Category: Technology
I’m getting an iPhone
When the new iPhones come out in June I’m getting one. Sample rumors: 720p video, 3 megapixel camera with autofocus, faster processor, 32GB, compass, and a $59/month plan (currently the cheapest is $69).
Meta/weird/arty twitter accounts
A collection of meta/weird/arty twitter accounts and related twitter sites, including @On_Kawara, a twitter feed of a pet door, and an app that creates tetris blocks out of tweets. (via)
Swiss post box
Swiss Post Box is powered by technology from Seattle-based Earth Class Mail. The service emails multi-sided color images of incoming envelopes and parcels to their recipients as soon as the mail reaches the first sorting center nearest where it was collected by the post office. While the mail and parcels are held in an automated temporary cache, recipients decide which mail pieces they want to have opened and scanned to PDF inside an ultra-secure scanning center at the Post Office (where confidential documents for Swiss banks are also scanned), and which are to be delivered physically to the address on the envelope, redirected to another address, shredded, recycled or archived for safekeeping. Three-quarters of the mail ends up leaving that first sorting center bound straight for recycling, either after being scanned to PDF or discarded unopened by customer’s choice.
Also, as you may have heard, the United States Postal Service is royally fucked.
The Online Photographer’s top camera
The Online Photographer has been counting down its top 10 recommended cameras. #1: Nikon D700.
Not in defense of Twitter
One eye-rolling Maureen Dowd column and suddenly everyone feels like they need to defend Twitter. I say forget it — if someone’s not persuaded to try it, they’re not going to read your pleas, and they wouldn’t be convinced even if they did. Still, some nice arguments: In defense of Twitter (Bldg Blog), In defense of Twitter (Kottke). Then again, this is hardly untrodden ground
Images of flight 1549 recovery
Images of Flight 1549 recovery: Stephen Mallon was hired to photograph the recovery of US Airways Flight 1549, and was subsequently blocked from releasing the images by some asinine legal crap. Anyway, the images are back online, and every single one sings. Truly a spectacular body of work.
Online image editing
Online image editing: I’m working on a computer that I don’t want to install anything more then I need to, so I’m trying to use all online apps to get my stuff done. Here’s a relatively awesome online replacement for Photoshop: Splashup. No ads, no registration, easily loads images from your machine or from the web, and relatively powerful (layers!).
Jorge Colombo’s iPhone sketches
Wikipedia is considering switching to a Creative Commons license
Wikipedia is considering switching to a Creative Commons license, and they’re putting the issue to an online vote by their frequent editors.