Ben Brooks makes lots of good points in this article.
‘I Also Own a Small Steel Mill’
Apple to Launch In-Store Pickups?
I’ve never seen the value in systems like this.
Ars Re-Reviews the Original iPod
The original iPod set the stage for a decade’s worth of Apple devices, and although we don’t expect the modern replica of the iPod (the iPod classic) to stay around forever, Apple will undoubtedly continue to use the iPod as an influence when creating newer, even more popular gadgets.
Oh, and if you still have one of these original ones lying around, find a FireWire cable and plug it in. You might be surprised at how well it still works.
Daring No Balls
A good name for a site with 53 Twitter followers and no name on the colophon page.
Memphis Flyer Backhandedly Implies Jobs Cheated Way to New Liver
John Branston, senior editor at The Memphis Flyer, on Steve Jobs:
As Eason and officials at Methodist Hospital have maintained all along, Isaacson says that Jobs did not “jump the line” to get a transplant. He did, however, register in both California and Tennessee to improve his chances. The donor was a car-accident victim in his mid–20s. As the Flyer reported, Apple attorney George Riley, a former Memphian, made the connection and helped Jobs settle into the house he bought on Morningside Place.
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Jobs’ wife took responsibility for getting him a liver transplant and monitored his position in the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease system (MELD). While the book insists that Jobs did not buy his way to the top of the list, the “60 Minutes” segment has Isaacson recounting how Jobs drove a Mercedes sports car with no license plate and “felt like the normal rules just didn’t apply to him.”
On the liver transplant, at least, this authorized biography may not be the last word.
Implying that Jobs paid his way into a new liver is a pretty shitty thing to do. Writing it this poorly is even worse.
I really expected more of the Flyer.
Apps for Autism
‘If Instapaper is the Beautiful Reading Room, I’m the Dusty Attic’
That’s Pinboard creator Maciej Ceglowski in a Time Magazine piece on both services.
The 60 Minutes Interview
Check out the full video of the Steve Jobs special on CBS’ website.
iPod: The Gateway Drug
The destiny of Apple changed drastically 10 years ago with the release of a deceptively simple digital music player.
The iMac may have saved Apple in 1999, but the iPod is why consumers fell in love the the company.
Shame on You, NASA
The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny’s restaurant in Riverside County.
But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 74-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.
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The target, Joann Davis, a grandmother who says she was trying to raise money for her sick son, asserts the lunar material was rightfully hers, having been given to her space-engineer husband by Neil Armstrong in the 1970s.
The whole story is just plain terrible.
A Celebration of Steve’s Life
Tim Cook’s company-wide address isn’t a speech given by a CEO — it’s a conversation from an old friend. Touching.