(Source: lauren)
“For me, Apple purchases are always preceded by a bout of rationalizing. In the case of my iPad, I told myself it was O.K. to fork over the six hundred dollars because the device would stand in for the magical, Jetsons-style kitchen computer I’d fantasized about for years. And it’s lived up to my dreams.”
-Julia Powell (of Julie and Julia) discusses iPads and cookbooks on newyorker.com.
ckck:
Markets of Britain, the envy of the world.
British humour at its finest.
cabbagerose:villa amanzi/original vision via: worldarchitecturenews
(Source: cabbagerose)
FaceTime for Mac issue
Originally I posted this at the Apple support discussion forums but Apple removed it because as of today FaceTime for Mac is “pre-release”. Here is a copy of my post:
Every time I initiate a FaceTime call between two Macs on the same network the wireless connection on both Macs breaks and the airport indicators both rescan and eventually reconnect to the network. Sometimes we can get it to work but most of the time the connection breaks (seems to be at the airport on the computers themselves) and FaceTime displays a connection failure notification.
I know FaceTime for Mac is very beta, but just FYI.
Thanks
UPDATE: If I try to establish an iChat connection between the same 2 Macs the airports on both computers will seemingly reboot IF we’re signed on as AIM buddies. However, when we’re signed on using Bonjour everything seems to work fine.
Snow
Great piece of cinema from 1963 by Geoffrey Jones et al. Nicely edited. I love the end credits. Arri’s Facebook page declared “Imagine putting this together on a Steenbeck!”
National Velocity
Of course, I will always want something like this:
I totally love the description:
NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
I can’t put my finger on it, but I know I need that.
I don’t get excited about consumer products much. I’ve been carrying around bare glass bottles from Pelligrino or Voss because their water’s great and the bottles are highly reusable. They’re also breakable but this design seems to have it covered.
Bamboo Bottle
The Bamboo Bottle is a green and reusable bottle made from bamboo and glass, outside of the bottle is renewable bamboo, the top and bottom of the Bamboo Bottle is made from recyclable plastic.
(via: likecool)
Matt Taibbi Responds To Lara Logan
Logan is obviously doing her job protecting the agendas of her clients, whomever they may be. But Taibbi’s title “Lara Logan, You Suck” is nonetheless very apt.
An interesting tid bit from Taibbi:
True, the Pentagon does have perhaps the single largest public relations apparatus on earth – spending $4.7 billion on P.R. in 2009 alone and employing 27,000 people, a staff nearly as large as the 30,000-person State Department – but is that really enough to ensure positive coverage in a society with armed with a constitutionally-guaranteed free press?
Holy. Fucking. Shit. And great question. Hopefully, the answer is no. I would imagine that if a war is truly justified a government would have faith that its people would rally to the cause rather than risk life and jail to end it.
UPDATE: Matt Taibbi is now on Twitter. 10 tweets in and he gets it.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence Transcript
I didn’t realize there was a fan base at all, let alone a devoted one. Terrific and memorable dialog, especially in the use of the Yeats poem, The Stolen Child:
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we’ve hid out faery vats,
Full of berries
And the reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters of the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand.
1886
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010
Superb footage from Sean Stiegemeier who has apparently discovered and commandeered my dream job.
Also, here’s a pronunciation (like it helps).
(via @l_a_c)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The original BBC radio broadcast.
Walkabout
Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece is available as a Criterion Bluray edition.
