July 2008
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Two neat new iPhone things [WITH VIDEO!]
When a person has an idea for software and puts together an engaging piece of video to demonstrate it, everyone wins.  Today everyone wins twice. First, the app known as MagicPad, which will soon be in the App Store, seems to be the closest thing to a real(ish) text editor to make it to the iPhone.  Little things we take for granted on the desktop, such as variable fonts, have made their way into...
Jul 30th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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“He also says that The Truman Show had an impact on patients that other films did...”
– National Post wrote an article about you, the cheeky bastards.  Give it a few years before the Number 23 Syndrome really takes hold. via fimoculous
Jul 22nd
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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“Les and I went to the Mac thing at Sun City.  It was about movies and/or tv...”
– my grandma (via email) She recently got her first computer, an iMac, after the passing of her husband. She and a friend took the initiative to attend an Apple store event to learn more about her computer, and this is how it went.
Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
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Extraview, the Podcast
This weekend, Ben Gold and I got on the horn and bullshat about the new iPhone for the inaugural edition of his new podcast, Extraview.  If you’re not familiar with Extraview, it’s a fantastic tumblelog in which Ben invites people you might know from the Internet to explain themselves. Regardless of whether you’ll enjoy listening to our conversation or find it at all...
Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 13th
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Pangea 3000 “Spelling Bee” via The Sound of Young America
Jul 13th
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Jul 11th
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“It’s a great, safe environment here at Pixar. People think we come around...”
– Andrew Stanton on KCRW’s The Treatment
Jul 8th
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David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From The money quote is towards the end—something about Van Gogh with diarrhea. via The Morning News
Jul 8th
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Jul 8th
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Jul 4th
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"WALL·E" (2008)
It’s a beautiful movie that kids will want to watch over and over again, and I have no intention of slipping into the role of contrarian.  ”A triumphant mix of ‘2001’, ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘An American Tail’,” says John Gruber of The Philadelphia Daring Fireball, which he didn’t really say but you would get the joke if you were on Twitter...
Jul 2nd