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WWDC. Obama. Musk. Beauty. Humor.
‘Beauty’ is just one of the 5 things that caught my eyes and ears this past week that I wanted to share with you.
WWDC
You might not know what this is, but this is an annual conference that essentially provides early commentary from Apple about their technical direction. Ok - the World Wide Developers Conference is a whole lot more. But for you and me it is exactly that. This is a list provided by Brent Simmons, that he in turn had extracted from a group he belongs to in Seattle. It is a collection of ideas and thoughts and needs and requirements that at least one group of people think is important for Apple to be working on - and ideally announcing. Three that caught my eye as being very interesting.
+ Trials on the iOS and Mac App Store + Run iOS apps on Macs. + ARM-based MacBooks.
… but do click through for the whole list - remembering it is really a wish list - but damn - some of them will make it.
Your personal view into a future
Obama Nothing more to be said than ’if you haven’t seen it, then take the opportunity now.
It’s long - but worth it
Musk
Elon Musk, the ‘world’s raddest man’ will become a series of articles by Tim Urban. I really liked how he opened his piece - which drew me more completely into the full story. This particular quote made me stand back and slowly drop my jaw. I mean, we all kind of know this, but summarized in this way, you get a sense as to why he is the absolute antithesis of Travis.
+ In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill-advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX. + Then, in 2004, as that “project” was just getting going, Musk decided to multi-task by launching the second-most unthinkable and ill-advised venture of all time: an electric car company called Tesla. + And since why the fuck not, a couple years later, in 2006, he threw in $10 million to found, with his cousins, another company, called SolarCity.
This century’s Edison ?
Beauty
Absolutely gorgeous - click through to get to all of the images, but here is a taste. 
Remember that is a color picture of the Golden Gate being built … via Kottke
Imagine your life without color
Humor
And finally - ‘a little bit o’ fun’. You might not be a regular visitor to Github. I certainly am not, but even there humor kicks in from time to time. The full details are here … But here is project that caught my eye. TrumpScript - a language based upon the illustrious Donald Trump … for example
+ TrumpScript does not allow the use of fractions or decimals – only whole integers, because America never does anything halfway. + If a user tries to run TrumpScript on a Microsoft Windows computer, it’ll produce this error message: “Windows? ‘The big problem this country has is being PC.’”
Humor is everywhere