Brooks Barnes at the NY Times:
Studio chiefs acknowledge that the industry needs to sort out its 3-D strategy. Despite the soft results for “Kung Fu Panda 2,” animated releases have continued to perform well in the format, overcoming early problems with glasses that didn’t fit little faces. But general-audience movies like “Stranger Tides” may be better off the old-fashioned way.
Fun fact: Seeing a film in 3-D makes me quite sick to my stomach. I really hope it is a passing fad.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software - Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone and iPod touch; and iCloud, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.
The Golden Gate Bridge was an engineering marvel. The site alone — buffeted by high winds and split by the swirling currents of the Golden Gate — made construction treacherous. The sheer size of the bridge (the longest suspension bridge in the world until the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964) required several innovations in bridge-building technology, especially when it came to constructing the two colossal towers in — and under — turbulent water.
I was psyched to be invited to talk on the Minimal Mac podcast. On this episode, we discussed Memphis BBQ and my new 11.6-inch MacBook Air.
Patrick and Myke are great guys and I had a real blast recording with them. I hope you enjoy it. I know I did.
Twitter’s Matt Harris, on the DM thing:
All of this information has helped us to improve the OAuth flow for you and your users. But, we know that we’re getting close to the DM enforcement date and that some of these new features aren’t available to you yet.
We understand this means you might not be able to fully test your updated flow so we are going to extend the deadline until the end of June.
In the course of any news event, whether it’s an earthquake or a shooting or a revolution, there will be times when Twitter makes sense as a tool — as Stelter showed with his reports from Joplin, and as Sohaib Athar showed when he effectively became a journalist for a few hours during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. But that doesn’t obviate the need for articles or commentary or features.
I am not going to add any commentary to this. There’s just nothing I can so but WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?
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Adam Rosen at Low End Mac, on Mac OS 9:
What surprises me is how many people are still using a ten-year-old operating system for productive tasks. A not-insubstantial set of folks still need (or want) to run OS 9 for reasons both business and personal. We know that Macs themselves are well-built machines that stand the test of time; it appears Mac OS versions do so as well.
I respectfully disagreed three years ago. That said, I do love booting my Clamshell iBook into OS 9 every once in a while.
Shawn Blanc interviewed Chad Sellers, who runs Useful Fruit Software, the maker of Pearnote. The software is available on Amazon’s store as well as Apple’s. Here’s an interesting look into Amazon’s processes for developers getting their software to the company from Sellers:
Currently, I email it to them. They are working on an online submission system, but it doesn’t exist yet. It’s non-ideal, but they processed my latest update very quickly.
I don’t write much by hand anymore, but when a guy at JetPens.com offered me some pens, I couldn’t turn him down.
Check out my notes on each pen here, as a hand-written PDF.
Years before the Star Wars franchise lit up the eyes of adults and children alike, the US Army was working with General Electric on the “Walking Truck” project, basically a large walker which was controlled by a lever-pushing operator.
Called the Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (or CAM for short), the walker may not have been used by the US Army in combat on rough terrains, but the idea was certainly explored by them in 1965.