superbalanced blog: April 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Steve Jobs Posts 'Thoughts on Flash' Open Letter

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today posted a lengthy open letter offering his "Thoughts on Flash" in an attempt to clear up some of the controversy over Apple's relationship with Adobe and its unwillingness to incorporate Flash capabilities into its iPhone OS devices.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe's Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven - they say we want to protect our App Store - but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

Jobs then proceeds to lay out six aspects to Apple's argument against the use of Flash:

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Here my quartet live in NYC in 2003 playing one of my favorite songs of all time.

Moon River by Charles Owens
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Tempdot faucet concept by Jaeseok Han » Yanko Design

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

My wife @cvcvo requests this song a lot. The first time I heard it I just wanted to hear it again.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Police Seize Gizmodo Editor's Computers and Other Property Related to Lost Next-Generation iPhone

Gizmodo reports that police officers entered the home of its editor Jason Chen last Friday night, seizing four computers, two servers, and other items as authorized by a search warrant related to the site's purchase of a next-generation iPhone lost by an Apple employee in a Redwood City, California bar.

A total of 24 items related to the investigation were seized by officers, who broke down the door to Chen's unoccupied residence to execute the search warrant. Chen, who returned home from a dinner out to find the police in his home, notes that he discussed with the officers claims made by Gaby Darbyshire, Chief Operating Officer of Gizmodo's parent company Gawker Media that such a search warrant should be considered illegal under journalist protection statutes. Officers proceeded, however, with their search and seizure.

According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.

Gawker has filed its objection with the police department and requested an immediate return of the seized items.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Testing a new service call soundcloud

01 - Orchestral Suite No.1 BWV 1066 - I Ouverture by superbalanced

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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Lamborghini Ankonian Concept Project Adds More Aggression To The Reventon - Auto Motto

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Friday, April 23, 2010

I've always wanted to know the origin of this picture.

I've always thought it was so cool and could never remember were I got it. So thanks to an awesome reddit user and this website, I found out. It is a view of some of the Interior Relationships in the Mandelbrot Set. It's basically a visual representation of a variation on a quadratic equation. Thanks reddit!

Benoit Mandelbrot brought a new sense of beauty and elegance to mathematics.

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Table vase lifehack... very cool

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Amazing Fire Illusion | Video | Gear

Amazing Fire Illusion!

By Ben on Thu Apr 22 2010

Gear | Video

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is unlike any other garden we have seen before. The focus here is not on rare species of colorful flowers, but on creating permanent monuments to the patterns of mathematics within nature itself. Metal sculptures and green landscaping in different areas on the grounds are intended to provoke deep thought about scientific concepts like the fibonacci series, fractals, DNA, and the human senses. The 30-acre private property in Dumfries, Scotland is owned by Charles Jencks and only allows access to the public on one shining day per year.

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http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/gardening/the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation...

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The Commons expands into Texas!

via Flickr Blog by Cris Stoddard on 4/15/10

Welcome the Texas State Library and Archives and the Central University Libraries of Southern Methodist University to The Commons!

SMU’s six Central University Libraries have a wealth of digital history to peruse. Their sets include photographs from the Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the WWII Battle of Monte Cassino and Texas.

The Texas State Library and Archives enters The Commons with 4 sets of drawings created by the The Civilian Conservation Corps. These are the results of the work of the architects, engineers and draftsmen employed by the Corps, a U.S. federally funded New Deal program. If you like architectural sketches and maps, you’re going to love the high quality resolution images they’ve posted.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. – John Steinbeck

Pssst – The Commons is the worlds’ public photography archives; we invite you to help describe the photographs you discover in The Commons on Flickr, either by adding tags or leaving comments.

Images from the TSLArchives and the SMU Central University Libraries.

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Only Four Chords Needed For Every Pop Song (VIDEO)

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Why 9:41 Is the Official Time of Apple Product Photos

Every iteration of the iPhone's mockups showed the time as 9:42. The iPad showed it as 9:41. It's slightly peculiar--the times are grouped tightly enough to be intentional, but why those numbers? Why not 9:00? Network World investigated.
Turns out Apple's keynote organizers think about this stuff right down to the tiniest detail--and this is certainly one of the tinier details. They rehearse the presentation with Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, and whoever else will be speaking, and time it so the big announcement comes 40 minutes in. They add a couple minutes to be on the safe side.
That means that when Apple puts that most important slide up, the one introducing the new hardware, the time on the static image of the device will be damned close to the time the packed room of journalists sees it for the first time. It's just one more example of how carefully Apple prepares everything--that's a detail we didn't know about until a couple days ago, and they've been doing it for years, with no fanfare. Very cool, right?
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Innovation, Technology, Magazine, Apple, steve jobs, iPad, iphone, keynote, presentations, speeches, timing, clock, time, 9:41, 9:42, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Network World Inc., Apple iPad, Steve Jobs