awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
The Digerati.
Front, left to right: Eric Schmidt, CEO Google; Unknown; Steve Westly, former eBay executive; Steve Jobs, CEO Apple; Barack Obama, President, USA; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook; Unknown.
Back, right to left: Dick Costello, CEO Twitter; Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo; John Hennesy, President, Stanford; Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix; Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle; John Doerr, Partner, Kliener Perkins Caulfield & Byers; John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems, Unknown, Art Levinson, CEO Genetech.
(via Daring Fireball)
Yeah.
(via xkcd: Car Problems)
Path just earned a permanent delete. Why do I have to email them to delete information that I didn’t give permission for them to take in the first place?
Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path” and repeated the experiment and I got the same result – my address book was in Path’s hands.
Apple Scotland - iPhone commercial for Siri (by thegavin2000)
This one screenshot is enough evidence for me.
(via Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google Over Relevancy)
John Gruber:
Negotiations with the carriers:
Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them?
Microsoft: Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones.
Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it.
yellow birch leave zigzag against black shed interior | landart | kasachstan (by doubleyou_em)
I found some new reading material.
A common mistake people make when trying to answer a mathematical question is to work from first principles: it is almost always easier to modify something you already know. This article illustrates the point with examples that range from simple arithmetic to the forefront of research.
Reach For The Stars (by AimishBoy)
Polish artist known as Calabarte makes amazing table lamps out of hollowed and dried skin of the gourd fruit.
Pretty nice gamepad. Design could be refined a bit, but if this becomes a standard, it would be huge for iOS games.
60beat GamePad for iOS devices (via MacStories)
(via National Geographic)