Something I didn’t know about the late Jane Russell. “Although she did considerable stage acting over the years, her sole Broadway appearance was in 1971 in the Stephen Sondheim musical ‘Company,’ in which she replaced Elaine Stritch as the tough-talking character who sings ‘The Ladies Who Lunch.’”
Nice.
Especially like London, for its use of the monocle.
I’m old and therefore nostalgic for this kind of witty, understated graphic design.
Fans celebrate breaking the Guinness World Record for the most number of people dressed as super heros during the IRB London Rugby Sevens World Series at Twickenham Stadium on May 23, 2010 in London, England.
Awesome.
A journalist’s hilarious, epic account of her night out in Berlin with you-know-who.
(via Instapaper)
Instead of releasing its latest earnings statement as part of a press release, Google issued a 3-sentence statement directing interested parties to its Investor Relations website, where the full statement was available. Apparently, according to Reuters, this presented an “obstacle” to journalists and investors — people who are too stupid or lazy to type in a short URL.
Naturally, because journalists have a public platform from which to complain, it becomes the object of faux concern:
“[S]ome worry that this trend may harm individual and less-sophisticated investors who cannot access the blogs and websites as quickly as professionals.”
If you can’t figure out how to click a link or type a URL, or are for some reason demonstrably slower than a “professional” at same, you should not be investing in the stock market.
But it’s not about protecting “less-sophisticated investors” — this story is about how a lazy Reuters reporter got caught out by Google’s completely reasonable (and overdue) change in policy. I’m betting someone expected to do a quick cut-and-paste job on a BusinessWire press release, but instead had to launch a freaking browser to do their “reporting”. And got pissy about it.
Reuters should be ashamed for allowing its writers and editors to put out this kind of self-serving crap.
UPDATE: IR Report calls it for what it is.
The Orchestra Sinfônico do Estado de São Paulo performs Bangzália, a 1980 orchestral composition by the Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, from a 2002 concert retrospective of the composer’s classical works. Robert Minczuk conducts.
Wonderful.
My favorite iPhone app, Instapaper, is about to get a lot bigger.
It was a chicken-and-egg thing for me: I’m resistant to buying a tablet device without an amazing reader; but who is going to develop something excellent for a platform that doesn’t exist yet? But as Instapaper’s developer points out, “an iPad without native Instapaper Pro is not a device I want to own.” Thanks, Marco — now it’s a much easier decision.
Happy Purim!
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the divine deliverance of the Jewish people from a holocaust engineered by a civil servant in the Persian Empire, Haman. Through the intervention of Esther, a pious Jewish girl, and her elder cousin, Mordecai, they informed Ahasuerus (otherwise known in ancient history as Xerxes I, king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (fl. 6th BC?). For Christians Esther is a saint, and is venerated on May 24th.
This is what I’ll be having today for lunch, hamentaschen.
I really miss hamentaschen. A decent Jewish bakery, is that so much to ask?
Must watch: Jesse Schell — game designer and CMU professor — discusses game design outside the box at DICE 2010.
stevenf:
[Apple’s] bet is roughly that the future of computing:
- has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects
- completely hides the filesystem from the user
- favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility
- favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors
- lives atop built-to-specific-purpose native applications and universally available web apps
All in all, it sounds like a pretty feasible outcome, and really not a bad one at that.
I’m looking forward to the future.
This is why I’m excited about the iPad: Interactions in Apple’s iWork Applications for iPad (via lukew)
Fascinating story in The Atlantic asks: “Do children who suffer most from bad environments also profit the most from good ones?”
If the costumes are going to look like this, Smallville should stick to windbreakers and jeans.
