Author Archives: rh

If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles). A pencil [...]

All the inconvenience of a laptop with all the inconvenience of an iPad. For me, there’s a clear distinction between use cases for laptops and iPads, and both can be unpleasant to use for certain tasks. I feel we’re trying too hard to wedge the iPad into a position it doesn’t naturally fit in, and [...]

Dates for the 2012 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference have been announced: 11th–15th June in San Francisco. It’s the week we’ve all been waiting for. Note the new, colourful version of the Apple logo following on from the one used at the iPad (3) event. Unravelling, indeed.

The trashing of a once-great British brand continues. Ford started with the Range Rover Sport targeting the bling market.

Upping the ante, Portland, OR, is the home of BikeBar, where you can pedal stationary bikes that actually generate electricity for the organic micropub. Hilarious.

Painstaking, as it should be. Also, interesting that analogue still has its place: The outputs to this process are both film and digital. We’re restoring high resolution digital files as well as recording a new negative. We do both because digital files, while they are convenient to work with, and they allow us a wide [...]

Adobe has a new website championing web standards: The Web Standards section focuses on projects to advance standards and implement features directly in WebKit, like CSS Regions or CSS Shaders. The Open Source section focuses on those open projects Adobe is spearheading and contributing to like Apache Cordova or jQuery Mobile. A significant development to have Adobe’s weight fully [...]

Terrible quality clip of a pretty tacky British game show, but a fascinating example of Game Theory.