (hat tip to Dan Frakes for the link)

Read about the lengths these guys went to in order to keep all of the sites online. Remarkable.

The OLPC folks gave Ethiopian kids tablets, then sat back and watched what happened. The results are pretty spectacular.

I thought the letter was brilliant.

Twelve South has introduced a new brushed metal stand that lifts your MacBook up to six inches from the desk.

Good for Om for asking what the deal was between them (twice).

Launching in the last week, Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms are already the subject of legal complaints, after a Portland-based OS development company called SurfCast sued the company for allegedly infringing on its patents with the use of Live Tiles in its desktop, tablet and mobile software.

I wonder if they were in touch with Microsoft before the release or waited until it was publicly available.

Today we are launching AMBER Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform. Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they’re relevant to you, and AMBER Alerts aim to help bring abducted children home safely.

Good move, thanks Google.

Google did a great job with this.

iMessage is apparently down for some users, while others report the outage also affects iTunes Match, Game Center, and the App Store. Everything is fine with all of my services.

The Atlantic:

With Hurricane Sandy, the nation’s eyes are turning to its largest city. Photos of storms and flooding are popping up all over Twitter, and while many are real, some of them — especially the really eye-popping ones — are fake.This post, which will be updated over the next couple of days, is an effort to sort the real from the unreal. It’s a photograph verification service, you might say, or a pictorial investigation bureau. If you see a picture that looks fishy, send it to me at alexis.madrigal[at]gmail.com. If you like this sort of thing, you should also visit istwitterwrong.tumblr.com, which is just cataloging the fakes.

I’ve been hearing similar things.

Not as crazy as the first ad Ballmer did. […]

Adam Lashinsky for CNN:

I also heard that Forstall refused to sign the letter apologizing for the mapping fiasco, sealing his fate at Apple.

Lots of speculation going around tonight.

Om Malik may have the best line of the day on Scott Forstall being fired.

My buddy Bill Lonero and his band are heading out on a 25 city tour across the United States with original Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno starting on December 21st and ending January 20th. Bill setup a page at Indiegogo to help raise some money for the tour. Help him out if you can.

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LouderLogic brings the fullness you crave out of every song, using patent pending Audio Level eXtension (ALX) technology by McDSP. With the push of one button, LouderLogic minimizes volume fluctuations between songs while maximizing all the musical details the artist intended you to enjoy. Simply put, you’ll get more from your music!