{"id":3702,"date":"2012-04-13T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2012-04-13T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:38:37","slug":"a-few-links-to-things-ive-read-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/a-few-links-to-things-ive-read-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 A Few Links to Things I&#8217;ve Read this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been without an iPad for over a month so my Instapaper queue was a bit behind. On Wednesday, my iPad arrived so I&#8217;ve been reading 6 hours a day since then. I like linking to things here but it&#8217;s best to do it as I read things that are worth sharing. So, instead of posting dozens of links in separate posts, I&#8217;ll post them here with or without some personal commentary and I&#8217;ll break it into categories:<\/p>\n<p>Also, mini-iPad 3 review coming next week at some point. It&#8217;ll be short. Trust me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple &#8211; iPad 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yukarikane.com\/?p=139\">Why I Decided Not to Buy the New iPad<\/a> &#8211; Well said and this shows more and more that Apple runs on a 2-year product cycle. They release devices yearly but, if you skip a year, you don&#8217;t miss out on much. I like this a lot<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/147273\/apples-new-annual-upgrade-cycle-may-wreak-havoc-on-schools\/\">Apple\u2019s New Annual Upgrade Cycle May Wreak Havoc On Schools<\/a> &#8211; This is a very tiny example of people who think Apple does one year upgrade cycles. They don&#8217;t. They do by products but it&#8217;s every 2 years. Plus, when did schools ever car about upgrading anyway? When I was in school, our tech was easily 5-10 years old.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/apple\/why-iphonegraphy-works-convenience\/\">Why iPhonegraphy works: Convenience<\/a> &#8211; Can we please stop calling it Photography and instead refer to it as iPhoneography?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5893716\/the-only-ipad-reviewer-with-enough-balls-to-tell-you-the-stinking-truth\">This Is the Only Reviewer With Balls to Tell You the Truth About the New iPad<\/a> &#8211; Spot on. If you have an iPad 2, upgrading is pointless unless you just love being awesome<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/2012\/03\/ipad-event\/\">Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday\u2019s iPad Event <\/a>&#8211; I LOVED Shawn&#8217;s analysis. Even a month later, it&#8217;s a nice read<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/2012\/03\/att-4g-ipad\/\">AT&amp;T, 4G, and the New iPad<\/a> &#8211; If you haven&#8217;t bought an iPad yet and plan on doing so with a data connection, read this. I went with Verizon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1165465\/mountain_lion_hands_on_with_mail.html\">Mountain Lion: Hands on with Mail<\/a> aka Mountain Lion&#8217;s Mail.app loses RSS support &#8211; This was the most awkwardly placed feature in Mail and I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s gone. The pundits are arguing RSS is going away completely. I won&#8217;t hold my breath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SXSW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2012\/03\/12\/the-year-nobody-won-sxsw\/\">The Year Nobody \u201cWon\u201d SXSW<\/a> &#8211; Good analysis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parislemon.com\/post\/18994363772\/meeting-people-is-easy-remembering-them-is-hard\">Meeting People Is Easy, Remembering Them Is Hard, Knowing Them Is Harder <\/a>&#8211; Highlight is pointless outside of SXSW, San Francisco and NYC. I&#8217;m tired of companies getting funded that only solve a problem that occurs in 2 cities and one week out of the year in Austin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120311\/the-power-of-power-at-south-by-southwest\/\">The Power of Power at South by Southwest<\/a> &#8211; The one thing SXSW is good for is showing us a glimpse into the future of computing. Things like Highlight are just ahead of their time but guaranteed, if battery technology doesn&#8217;t keep improving, it will be a very gloom future for everyone. We need huge improvements in batteries + even larger improvements in how we recycle and dispose of those batteries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Technology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5838414\/twitter-doesnt-give-a-damn-who-you-are\">Twitter Doesn\u2019t Give a Damn Who You Are<\/a> &#8211; Good read<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/3\/6\/2848346\/dell-xps-13-review\">Dell XPS 13 review<\/a> &#8211; Nice computer but why, after all of these years do PC makers still include terrible trackpads? <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5886574\/its-time-to-exterminate-the-mouse\">It\u2019s Time to Exterminate the Mouse<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, as soon as PC makers start including better trackpads, the mouse can go away<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2012\/02\/21\/your-heirs-wont-care-about-your-crappy-mp3-collection\/\">Your Heirs Won\u2019t Care About Your Crappy MP3 Collection<\/a> &#8211; A nice dose of reality to those of us who covet our digital files like anyone but us cares about them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miscellaneous:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/05\/business\/media\/electronic-dance-genre-tempts-investors.html?_r=3&amp;smid=fb-share&amp;pagewanted=all\">Electronic Dance Concerts Turn Up Volume, Tempting Investors<\/a> &#8211; Great stuff. My first Ultra in Miami was in 2004. Things have changed since then in a big way<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/29\/a_precious_hour.html\">A Precious Hour <\/a>&#8211; I really need to start doing this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dearcoffeeiloveyou.com\/starbucks-is-banking-on-europe\/\">Starbucks is Banking on Europe <\/a>&#8211; Beautiful store. No exaggeration. This store just made my trip to Amsterdam next month TWICE as amazing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebestpageintheuniverse.net\/c.cgi?u=math\">Math doesn&#8217;t suck, you do.<\/a> &#8211; To be shared with my little sisters and people who don&#8217;t think Math is worth learning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5888014\/skinny-jeans-the-staple-of-a-well+dressed-geeks-wardrobe\">Skinny Jeans: The Staple of a Well-Dressed Geek\u2019s Wardrobe<\/a> &#8211; At my very skinniest, I was literally skin and bones and I weighed 190 pounds. I still had to wear relaxed fit Jeans because my ass and legs were so huge from working out. I had a BMI in the lower teens but couldn&#8217;t wear these things. Men who wear skinny jeans aren&#8217;t men. Please go and build a fence or something and work with your hands and then try to fit into skinny jeans. It&#8217;s impossible. If you&#8217;re not living the life of a man and doing manly things, skinny jeans are for you. For me, it helps me identify the men from the boys. No man that i know can wear them not because they&#8217;re fat like I am now but because they are active men who have muscle. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Alright, I have about 20 more items in my Instapaper queue. These are a handful of the dozens of things I read in the past couple of days and what I felt were the best to share with you. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been without an iPad for over a month so my Instapaper queue was a bit behind. 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