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Пострадать, что розетки далеко, телефонная музыка отпадает. Включить радио в айпаде. Айпад с радио — одно из лучших изобретений человечества (потому что по наступившему молчанию сразу ясно, когда отвалился вайфай). Радио приходит с приложением Rad.io, в котором большооооой список станций. В том числе Дипмикс и компания, которые нам и нужны для работы. - × × ×

Работать с текстом на айпаде, кажется, можно почти вечно, потому что он абсолютно равнодушен к тому, что с ним сейчас делают. Читают, смотрят, играют — все равно 7-8+ часов. - × × ×

Правильно сделанный себе на день рождения подарок оправдался на все несколько сотен процентов, логитековская клавиатура за столом в кофейне решает все возможные задачи, за исключением буквы ё. Впрочем, букву ё можно доставать через экранную клавиатуру, и это не самая большая цена за комфорт и скорость редактирования. - × × ×

да, тяжело :-( - Юльхен

"At its best, the Western style of parenting aims to help children live authentically, that is, to take on the responsibility to decide for themselves what to do and how to live. My understanding of the world is inauthentic to the extent that I have simply inherited it from my parents or absorbed it from the people around me, without having made any responsible effort to measure it against my own experience. My discourse is inauthentic if I accept and repeat what others say without trying to understand through my own effort what it means or whether it is true. Inauthentic understanding and discourse are dominated and governed by the dictatorship of “the everyone” or “the they,” as the German philosopher Martin Heidegger writes: We enjoy ourselves and have fun the way they enjoy themselves. We read, see, and judge literature and art the way they see and judge … we find “shocking” what they find shocking. The they, which is nothing definite… prescribes the kind of being of everydayness." • #grind_is_good • #о_воспитании - × × ×

"What the controversy surrounding Chua demonstrates, however inadvertently, is that parenting techniques are always grounded in basic assumptions about the way things are and what matters to us. And they are always guided by some answer to the most fundamental of ethical questions—how to live?" • Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/115709... - × × ×

Ранее: “Why Chinese moms are superior” — http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

“When is The Future? io9 пишет об исследовании того, как изменялось представление о будущем в фантастике на протяжении десятилетий: In general, the future got closer at the end of the twentieth century. You can see a gradual trend in this chart where after the 1940s, near-future SF grows in popularity. Again, this might reflect rapid technological change and the fact that SF entered mainstream popular culture. The future is getting farther away from us right now. One of the only far-future narratives of the 1990s was Futurama. Then suddenly, in the 2000s, we saw a spike in far-future stories, many of them about posthuman, postsingular futures. It’s possible that during periods of extreme uncertainty about the future, as the 00s were in the wake of massive economic upheavals and 9/11, creators and audiences turn their eyes to the far future as a balm.” - × × ×

«Я извиняюсь за стабилизацию, камера находится у меня во рту». Отличное. (по ссылке из http://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/, за ссылку на которого спасибо @cheran) - × × ×

Артем Пирниязов о подъемах без страховки: «Когда начальник увидел ролик с Котельнической, он хотел закрыть меня в серверной» — http://www.afisha.ru/article... - × × ×

"Some savvy Facebook engineers rigged the NASDAQ button to automatically post “Mark Zuckerberg has listed a company on NASDAQ – FB” to the CEO’s Timeline as he rung the bell to open the NASDAQ’s day of trading. David Garcia, a senior software engineer at Facebook, explains how they turned the NASDAQ on to Open Graph." - × × ×

Mischief managed. :) - × × ×

“The finished product wasn’t exactly the prettiest thing, but hacks aren’t supposed to be. They’re just supposed to work.” - mindszenty

“As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with a strong statement supporting the First Amendment right of individuals to record police officers in the public discharge of their duties. In a surprising letter sent on Monday to attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department, the Justice Department also strongly asserted that officers who seize and destroy such recordings without a warrant or without due process are in strict violation of the individual’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.” - × × ×

И, собственно, да: «два Алексея, которых никто не знает по именам». - × × ×

«Мизантропы с макбуками». (Правда, про паяльника-то мы знаем всю постыдную человеколюбивую правду.) - × × ×

Мексиканские художники из Барселоны рассказывают об историях и блуждающих текстах на QR-кодах, которые никто рассказывает в нигде (Taken with Instagram at Додо спейс) - × × ×

https://github.com/jjchiw... - × × ×

"Что касается устройств, то большинство читателей (40%) отдают предпочтение ридеру Kindle, который обогнал по популярности ПК и лэптопы, лидирующие в феврале 2011 года. Впрочем, число пользователей «планшетников» при этом выросло более чем в два раза и составило 12%. Наиболее активными покупателями цифрового контента остаются люди в возрасте 16-24 и 25-34 лет, хотя наибольший рост «новообращенных» за полгода наблюдался среди людей 45-54 лет. Более четверти опрошенных в этой группе (26%) заявили, что покупали е-книги на протяжении последнего полугода (по сравнению с 17% в ноябре 2011 года). Мужчины чаще покупают книжную продукцию в е-формате, но женщины совершают более крупные покупки и активнее скачивают е-книги, доступные бесплатно. Примечательно, что дети, чьи читательские привычки также упоминались в ходе опроса, при чтении текстов чаще имеют дело с лэптопами, нежели специализированными устройствами в группе до 10 лет, однако уже с 11 лет и они активнее приобщаются к обширной аудитории «сторонников» Kindle. По мнению аналитиков Bowker, в то время как «планшетники» будут набирать все большую популярность в Европе, дети младшего школьного возраста в ближайшем будущем имеют все шансы пополнить ряды их пользователей, за счет падения интереса к Kindle в том числе." • #прокниги - × × ×

Лук у мусоровоза ок. - × × ×

у Липтона гениален Yellow Label, который абсолютно пригоден для запивания мной любой еды во всех видах - с молоком, с лимоном, и без ничего. к сожалению, почти все остальные чаи в мире пытаются пронести в мои вкусовые сосочки нечто излишнее ) - кот от котов

Липтон делает [также и] весьма неплохие чаи. Только это не ширпотреб в коробках из плотной бумаги, а что-то вроде http://www.amazon.com/Lipton-... - 9000

“Skeuomorphism is about communcating and reinforcing feelings – getting an application to become a memorable experience, not just a tool. It’s about communicating the purpose of a UI, not only the functions it enables.” - Skeuomorphism & Storytelling / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin - × × ×

"Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, 11th April, 2012: A major milestone in screen resolution sizes has been passed according to independent web analytics company, StatCounter. The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats reports that for the first time 1366x768 has become the most popular screen resolution worldwide, having overtaken 1024x768. "The data reflects a continuing trend of users moving to larger screen resolution sizes," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "The screen resolution size people are using is a critical factor for developers when it comes to web design, particularly in the case of fixed width web pages."" - × × ×

“Well, gah. This was such a good story. You wanted it to be true -- not just as a fun fact, or as an easy Internet Shareable, or as a reminder of the psychic continuity between past and present, or as a Campbellian lesson of the banality of heroism, or as a Buellerian tale of the obvious productivity of truancy ... but also because, I mean, Lincoln inventing Facebook. There is nothing that is not awesome about that.” • #конкультура • #безжалостный_постмодернизм - × × ×

“We now have a thing that lets us, just as "Honest Abe" wanted, "keep aware of Others in the Town." How we use that thing, though, is up to us. "I just think this is fun; I don't think it hurts anybody," St. Pierre says of his prank. At the same time, though, "people have this willing suspension of disbelief," he notes. And with people and outlets constantly racing to find the newest and shiniest and share-iest thing on the web, "you can take advantage of that if you want.” - × × ×

“A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown's Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery--the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s. These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.” - × × ×

#конкультура - × × ×

“Sometimes even an apparent failure can mask an underlying success. The students may have failed to pull off a spectacular hoax, but they surely learned a tremendous amount in the process. "Why would I design a course," Kelly asks on his syllabus, "that is both a study of historical hoaxes and then has the specific aim of promoting a lie (or two) about the past?" Kelly explains that he hopes to mold his students into "much better consumers of historical information," and at the same time, "to lighten up a little" in contrast to "overly stuffy" approaches to the subject. He defends his creative approach to teaching the mechanics of the historian's craft, and plans to convert the class from an experimental course into a regular offering.” - × × ×

“The one-to-five-star paradigm is not going to accurately assess their customers’ attitudes toward movies. The similarity space is more like Dr Hinton’s reference to a ten-dimensional library where neighbourhood relationships don’t just go along a Dewey Decimal line but also style, mood, season, director, actors, cinematography, and yes the “People like you” metric (“collaborative filtering”, a spangled bit of jargon). For them the preferences evolve fairly quickly over time. That has to make it hard. If your users’ preferences evolve over time: good luck, it may be quite hard.” - × × ×

"Today, it all seems too late. The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, but the feeling isn't mutual. Flickr isn't even among the top 50 free photography apps in iTunes. It's just below an Instagram clone in 64th place. By way of comparison, an app that adds cats with laser eyes to your photos is 23rd. ¶ If you can't beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die." - × × ×

“Dealing with grids in Photoshop is a pain With GuideGuide, it doesn’t have to be. Pixel accurate columns, rows, midpoints, and baselines can be created based on your document or marquee with the click of a button. Frequently used guide sets can be saved for repeat use. Grids can use multiple types of measurements. Best of all it’s free. Honestly, if you haven’t started downloading it by now, you’re probably a masochist. Weirdo…” - × × ×