The Emperor's New Antenna
If you read only one article about “Antennagate” (too late, I know), it should be this one.
Apple Offers Free Cat Sweaters to Address iPad Issue
CUPERTINO , Calif. — Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, acknowledged Friday that the company’s iPad 3G posed some health risks for cats when users placed the device on top of their cats and then sat on the device, but said the same problems affected all tablet computers and had been widely exaggerated by the media.
“This has been blown so out of proportion that it is incredible,” Mr. Jobs said at a veterinary conference at the company’s headquarters.
In the past weeks, reports emerged that some cat owners had experienced diminished life-expectancy of their pets when using the iPad in certain positions, most notably the “feline death squat.” Isolated incidents of furniture stains and thigh lacerations were also reported, prompting a “Don’t Buy” recommendation from Cat Fancy, despite the magazine’s earlier endorsement of the touchscreen device as the top-rated feline seating accessory currently on the market.
Only one in 200 buyers has called the company to complain about squashed cat issues, Mr. Jobs said, adding “and presumably those users live in an area of low feline skeletal integrity. Or they’re just fat.”
Mr. Jobs said that to put the problems behind it, Apple would give free Teflon-coated sweaters — cases that wrap around the cat’s body and make it easier for the animal to slip out from underneath — to all iPad buyers who want them. But critics are skeptical, observing that the sweaters make it difficult to hold or stroke their pets, and some have reported mixed results when trying to fry eggs on the non-stick surface of a besweatered cat.
Mr. Jobs conceded that the iPad 3G had a slight increase in flattened cats over the iPad Wi-Fi, but said that the increase was minimal and that he believed it was because of the added weight due to the 3G radio. Wrapping the cat in a sweater solves the problem.
“The data supports the fact that the iPad is magical and revolutionary,” Mr. Jobs said. “And there is no ‘Cuddlesgate.’ There is a challenge to the entire industry to improve cat-flattening performance.”
Jonathan Ive on the Design of the iPhone 4
“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form,” says Ive. “It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a particular material, annotating a part and saying ‘that’s wood’ and so on. Because when an object’s materials, the materials’ processes and the form are all perfectly aligned, that object has a very real resonance on lots of levels. People recognize that object as authentic and real in a very particular way.”
Stars vs. The Album Leaf - Opinions Versus the Sun
Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force!
—Barbie
I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
Massive Flow Of Bullshit Continues To Gush From BP Headquarters
As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullshit still gushing from the headquarters of oil giant BP could prove catastrophic if nothing is done to contain it.
The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.
The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig)
My sex life is pretty good.
—Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference, when pressed on whether he felt betrayed by Google.
The Killers - Four Winds (Bright Eyes cover)
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