- Coders are creatives too: Where’s our love? – “How did a person whose greatest educational achievement is crayoning without going over the lines get termed ‘a creative’, when the people who built our world are dismissed as geeks and bottom feeders?”
- Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004! – In a way this stated the whole microcomputer… I hate to say “revolution” but I can’t think of a better word.
- Steve Jobs: The parable of the stones – “It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people ‘here’s this great idea,’ then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product.”
Category: Links
- Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004! – In a way this stated the whole microcomputer… I hate to say “revolution” but I can’t think of a better word.
- How the BBC’s HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why – Your licence money going to benefit rights holders at your expense…
- The Real Cost of Patent Trolls – “They conclude that the loss of billions of dollars of wealth associated with these lawsuits harm society and state.”
- Broadcast television is 75 years old today – “On 2 November 1936, the BBC began filling the airwaves, broadcasting from its Alexandra Palace facility in North London.”
- Broadcast television is 75 years old today – “On 2 November 1936, the BBC began filling the airwaves, broadcasting from its Alexandra Palace facility in North London.”
- A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs – Worth reading even if you’ve read all the other Jobs obituaries.
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support – I think this is one of Androids biggest failings.
- John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84 – Really not a good month for IT or Computer Science.
- The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review – The original iPod is ten years old and, actually, stands up pretty well.
- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It’s a sad week for the IT industry.
- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Apple’s iPod: ten years old – Is it really a decade since the first iPod?
- Lytro — light field sensor photography – This “light field sensor” sounds amazing but I am a little skeptical. I’ll believe its potential more when I hear about it being used by “real” people rather than in controlled situations.
- QuickLook Plugin For Mobile Provisioning Files – If you understand the title and develop iOS apps you need this plugin!
- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It’s a sad week for the IT industry.
- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Round Ireland with a Fridge – The Movie based on Tony Hawks bestseller – Full movie for a limited time only…
- Extreme Tidying Up – “He is a Swiss artist and comedian, who may or may not have an OCD problem.”
- Vintage 80s: Life on the streets – Images from London in the 1980’s.
- Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo? – No.
- Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class – …or why “trickle down” economics — where the rich get tax cuts and everyone else magically benefits — doesn’t work.