In response to the horror that is Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwean Newspaper has come up with this lucid and salient campaign using essentially worthless Zimbabwean currency as poster material.
Three more after the jump.
* Post title inspired by Jesse calling Mugabe “an asshole”; good call, that.
Wonderful little “infofilm”. (I declare that term mine. Gimme a nickel.)
As always, I highly recommend clicking through to the video in HD on Vimeo.
Via new/ stuff
A recent Lifehacker article recommended a piece of software called Synergy to allow one keyboard/mouse to control multiple machines, across platforms, pulling clipboard data along the way (as well as syncing screensavers). The problem is, Synergy hasn’t been updated in nearly three years and I couldn’t get it working.
Digging through the comments, I found Teleport, which has the disadvantage of being Mac-only, but the advantage of… well… working. Quite nicely, at that. It is more polished, prettier, supports drag-and-drop file copying, and has more robust options.
Installation is a snap. Add a preference pane to each machine, turn it on, arrange your monitors as in a dual-display setup, and set options as shown above. Et voila.
One cautionary note: tablets are not as yet really supported, but switching my Bamboo to mouse mode has done the trick (this is a meaningful tradeoff, and I’m hopeful for a fix).
This will be a substantial boon for my productivity and happiness.
Two more screenshots after the jump.
The Wave is a red-rock stunner on the border of Arizona and Utah, made of 190-million-year-old sand dunes that have turned to rock. L.A. Times photographer Spencer Weiner captured the swirling drama of this little-known formation that’s accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and highly regulated.
A few more at LA Times
A new skate flick directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. Please just take a couple minutes and watch this thing through. Slow at the start but well worth the wait. I’m in love with every second of this. Fullscreen a must.
Via DailyMotion
Song by UNKLE
…but they can also be beautiful. The Big Picture manages once again to capture amazing moments in time and space, this time dealing with the effects of the economic downturn.
So Zazzle is doing 50% off all posters (use code ZAZZLEPOSTER), and they sent me an email promo tailored to their historic posters and, long story short, I ordered a giant print, on canvas and framed, of San Diego in 1876 (pictured). Proceeding in the wrong sequence, I followed up my order with some research into the print.
Turns out the Library of Congress has the original print, and it’s availble as a 8720×6048px jpg (12mb). They also have another high-res photo from 1915.
Along the way, I learned a couple interesting tidbits from the Library:
Over 300 years later, gold miner Pringle Shaw described San Diego in his 1857 book Ramblings in California as:
“a favorite resort for horse stealers and suspicious looking greasers…chiefly from its remoteness and the uncertain communication with the more civilized districts…[The climate resembles] the balmiest portions of Italy…In ‘54 but one physician existed in the place, and he died of a broken-heart, occasioned, it was said, by a want of practice. He complained…of the citizens’ obstinacy in adhering to robust health.”
And:
By 1888, Harriet Harper observed a more refined San Diego. In her Letters from California, she describes San Diego as:
“curled up in the arms of her beautiful bay…[with] long lines of yellow graveled streets… many wooden houses…[and] utter innocence of flower and foliage…. An electric railway runs past my windows; steam motors take you in any direction. The principal streets have electric lights and cement pavements, and there is an encouraging amount of building going on…
all conditions are favorable for a future great city.”
So yeah. Perhaps I could have gotten it printed myself cheaper (though really with the half-off, I’m not even sure of that). But hurrah for the Library of Congress. I’m sure there are many, many more cartographic wonders ahoy.
…but I’m not sure I want to do the free 30 day demo, fall in love with it and have to part with 250 bones. Has anyone else tried it? Is it as rad as everyone says it is? Will it install a bunch of low-level system extensions that make my Mac implode?
I realize that “Apple makes something tiny” is old news, but it should be pointed out that they’ve finally succeeded in making a device that has no buttons. I can’t tell exactly, but it may not even have a LED indicator.
And yes, I realize that the headphones have buttons. That’s not the point. No one’s looking at those. So shut up.
Ok if you are anything like me you listen to music at your desk all day everyday …well at least most of the day. And when my complete iTunes library is not at my fingertips I usually let a playlist-making music service of some sort do the work.
Above are a select few of some internet radio and song finder services. Some are simple, others are quite intricate. Just wanted to get some insight to what other people use.
My favs are Pandora and Grooveshark.
