Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
This anthology of Steve Jobs interviews, announcements and emails is available to read for free as a nicely typeset web book.
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How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists | Quanta Magazine
His first popular book — The First Three Minutes, about cosmology and the Big Bang — became an instant classic and proved profoundly influential for both the general public and professional researchers. Many physicists, including me, started learning cosmology from this book.
The First Three Minutes blew my little mind as a teenager. It has stayed with me.
stevenberlinjohnson.com: How We Got To Now
This sounds like it’s a going to be a good: a new TV series by Steven Johnson on the history of technology and innovation. Sounds very Burkian, which is a very good thing.
Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer - W3C Blog
While others recall Steve Jobs’s legacy with Apple, Tim Berners-Lee recounts the importance of NeXT.
Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
The Future of Code
Steven Pemberton, one of my favourite long-term thinkers, talks about programming, markup and XForms.
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live -- Printout -- TIME
Steven Johnson waxes lyrical on Twitter.
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
A good piece from Steven Johnson on the future of e-books but alas, it completely ignores DRM which is a show-stopper to the bright future he imagines.
Why you should have a Web Site (and other Web 3.0 issues)
This presentation by Steven Pemberton increases in value over time.
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet
The BBC were at dConstruct. This podcast episode includes interviews with Steven Johnson, Aleks and the the Dopplr Matts.
Planet Douche : Attus Apparel - Threaded for Liberation
Popping one collar is pretty gay. Popping 3 or 4 collars is super gay. Popping 24 collars ...that shit is hot.
Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
NCSE Resource
To counter the creationists' lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" here's a list of scientists named Steve who support Darwin's theory. (via Steven Pinker's Q&A after a lecture last week)
Apple - To all iPhone customers
Early adopters of the iPhone now get a $100 of Apple Store credit. Nice bit of customer management.
www.steve.museum - Home
An experiment in social tagging of art museum collections