Techie Manager

The addicting smartphone game Threes, but in your browser.

I’ve been a big fan of WolframAlpha for several years now.  The sheer amount of data in the system, as well as the functions that can be applied to the data, is staggering. Well, Stephen Wolfram and his team have outdone themselves with Wolfram Language. This is real next level, game changing tech.

I can’t wait to try this!

ClarusX is a system utility that allows you to change the Mac OS X Mavericks page setup and print dialog icons (aka “boring guy”) to various dogcattle.

Long live Clarus.  Moof!

This would have been awesome.

“Mr. Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh computer,” Jobs reportedly said. “He pops up every once and a while, when you least expect it, and then winks at you and disappears again. It will be so quick that you won’t be sure if you saw him or not. We’ll plant references in the manuals to the legend of Mr. Macintosh, and no one will know if he’s real or not.”

Practically trembling with excitement, Steve Jobs continued to imagine all the weird, funny ways in which users would interact with Mr. Macintosh.

“One out of every thousand or two times that you pull down a menu, instead of the normal commands, you’ll get Mr. Macintosh, leaning against the wall of the menu,” Steve exclaimed. “He’ll wave at you, then quickly disappear. You’ll try to get him to come back, but you won’t be able to!”

What Jobs imagined was the digital equivalent of the Lilliputian orchestras that live inside the stereo which imaginative parents tell their children make every radio work. But instead of just joking about it, Jobs actually wanted to make it happen. Inspired by the revolutionary graphic user interface created by Xerox PARC, Apple had spent the last three years building a computer that would change the world, and here Jobs was, talking about programming an 8-bit version of the Teeny Little Super Guy right into the core of the operating system.

Hertzfeld thought it was awesome.

Go figure – it’s legal for minors to drink with parental consent in Massachusetts.

Lots of different versions of Kate Bush’s classic 1978 song “Wuthering Heights” on YouTube.

Kate’s original version

Kate’s “red dress” version

New vocals c.1986

Ultra Slow Wuthering Heights (36 minutes!)

Amazing – man sings “Wuthering Heights” in original key (that must have hurt)

Noel Fielding does “Wuthering Heights”

Angra

Pat Benatar

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

The Puppini Sisters

Wolfmother

Laura Bunting on “The Voice Australia”

Redditor furyasd‘s thoughts after lifting for the first time in a year:

I had similar thoughts last week when I started up again.

Love this song. Keyboardist Dave Stewart programmed the drum parts manually. Insane.

Running brings out divide between fit and fat Americas – Opinion – The Boston Globe

Here’s the truth: The reason American kids run a mile slowly is because so many adults can’t run one at all. The 15.5 million runners who competed in road races last year cast an oversized shadow that hides the 300 million who didn’t. Proportionally, few adults run; by comparison, our sluggish kids are speed demons.