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The Life of Dustin Curtis 1 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
For years, I’ve taken photos as memory markers. Whenever I want to remember a moment, place, or feeling, I pull out my phone and snap a photo of whatever I’m currently looking at. There’s no art invol...
Seven Years 9 Jul 2013 | 10:35 am
Despite being the cheapest usable tablet on the market, and although the Kindle is already one of its best selling items, Amazon cut the price of the Kindle Fire HD today from $199 to $169. At that pr...
Glass 30 May 2013 | 08:15 am
The hardware looks much better in person than I expected. In fact, I would even say it looks good. The industrial design is solid, and though it is being manufactured in small batches, it has the buil...
Bucket List 23 May 2013 | 01:17 am
This is an very incomplete, living list. Over time, I'll update it to add things I've forgotten and to cross off things I've accomplished. Visit space Get published in a nationally-distributed print...
What a stupid idea 1 May 2013 | 03:48 am
For some cruel reason, I keep finding myself in the position of being introduced to things in their infancy (often before they are even launched), dismissing them as stupid, and then watching them bec...
Even the survivors come away bleeding 26 Apr 2013 | 04:37 am
Warren Buffett has never invested in new technology companies. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, he completely ignored the rise of the personal computer and the web (avoiding the first bubble), and...
Vision 5 Apr 2013 | 05:16 am
After showing Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg spent a few minutes talking about the future of computing. What he said is the epitome of a vision statement, and it sets the philosophy driving Facebook's...
The Best: Alarm Clock 12 Mar 2013 | 04:39 am
I own exactly one clock that does not automatically change to Daylight Savings Time. It’s a small black alarm clock that was first made by Braun in 1994, called BNC002. The clock is completely manual...
The Glass Bicycle 28 Feb 2013 | 02:46 am
When I first heard about Google Glass, I thought it was a bit too ambitious. It reminded me of the original Microsoft Surface, a $10,000 touchscreen table that was obscenely cool but wholly impractica...
Yours vs. Mine 12 Feb 2013 | 05:13 am
A question that inevitably comes up very early in the process of designing a new app is this: should the interface refer to the user as “your” or “my” when talking about the user’s stuff, as in “my pr...
