Sherlock
Sherlock Season 2 is premiering on PBS this Sunday May 6th.
Can’t wait!
4 Points Launches
Four interesting people talking about four interesting topics. Interesting for nerds.
Looks like a nice reload of the now deceased Diggnation.
They even have a nice homage to Kevin Rose in form of a Wookie mask in the background, nice touch.
Arlo White Has A Podcast
Arlo White, previous voice of the Sounders has a podcast. About soccer. Good.
Where Bentleys Are Made
You’d think those cars would be made in some elf shop at North Pole… but no, just a regular car factory making amazing cars, just like that.
Being #1 In Sports
How does your favorite sports team fare on the list of highest-paying teams in the world?
Barcelona #1.
(Barcelona is not going to win the Champions League or La Liga this year!)
Seattle Sounders #253.
Yosemite Range Of Light
Another absolutely stunning video montage shot at Yosemite Valley. Incredible, this world of ours.
When can I go there?
How Cool Would It Be…
… if Lucky Peach, the food magazine from David Chang and his cool friends would be available as an iPad subscription? Just saying… I’d subscribe in a heartbeat.
Digg Is Done
Techcrunch reports that WaPo is buying the team that’s currently been working on the site.
Too bad. But that’s how fast it can go in this high-stakes games of tech startup culture.
Meaningful Online Communication
It can happen. MG Siegler asks the “tech bubble” question, and lots of smart comments by smarter people follow. Read up on Branch if you’re interested in the content. But what I am fascinated with is the connection, the conversation and the community that is being created online. Incredible stuff.
EURO Championship Boycott?
German politicians want to boycott the European Soccer Championships. Six weeks ahead of the Games. Hope they can get this solved before the players hit the field, would hate for the players to miss this opportunity. But I do think it’s important to take a stand.
Urg, I thought we were over this by now… it’s 2012 leaders of the world, come on, get your act together.
Vote For Your LEGO Set
You can now vote for your favorite LEGO set, and even submit your own suggestions/designs and LEGO will consider building them in the future? What a brilliant idea: LEGO Cuusoo it’s called.
5by5 Is Working On An iOS App
Who still needs a website?
Dan Benjamin and his 5by5 crew (is there a crew?) are working on an iOS app for his “radio” broadcasting network with apparently imminent launch date.
Notifications, automatic downloads, play & pause, brilliant.
iOS everything.
The Future Of iTunes
A few weeks ago there was some talk by several tech bloggers around how awfully bloated iTunes has become. It’s really an on-going struggle and I took some time awhile back to talk about iTunes as it pertains to the music/movie/app/everything store and how cumbersome it is to find stuff and what should happen.
Well, this time around I want to draw your attention to iTunes as hub for syncing your devices. The name still doesn’t make sense, i”Tunes” perhaps is trying to evoke ‘tuning’ your devices rather than managing your tunes, but as a hub for syncing iTunes is not good enough. Most bloggers talk about iTunes and are stuck between the reality that iTunes as a one-piece software is the trojan horse in the windows world and cutting it up into smaller apps that each do exactly what they should do would not work on PCs. So, the argument goes: Apple will keep iTunes as a one hub app on Windows and split it apart into smaller, more focused and manageable apps on the Mac. Here is my idea/solution for the Mac:
Keep iTunes one app, but merge it with the Finder.
The Finder needs some love, clearly, and increasingly every app requires some form of syncing, and every Mac owner has a couple of mobile devices. Syncing is one of the key tasks one still does on a computer.
So, bring it all together, and allow the mobile device that’s talking to the Mac and is in need of syncing, go directly through the Finder when connected and ‘find’ all the files that need updating that way.
That could either move the store also into the Finder, that would open up the channel for potential more sales, or move the store away from the ‘syncing’ of the devices and would position the store more of a standalone unit and have it compete with the destination that is Amazon.com.
So, iTunes will fade away in OS X.9 or whatever the cat after Mountain Lion will be called. Or perhaps Apple will announce it at WWDC as a surprise element that no one saw coming.
Space Needle Returns To Old Glory
Seattle is celebrating 50 years of World’s Fair. Love the Space Needle’s look… so… orange.
This Is A Special Moment
This is a special moment. Jason and I are expanding Pignite and are hiring two part-timers.
BTW, depending on when you see this post, there might even be a new website up already. While I am posting this, Jason is slaving away cranking code and laying out some smooth design to reflect the next incarnation of Pignite.
And we bought chairs and computers. Let the expansion begin.
Mourinho, A Passionate Class Act
Check the pic. Real Madrid coach Mourinho kneels during the penalty shootout during the second leg semifinal Champions League loss of his team against Bayern München.
… he was reportedly so impressed by his opponents’ performance that he visited their locker room after the match to deliver his congratulations personally.
There is more to Mourinho than the arrogant angry bastard the media wants him to be.
Of Course This Is Awesome
A Kickstarter campaign for underwear – yes please.
And say what you want Jason, this project has now officially become the first project I have backed on Kickstarter.