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Google

Just received this as I’m sure did millions of others. This is exactly what the internets needed.

Thank you Google!

landscapelifescape:

Forget Energy Star and LEED, Green Building is Passivhaus : TreeHugger

“It is hard to believe, but this “mountain hut” in Austria needs next to no heating; it is all done with body heat, cooking heat and passive solar heat. it is an example of a Passivhaus design, built to a standard developed by the Passivhaus Institut in Germany.”

Interview with Neil Summerour

Padd vs iPad

As much as I love Star Trek (and no I don’t mean the film featured on the iPad) I think I’d go for the iPad.

jeffrock:

The internet can be a cruel place. Before you rifle off your thoughts on the newest i-thing, do yourself a favor. First, take a deep breath. Feel better? Good. Now read this list before you hit “post”.

1. Remember, you probably aren’t the intended market. Do you understand the difference between bash and tcsh? Trust me on this one. Put down the laptop.
2. Never post about the device on the first day. As self-rightous as you feel right now, you’re probably wrong. Your gut-reaction will only solidify how terrible you are at prediction. But you won’t know it until someone publicly embarrasses you 5 years later when the 3rd revision of i-thing is the hottest product since negative blogging.
3. You don’t know shit about producing/engineering physical products. You understand manufacturing schedules? Consumer trends? So you know exactly what Apple makes per device? What the burn rate is? What the software cost to write? Then perhaps it’s out of your depth to tell the internet how one of the largest producers of the most popular consumer products in your lifetime has no clue what they’re doing.
4. For everyone who feels like you do, there are 5 that don’t. And they have YouTube channels.

So what do you think, champ? Still feeling up to it? Then fire away! Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.

If only, if only. Nice advice though.

Just spotted this on the iPad’s features page. So what exactly does this mean? I can’t even use iBooks to read books from other sources if I live in the uk?

hunsonisgroovy:

Simple Desktops is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.

Very nice collection.

Haiti earthquake: 360° video

Without wanting to belittle the tragedy, I just want to point out how brilliant these films are, like a video version of Google maps. In fact I can also say their usage here is powerful reminder of the scale of the situation in Haiti.

davidkaneda:

SublimeVideo provides a custom user interface for playing HTML5 videos. The design is Mac-centric (though well polished) and offers a “Full-window” mode which is very visually impressive—and I believe more useful than Flash’s “Full screen mode”. The script will eventually be released free for non-commercial use. (Note: Open the link in Safari/Chrome to view)

irondavy:

I just posted a new article on the Sleepover blog: Metagames and Containers. Check it out, let me know what you think! It was fun to write and a pain to code.

Great article and wonderful presentation. I found that as I went through I began to forget that to close the boxes, I guess it’s just not something I’m used to doing which is almost strange considering I use the same technique/metagame for almost every element of my life. Checklists and timers for tasks and work, a variety of measures for travel (Kilometers, Map squares/pages, iPhone screens etc), marking visited destinations, logging TV shows, keeping email/RSS/Twitter unread counts at zero and many more.

But really, this functionality on the web really is the most simple to implement in the most basic HTML, the under-used visited pseudo-class is rarely seen performing it’s proper role these days. I guess it’s unfashionable to have multicolored links or perhaps when you are a master of the most simple tools you begin to look for more complex solutions to satisfy your need to grow.

Or maybe it’s just too much, I think I’m obsessive enough already. My attention span is still just about long enough that I can read a full article without having to count down the remaining paragraphs (for books though, I use Stanza which has a percentage read count). In fact the less I know about what I haven’t seen the better because otherwise I’ll just try to consume it all…

PS. My favorite is trying to finish a game of Worms with as many of my team still sporting 100% heath as possible.