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@mwender on Apple News

Back in June I mentioned I had signed up this site to be an Apple News publisher. With yesterday’s release of iOS 9, one of the first things…

My Favorite Podcasts

This past week I was twice asked, “What’s on your podcatcher?” Now I’m answering that question by giving a rundown of my “Favorites” list in my Overcast app: 99% Invisible Roman…

Share private information with others that self-destructs after first viewing. – OneShar.es

Next time you need to send someone something like an account login or a password, OneShar.es lets you do this in a secure fashion. Paste your data into…

thingCHARGER – Shipping soon?

How many of you chipped in to thingCHARGER’s Indiegogo or pre-ordered one via their Facebook promotion? I know I did, and a quick search of my email shows…

The Amiga turns 30—“Nobody had ever designed a personal computer this way” | Ars Technica

Must. Link. To. This… Ars Technica’s eight-part series on the history of the Amiga. Backstory: Back in the late eighties one of my cool older brothers (the one…

Book Collections – Bookicious

Bookicious features the reading lists of founders and makers.

STAMP app – Spotify playlist to Apple Music

So, you’re enjoying your three-month free trial of Apple Music, but you miss your Spotify playlists? The STAMP app aims to solve your problems. Convert your Spotify to…

The American civil war then and now – interactive | Art and design | The Guardian

Fascinating look at the Civil War featuring before and 150 years later photos. The women who dug the graves, the kids who watched the largest battle in US…

Toyota #MĂĄsQueUnAuto – Name Your Car

Do you name your cars? My second car was a late eighties, navy blue Toyota Camry. It was the “The Blue Streak”. My next car was a mid-nineties silver Camry,…

The Lomography New Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens by Lomography — Kickstarter

“Bokeh like a boss,” says it all. Lovely “bokeh control” lens from the folks at Lomography. Check out their Kickstarter.  

ASCII Generator

You know you wanna’ generate some fly ASCII text art with this: ASCII Generator Generate a ASCII graphic from a word or text. More than 130 fonts. Source:…

StackShare

StackShare is a site for learning about the technologies that power all your favorite sites on the web. For example, via StackShare, I learned that the following comprises…

Lingvist – learn a language in 200 hours

Lingvist is an app for learning a new language quickly. Lingvist is the first language-learning tool to harness the potential of technology and computational science to significantly decrease…

Numi — beautiful calculator app for Mac OS.

Visit the Numi website and watch the demo video. I think you’ll agree it’s a cool little calculator. Numi is a calculator for Mac that magically blends calculations…

What happened when a college newspaper abandoned its website for Medium and Twitter » Nieman Journalism Lab

I always love a good story about how new technologies allow for disrupting the traditional ways of doing things. Such is the case with the student newspaper at Mt….

Facebook’s Little Red Book

I love this idea: Facebook’s Little Red Book is a document they use internally to communicate their overall context as a company. As the company of Facebook grew,…

Links of Interest – What Medium is, Whole Milk, a markdown previewer

Medium is not a publishing tool – Ev Williams – Medium’s CEO (he also headed Blogger and helped found Twitter) explains what Medium is: Medium is not a…

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance’s new Elon Musk biography is out.

Deck of Cards API

If you know how to code, it won’t take you long to grasp how handy this is: Deck of Cards API. It features an interface for: shuffling the…

LEGO_ADVENTURE IN THE CITY

This is one of the best stop-motion Lego animations I’ve seen in a while. It combines a child’s imagination with some very creative brick-work.