Bianca Bosker, writing for HuffPo Tech, interviews 14-year-old Casey Schwartz about Schwartz’s iPhone. Specifically, what really happens on a teen girl’s iPhone, and how it becomes a source of stress and social status among Schwartz’s peers. Some excerpts are below, but you owe it to yourself to read the whole interview. Parents of teenage girls,
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Read More...At 14 years old, Zach Sobiech found out he had a rare form of cancer called osteosarcoma, a disease of bone tissue most commonly found in teenagers during heavy growth phases. In the months he had left, Zach turned to music and literally became a star. In the process, he created something truly astonishing. He
Read More...David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Keyon College commencement speech made the rounds a few years ago, never more intensely than after his death in 2008. As a guy in his mid–40s who reflects on what he has and hasn’t learned over the years, I find commencement speeches interesting and hopeful – little spoken placards of life
Read More...Pretty interesting information from an anonymous Microsoft developer over at Zorinaq: I’m a developer in Windows and contribute to the NT kernel. (Proof: the SHA1 hash of revision #102 of [Edit: filename redacted] is [Edit: hash redacted].) I’m posting through Tor for obvious reasons. Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening.
Read More...Peter Bregman (whose blog posts I love, by the way), writes about the unspoken psychology of procrastination: Here’s the thing: More often than not, our fear doesn’t help us avoid the feelings; it simply subjects us to them for an agonizingly long time. We feel the suffering of procrastination, or the frustration of a stuck
Read More...Here’s a great SlideShare slide deck by Oracle PeopleSoft’s Anoop Savio that goes into why the PeopleSoft Search Framework is so powerful, especially when ‘enterprise data’ has become so all-encompassing. Moves from high concept to the fine details, so there’s something for everyone here, even sans audio. Check it out. People soft search framework from
Read More...Self-described “secret nerd” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lists 20 things he wishes he knew when he was 30 years old. The most poignant to me: 20. Everything doesn’t have to be fixed. Relax, K-Man. Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing. Read the whole thing. Heck, print
Read More...Here’s the coolest — and strangest — video you’ll watch all day. The moral: physics is amazing. Let’s get this week rolling, shall we?
Read More...Today’s post is about a camera. So, photography geeks, grab a coffee, because we’re gonna get our nerd on. Backstory For almost two years, I’ve been looking for a camera that can serve as a travel/everyday backup to my big-rig Canon 5D Mark III DSLR, until Chris Schmitt Photography was able to help me out
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