Commander Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity video is awesome and it's arguably nowhere near the most expensive music video ever made.
The Force Will Be Strong In Toledo Tomorrow Evening
The Class AAA affiliate of the Detroit Tigers will wear special edition Chewbacca-inspired jerseys on Saturday and Sunday (i.e. “Revenge of the Fifth”), with the uniforms to be made available via an in-game silent auction for charity. The team will also serve Yoda Soda and give 3,000 kazoos away for the fans to perform a post-game Star Wars-themed concert.
Luke Wroblewski – Thoughts After a Week with Google Glass
Google Glass today is an imperfect prototype of the future where value does not yet outweigh pain.
Good breakdown of where Google Glass is now and its potential for the future.
Flying Meat Software releases Acorn 4
Looks like a great update to an already excellent image editing tool from indie mac developer Gus Mueller. I'm going to have track down my previous serial number and get upgraded.
Heat rest, Battier grows a "Hulk Hogan style" moustache.
“The look that Dwyane Wade gave me was worth it all,” Battier said. “He didn’t know what the heck I was thinking. I think he was embarrassed for me, which is good because he needs to be a little more embarrassed sometimes.”
Yankees Warn Eduardo Nunez To Stop Showing Up Derek Jeter By Making Routine Plays At Shortstop
“Every cleanly fielded ground ball sends a pretty strong message that Eduardo is trying to upstage Derek,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who blasted Nunez for having the audacity to turn a double play without a throwing error, claiming the commonplace display of physical capabilities clearly reminds fans of Jeter’s advancing age and declining skills.
Sometimes the Onion hits it out of the park.
Marco Arment sells Instapaper to Betaworks.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.
Seems like a good move for a guy that has a plethora of good ideas and limited resources to develop and implement them all.
John Siracusa on yesterday's 2 minute WWDC Ticket sellout fiasco:
Apple’s servers performed admirably…for about the first 5 seconds after tickets went on sale. After that, it was a crapshoot. Even if the tickets had sold out in an hour, it’d still effectively be a lottery if that hour was filled with server errors. You’d “win” if you happened to get through the purchase process with no errors.
An actual lottery, pre-announced, with no time pressure for entry, would be more equitable than what happened yesterday. That’s what I recommend for next year.
That would solve the ticket fairness problem, but do nothing for the inherent brokenness of a conference and developer relations program that has not scaled with demand.
Jason Kottke on the Nature of Blogs and Writing Your Own World Book Encyclopedia
Fast-forward to my early twenties. I dropped out of grad school after a semester because I’d fallen in love. My dad was a little alarmed when I moved back home to spend all day tying up the phone line with my new intimate friend, the World Wide Web, but I knew what I wanted to do with myself for the first time in my life: I wanted to be a web person! Whatever that was.
Pretty cool to see Jason joining Matt Haughey in the pages of the 20th anniversary edition of Wired.
🏀🏐 A true Spokane high school coaching legend who not only won state titles in her own right, but passed the torch to the generation of Spokane players and coaches that followed.