Some remaindered links discovered on August 13th from 12:43 to 20:11:
- Macworld | Mac Word | When Apple’s reach exceeds its grasp – “Play within yourself
Which brings us to MobileMe, Apple’s successor to .Mac. MobileMe’s launch was fraught with problems, including long periods of downtime, an extended e-mail outage, sync failures, and deletion of data. MobileMe arrived on July 11, the same day that Apple released the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0 software—which were themselves plagued by lengthy activation delays.It makes you wonder: why did Apple decide to launch a brand-new phone, a major software update, the iPhone App Store, and a new Web service, all on the same day? I suppose the company thought it would make a big splash, and it did—but it was caused by a belly flop.”
- Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part Two) – Errol Morris – Zoom – New York Times Blog – “Last week, I wrote about re-enactments and the intentions behind their use. Why re-enact the past? Different kinds of re-enactments were discussed: re-enactments that purport to be real and re-enactments that re-focus our attention on specific details, in some instances details that have been overlooked or misunderstood. That essay also suggested that the real problem might be the brain: how we look at and perceive images. This essay continues where I left off and takes it a bit further”
- Gapers Block: Merge – The City in HD – “SeeChicago.com just launched with a HD Video library of the city’s neighborhoods. It’s aimed at Realtors, but we can enjoy it too.”
- The Raw Story | House Judiciary to examine claim of White House intel forgery – “The blockbuster claims that White House officials conspired to forge evidence linking Iraq to 9/11 plotters and ignored clear intelligence indicating Saddam Hussein’s lack of WMDs may not be getting as much attention as it should in the US press, but some key lawmakers are beginning to take notice.House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers says his staff will investigate these allegations and others”
- WordPress › Postalicious « WordPress Plugins – Added this plugin per suggestion of Mike3k “Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, or Google Reader bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted is very customizable and is designed to meet your specific needs. Postalicious uses the psuedo-cron functionality introduced in WordPress 2.1 to schedule automatic hourly updates”