Google Maps: Summer, then Winter
An interesting bit of German scenery from Google Maps, if you go forward one step, you go suddenly from a summer view: To a Stark-cold winter one: This serendipitous discovery (more discussion at...
View ArticleRe: Shakespeare, Monkeys, Amazon EC2
I tried leaving this as a reply to Jesse Anderson’s A Few More Million Amazonian Monkeys but the blog comments are broken: This is fundamentally pointless–there are only 27^9 (a-z and a space)...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: A Bad Role Model
Steve Jobs, former Apple & Pixard CEO, died on October 5th, 2011, at the age of 56 after a fight with cancer. His life and career was inspiring enough to Apple for them to put up a permanent online...
View ArticleHidden Radio: A Review
If you aren’t familiar with Hidden Radio & BlueTooth Speaker by John VDN + Vitor Santa Maria, it is one of the more popular Kickstarter projects, having $938,771 on a $125,000 goal. Their plan was...
View ArticleThe 2013 Mac Pro is Cheaper to Build as Windows PC
This should be a non-controversial opinion, but I’ve already received in an informal forum comments like: the Mac is a workstation not a gaming rig. If you try building it, you will end up paying more....
View Article