June 2010
42 posts
iPhone 4 review →
Andy Ihnatko’s detailed writeup.
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (via marco)
“Once an alcoholic starts drinking heavily, the mesolimbic pathway responds by...”
– Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
That’s 15 hours of battery life even using FaceTime — which, BTW: OMG.
Revised iPhone 4 battery life estimate: with push notifications off, it’s lasting 15 hours.
I can confirm frequent use of the iPhone 4 will require a midday recharge or a Mophie Juice Pack. (Per @mophielovesyou, one is pending.)
(Addendum: Actually, with push syncing off, I’m getting 14 - 15 hours.)
Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference →
The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but... →
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but... →
Oil in the Gulf, two months later →
Happy Brick Your iPhone Day.
The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire :... →
“Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the day Dean Winters died. In a harrowing...”
– Actor Dean Winters nearly died a year ago, but is back better than ever - NYPOST.com
Very happy for Dean. (He’s a hell of a nice guy.)
WatchMy afternoon with lonelysandwich. (by Jeremy Fuksa : Creative Generalist)
Milky Way over Flock Hill →
Single-Column or Two-Column Layout? →
I’ll be switching back and forth from single-column to two-column as an experiment. If you have a preference, please comment.
The Velluvial Matrix →
Atul Gawande gave the commencement speech at Stanford’s School of Medicine last week. Here’s what he told the graduating class.
New NEJM This Week iPhone app: Current articles, images, audio summaries, procedure videos. Free for a limited time. http://bit.ly/bUyZF3
Inside a Wave →
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! - Roger Ebert's Journal →
Robert Ebert, who cannot speak after surgery for cancer, describes his use of Twitter.
“Clay Shirky’s second book, The Cognitive Surplus, picks up where his stellar...”
– Clay Shirky’s COGNITIVE SURPLUS: how the net lets us share and do more than ever - Boing Boing
A patient saw the “Salt Must Die” billboards and slashed their intake, assuming it was a public health campaign.
iPad TV →
Book recommendations from the New Yorker →
Beach reads don’t have to be new best sellers or formulaic romances. In fact, summer is the perfect time to dig deep into books, classics and otherwise, you’ve missed. We asked exemplary authors in particular fields to recommend the books that matter most to the—the ones they keep going back to and, in many cases, that made them want to write. Their literary mix tapes, of a sort.
Darpa Comes Down to Earth, Plans Online Medicine... →
Should medical professionals get an iPhone,... →
“Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century....”
– William Gibson