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Ada Lovelace. Born, 10 December 1815(1815–12-10) London. Died, 27 November 1852(1852–11-27) (aged 36) Marylebone, London. Nationality, British. Title, Countess of Lovelace. Spouse, 1st Earl of Lovelac…

from The New Yorker:

The more our online lives take place on Facebook, the more we depend on the choices of the people who run the company—what they think about privacy, how they think we should be able to organize our friends, what they tell advertisers (and governments) about what we do and what we buy. We’ll rely on whom they choose as partners to give us news and music. Real issues are at stake, in other words—not just the size of photos and whether you can poke.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/09/what-facebook-really-wants.html#ixzz1YvN3XEp3

I try to use electronic calendars but they don’t think the way I do.

Now I use a Moleskine.

Jambox jams! Sitting here listening to Yo Yo Ma on the iPad. Well, actually on through the iPad on the nifty new Wave Blue Jambox sitting on the coffee table. I really love that everything continues to shrink. I can carry a considerable amount of entertainment in a small bag. Now with the Jambox which is a mere six inches long, I can enhance the sound of games and netflix instant play. I catch up on my e-mail on my iPad, which now that it allows multitasking, lets me listen to my itunes playlists at the same time.

I just keep staring at this little box with this really big sound. It amazes me.

For complete unboxing pics and a take on the design check out my post at our stellarvisions blog : IDEA*orange.

On Facebook today I read a post from my cuz that said plainly:

just watched stacey’s iPhone get run over by a pick-up truck on the bypass. .…. Phone is fine. How?.…Otter Box. Enough said.

That’s pretty meaningful. So I pointed my browser to www.otterbox.com . Some pretty impressive products if you have the need to protect any of your mobile technology devices. I think I would want this crazy yellow case if I wanted to cover up my iPhone or iPod.

I’m into seeing the beauty of my Apple products. This is tempting though.

First time you launch Flipboard you load your content zones; each with a particular category. Taxonomy is a real driver in this magazine. The second big driver is your social network. Unfortunately the interest in this app was underestimated by it’s team and they can’t activate the new users fast enough. We’re getting impatient and it hasn’t been 72 hours.

Why are we impatient? Because we want to share with people we know. This augments our use of twitter in a very intuitive way. We manage pages at Facebook and would love to share in my more open ways — as in without Facebook. Sharing means stepping outside of a network – that’s what makes twitter so open and what makes Facebook so closed.

We’re looking forward to using Flipboard full-tilt when our twitter and if necessary Facebook accounts can be tied in.

So until then we are thrilled to read their well designed feeds that feel exactly like a magazine that we would have built. It’s one with culture, science, and tech with words, amazing images, and video too. It’s wicked fast and the origami flip feels really good.

It’s a beautiful and easy to to use interface but can be a bit confusing when you step in and out of reading on the web. Most disconcerting things disappear, well reposition themselves if you have looked at them once. This is the most difficult aspect of fluid magazines. How do I find that again? Maybe it will be easier when your social network creates a level of importance and conversations begin. We’ll see.

First experience with Flipboard? It alone makes the iPad worthwhile.

About Flipboard:

Founded by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme, and Evan Doll, former senior iPhone engineer at Apple®, FlipboardTM began a quest today to transform how people discover and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media. Flipboard also announced the immediate availability of itʼs Flipboard App for iPadTM, a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook. Flipboardʼs first public demo will happen at the FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado at 4:40pm MDT tomorrow.

The black version is really a favorite but this one has two outlets! Sometimes analog is just sooo much better than digital. Loved these timers from the first time I used one in a darkroom. Sweet.

On my wish list for projects and installations.

Epson Expression 10000XL– Graphic Arts Scanner

Just got a tip on this sweet tool. I’ve been looking for a scanner for my smaller drawings and digital collage pieces. Nice features/specs. It’s on the wishlist. Now to find a good price.

Features:

Enjoy.