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Steve Jobs didn't change the world by playing nice When filmmaker Stanley Kubrick died, the steely perfectionist who ground actors into submission died with him. Kubrick was a good man -- Matthew Modi
On her first morning of school, September 4 1957, Elizabeth Eckford’s primary concern was looking nice. Her mother had done her hair the night before; an elaborate two-hour ritual, with a hot iron and
I've been interested recently in the apps available for iOS that push the very edges of what we thought was possible on a mobile device. Informed by my recent experience of spending a week on iOS alone, I decided to try and express what I mean by "ambitious" and to collect some examples of those…
Op-Ed Contributor I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us.…
Most Recent Today’s Picks COME IN PEACE What OpenAI Really Wants The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change ev
I got an email yesterday from an up-and-coming young blogger named Jason Kottke , with a screenshot of two consecutive DF entries posted earlier in the day — “ Condé Nast Subscriptions Up 268 Percent
[Every so often Life, Unbounded allows itself a little more speculative leeway, a little bit of armchair musing, this post is very much in that vein, and yes, it was written on a Mac] Exhibit A Like m
When I first got my hands on the new Reminders app in iOS 5, I launched it and scoffed under my breath. Sure it was cute but it was not for me. I have spent so much time developing a bond with OmniFoc
September 29, 2011 A Machine for Reading Books If you were to design a piece of hardware that was only used for one single task, to read books, how would you design it? If you look at the iPad, it's c
• Title: The size of the jet launching region in M87 • Authors: Jason Dexter, Jonathan C. McKinney and Eric Agol • First Author’s Institutions: University of Washington and UC Berkeley Figure 1: Hubbl
FRW cosmology and accelerating expansion Our discussion here will be focused on how FRW (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker) cosmology can be used to understand the accelerated expansion of the universe, but it is important to note that, taken alone, FRW cosmology does not necessarily imply such an…
Paper title: Infall and outflow within 400 AU from a high-mass protostar Authors: C. Goddi, L. Moscadelli, and A. Sanna First author’s affiliation: European Southern Observatory, Germany Cartoon of st
Authors : Krzysztof Belczynski, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Chris L. Fryer, Daniel E. Holz and Vassiliki Kalogera First Author’s Institution : Astronomical Observatory, Warsaw University, Poland Today’s Ast
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies The initial reaction to the iPhone 4S was cooler than Apple might have hoped . Expectations had been hyped to such a point that people were looking for a leap forward equiv
On Friday morning, October 7, I pre-ordered two new iPhones: a black, 16GB iPhone 4S for me, and a white one for Anna. A week later they were delivered by FedEx. Anna’s white iPhone is the first white
Blinded by the light Light pollution is amateur astronomers’ worst enemy — and a waste of electricity
EAST BAY — As a kid growing up in Harris Heights off Metacom Avenue in Warren, George Huftalen and his friends would head to a nearby field at night and perch themselves on top of a big rock. They’d…
In March 2010, Barry Duncan, master palindromist, was locked in an epic struggle with the alphabet. He was totally absorbed in the completion of a commissioned piece. “It’s draining me of every bit of energy I have,” he explained at the time. He was also just getting over a cold, his first since…
The Macalope paid his respects to Steve Jobs on Thursday , so today we’re back to punching morons. And, though it seems like a million years ago now, it was only Tuesday that Apple announced the iPhon
The Macalope’s going to keep this short because he’s not a eulogist, he’s not a poet, he’s just a pointy instrument for skewering silly pundits. His hooves can’t do someone like Steve Jobs justice. No
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In honor of the Nobel Prize , here are some questions that are frequently asked about dark energy, or should be. What is dark energy? It's what makes the universe accelerate, if indeed there is a "thi
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AllThingsD marks the anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death with Walt Mossberg’s memories of the man, originally published Oct. 5, 2011. That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple’s CEO in August. He…
How did we acquire our beautiful brains? How did the savage struggle for survival produce such an extraordinary object? This is a difficult question to answer, not least because brains do not fossilise. Thanks to the latest technologies, though, we can now trace the brain’s evolution in…
To see past the distracting, dopey teenager and glimpse the adaptive adolescent within, we should look not at specific, sometimes startling, behaviors, such as skateboarding down stairways or dating fast company, but at the broader traits that underlie those acts. Let's start with the teen's love of…
To see past the distracting, dopey teenager and glimpse the adaptive adolescent within, we should look not at specific, sometimes startling, behaviors, such as skateboarding down stairways or dating fast company, but at the broader traits that underlie those acts. Let's start with the teen's love of…
Kindle Fire The Kindle Fire’s slogan says it all: “ All the content. Ultra-fast web browsing. ” That’s the best sort of marketing message: simple, appealing, and true . Well, we’ll see how fast their
This talk by John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW 2009 came up again from John’s link to a fan video , and it was a great reminder to redownload the audio and listen again. It has become much more famo
The huge gap between current CMS offerings and what the world needed occurred to me during my time as CTO of The Huffington Post . When we were acquired by AOL in 2011, I inherited 53 properties built on dozens of different content management systems. It wasn't long after that I soon realized they…
Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe and others at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the mid-1970s. PARC’s experimental Ethernet ran at 3Mbps, a “convenient data transfer rate […] well below that of the computer’s path to main memory,” so packets wouldn’t have to be buffered in Ethernet…
There aren’t a lot of bats, balls or rackets in northern Afghanistan. There are goats, horses, men and dusty plains, and they have been there ever since Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde swept into the neighborhood in the 13th century. Their game, then, is simple. Men on horseback grab a goat…
There’s something incredibly unnerving the first time you start “following” the liked items of other users on Instapaper. Instapaper makes no suggestions to you of popular users and offers no list of
With so many projects, if the customer is willing to go without a small subset of the functionality they think they need, it can save a massive amount of effort, cost, and complexity and result in a m
* Paper title: Interpreting supernovae observations in a lumpy universe * Authors: Chris Clarkson et al. * First author’s affiliation: University of Cape Town Distant objects race away from us at ever-faster speeds, a cosmological expansion of space itself driven by dark energy ( DE ). The speed of…
It’s more than a week later and we’re still cleaning up the mess of the storm that raged through our community. No, not hurricane Irene, hurricane Steve Jobs Steps Down (which, like Irene, would make
While people of all cultures experience sleep paralysis in similar ways, the specific form and intensity it takes varies from one group to the next They died in their sleep one by one, thousands of mi
Last weekend I spoke at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh. It was a new talk. Short - just 20 minutes - and presenting some new material. Since the talk was short, I necessarily omitted a certain amount of additional material I wanted to mention. I also presented some data that might be perceived as…
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