This is pretty fascinating. The call was taped on April 30, 1973, the same evening H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman had resigned. Reagan was calling Nixon to offer his condolences.

Seriously, even I’m starting to feel bad for them.

Jim and Dan talk about Jim’s so-called “Apple-centric” stance, the upcoming iTunes Festival in London, the gold iPhone 5S, hacking Facebook, the Samsung watch, and Katy Perry. Also, Dan’s eviscerates the new Jobs movie.

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This is a lovely bit of design. Student Mugi Yamamoto created a compact printer which is placed on top of a stack of paper.

When printing, “Stack” slowly moves downwards and swallows the pile until no paper is left.

Really nice.

So true. Sometimes “perfect” isn’t so perfect.

Daniel Jalkut is talking about his profession as a software developer, but the lessons could be applied to many occupations.

Circling the drain.

AT&T Inc. has been sued by Al Jazeera for refusing to carry the Qatar-based broadcaster’s new U.S. cable-news channel as part of its pay-television service.

BusyCal’s unique and powerful features include customizable calendar views, scrolling Month and Week views, an integrated Info Panel for quickly viewing and editing events, integrated To Dos that display in the calendar and carry-forward until completed, custom font sizes and styles, graphics, live weather feeds and moon phases, and a menu bar app for quick access to the current day’s events and weather.

BusyCal supports iCloud, Exchange, Google Calendar, and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share your calendars through the cloud with other Macs running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app on OS X, as well as iPhones and iPads running the built-in Calendar app on iOS.

New version just released.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano blogs about his near death by drowning, in his helmet, on a recent space walk.

…as I turn ‘upside-down’, two things happen: the Sun sets, and my ability to see – already compromised by the water – completely vanishes, making my eyes useless; but worse than that, the water covers my nose – a really awful sensation that I make worse by my vain attempts to move the water by shaking my head. By now, the upper part of the helmet is full of water and I can’t even be sure that the next time I breathe I will fill my lungs with air and not liquid.

Riveting.

A man who hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to expose a software bug is getting donations from hackers around the world after the company declined to pay him under a program that normally rewards people who report flaws.

Wonder why Facebook is not paying him under their bug bounty program.

This is a great app. I don’t like to-do apps, but I like Finish.

…the beam entered the back of Bugorski’s head and came out around his nose. Shortly after this happened, Bugorski’s left half of his face swelled up beyond recognition. He was taken to the hospital and studied as this was something that had never been seen before and so they closely monitored him thereafter, fully expecting him to die within a few days at most.

Yikes!

They released a new Zildjian Artist MIDI Groove Library today, but the best product they have is the Andy Johns Classic Drums. He is the master.

Computer scientists say they found a way to sneak malicious programs into Apple’s exclusive app store without being detected by the mandatory review process that’s supposed to automatically flag such apps.

The researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology used the technique to create what appeared to be a harmless app that Apple reviewers accepted into the iOS app store. They were later able to update the app to carry out a variety of malicious actions without triggering any security alarms. The app, which the researchers titled “Jekyll,” worked by taking the binary code that had already been digitally signed by Apple and rearranging it in a way that gave it new and malicious behaviors.

My two cents: As a developer, I am not alarmed by this, as much as surprised no one figured out a way to do this earlier. This is why Apple’s App Store model works. There’s a choke-point for this type of mechanism. It’ll be interesting to see Apple’s response.

The Good Eggs “farm-to-fridge” business model turns the supermarket model on its head. Instead of having one or several physical locations stocked with a standard, unchanging inventory, the Good Eggs storefront is online, and calls on local farms to deliver only what customers have ordered that day. Good Eggs essentially stocks and empties a grocery store every day, and because its inventory is based entirely on what each customer is ordering, it’s a different grocery store every day, too. The company has created an efficient new food system that’s elegant in its simplicity.

Due to their perishable cargo, grocery stores are notoriously difficult to migrate to an online model. The first attempt, Webvan, founded in the late 1990s, was considered one of the largest dot-com flops in history. Much has changed since then, including a stronger push for locally sourced goods. Interesting article. Will be interesting to see if Good Eggs and the like can overcome the inherent problems with shipping perishable goods in a cost-effective manner.

Jason Snell:

In its first major hardware upgrade in three years, TiVo introduced its fifth-generation hardware DVR series on Tuesday. On sale now with the odd nickname of “Roamio,” the new boxes promise a faster user interface and built-in streaming to iOS devices. At first glance, this new generation of TiVo looks like a big step up for cable TV subscribers who want to ditch their generic cable DVR.

I just bought this. It’ll make for a nice read on my upcoming flights.

The Canadian military has been secretly test-driving a $620,000 stealth snowmobile in its quest to quietly whisk troops on clandestine operations in the Arctic.

Clearly the stealth sled dog experiment didn’t work out.

After the massive success of the Mastering EZmix pack and by popular demand, here is a second collection of settings completely devoted to mastering. Just like the first volume, Mastering II EZmix Pack was designed by Mats “Limpan” Lindfors, senior engineer at the leading mastering studio in Scandinavia, Cutting Room.

Toontrack really does a nice job with these EZmix packs.

Looking at the pictures of the guitar and bass brings a tear to your eye.

Elmore passed away this morning at 7:15 AM at home surrounded by his loving family. More to follow.

Very sad news. Leonard, 87, had a writing career that spanned almost six decades. His area of speciality was crime fiction, though he got his start in westerns. He was also a popular subject of movie adaptations, with films like Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and 3:10 to Yuma. Leonard’s stories also became the basis for the FX television series Justified.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a three-dimensional object on a computing device, with the process controlled by special gestures made above a touchscreen’s surface.

With the maturation of 3D printing and the emergence of technologies such as the Leap Motion Controller, this is a logical direction for Apple.

The document refers to a device that can detect the location of fingers with a combination of capacitive touch sensors and proximity sensors embedded in the display. These two components can be separate, or the capacitive sensors themselves can act as proximity sensors by measuring the capacitance of a nearby finger.

Proximity sensors mean that the gestures do not necessarily require touch, meaning you might rotate an object by rotating your hand. Tremendous possibilities.

There’s a trend emerging that I find very interesting. It started with people posting complicated guitar pieces, slowing things down a bit so you really get a handle on the complexity. For example, here’s a link to Frank Zappa’s Rat Tomago, slowed by 20%.

Today, I came across this post, slowing down the Dolly Parton song, Jolene, by 17%. I love the new guitar sound, but I was really taken by the change in vocal. What else you got for me internet?

Om Malik has been digging around for details on Samsung’s rumored smartwatch and believes he has some particulars on the device.