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Thursday — January 26, 2012

These were some sharp dressing, bad-ass mofos back in the ’20s!

(via Menswear & Mugshots from the 1920s « A Headlong Dive.)

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Thursday — May 12, 2011

This should be interesting.

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Monday — April 25, 2011

geothought: Apple's iPhone is NOT storing your accurate location, and NOT storing history →

Peter Batty, VP of geospatial technology at Ubisense has conducted his own investigation into the iPhone location history kerfluffle:

In the data I have examined there is nothing that is based on the accurate location of the iPhone. In my opinion, if Apple was storing this data in order to know where you had been, they would be storing different, more accurate location data that they have access to.

And, importantly, they are not storing history - the only thing that can be found from the files is when you last visited a general area, not if you made repeat visits. This is especially important as it means that many of the concerns expressed about this data are simply not valid: it cannot be used to determine where you live, or work, or go to school, or who your doctor is.

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Wednesday — March 09, 2011

Five Things You Never Knew About Pac-Man →

Toru Iwatani, creator of the Pac-Man game, offered a postmortem on the industry’s biggest franchise—and told a few tales most fans have probably never heard.

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Thursday — March 03, 2011

Upgrading from Microsoft Windows 1.0 through 7. Oh, and apparently, it all takes less than 10 minutes. :-P

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Thursday — February 24, 2011

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.

— Thomas Jefferson

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Thursday — October 07, 2010

45 Million iPads in 2011? Don't Bet on It →

CNBC’s Jon Fortt is pessimistic about one analyst’s forecast that Apple will sell 45 million iPads in 2011.

To present both sides, he plays along postulating what moves Apple might need to make in order to make that goal:

How? One, come out with a smaller version, perhaps the 7-inch iPad some are expecting in January. Two, sell a subsidized version with a carrier data plan through AT&T, Verizon, or others.

Another key move would be to dramatically expand distribution by selling it through the Wal-Marts of the world.

Now, I’m pessimistic too. But then I’m not a fancy market analyst. I’m just an interested observer. And I want to try my hand at this as well.

First, it’s amazing to me how these “experts” continue to ignore blatant clues from Apple’s past actions. In particular, look at the iPhone.

With all the hubbub around iPhone 4, it can be easy to forget that Apple is still selling the iPhone 3GS through their store. It’s selling for only $99 (8GB), which you might recall is $100 less than it sold for prior to the release of the iPhone 4.

Apple’s taken this approach for years now with the iPhone and the iPod, selling the last generation model at a discounted price right alongside the current model offering significant new features at the original price point. In my mind, Apple is likely to continue this approach with the iPad since the current model is successful - see iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player - and the new one will offer substantial new features - FaceTime anyone?

Critiquing prognostication with yet more prognostication isn’t the smartest play. So I’ll be first on record to say my imaginings are likely wrong. But then, I haven’t seen anyone else yet predict the current iPad selling for a discount price alongside an all-new iPad when it’s released next year, so if I’m right, well, you read it here first.

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Thursday — July 08, 2010

Hyperspectral imaging applied to a draft of the Declaration of Independence shows that Thomas Jefferson was still getting used to the idea of being a citizen of the new Republic and no longer subject to the old empire.

(via There, I Fixed It)

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Wednesday — August 12, 2009

Who knew there was a century-old mystery around the origin of the Times New Roman typeface?

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Monday — August 10, 2009

The real evolutionary chart of Pepsi and Coca-Cola logos. Coke hasn’t been sitting static at all. It’s just that their last major typographical update appears to have been made in the 1940’s (if you don’t count New Coke… and I don’t).

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Tuesday — May 05, 2009

On May 4, 1536, Francesco Lapi—a Florentine merchant who at the time was in Seville, Spain—used the symbol @ in a letter, the first ever known instance of a document containing it. It didn’t have a domain name after it, however. Back then, he was referring to the number of “amphoras” that were shipped in three vessels which departed Spain on their way to Rome, Italy. An “amphora” was a commercial volume measure of those times.

(via Gizmodo - What Does @ Really Mean?)

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