August 29, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Apparently books need trailers too
I’ve noticed more and more books on Amazon come with some kind of video introduction, but I had never made the connection. Books need video trailers now, just like music. Without the video, the product is just another unknown, unexciting … Continue reading
August 27, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on (contra)band
New restrictions on the movement of wood from protected species are causing problems for musicians travelling with older instruments: Not knowing where your instrument came from could cost you $17,000: If people can’t prove where every part of the instrument … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State of E-Textbooks
Wired has an interesting article on the state of eTextbook publishing, and the opportunities that are being wasted while the publishers focus on crippling their products with restrictive DRM and archaic pricing models: iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Henri Cartier-Bresson at QAG
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the French photographer who redefined both photojournalism and his craft as an art form, is being celebrated in a major exhibition – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World – at the Queensland Art Gallery … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on The Art of Flight
When we asked to go there he said “No! You cannot escape from this place.” Snowboarding photography has come a really long way. The scenes of jumping over trees are just amazing: Official Site: The Art of Flight
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on 45 years ago, the first photo of Earth from space was taken
Like No Other View On Earth On 23 August 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the moon’s orbit, and it forever changed how we see our home planet. In this day and age, it … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on How to move 211 tons of gold from England to Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his government to repatriate $11 billion in gold held in banks abroad to safeguard the country from the economic crisis and said he’ll nationalize the local gold industry. Venezuela has about 211 tons of its … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Happy 20th Birthday, Linux.
On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds wrote: Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Steve Jobs’ legacy: striving for the best customer experience.
The retirement of Steve Jobs led me to think about what it was that has made Apple so different from all the other tech companies I have watched over the past 34 years since I purchased my first Apple computer. … Continue reading