A fellow gets thirsty.

I must admit, I missed this part of the Senate hearings yesterday, but I think Cook brought up some good points.

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Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley on the belief that Yahoo bought his Tumblr blog:

In the meantime, whatever I want: mine. You want to talk excitement? That’s excitement. I just Amazon Primed a fucking speedboat.

LOL!

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The new machine sees Microsoft add a Blu-ray drive and Skype functionality to its console, built in feedback into its gamepad triggers, and upgrades its Kinect camera sensor to 1080p high definition resolution.

Xbox is the one Microsoft product I really like.

Apple is some good company.

Gus Mueller gives us a list of four points when we’ll know that Apple got iCloud right.

Bobby Owsinski takes a look at some of his favorite compressors. I love the ones he chose, especially the Fairchild and the Universal Audio LA series.

No surprise they’re in Dubai.

Reading this will give you a good idea of what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s going to be messy.

Very sad.

Yahoo has been busy. I like this look better.

Congrats to everyone involved. This is a great look at Tumblr from the inside.

This is along the lines of what I would expect in iOS. Not throwing everything away, but more updating and modernizing the interface.

There have been a number of mixers that utilize iOS devices that I never really liked, but this looks promising. It’s the first one I’ve seen that I’d like to try.

Great that Apple made this public.

Anil Dash gives his perspective of Tumblr as it grew.

Michael Lopp:

The cap on WWDC tickets means it won’t go the way of SXSW – a wildly successful conference that has grown consistently since its inception. I used to go every year until one late night we looked around a huge sea of strangers and decided that we no longer knew this conference. The experience had become diluted. It had become unfamiliar, full of strangers, and unknowable.

There is a lot of truth to that. A lot of people go to WWDC to meet up with old friends — the socializing is just as important as the sessions for many people. Lopp provides some other great insights in the article too.

There is no doubt that a Lennon-owned guitar is worth a lot of money, but wow.

The Air Force is aiming to save at least $5.7 million in fuel costs alone, which is “well over $50 million,” according to the major. But the cost saving isn’t everything. Being able to quickly pull up “engine fire” through a simple PDF search is far easier — and less stressful — than flicking through tens of thousands of pages of text. It also might save the U.S. taxpayer even more money in the long run by not crashing the $168 million mega-plane into a mountain or a Taliban stronghold.

The iPad’s become a popular replacement for cockpit manuals for commercial pilots, too.

Matt Mullenweg:

Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000.

I understand why people are worried — Yahoo has a terrible reputation for screwing things up, but I don’t think it will happen this time. Maybe I think too highly of Marissa Mayer, but I think Tumblr will be okay.

According to numerous sources, Mayer determined quickly in her research that the fast-growing content site, turbocharged by mountains of user-generated content, was just the kind of property that Yahoo needed to make it both “cool” and relevant to new audiences.

I agree with that strategy.

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In which Philip Elmer Dewitt finds even more to detest about Bloomberg’s loathsome Apple coverage of late.

(via Daring Fireball)

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