Linked: “My flawed Apple Watch has become a necessity”
via DeSouzaDigest: Yet, despite all these complaints, the benefits far outweigh the faults. It is a device that…
Motorrad:Yankee Beemers Pemi River Rally – 2016
As a BMW MOA member, I was looking for events in my area and saw a BMW club…
Linked: “The Spectre 13 is HP’s attempt to out-design Apple”
via TheVerge: Its newest laptop is called the Spectre 13 (or sometimes, simply, the HP Spectre), and —…
Linked: “How to Make Taco Bell’s Entire Classic Menu”
via LaughingSquid: Josh and Mike Greenfield of the Brothers Green cooking and music show created a new series…
Linked: “Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji”
via GroupLens: To your smartphone, an emoji is just like any other character (e.g., lower-case ‘a’, upper-case ‘B’)…
Linked: “Goodnight, and good luck”
via Al Jazeera America: For Al Jazeera America online, no human tragedy could be reduced to a statistic…
Linked: “30 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1986”
via TheAtlantic: Three decades ago, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was one of the biggest stories…
Linked: “This Millennium’s Best Picture Oscar Winners Are Not On Netflix”
via TorrentFreak: The Oscar-winner limitations don’t seem to be tied to the Best Picture category either. Of the…
Linked: “Did the March Apple event deliver for Apple Watch owners?”
via WatchAware: I do still very much love my Apple Watch, and remain hopeful that Apple has some…
Linked: “Remembering the early, glorious Mac web”
via The Verge: The announcement of the iPod in late 2001 was in the same Town Hall auditorium…
Linked: “The Next 40”
via Asymco: In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers. This shipment total is higher than any…
Linked: Vanilla
via 500ish words: A couple people recently shared old articles I had written a few years back. This…
★ Beer Haul, Spring 2016
I haven’t done one of these in a while: As you all can see, I’m doing a lot…
Linked: Blendle, pay for what you read
via Blendle: Today, Blendle starts its beta in the United States. And I’m really glad you’re part of…
Linked: The SAT Has Been Hacked
via Gawker: The College Board’s reaction to this development has been befuddling. In 2013, Reuters reported, the company…
Linked: “‘Burning Man for the 1%’: the desert party for the tech elite, with Eric Schmidt in a top hat”
via The Guardian: Party planners at Burning Man are careful to hide their luxury dwellings behind large walls…
Linked: “Foursquare Predicts Chipotle’s Q1 Sales Down Nearly 30%; Foot Traffic Reveals the Start of a Mixed Recovery”
via Medium: Foot traffic to Chipotle started to follow the same directionally downward seasonal winter traffic trend in…
Linked: “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.”
via Vellum: For about ten years, I’ve been warning people, “hang onto your media. One day, you won’t…
Technology: Emojis versus Stickers
Unicode.org: Emoji are pictographs (pictorial symbols) that are typically presented in a colorful cartoon form and used inline…