Mac Justice: The Blog

fireland: My five-year-old niece stole my phone and typed this....

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:03:00 -0800

My five-year-old niece stole my phone and typed this. I feel like I’m flipping through the notebooks in Se7en.

Must run in the family.

I had little interest in playing Mass Effect 2 (the first was...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:48 -0800

I had little interest in playing Mass Effect 2 (the first was kinda bland) until I saw this. A character randomly breaking into Gilbert and Sullivan in the middle of one of those normally boring, serious expository conversations. Games need more of this. Hilarious delivery, too.

PS22 Chorus “LISZTOMANIA” Phoenix (via...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:10:56 -0800

PS22 Chorus “LISZTOMANIA” Phoenix (via agreggofsociety)

The perfect antidote for an entirely too stressful day that isn’t over yet.

Books in the Age of the iPad

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:39:04 -0800

Books in the Age of the iPad:

Article about how physical publishing will be changed with the introduction of the iPad and similar devices. In short, cheap disposable books will all go digital, books that have value inherent in their form will be better designed and more durable, to befit their more permanent nature.

(via Instapaper)

Kickstarter - 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:28:32 -0800

Kickstarter - 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games:

He’s making one for Seattle. Project: backed.

Put This On • lonelysandwich: “Ironing techniques...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:31:03 -0800

Put This On • lonelysandwich: “Ironing techniques by…

Completely engrossing. I might even go finish my ironing.

Kanye on Creativity

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:31:38 -0800

ampersandean:

viafrank:

Am I really putting up something Kanye West said? Yes I am. Because it’s about better. And, I’m inclined to believe this thought, regardless of what I think of the man’s music or behavior.

There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is “common opinion”. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your opinion. Your religious beliefs are your opinion. The music you turn up loud is your opinion. For most people it’s easier to just agree. For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed.

(Oh, and obviously facts still remain.)
via putthison, converted to non-all-caps by Colin Marshall

“For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree.”

Beat me to it! This is exactly why, after a lot of the stupid stuff he gets quoted as saying, and a lot of the public persona he projects, I still like Kanye. I don’t always like his music, but the guy has a kind of character I can appreciate.

The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:41:55 -0800

The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work

Amazon and some others saw how iTunes is doing it right, and now I’ll buy from just about anyone using that model. Why can’t so many other companies figure that out?

Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera (via...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:26:00 -0800

Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera (via jkvetchy)

I’ve been house/dogsitting for my parents this week, it’s reminded me how much I like my old dog and dogs in general. This video encapsulates a lot of the joy of dogs.

Stand Up While You Read This

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:24:50 -0800

Stand Up While You Read This:

I’m a sucker for commonsense but a little quirky health advice like this. I worked all day Friday standing at my bench rather than sitting at my desk. Might alternate days from now on.

The Cocktail Renaissance

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:24:04 -0800

The Cocktail Renaissance:

This is making me thirsty. Also, snobby, but that’s the cost of doing business. Some great ideas in here.

Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:23:55 -0800

Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad:

This would be really slick. I like the idea of scrolling without my finger obscuring the screen.

"Darwin came here on the Beagle and noted that the sound of calving bergs “reverberates like the..."

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:23:06 -0800

“Darwin came here on the Beagle and noted that the sound of calving bergs “reverberates like the broadside of a man-of-war through the lonely channels.””

- National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com

Fact is, Darwin’s just a much better writer than the Bible.

(via Instapaper)

moltz: via wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov Zoinks.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:42:46 -0800

moltz:

via wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov

Zoinks.

The 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' of Cat Fight Videos

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:22:53 -0800

The 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' of Cat Fight Videos:

Less cat cuteness, more cat ass-kicking, Internet.

The pot and how to use it - Roger Ebert's Journal

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:46:57 -0800

The pot and how to use it - Roger Ebert's Journal:

Ebert just revolutionized my cooking. I was trying to figure out how to steam asparagus the other day, this so beyond that, but so easy.

Curling team sitting around trophies, Dawson, Yukon Territory...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:45:50 -0800

Curling team sitting around trophies, Dawson, Yukon Territory (via UW Digital Collections)

"Why is the cursor arrow colored black instead of white on this computer? Is that..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:54:59 -0800

““Why is the cursor arrow colored black instead of white on this computer? Is that bad?”
“This computer is making noises…the one I have at home doesn’t make these noises…shit, SHIT, I need a little help here, is it going to blow up or something?”
“John! There’s no tab key! There’s one that’s the same size, in the same place, but it has some symbol on it. Where’s the tab key?”
“Why the heck does this computer have TWO shift keys? Which one am I supposed to use?” And so on, and so on, and so on. Now, imagine what happens when somebody comes face-to-face with these little quirks for the FIRST time, when there’s nobody around to explain it. That person might just assume that they screwed something up, and they’d be that less likely to take chances in the future (i.e. clicking on different menus to try and find what they need, clicking “OK” and continuing with work when an unimportant error screen comes up, etc). However, if somebody learns from Day One that every computer is a little bit different, and that sometimes you have to click around a little bit to find what you need, they’re a lot more likely to see the computer for the versatile, fluid tool that it is, and will learn to adapt in order to accomplish their task at hand. I actually require my students to sit at a different workstation every day so they’ll be forced to adapt.”

- Letters from Namitembo: Hands-on Teaching

John here is describing what I wish I could do with so many of my users every day. He’s lucky that he has the opportunity to teach them to be real computer users, rather than simple operators. I know people who cannot function if you so much as move an icon on their desktop to somewhere they didn’t look, or even if you remove one that they didn’t use at all! There’s a lot that we, the computer literate, take for granted, and it’s easy to forget that huge amounts of people never had the opportunity or interest to learn how to talk with a computer.

wellplacedpixels: Semi Secret Software’s Canabalt If you want...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:13:18 -0800

wellplacedpixels:

Semi Secret Software’s Canabalt

If you want to kill 15 seconds in style, Canabalt is a good way to do it. I didn’t know it was possible to have this much fun with a game with 1 button. Heck, Merlin Mann recommended it on the Last MacBreak Weekly!

The MacBook Pro is almost as beautiful on the inside as the...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:50:18 -0800

The MacBook Pro is almost as beautiful on the inside as the outside. Just gorgeous.