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Scarlet Witch
Amazing mask by Mom.
I really like my family.
My daughter is in a Tinkerbelle stage. When is the Scarlet Witch stage starting?
Casa Corallo by Paz Architectura.
My kind of tree house.
While we’re talking favorite Astonishing X-Men panels (here and here), I gotta mention Wolverine.
Probably the most over-used character in the Marvel Universe.
But Whedon… Whedon did him right.
Yes, I DO need to report a problem. His name is Merlin Mann and, do to his incessant Jean Grey conversation on B2W and Comic Shack, I'm now hemorrhaging cash in Marvel's direction. I do not take responsibility for this problem, nor the fact that, until two days ago, it has been 18 years since I last bought a comic. And they were all DC then.
John Roderick: My problem, in this instance, was you called, and I was looking at something else, and I reached for my headphones and I grabbed my coffee cup instead. And I almost poured it on top of my head. I almost put my coffee cup on my head like it was my headphones. Merlin Mann: I don’t wanna go meta but could we please have a little bit of fan art of that? Maybe as a small animated GIF?
(Roderick On The Line S01E41 - In Lieu Of A Laundromat)
This just won everything.
My God. So great.
Classic Martian misdirection.
For all of Douglas' critics, I wonder what their hair looked like at 16? When I was Douglas' age, my mother was still giving me home perms. I'm lucky to still have a scalp.
While I wouldn't go as far as to say that Douglas' extraordinary Olympic moment was completely undermined by the criticism of hair, the social media blowhards have certainly distracted attention from Douglas' triumph.
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Somebody said this speech should be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Somebody else. Wish I’d said that….
On the New Microsoft Surface
Last week Microsoft, in a rather Apple-like way, unveiled their new tablet PC calledSurface. It will be in two versions, the Intel "Pro" and the Arm "RT" versions.
But we really do not know that for sure because, outside of the demo units on stage, no reporter held and used a live, working unit. Some got to play with the fancy new keyboard (of which there are two versions, a touch-sensitive version and a mechanical version that actually depresses), others got to hold the unit itself, though it was powered off.
Due to this fact, there is a wave of Internet bloggers crying foul whenever a news or gadget website claims to have a "hands on" review of the Surface.
Paul Thurrott, WinSuperSite.com
I have a whole list of analysis for you to check out about the product, but first I would like you to read the most cynical piece on Microsoft from a pro-Microsoft tech blogger, Paul Thurrott, on his WinSuperSite.com website, which came a few days before the event launched.
First, Paul Thurrott in his Microsoft's Mystery Miracle article:
What, exactly, is Microsoft going to announce today in Los Angeles?
Who cares?
Honestly, whatever Microsoft announces, it’s not going to change anything. If it’s a Microsoft- or Xbox-branded tablet, as many expect, it will probably make as much of a dent in that market as the Zune did in the MP3 player market. Ditto if it’s an Xbox entertainment services announcement, as I first expected, given the location of the invitation: Zune Marketplace and Music Pass never threatened iTunes for a second.
What I’m more interested in here is why this announcement has generated so much interest. It just doesn’t make any sense.
Then you find Paul Thurrott on one of my favorite podcasts, Windows Weekly (WW Episode 266) on the TWiT Network, saying that this was the most important news week for Microsoft of all time, probably more important than even the Windows 95 launch.
Nick Wingfield, NewYorkTimes.com
Nick Wingfield, with the New York Times, states that Microsoft was fed up with its hardwar partners not innovating enough in their devices, which makes Windows software on PCs, tablets, and phones seem subpar when compared to Apple products, who designs both the hardware and the software. Read the full article With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps:
The incident was one of many over the last several years that gradually pushed Microsoft to create its own tablet computer, unveiled last week. The move was the most striking evidence yet of the friction between Microsoft and its partners on the hardware side of the PC business. It is the first time in Microsoft’s almost four-decade history that the company will sell its own computer hardware, competing directly with the PC makers that are the biggest customers for the Windows operating system.
Guy English, KickingBear.com
Why did this announcement seem so rushed? Guy English, in his The Frame Game article, points out the Apple WWDC announced both hardware and software updates two weeks ago (iOS 6, Retina MacBook Pro, etc.), and the Google I/O conference is coming up next week, so Microsoft needed to force itself into the conversation.
To me it’s no surprise that Microsoft didn’t release details of their battery life or price point — the goal wasn’t to pitch a product. The goal was to be part of the conversation.
I think they’ll succeed there. Not in the circles that are likely to read this piece, but with the larger and less tuned in audience. The people who buy a lot of things and read CNN and the BBC.
John Gruber, DaringFireball.net
John Gruber posts to his DaringFireball.net blog, Surface: Microsoft between a Rock and a Hardware Place, claiming that Microsoft, due to shifting PCs sales going to the tablet market (aka, the iPad market), Microsoft risked loosing a ton of revenue due to its hardware players not playing at Apple's level. Their hands were forced and they had to release their own hardware.
Microsoft this week showed itself willing to do what was once unthinkable: design and sell its own PC hardware. This is a profound change of direction for Microsoft and the entire PC industry. The iPad, however, has been out for so long and has been so successful that no one seemed shocked by Microsoft’s announcement. But make no mistake: for better or for worse, Surface marks a watershed moment in PC industry history.
Horace Dediu, Asymco.com
Lastly, the numbers game that Horace Dediu does so well, is presented in his article on Asymco.com, Who Will Be Microsoft's Tim Cook?
However, if Microsoft can sell a $400 (on average) device bundled with its software, and is able to get 20% margins then Microsoft is back to its $80 profit per device sold. This, I believe, is a large part of the practical motivation behind the Surface product.
The challenge for Microsoft therefore becomes to build hundreds of millions of these devices. Every year. Sounds like they need a Tim Cook to run it.
What we're up against in middle school youth ministry and education.
Not exactly Paleo pizza, but it's gluten free.
"I hope this wears off soon," Deanna says a little timidly, sounding almost embarrassed. She tells me she hates doing anything that isn't heroin, and won't even touch weed because it makes her so paranoid. I ask her how she feels now.
"You know," she says, "like I do whenever I shoot something into my veins. I hate myself."
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Divorce, Father's Day, and an Internet Hero's blog post
Jeffery Zeldman is one of the bright lights of the internet. He and his ilk are responsible for pushing web standards across all browsers. He is awesome, honest, and straightforward. I read his blog every day (when a new post isn't out, I consume old posts).
After coming back from a weekend youth conference in Houma, Louisiana with 200 teens on a bus for 6+ hours, to my house filled with women (welcome in-laws!), I stepped aside to catch up on my weekend away from my computer.
His post is beautiful and painful to read. It is simply entitled, Divorce Never Sleeps and it strikes to the core of the hurt that divorce keeps on giving. Read it now. It's short.
Here's a quote:
And then, bang. Your kid is laughing ecstatically in a seemingly utopian environment you did not provide for her and you are not part of. The easy adult social interactions that are unfolding belong to your ex’s new life, not yours. You are watching your family move on without you...
He filed it under the tag "glamorous". So very sad. Pray for him this Father's Day.
Whoa. Deep.
Could I please have some more bath salts and clove cigarettes?
So Apple never mentioned the minor update to the Mac Pro during its WWDC keynote, but still had the "New" banner over it.
Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, my favorite read-later app, wrote this piece on just how much this update sucks for power users like him.
Here is the best quote from his blog post:
I bet this is the last Mac Pro. If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment. This is pathetic.
UPDATE: Turns out that Apple removed the "New" label from the Mac Pro and Tim Cook put out a brief statement saying to Forbes that the Mac Pro will receive a major update in 2013. Here's the Forbes piece.
I heard that the Ivy Bridge processors from Intel that are flowing out are one socket consumer versions, and the pro version, two socket chips are simply too few and too expensive to put on a mother board with USB 3 and Thunderbolt.