ESPN:
One of the ball boys makes an amazing catch during the Federer Nadal Semifinal match at the Australian Open. Then there was a cricket reference to Ricky Ponting, and the crowd goes crazy!
I once had good hand–eye coordination, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
PostWarden is a relatively new app that makes managing multiple Tumblr sites, and Tumblr accounts, a breeze, with the added bonus of having a local backup.
Not being a coder, I couldn’t do anything with it, but this is exactly the idea that I’d been playing around in my head for the last few months. Well, not literally exactly; the UI is a little raw, for example. The version in my head also has searching, which is coming to PostWarden; phew, because Tumblr’s search is so broken that I have to resort to Google. I also want HTML export, so that every thing becomes a bunch of static files — theme, media, pages, and all — that I can just pick up and drop on a different server if I need to — maybe when SOPA/PIPA/ACTA kicks in and mows down Tumblr — and have a complete site ready to go.
(My imaginary app also doesn’t turn ' into ’, but that’s a fault of Tumblr and Markdown, so hey.)
Wasn’t thinking of putting that much attention on posting, because I thought the Tumblr website was just fine. I was thinking more along the lines of Tumblr Backup 2.0. Actually, I hope Tumblr works with Ayuso on this and rebrand it as Tumblr Backup; Marco Arment’s app has stopped working for me a long time ago.
Finally! It’s just a shame there aren’t more of my favourites though; only one of the sixteen guys’ tees do I actually own in real life.
Imagine every Threadless shirt ever made available to Xbox Avatars. That’d be cool. And replicate my real world t‑shirt addiction online.
Teaser trailer for Realmac’s Clear. Combo of gestures plus animation/visual cues gets rid of the UI. No skeuomorphism. Wish they wouldn’t hide the iOS status bar at the top though.
I wonder how this can be translated to the iPad…
It’s been a long, long time since I last played SimCity, so I don’t really remember what I’d done back then.
Apparently I, the mayor, had almost bankrupted the city two or three decades ago, and am about to repeat that it seems. I also seem to have unleashed some sort of epidemic or healthcare crisis four years ago, which killed everyone above the age of five. So I guess I now have a population of 533,701 pre‑teens.
(Edit: Just checked. Half a century ago, I decided to mow down a large part of the city. I guess it killed a lot of tax revenues and took a while to regenerate, which is how I almost bankrupted it.)
@PFF1:
Sneak preview of 2012 Caterham. Tomorrow in F1 Racing magazine.
I thought I read somewhere that Ferrari’s 2012 car will also have a hump‑y nose. Curious.
The 2012 Ferrari had a similar hump‑y nose at some point, but it may have been smoothed out for the final car.
Can’t wait to find out how this stacks up against Williams.
Cognitive ergonomics… Is it ironic that I forgot to pay attention to the time in a paper that includes a question on situation awareness? I spent way too much time on drafting and the first answer.
Anyway. That was the third and last of this batch of exams mind vomits. And unless I decide to do postgrad stuff, also the last in my academic life.
What to do now… Finish reading the Steve Jobs biography, start reading Inside Apple, look into and actually understand how immigration in NRaas’ StoryProgression works, organise my iTunes library, cure AIDS… The possibilities are endless!
Oh wait, final year design project.
If Nintendo ever decides to bring the Pokémon card game to iOS/Windows Phone…
(Thought prompted by this.)
I’d set out looking for an acoustic guitar version of Boulevard of Broken Dreams, but ended up with a lullaby instead.
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is trying…new page-turning technology that’ll let you skim and flip through the contents of a book at your own pace. Features demonstrated on an iPad include turning multiple pages at once based on dragging time, and the ability to flip through upcoming pages while holding your place at another.
The page flipping from the bezel and multi-page turning with multi-finger swipes is good. By speed and length of press…not so sure.
Though to be honest, I still prefer scrolling, à la Instpaper. I want us to ditch the idea of pages.
Yes, do learn to spell “reblogging” please.
And I thought >100,000 notes was impressive. That, or the counter’s broken.
Also, this is the actual, original post, which had absolutely nothing to do with nice penises. There’s actually another variation with “Cory” in it, whoever the hell he is.
Tumblr lets you reblog a post in a different form. For example, if there’s a Quote post with a source that I find more interesting than the quote, I can hit the “as…” button on the Reblog page, and reblog it as a Link instead. One of those “as…” options is Text, and of course, once it becomes a Text post, a reblogger can completely change the contents. So I don’t know why I never saw this coming, extreme though it may be.
One day, I’ll go through the notes and find all the mutations. I might even track down who among the 189 million first hit the “as…” button when they were reblogging.
