Spot The Station:
Did you know you can see the International Space Station from your house? As the third brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon, the space station is easy to see if you know where and when to look for it.NASA’s Spot the Station service sends you an email or text message a few hours before the space station passes over your house.
This is kind of a neat idea, especially if the emails give you enough time to get outside and to a good, non-lit location.
Jim and Dan talk about iPad sales and how the press has handled it, the Microsoft Surface, the Nexus 4 and LTE, Google’s iOS Map app approval, Google Search vs. Siri, the “real” iPad, cabinets and the Multistomp Xoom pedal, and more.
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Marco Arment:
If you truly dislike bullshit writing and don’t want to support it, hit the publishers where it hurts: don’t read it, and don’t link to it.
Marco brings up a good point, but there is another side to this. The mainstream media often writes complete shit articles that are factually wrong. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. The average consumer often believes the crap these people write, so taking them down a peg or two may help.
I honestly don’t know if it helps or not, but I feel a responsibility to point out articles that are incorrect. Perhaps shaming them and the sites they work for will help.
Of course, there is a group of people that just write bullshit for pageviews — I don’t always link to those.
“I am pleased and proud to become a member of the board,” Cue said in a statement. “I have personally dreamed of owning a Ferrari since I was 8 years old and have been lucky to be an owner for the past 5 years. I continue to be awed by the world-class design and engineering that only Ferrari can do.”
I wonder if Eddy needs an assistant.
Space.com:
Call it the ultimate absentee ballot.NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the option of voting in the presidential election from orbit.Astronauts residing on the orbiting lab receive a digital version of their ballot, which is beamed up by Mission Control at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Filled-out ballots find their way back down to Earth along the same path.
Prime typically costs $79 a year in the United States for free two-day shipping, free video streaming and access to Amazon’s Kindle e-book lending library. The company is now offering the service for $7.99 a month on its website, which works out to $95.88 a year, but at that rate it can be purchased strictly on a month-to-month basis.
This can only be good for consumers.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
And Ice Cream Sandwich too. Be safe Android people.
Just in case you don’t know where to go. I laughed.
“We’re pleased that the court has dismissed Apple’s lawsuit with prejudice,” a Google spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Monday.Dismissal of a case with prejudice means the case is over at the trial court level, though it can be appealed.
I agree completely with what Gruber said.
There are two sides to every story. This Microsoft retail experience wasn’t so bad.
The moral of the story is that you should go to a store and try out a Surface if it is something that interests you. Don’t listen to other people’s views and opinions. You might hate it. You might like it. Everyone’s needs and expectations are different. I came away impressed and pleased with the experience and the Surface.
I do agree with this completely. You should try out everything and use what is best for you.
Interesting thoughts. Tim remains Tim and Jony sort of takes Steve’s role, restoring the balance.
Some things just don’t make sense.
Just announced: Doxie One, the easy new way to go paperless for just $149.
Doxie One scans your paper – simply, automatically, and with no computer required. To scan, just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere with a simple, elegant design.
When you’re ready to organize, sync scans to your Mac or iPad, just like a digital camera. Doxie’s elegant Mac app creates multi-page searchable PDFs you can save or send to Evernote, Dropbox, or via iMessage. Doxie even works with your iPad with both Apple’s Lightning and 30-pin SD Card Reader accessories.
New benchmarks reveal how badly the Microsoft Surface sucks at Web browsing.
Forbes profiles Khan Academy, the nonprofit online learning institution.
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.
Looking for the best listening experience for your iTunes Library? Look no further than LouderLogic – the Advanced Audio Player, featuring audio enhancement technology, crossfading, a 4-band parametric EQ, Spectrum Animation Mode, and dynamic Play Queues for interacting with your iTunes library on the fly.
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!
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.