In 2010, at a cost of $300 million, 800 miles of fiber-optic cable was laid between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange to shave three milliseconds off trading times. Yet within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space, we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier.
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Backup your Instagram images on OS X.
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Despite these upsides, in an America enraptured by the cultural prosthesis that is the automobile, walking has become a lost mode, perceived as not a legitimate way to travel but a necessary adjunct to one’s car journey, a hobby, or something that people without cars—those pitiable “vulnerable road users,” as they are called with charitable condescension—do. To decry these facts—to examine, as I will in this series, how Americans might start walking more again— may seem like a hopelessly retrograde, romantic exercise: nostalgia for Thoreau’s woodland ambles. But the need is urgent. The decline of walking has become a full-blown public health nightmare.
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A few weeks ago, I said that Osprey is the best tweet curation tool I’ve ever seen and that newsrooms should be clamoring for this.
All of those things are still true and now it’s free to use and build on. Great work from some great folks.
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You can hold ⌥ (Option) to make windows resize symmetrically, from the center. It even works when resizing from any corner in Lion. Update: You can also hold ⇧ (Shift) to resize a window proportionally.
As far as I can tell this is brand new in Lion, the first version of OS X that allowed resizing windows from any side.
Thanks to Kelly and Sören Nils Kuklau for help with this post.
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parislemon reblogged fuckyeahmovieposters:
Expectations will be extremely high for obvious reasons, but I’m actually looking forward to this. Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries is one of my favorites. Here’s the trailer.
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singlemaltscotch reblogged infinity-imagined:
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The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by “compression of the testicles”–as contemporary chronicles put it–at the hands of an assassin known as Pehlivan the Oil Wrestler. There was reason for this ruthlessness, however; for much of its history (the most successful bit, in fact), the Ottoman dynasty flourished—ruling over modern Turkey, the Balkans and most of North Africa and the Middle East—thanks in part to the staggering violence it meted out to the highest and mightiest members of society.
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Alex Clare - Too Close (Live Unplugged)
Dear dubstep “musicians:” This is how good you should sound without the effects. (via @moore)
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When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable: the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes and Western democracies, corporations and customers, hackers and law enforcement.
