Adereth

Dial-up modem sound slowed down 700%… awesome and creepy

togetherforjacksoncountykids:

“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

“My ponytail,” she cried.

“Can I see?” I asked.

She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

“How’s that?” I asked.

She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’

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(via Metallica Concerts, 1982-2012 [Infographics])

This is how you make television.

danharmon:

From the room in which Remedial Chaos Theory was broken by Chris McKenna and writers.  I’m sorry, that’s not accurate.  The room in which Chris McKenna and writers were broken by Remedial Chaos Theory.  Thank you so much for your patience and sacrifices, guys.

andymatuschak:

I sat down to my very first Caltech math problem set with the adorable exuberance that only a freshman could muster. Pencils sharpened, whiteboard ready, textbooks unwrapped, I read the first problem:

I read it again, hoping I’d missed something—additional constraints or guidance, perhaps?…

John Taylor Gatto

weliveinthefuture:

This graphic has circulated a few times, showing the improvement from an iMac in 2000 to an iPhone 4 2010. 1000X smaller and 100X lighter for a third the cost.

minimalmac:

The post-PC era has started, and the iPad blazed the trail. Look at who is following Apple’s lead in this direction: Google, RIM, Motorola, Dell, and Samsung. HP — the biggest PC-maker in the world, at least by unit sales — wants in, and they want everyone to know it.

One startling omission from that list: Microsoft.

The usual spot on analysis and plenty of healthy guessing from The Chairman. But there is a reason I quoted the above from the piece as a whole.

It is amazing to me that Microsoft’s shareholders are not storming the doors and demanding Steve Balmer’s resignation. With only a couple of exceptions, every initiative launched under his tenure has been a failure. For them to have missed this computing shift is telling. But to not even have a dead horse in the race is unexplainable. 

But here is another angle to illustrate just how blind they have become to innovation and opportunity:

Microsoft is, and always has been, primarily a software company. You would think, especially with their bread and butter product Office, they would have at least focussed their efforts on getting a version of Office running on all of these new devices. Can you imagine how fast a well designed iPad version of the Office Suite that had easy document transport with the desktop (PC and Mac and maybe using “the cloud”) would sell? Especially in enterprise businesses?. Seriously, they would be generating millions of dollars a month with such a thing.

Why not hire a bunch of iOS developers, people who know how to design a nice app for the platform, to build it? Why not get your Online team, which is bleeding money, to instead focus on the back-end desktop sharing so people can easily get their Office docs to it? Why not return to your roots and do the very thing that made you successful – make software?

I’m asking these questions because I’m just flat out confused by it. Seems like a no brainer to me.

Programmatically comparing programming fonts… 101 vs. lol

Donald Norman, Living with Complexity

The Sequel Map (via BoxOfficeQuant)

(via roomthily)

I’m getting sick of seeing this ad on Facebook.  Not because I have no interest in Azure, mind you.  The aspect ratio of the image is wrong, making everything look too thin.  It’s likely 10’s or 100’s of thousands in advertising money being spent on this… please pay a little attention.