David Emery OnlineOlympus / Panasonic announce Micro Four Thirds
Olympus and Panasonic have just announced a new type of sensor for digital cameras, which is probably the biggest innovation in this space we’ve seen in a very long time. It means that they can now make interchangeable lens cameras without the bulky mirror box, meaning (hopefully) we will get much smaller cameras that retain the image quality (and lens swap-ability) of an DSLR.
Visit ➔‘Why Free Software Has Poor Usability, and How to Improve It’
Put another way, if you have to ask for better design, you will lose. You need to be in a position to demand it.
Very true, in my experience.
Visit ➔Modern Romance
Teen girl: I was so mad at him that I unfriended him on Facebook.
Friend: What does that mean?
Teen girl: I was mad, but not mad enough to break up. This way we can still message each other, but he can't poke me anymore.
Friend: So, technically, would this be symbolic or metaphorical action?
Teen girl: What?
Friend: Nevermind.
I know I'm late to this party, but Overheard in New York is my new favourite blog.
Visit ➔So open it hurts
It would be unfair, I think, to only link to one side of this story so here’s Chris’ take as well. A thoroughly modern affair.
Visit ➔The Horrors Live
We’ve just launched this simple site for The Horrors – we’ve put a web cam in their studio and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing:
Visit ➔Days with My Father
Photographer Phillip Toledano documents a series of photographs of his elderly father; beautiful and heartbreaking.
Visit ➔Living Life Online: pitfalls and perks
I’m really quite interested in the potential side effects of all this internet openness, especially with things like Twitter and Facebook where people seem to reveal a lot more then the would have previously.
It’s a temporary phenomenon, though – the kids growing up don’t live (and have never lived) in a world where this doesn’t happen.
Visit ➔Psychedelic Horseshit vs Half Machine Records
“to: half machine records
subject: new wave hippies ep
dude, got the ep’s today, what the fuck is with the spaces in between the tracks. they were strung together with care. THERE ARE GUITAR AND DRUM PARTS CHOPPED IN HALF. i am beyond pissed off. this is why bands are supposed to get test pressings. this thing is a piece of junk now, completely worthless, and all copies must be burned or otherwise destroyed. i am deadly serious about this. if this gets out i will personally make it my job to see to it that every copy is retreived and destroyed. starting at yr offices.
-matt horseshit”
They’re going to burn all the copies; I love music industry stories like this…
Visit ➔