Girls play too many games. Why can’t I find a girl who isn’t a fuckin idiot?
Phase 1
Fuck you.
Apple’s WWDC event kicked off yesterday, with Apple announcing a new OS X, a MacBook Air with better battery life, a redesigned iOS 7, among other things. Here are some WWDC resources to help you keep up:
- The best (and the rest) of the announcements from WWDC so far
- Things the new, cylindrical Mac Pro inescapably reminds us of (R2D2, anyone?)
- Oh, and if the new designs look familiar, that’s because they were probably stolen from Google, Twitter and Microsoft
- See how Apple’s designs have changed from iOS 6 to iOS 7, in photos. The new iOS 7 is flat, flat, flat. And speaking of which…
- Why Jony Ive is flattening iOS 7
- But the web is getting better so fast that Apple’s brand new OSes look… broken
- And if you couldn’t get into WWDC, try this alternative
Other resources:
- How to get the best features of iOS 7 right now: “iOS 7 won’t be coming to your iPhone and iPad until this fall, but a lot of its best features are available through third-party apps and jailbreak hacks right now.” (via Lifehacker)
- Apple’s WWDC keynote playlist: A collection of all the songs played before and during the event. (via Mashable)
- iOS 7 gives you the option to block calls and texts from specific numbers (via TechCrunch)
We’ll be updating this list as new, great resources come to our attention. Feel free to flag great Apple or WWDC reads for us in the comments. Have you found any?
"When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it."
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The RoboRoach is a $99 kit consisting of electrodes, sensors, and a few batteries that allows anyone to drive their very own cockroach.
Attaching the electronic “backpack” to an unwitting arthropod is not for the squeamish. You must sand down the top of the critter’s head in order to attach a plug, “Exactly like the Matrix,” says Backyard Brains cofounder Greg Gage. Once installed, the system relays electrical impulses over a Bluetooth connection from your phone to the cockroach’s brain, via its antennae. The roach perceives each stimulus to its antennae as an obstacle, and changes direction. The same technique, applied to the cilia of the inner ear, is used in cochlear implants and during deep brain stimulation for treating a variety of disorders.
Greg Gage is an electrical engineer-turned-neuroscience student at the University of Michigan who, with his cofounder Tim Marzullo, started developing the RoboRoach three years ago. “The reason why we started is because I was annoyed that it was so late that I found out about a career in neuroscience. We have one in five people with a neurological disorder and we have no cures—we’re kind of in the dark ages. We want to get kids to understand that this is a career, and you can do so many amazing things.”
Blighted By Indiference
In Blighty, no one seems arsed, interested or bothered, in the US it was a joy to go in to any store and be welcomed, helped and to genuinely feel wanted. People took the time to exchange pleasantries. Here you’re lucky if the assistant assists. we’re blighted by our indifference here we really are, we need to step up our game.
(via shaneguiter)
