Covered this week; Microsoft acquires LinkedIn… Curb Your Enthusiasm announces its comeback… the Apple Design Awards… dipping into the world of interfaces… alternatives to Apple’s aging Thunderbolt Display… the origins of not taking candy from strangers… fatherhood primers…
June 13, 2016
So Microsoft announced this morning that it’s acquiring LinkedIn for a mind-numbing $26.2 billion in cash… you’d think for that kind of money they’d throw in MySpace. Financial matters really aren’t my thing… but this one certainly feels like a dud… but if anyone could make LinkedIn more boring than it already is… then my money is definitely on Microsoft.
June 14, 2016
“I got so much grief from the Seinfeld finale, which a lot of people intensely disliked, that I no longer feel a need to wrap things up… I wouldn’t say I’m mad about it,” but it taught me a lesson that if I ever did another show, I wasn’t gonna wrap it up.” HBO announces that Curb Your Enthusiasm will be back for another season after a 5-year hiatus.
June 15, 2016
The App Store itself is such a vast place, much of it being wasteland… so something like the Apple Design Awards is a nice oasis every year that serves to pull the best to the surface so that we all can have a look… enjoy.
June 16, 2016
Interfaces release the potential of complex systems and technologies to the users who need them. And every once in a while, they change everything.
June 17, 2016
As it’s starting to look like Apple won’t be releasing an update for the 27″ Thunderbolt display originally brought to market in July of 2011… here’s an Apple Insider report on some good alternatives out there.
June 18, 2016
The sad origins of why we tell kids not to take candy from strangers.
June 19, 2016
According to the Pew Research Center’s recent Parenting in America study, only 39% of dads say they do a “very good job as a parent.” That’s compared to 51% of moms who say the same about their own parenting. If you’re a Dad that’s looking to bone up, here’s a good place to start…
