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thedailywhat:

Animated GIF of the Day: Tiananmanhattan.

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Interesting demo of a truly digital magazine from Terry McDonell, Editor of Sports Illustrated. This is more than just a bland digital PDF though. You can rearrange the contents to read articles in any order, archive and share individual articles, view dynamic ads with video, swap through a photo gallery of all the shots in the issue, and more.

Perhaps more interestingly, the video opens with: “Coming soon.” Sounds like this is already off the drawing board. The fact that it’s Sports Illustrated showing this off, and not just some knee-jerk tech blog wetting itself over some student’s senior thesis 3D design project, says good things.

Sidenote: Some of the page transitions utilize a good ol’ fashioned “page flip” sound from a real world magazine or newspaper. How long into the transition to digital tools will it take to drop these antiquated analogies?

Excellent.

Pixelmator is only $40 at Amazon, which is 33% off its normal $60 price. That’s a killer deal for a great image editing app that probably does most of what mere mortals need in lieu of Photoshop. This is also the boxed version, which means it is eligible for Amazon Prime. Snag it from the affiliate link above and I get a kickback.

I like Pixelmator, I use it for a good portion of my writing work and projects for Agile Web Solutions. I don’t even install my copy of Adobe CS3 anymore, as it’s way overkill for my needs these days.

via Gus Mueller who, ironically, is the maker of Acorn, an excellent Pixelmator competitor

Ommwriter looks like a delightful idea for a full-screen writing tool. It doesn’t just cover up everything else on screen with a flat, drab block of color. It plays ambient music and displays peaceful background images while you write in a floating, customizable text box. Brilliant.

via TUAW

Andrew Sullivan

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NY Times: Health Care Savings May Start in Employee Diets

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Something I’m Thankful For.

Best license plate I’ve seen in a while.

Traveling with Droidie « DROIDIE

Of course, Gruber, where I got this, lays on the snark:

Funny, I’ve never heard of any problems with the iPhone battery cover falling off.

thedailywhat:

Mashup of the Day: The musical mothership from Spielberg’s Close Encounters duels it out with the people of Earth, Deliverance-style in Marc Bullard’s fantastically overdue mashup, “Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind.”

Below is one of my tweets being RT‘d by an old friend of mine, @cbhutton:

Now she’s a great gal, but she altered the message of my original tweet by basically cutting it in half and removing the link to the original piece of content that lets people see what I’m talking about:

This is why I vastly prefer the official new RT format that Twitter has adopted on the site and in its API for developers. It preserves the original message content, meaning, and context while ensuring the original user gets credit, no matter how many people RT it, all while not forcing you over your character count.

Yes, the ability to add your own commentary is lost in the new RT format, and besides all the “LOL!” and “ZOMG” commentary that really doesn’t add anything to the experience, I agree that this is a bummer (however: in this particular case, @cbhutton’s commentary was hardly worthless; it was a great way for her to show her, well, skepticism of my tweet while sharing it with her followers). But considering the brevity of Twitter’s format and the fundamental purpose of retweeting something—to share someone else’s original piece of content with your followers—commentary is trumped by the need to preserve the original message and context.