August 23, 2010
Multifl0w is a nice-looking alternative multitasking interface for jailbroken iPhones and iPads.
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August 22, 2010
Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective
(1 week ago) Link to this postThis is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:
Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.
Then this happened:
Other manufacturers had…
August 21, 2010
Brian Griffiths’ idea for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth: a nice big Battenberg made of brick.
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“ I am one of the few people who can say, honestly and unironically, that I find The Jeremy Kyle Show to be worse than cancer.
“ Starbucks’ strange vernacular finally drove a customer nuts. Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor from Manhattan, said three cops forcibly ejected her from an Upper West Side Starbucks yesterday morning after she got into a dispute with a counterperson—make that barista—for refusing to place her order by the coffee chain’s rules
Brian Lam, the guy behind the whole Gizmodo-lost-in-a-bar-iPhone-4 business, loses his phone.
(1 week ago) Link to this postKevin Smith on his experiences working on the script for Superman Lives.
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August 20, 2010
On the increase: junk in space!
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If you read the papers (and you shouldn’t) you’ll know that the only people who get A-Levels are pretty girls with a predilection for jumping and who are heading for Oxbridge. Sexy A-Levels is keeping track of this phenomenon.
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August 18, 2010
“ Apple has some very nice performance analysis tools that allow us to diagnose performance issues like the occlusion query stall described above. Using these tools, another area that we’ve seen the driver spending a significant amount of time is in code which validates floating-point parameters that we hand off to OpenGL to drive the logic in our GPU-side shader code.
A fairly, erm, technical explanation from Valve about how they helped make Apple’s 3D graphics performance suck less.
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August 17, 2010
Oh dear, poor Tomasz Schafernaker.
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August 14, 2010
Journalism warning labels by Tom Scott. (Via Daring Fireball.)
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Kill or cure? Tracking the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it.
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