Now that is bad-ass.
Picture: AP
Just what kind of “meeting” are you proposing?
image via itsnotascheme
Whenever I see one of these renderings with huuuuuge hovering things I think it would be cool to do a companion image showing their effects. The relevant technology is usually described as some sort of repulser. Something is pushing down to counteract gravity’s effect. Which in turn means exerting a force at least equal to its weight, down. So I imagine that they’re like enormous steamrollers crushing everything they pass over.
In this case Paris.
The MacBook Pro line in actual pixels. The 17 sounds really tempting until I remember the physical dimensions those pixels are packed into.
I’m really on the fence about between the 13 and 15 though. On the one hand, the 15 can run Pro Apple Apps I seldom use, on the other I’ve really gotten used to the 13 inch form factor. And $400 buys a lot of RAM.
Mike’s son at a family bonfire. That’s a pretty-close-to-perfect circle.
Sadly this is not my photo, it looked like a blast from half the world away.
From The Big Picture today about sulphur miners in Indonesia. These guys carry from 45 to 90kg (~100–200 lbs.) of sulfur several kilometers to a weigh-station several times a day. They are breathing sulfuric acid fumes while at the mining site.
That is stupefyingly hard work.
Love that she letterpressed a sign for a yard sale! Yes it’s overkill, but so delicious.
Dovetails nicely with this collection of guerilla flier redesigns (via glass)
Preferred Wireless Networks
I’ve been having trouble with my home wireless network. The AirPort (EXTREME!!!) Base Station periodically refuses to connect me to the internet. I get full bars but no web. I factory reset my Base Station and renamed the network in the process. This seems to have ironed out the original problem, but it created a new one. Whenever I woke my MacBook from sleep it would take ~30 seconds to acquire the network. Argh.
The solution turned out to be pretty simple. The new network name got tacked onto the end of my Preferred Networks list in the Network>AirPort Preference Pane (the Advanced… button in the lower right as of 10.5.6). Moving it to the top immediately eliminated the delay in connecting for me. Yay!
I couldn’t figure out why this worked until I took another look at the list. It was seeded with a few named “default,” “linksys,” and “belkin54g.” I imagine that the MacBook was recognizing identically named networks and spending time trying to negotiate a connection with them.
It’s pretty simple, but maybe this will help someone else who is as frustrated as I was.
Also, name your wireless networks!
Missing The Mark
Dowd Interviewed Twitter Founders Biz and Ev.
This is another of those instances where a journalist’s lack of a basic understanding of the subject matter is obvious to those familiar with it. When this happens every time you read about something you actually know about, you start to wonder whether you should bother reading anything else they write. What are the odds that they are only blowing the things that you know about?
Whoa.
From the 2009 Australasian CrossFit Games Qualifier.
