December 2010
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“Artist Tacita Dean will tackle Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall in...”
– Reuters. I love the Roaring Forties storyboards, so I have high hopes for this one. (Tip via Chris.)
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“Quelle horreur - the only newspaper Julian Assange could read in prison was the...”
– Heather Brooke on Twitter. According to NPR this morning, he’s been “bored” because the only entertainment he as is British daytime TV. Both seem like cruel and unusual punishments.
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Apple Settings Pro Tips
If you’ve ever been annoyed at the large gaps between volume settings on a Mac, help is at hand:
If your keyboard has volume keys, [to] change your volume by smaller increments, hold down the Shift and Option keys as you press [them].
This trick also works for brightness. Meanwhile, shift alone also does something: you can temporarily toggle the “Play feedback when volume is...
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Choosing Your Market
I was taken by this section from Tim Bray’s post about Android, the iPhone, and the US Department of Defense:
the total DoD head-count is estimated at around 2.5 million. If you pick demographics that you might want to pitch mobile devices to, here are a few that are similar or larger in size:
Korean teenagers
Euro-zone business travelers
Canadian retirees
World of Warcraft...
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“The presentation is awful. If you want to make your family believe you made it...”
– Pierre Koffman on Marshfield Bakery’s handmade mince pies, from the Chef Reviews Mince Pies article on Bloomberg News.
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