The Democratic Party of Oregon has a new website.
The “About the Party” page is a list of officers and staff, and the 2010 platform is available only as a PDF. Sigh.
The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a phone’s controls on what software it will run to get ‘lawfully obtained’ programs to work. […] In addition to the decision on jailbreaking, the Library of Congress also granted an exception to artists who remix copy-protected video content for noncommercial work, and renewed its approval for cellphone owners to ‘unlock’ their phones or lift controls that restrict use to one particular wireless carrier.
Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones - NYTimes.com
I had no idea the Library of Congress had power like that.
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This video of lightning slowed down 300x is amazing. Fucking lightning, how does it work?
Sharing Time!: Call me (but only if you use AT&T)
She was lying down on a mattress endorsed by NASA in the investment banker’s apartment. It was her third night staying over. They had been on a handful of dates. She reached over the side of the bed to plug in her phone and saw that his charger had already been plugged into the surge protector….
‘Metabolism wanted to collaborate with engineers, they invited scientists, designers, and industrial designers. They wanted trans-cultural collaborations. It’s still relevant because of the ‘dynamic city’ and trans-cultural aspects.’
Rereading and losing position, in fact, is a common problem with long, vertical swaths of text. It’s difficult to disregard already read text, and the flow of the eye is not balanced because the implied movement is usually so strongly vertical. The reader is also frequently interrupted by the need to reorient the text by scrolling to produce new paragraphs to read. It’s not torture, but I think the readability is worse than we realize due to our acclimation to the vertical reading environment. We do so much of it, we had to adapt. But that doesn’t mean it’s optimal.
Horizontalism and Readability « Thinking for a Living
False. Vertical scrolling is awesome, especially with the right line length, margins, etc.
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Droid : 1984 :: Apple : Brave New World
A line showing the speed of light on a scale model of Earth and the Moon, about 1 1/3 seconds.
FaceTime from the moon is gonna be so awkward.
The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision. It is not simultaneously restful and lively, like a field full of flowers, or the face of a thinking human being, or a well-made typographic page. And we read the screen the way we read the sky: in quick sweeps, guessing at the weather from the changing shapes of clouds, of like astronomers, in magnified small bits, examining details.
