512 Pixels

Woohoo!

Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post:

Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress.

This “Super Congress,” composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn’t mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers – six from each chamber and six from each party.

Well, that’s one major WTF.

And again, I am super impressed.

Such a handsome design.

Impressive. Most impressive.

Wait, that’s not right:

We saw that there were some questions today related to Flash Player 11 support for Mac OS X Lion (10.7) related to hardware video acceleration. To avoid any more confusion, we wanted to clarify:

The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” described in a tech note suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers.

So, did they test on just one machine, or did someone screw up the documentation?

Neither make me feel better about Flash on OS X.

[via MacStories]

Paul Miller nails it:

Upgrading to OS X Lion (10.7) costs $30. I don’t say that to comment on the “bang for buck” element. It’s more like a coded transmission from Apple: this OS is an experiment, a departure, a transition. When Apple priced Snow Leopard (10.6) at $30 it was because the OS had very few user-facing tweaks — most of the changes were under the hood. But this time it almost feels like Apple is apologizing for the abundance of experience-altering changes: “look, we know this is a lot to swallow, but at least it’s only $30!”

[via NASA HQ Photo on Flickr]

I was digging around in the System Library folder in Lion this afternoon, and found the linen graphic Apple uses heavily in the new OS. It was inside the Dock.app bundle, if you’re curious. I’ve also copied it here, if you can get enough of the new texture. It actually make a pretty decent minimalistic wallpaper when tiled.

This is the first thing I did today after Lion was downloaded. I have noticed that on some of my machines, Lion will delete the Install app at the end of installation, so I’d create this in Snow Leopard first.

Notably, this same method can be used to create a Lion DVD, but since any machine that can run Lion can boot from USB, I just don’t see the point.

Josh and I were tired of talking about the same old news and rumors, so we just chatted for a bit on this week’s show. Bobby Ghosal, founder of FLUD dropped by for a bit at the end, too.

I printed it out this time around. It clocked in at 112 pages from Safari Reader. I can’t wait to dive into it this evening. If you are a Mac nerd by any stretch of the imagination, this is the review to read.