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The Prompt 03 - You Don’t Want to Hug Your iMac⇢
With the summer heat beating down upon them, Federico and Myke support me during my time of confession, then we have a memorial service for our very first iPhones, discuss RSS, fashion and more.
‘JOBS’ Movie Poster Includes Comma Splice
Here’s the poster:
And here’s the poster, with proper punctuation:
If this lack of attention to detail is going to be present in the movie, my inner Siracusa is going to need to do more than lie down.
image via The Loop
Motorola Teases ‘X’⇢
I finally have hope that Motorola might do something cool again.
New Wave⇢
Thomas Brand looks back at the wallpapers Apple has bundled with its desktop operating systems over the years.
‘Incomplete Mobility’⇢
David Chartier:
For all the incredibleness of the MacBook Air’s new battery, the device is still dependent on WiFi hotspots and, let’s face it, the internet is an essential ingredient these days for getting most things done. Now, keep in mind that adding 4G radios to the MacBook Air likely poses its own share of challenges that Apple has clearly decided to avoid for the Mac, at least so far. In general, it seems like 3G/4G radios have never been very popular in notebooks for some reason. Plus, a 4G radio would add weight to the MacBook Air—renowned for its thin and light design — and, of course, affect that incredible 12-hour battery or, in PCMag’s case, 15-hour battery.
The Data Journalism Awards⇢
Frederic Filloux served on the judging panel at this year’s Data Journalism Awards, given last week at the Global Editors Network News Summit in Paris. The projects covered are all pretty cool, and show what can happen when news organizations take data seriously.
On the Original iPhone’s Launch
image via Apple PR
I was an Apple Genius-in-training and working part-time on the sales floor at the local Apple store when the first iPhone went on sale six years ago today.
And boy, was it a circus.
The iPhone went on sale at 6 p.m. local time. Our store — like all others — closed four hours before the event. In those four hours, everyone in the store was assigned a job, after heavy black-out curtains were hung over the floor-to-ceiling glass at the front of the store.
52 Tiger Shuttered⇢
I always felt that Dave and I’s sites were two peas in a pod in many ways. I’m sad to see it go.
On Don Draper and D.B. Cooper⇢
Lindsey Green on Medium, writing about Mad Men’s Don Draper and D.B. Cooper:
Don Draper has been shedding Don Draper ever since the death of Anna Draper in Season Four brought him to tears over the loss of “the only person who really knew me.” From that point on Don Draper had no more reason to exist, so Dick Whitman went back to trying on other skins: dedicated husband, team player, mentor. As nothing fit, he began to go backwards: back to cheating and being absent at home and heartless at work. When he puts a dead soldier’s dog tags around his neck to get out of a life he can no longer stand, he’s gone as close back to the beginning as we’ve ever seen him in the series.
Inside Pixar’s Campus⇢
Adam B. Vary takes a look at a building that by its very design inspires creativity.
Wozniak, on the Original Mac⇢
The whole thing is worth reading, but this part jumped out at me:
Every time we improved the Macintosh, year by year by year, it got closer to what the Lisa had been.
We didn’t get the Lisa back until we got OS X from NeXT. Once we had OS X, that was the Lisa! But we had it so early … If we had just worked on it and developed it until it was at a personal computer price, we would’ve had the most incredible technology ever for GUI computers and we would’ve really owned it and had the rights to it. So Macintosh… the Macintosh failed, really hard, and who built the Macintosh into a success later on? It wasn’t Steve, he was gone. It was other people like John Sculley who worked and worked to build a Macintosh market when the Apple II went away.