“Les and I went to the Mac thing at Sun City. It was about movies and/or tv programs that you can see on your computer if you have a camera or some kind of a gadget that you have to purchase and sign up for. Neither of us knew what the young man was talking about so we left. We went to the restaurant that was right there and had some dinner.
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.
Auto-correct gets reanimated
Something neat about 2.0’s spelling auto-corrector: it’s very subtle, but the blue text iPhone offers when it thinks you’re dumb takes a slightly different path to replace your ham-handed corruption of the written word.
Now, the “right” word scales slightly up and then down to its final position, simulating a shift in depth as it drops onto the page and into place. It used to just slide in linearly, which was starting the bore the shit out of me.
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 enlightening, I sincerely enjoyed talking with Ben and look forward to someone else doing it again in the near future.
APESHIT THEATER by Scott Simpson
Only she could do this to them. And I declare Scott the new enfant terrible of the shoot-the-TV school.
“Cannonball Run” (1981) BLOOPERS!
What a fun and sexy time for them.
NOTE: God, I wish I could find The State’s shot-for-shot remake of this blooper reel. It is one of the most crucial and pivotal moments of American televised comedy.
“It’s a great, safe environment here at Pixar. People think we come around and think of these genius ideas or everything we spin is gold and if you spent most of the four years [making a movie] with us, you’d see at least three years of just awful choices and awful executions of things and we’re no better than anybody else. But what we’re really good at is fixing our mistakes…
David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From
The money quote is towards the end—something about Van Gogh with diarrhea.
via The Morning News
Exposure: A Flickr App for iPhone from Connected Flow
TUAW told me today about an upcoming app for iPhone called Exposure that will undoubtedly get my first $9.99 when the App Store opens for business.
Remember the first Matrix movie where Tank says to Neo, “It’s a very exciting time.” He can hardly contain his exuberance and it’s totally endearing, right? I feel that way about this one little feature of Exposure called “Near Me” which does the simple feat of grabbing your location by GPS and showing you pictures on Flickr that were taken around you. I don’t know about you, but the potential for superimposing visual data in my physical environment? This gives me the shivers, and I haven’t even used it yet. It’s a very exciting time, nerds.
