Developer’s configuration wonderland: dotfiles.github.io.
Welcome to the long valley of uncanniness…
Remember BigDog, that disturbing robotic appliance? Well, it now can throw heavy objects… (I feel much calmer now.)
Oh, and here are some other creatures by the company: SandFlea, Petman and Cheetah.
“No place in the world has more experience with bicycle transportation than the Netherlands, where more than a quarter of every trip made is on two wheels. But bicycling isn't ingrained in Dutch DNA. The Netherlands became a global leader because of very deliberate choices made by city leaders and traffic planners that made bicycle transportation a real priority, backed up with supportive policy, funding and state-of-the-art design.”
Die Vermessung der Welt (Remix).
Google Street View Hyperlapse.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
The ridiculous situation around Apple’s AppStore review process.
“A new reviewer is apparently all it takes to endanger the jobs of 45 employees and to kill a product that clearly filled a niche…”
The problem is, though, that too many business models are based on the existence and good-will of one other company (same with Facebook et al.)
It might feel as if they are your subcontractors, but in fact, it is just the other way around: you are nothing but one of quite a plentiful cheap (well, even quite profitable, to be honest) suppliers in an unknown territory of flaky despotism.
From the I-Must-Have-Been-Sleeping-Under-A-Rock dept.
Yahoo Pipes was yesterday, here comes IFTTT: If this then that.
Tin-Can: text messages without the internet.
International Romani Day.
Šaban Bajramović: Đelem, đelem.
The Passive Aggressive Raven.
