johnke.meAs if a movie based on the boardgame “Monopoly” wasn’t enough of a sign of creative bankruptcy in the movie industry, now Warner Brothers has bought the rights to a movie based on a Reddit comment.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a really good comment, but the point still stands.
The Guardian design team shows the various stages of the evolution of their iPad app. This is one of the most beautifully designed newspaper applications I’ve ever used - a perfect marriage of interface and content. I’ll definitely be subscribing.
What a neat idea.
This is unfortunate. Trauma is a beautiful game, and one that screenshots can’t do justice - you have to see the game in action to fully appreciate and understand it. I’m really sad to read about the amount of hassle the developer went through.
I appreciate Vimeo wanting to keep their site free from commercial abuse, but some of their rules honestly make me worry that pretty soon, their site will be nothing but videos of people testing their cameras.
 > >This is my favorite photo of Steve Jobs. Leaning forward to connect with his wife after his keynote presentation at the 2011 WWDC. You can almost feel the relief and accomplishment radiating from him.
When I see this photo, I see a man who bent every fiber of his will toward a goal so lofty, so seemingly unattainable that no one thought it was possible, and at the end of that race, with the task completed, he closed his eyes and rested.
Thank you Steve. I’ll miss you.
For a man who guarded his personal brand so jealously, these moments – moments where the guard drops just a little and we see the man underneath – are really striking.
Great selection of movies. And great explanations for why he chose these particular movies.
Panic rooms are so passe. What you want is a panic house. When the zombie apocalypse finally comes, I’m making a beeline for this place.
Fascinating post about the approach of the ‘internet of things’ - the idea that, with a little bit of hacking, you can shape the internet to do what you want it to and make it more personal and magic. (Incidentally, I think if this then that is pretty close to magic already). He gave this as a talk on the BBC’s Four Thought radio series.
You could almost do an entire article about the many forgotten subplots in Lost alone. I particularly like their write-up of the Tori Scott episodes of Saved by the Bell
When NBC ordered more episodes of the show’s already-wrapped senior year, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley were already committed to other projects. So, employing its signature logic, Saved By The Bell allowed the characters to disappear completely, bringing in Leanna Creel’s motorcycle-riding tomboy Tori to replace them—and thus creating the “Tori Reality,” a parallel universe centered on Zack and Tori’s awkward courtship, a place where Kelly and Jessie simply did not exist.
Pretty interesting stuff - overall, people who own e-readers read more books each year than those without. Although I’m curious about the 1% of e-reader owners who read 0 books a year. What are they using it for?!