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They want what’s in the movies
I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers ‘Look Dad, it’s an iPad.’
via Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy (by way of DF)
Payne on the ‘Pad
The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing
Duped
Are you a blogger? Do you have a Twitter account? Flickr account? Tumblr? WordPress? Hell, even a Facebook account? Doesn’t matter, really, which one, or combnination of some, that you have. One day you might make it big, get advertising dollars for the characters you lay down in electronic ink all over the pages of what ever vehicle you choose to power your thoughts in written form on the web, collect a ton of followers that may hang, with baited breath, on every word that you write.
Or not.
But even if you don’t, even if the only person that reads your words is your kind-hearted grandmother, even if one day, the vicissitudes of your life are such that you no longer are able to budget enough time to attend to your little gem and all of that work ends up collecting dust on Google’s internet archives, even then, at the very least, there should never have ever, ever, ever been a time that you knelt down so deep into the mire that you felt the need to dupe the people that you hope are handing over even one measly little second of their precious time to place their eyes on you work. Never dupe your readers. Even if those readers are just in your mind. Entertain, sure, if that’s your thing. No harm there.
You can never really get rid of the words you write on the internet. That should really give most people pause, even if mostly it doesn’t. It’s you’re legacy. Big ideas and small. It’s forever. There isn’t much more on this earth that is much more your own than your own words – spoken or written. Never. Dupe. You’re readers. It’s just foolish. (via Daring Fireball)
A case of future shock
In the meantime, Adobe and Microsoft will continue to stamp their feet and whine
Fraser Speirs on the brouhaha over the release of the iPad. (via Daring Fireball)
Imagine…
Imagine your favorite magazine on an XL iPhone. Derek Powazek has.
Like CafePress in 3-D
Ponoko is like Zazzle or Café Press but for 3D objects: you design it, they make it. Anything that can be constructed out of a 2D cut-out (and that includes many different materials including plastics and wood) can be produced. I posted earlier about an ingenious coffee cup travel tray. It was made at Ponoko.
Score…elegantly
Simple Scorecard looks to be an elegantly simple sports score app for the iPhone. “Coming soon”, it says.
Playing cards
Playing cards
Danielle and I went to LA last weekend to visit with friends and family. Inevitably, we played a round (or two…or three…or four…) of cards. I’m not that good at cards. Especially after spending the last few hours drinking wine. But I held my own.
IdeaPaint
IdeaPaint – Dry Erase Paint for Work, School and Home White Boards
This. is. so cool. Paint a wall – or walls – with IdeaPaint and it turns into one massive, possibly multi-dimensional, whiteboard. Awesome. The brainstormer’s best friend.
Although, looking at the pictures on their website, maybe they should sell a ladder with every wall’s worth of it.
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