Bruce Schneier:
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a
transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a
country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that
can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws,
the more we convert our buildings [...]
Michael Gartenberg on One Laptop Per Child’s newly-stated plans to switch from a traditional clamshell laptop to a touchscreen tablet:
Like the mythical predecessors that came before it, the new device
is said to have an 8.5 × 11 inch touch screen made by Pixel Qi
with an indoor/outdoor display, use inductive charging (like [...]
Not ridiculous, but certainly not cheap, either. There’s still no Android equivalent of the $199 iPod Touch.
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Interesting perspective:
BTW, in the course of scoping this out, I got to mess around with
CoreData a little. This is another classic example of Apple wares:
looks like a tinkertoy at first blush, comes with a tinkertoy tool
(the data modeler in Xcode), but in fact, it’s pretty awesome.
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The only designers I know who preferred Illustrator were those who never really learned FreeHand. It says here that FreeHand is the greatest app that ever died.
Update: I’m getting an earful from those who prefer Illustrator, including this gem from a friend: “Never was there a happier moment in software than when FreeHand bought the [...]
If you’re going to make an iPhone flashlight app, you might as well make it the best one.
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I never tire of listening to obsessive perfectionists, no matter the topic. (Via Gus Mueller.)
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Well, so much for that. As Rentzsch says, “it’s a mistake to put ‘hope’ and ‘AT&T’ in the same sentence.”
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