As sceptical as I am about the Olympics, I thought the opening ceremony was absolutely brilliant.
Author: shauny
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
John Gruber, looking back on five years of the iPhone.
Starting with the opening gag with Siri doing stand-up comedy and continuing through to Apple’s new maps and Siri’s new features, there was an unmistakeable “Fuck you, Google” undertone to the whole keynote. Apple is forcing Google out of iOS.
Death Proof, 2007 – ★★★
Watched on Saturday May 19, 2012.
Insidious, 2010 – ★★½
Watched on Friday April 13, 2012.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, 2006 – ★★★½
Watched on Monday April 9, 2012.
Stuck
Brave
Battle Royale, 2000 – ★★★★
Watched on Saturday March 24, 2012.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 – ★★★★
Watched on Saturday February 11, 2012.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 – ★★★★★
Watched on Friday February 10, 2012.
I love to research stuff. Any time I have a conversation with someone and I’m not 100% on the details, I’ll go look it up on the Internet. So now my obsession with research is driving me crazy 🙂
I’m really enjoying this TV show on Netflix that is a few years old (that’s if it’s not still running). Incredibly obscure, it’s not British or American. But I’m enjoying it so much that I want to research it and find out more about it, except that might mean spoilers. So I vow to watch all 100-odd episodes before I look it up.
And that’s killing me! 🙂
Primer, 2004 – ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday January 28, 2012.
Bowling for Columbine, 2002 – ★★★★
Watched on Wednesday January 18, 2012.
If you’re a programmer or designer, then you’re not like most people. Just because you change your settings in apps you use doesn’t mean that your users will, unless they are also programmers and designers.
Do users change their settings? » UIE Brain Sparks
I change settings on everything I use, and one of my favourite things is getting a new program just so I can look through the settings. They’re right, I’m not like other people 🙂
Apple conditioned us to forget about terminals and command-line interaces. Apple conditioned us to forget about floppy disks. Apple conditioned us to forget about parallel ports and adopt USB. And now Apple is conditioning us to rethink the way we scroll our content, but also, the need for disc drives and physical media.
Before you set scrolling back to the “old” way, think about this.
BBC Worldwide have published their Annual Review for 2011 which highlights Doctor Who as one of the ‘most valuable’ brands, largely responsible for the corporations commercial success.
Doctor Who was also the number-three TV series purchased globally on iTunes in 2010/11.
Wow! Very good news for Doctor Who fans: looks like it will carry on for the foreseeable future!
Doctor Who Online – Doctor Who Boosts BBC profits in the 2011 Annual Review
My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Facebook, RSS reader, Reddit.
What’s yours?
