This looks great! smart stories and essays. But why do they have to use DRM?

minimalmac:

One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle.

An interesting talk on interface design and principles

(by CUSEC)

Everything is a remix is a fascinating series of videos exploring the roots of creativity and copyright law. It is definitely worth watching at least the first part.

A powerful piece of writing, a powerfully emotional situation

USS Macon, the flying aircraft carrier & Sparrowhawks.

Interesting sidenote, the poster on youtube notes no copyright infringement intended but surely this would be US government footage, hence public domain, and the music is from 1911, hence public domain.

But then at the bottom there is a notice saying this is available under a creative commons license. That’s copyfraud!

(by paqman67)

Sometimes a bad pun can be a thing of beauty

Eau De Humanity (by Dr. Monster)

Beware the ginosagi, it will very slowly kill you!

A swarm of little flying robots? What could go wrong? But seriously I think I want one.

A great illustration of a major problem in my (and so many others) work today