As someone who carried a Palm Pre Plus for quite some time, Dieter Bohn’s article just made me sad.
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NASA comments on Beyonce’s Challenger explosion sample⇢
Fun fact: I was born the day the Challenger exploded.
Land of the Hungry⇢
In 2012, my brother and a small team flew halfway across the globe to document the genocide taking place in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
His new short film — Land of the Hungry — shows that over a year later, through the combined use of bombings and starvation, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir continues his work of systematically killing these refugees. All of this despite an arrest warrant for him being issued by the International Criminal Court in March 2009.
Bring on the Future
As the world looks forward to another new year, many words have been written about the trends technology may follow in 2014 and beyond.
As with most things in life, the best way to look forward is to look back.
Once upon a time, 1 using a computer meant handing a punchcard to a technician who would run the program for you, and report back with the results.
Over time, using the mainframes became slightly more direct, but there was still a big disconnect between the hardware used to program and the hardware used to execute. 
The AnandTech Mac Pro review⇢
BRB, selling my other kidney.
Mac Pro teardown⇢
BRB, selling a kidney.
Tidying⇢
Matt Alexander:
Take a step back and enjoy some time off. Forget consumerism — this coming from someone who, oddly enough, owns an e-commerce store — and embrace time with friends and family. Dare to dream big for the coming year and then actively work to fulfill that vision. It’ll be far more rewarding than reflecting solely upon the immediacy of problems you face today. You won’t remember those in years to come.
Federico Viticci’s sweet iPad setup⇢
Freddie V:
The iPad is, essentially, my primary work device. In the past year, I was forced for various reasons to use an iPad, and while I came across a lot of limitations for my workflow in the first weeks of extensive usage, I ended up loving the iPad as a work machine. I think that a lot of people have made up their minds about the iPad based on prejudices and won’t give the device a fair chance when it comes to using it for more than reading comics or watching Netflix on it.
On Progress
I came across my Clamshell iBook G3 this weekend, and spent some time with it today. It now dual boots OS 9 and 10.0. (The former is way faster than the latter.)
OS X Cheetah is rough, and is showing its age more than ever. That said, OS 9 is super dead at this point, too.
After fiddling with it for a bit snapped this photo of the iBook with my 13-inch MacBook Air:
ADB, the Epitome of Early Apple⇢
Thomas Brand:
ADB epitomizes the Woz-era Apple of the 1970s and 80s, “intended to be as simple to use as possible, while still being inexpensive to implement.” ADB may not be considered elegant when compared to modern connections like Lightening or USB, but it was designed to meet the customer’s basic needs at a lower cost. A philosophy foreign to the Apple we have today.
The Prompt 28: Too Long; Didn’t Listen⇢
This week, we talk about music consumption.
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Future Classics: the white iPhone 4
This is the first post in my new series “Future Classics,” in which I try to guess what current-era Apple products may become collectable in the future.
It’s hard to gauge the collectibility of iOS devices. While certain devices — like the original, 4 GB iPhone — may prove to be rare in the future, these devices are far more consumable than desktop or notebook computers.
That said, if there’s any iOS device to date that will be collectible in the future besides the original iPhone, my money is on the white iPhone 4.