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  • ๐Ÿ”— Love Notes to Newton

    Love Notes to Newton is a film about what a beloved (but short-lived) pen-based Personal Digital Assistant created by Apple Computer has meant for the people...
    I find myself really wanting to buy a newton on eBay now. The black and white screen. No internet. :chef-kiss:

    I think the thing Apple got right the first time around was data centricity instead of app centricity.
  • ๐Ÿ”— How NASA Learned to Love 4 Squirmy Letters

    Decades after sending it to design purgatory, the space agency celebrates a logo it still calls the worm.
    I love the futuristic feeling you get when looking at the NASA worm logo. So good.
  • ๐Ÿ”— If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

    The point here โ€“ the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson โ€“ is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades.
    I worry about this with issue with my iTunes movie collection. But also, heโ€™s not wrong.
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  • ๐Ÿ”— NYC Slice

    Starting in 2014, I logged every slice of pizza I ate in New York City on the Instagram account NYC Slice. The results shown below are collected from 464 slices.
    Love this idea. If one were to do this in Japan, what could it be? Ramen seems "typical"...onigiri (rice ball) shops aren't super common...tako-yaki (octopus balls), perhaps in Osaka... ๐Ÿค” Also, I need an excuse to buy a .yokohama domain.
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  • ๐Ÿ”— How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act changed the world

    President Joe Bidenโ€™s landmark Inflation Reduction Act continues the push for re-industrialisation by using tax credits, loans and grants in a bid to create a domestic clean energy supply chain. The FT looks at three companies using IRA incentives to invest in the US and examines whether the legislation signals the end of globalisation
    Love to see the big solar, wind, and battery factories being built. Very informative.
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