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How Machines Work

joekwon — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:38:32 +0000

Kotte reports on an amazing post by World of Technology. They have various animations of how complex machines work. It’s amazing how simple, yet ingenious these mechanical solutions are.

I honestly never understood how sewing machines worked before. Now I just understand it just slightly better.

Check out more over here.

Etsy iPhone Decal

joekwon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:24:00 +0000

TUAW has bubbled up some post by someone on the internet about this awesome Homer decal for your iPhone. This was spotted on Etsy.

Sadly, it seems to be sold out.

Marco’s Retrospective on Smartphones

joekwon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:58:54 +0000

Marco Arment makes awesome software. Tumblr and Instapaper most notably. I use Instapaper all the time and could not imagine what it would be like to the read the web without it. But enough about that, Instapaper deserves a whole post on it’s own.

Anyways, Marco makes an astute observation about general reactions regarding Apple’s new device announcements and makes a prediction on where the new small form factor computer is heading. It’s worth a read.

Watching Joel Spolsky talk abo…

joekwon — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:09:21 +0000

Watching Joel Spolsky talk about Simplicity vs Choice. http://blip.tv/file/3996778/ #fb

Leo Laporte Rethinks SocialMedia

joekwon — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:07:51 +0000

Digital content guru Leo Laporte has an interesting post about what value Social media has really provided him over the past few years.

Essentially, Google Buzz went down for him for almost 20 days, and nobody said anything about it to him. He’s an extremely prolific poster and but not a single one of his 17,000 followers on buzz noticed.

He feels that anything he’s twittered, buzz’d, friendfeed’d, and whatever else’d has been pointless and lost into the void. So he’s back to posting in a primary venue, his blog.

I think it’s a good move to consolidate and simplify where you’re at rather than blast at every possible corner of the internet.

On a related note, my blog (the one you’re reading right now) got hacked and was apparently down for the last few weeks. And no one noticed. Not even myself.

Oh well.