1. Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.reuters.com

TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch :   Rumor: Apple Preparing Discount iPhone 4 For September

Stan Schroeder / Mashable! :   Cheaper iPhone 4 Coming Within Weeks

2. Bike Theft: Thinking Outside of the Lock 1 hour ago   permalink

Blog.makezine.com

“All bikes weigh fifty pounds. A thirty pound bike requires a twenty pound lock. A forty pound bike requires a ten pound lock, and a fifty pound bike doesn’t need a lock, because really, who wants a fifty pound bike?”

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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing :   On 50lb bicycles and the lockability thereof

3. New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes 1 hour ago   permalink

Android-developers.blogspot.com

This post is by Dianne Hackborn and a supporting cast of thousands; Dianne’s fingerprints can be found all over the Android Application Framework — Tim Bray

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Bruce Stewart / O'Reilly Radar :   Is your Android app getting enough sleep?

4. Signs of Life: Human-Robot Intersubjectivities 2 hours ago   permalink

Isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu

This panel investigates the ‘signs of life’ that are exhibited by robots in exhibitions and performative environments and the ways that audiences perceive and respond to life-like qualities in robotic characters. As robots and humans come together in gallery installations and performative environments, different types of human-robot ...

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Nicolas Nova / Pasta&Vinegar :   Filming, from the object point of view

5. Handcrafted ceramic and enamel dinnerware, glassware, furniture, home décor, gifts, and ... 38 minutes ago   permalink

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6. Yuketen “Loden Green” Maine Guide 5 Eye Boot 32 minutes ago   permalink

Eugene Kan / Hypebeast

The Yuketen Maine Guide 5 Eye Boot is featured in Fall suitable Loden Green. Designer Yuki Matsuda have made a note of it to source the best materials for handcrafted in the US range. Several popular elements of Yuketen feature such as a hand stitched upper sewn on a Vibram Christy outsole, leather laces and [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

7. TV Show Parody Posters - These Trustocorp Reality TV Posters Draw Attention to Real Life 32 minutes ago   permalink

TREND HUNTER

( TrendHunter.com ) For those who haven't seen the work of TrustoCorp before, a quick look at the TrustoCorp Reality TV project should pretty much bring you up to speed. The street artists behind the name TrustoCorp are known...

8. Group Buying Site BuyWithMe Snags Patch.com EVP Away From AOL 41 minutes ago   permalink

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch

Our parent company AOL is having a rough time making money from Patch , its rapidly expanding network of local news sites, and that's not its only problem. Today, group buying website BuyWithMe announced that it has recruited Charlie Gray , formerly Executive Vice President at Patch, as its new 'Chief People Officer'. BuyWithMe, which rivals the ...

9. Another "Lost Decade" Coming Up; Boomer Retirement Headwinds; P/E Expansion and Contraction Demographic Model; ... 4 hours ago   permalink

Noreply / Mish

Inquiring minds are digging into a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco report that models equity prices and P/E ratios based on demographics. The outlook is not promising to say the least. Interestingly, the report matches articles I wrote earlier this year based on cycles, not demographics. First let's take a look at the Fed report, then ...

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Www.frbsf.org Boomer Retirement   —  Historical data indicate a strong relationship between the age distribution of the U.S. population and stock market performance. A key demographic trend is the aging of the baby boom generation. As they reach retirement age, they are likely to shift from buying stocks to selling their equity holdings to finance retirement. Statistical models ... Noreply / Mish :    Another "Lost Decade" Coming Up; Boomer Retirement Headwinds; P/E Expansion and Contraction Demographic Model; Negative Returns for a Decade Revisited

Noreply / Mish Bank of America Tanks; Gold Goes Parabolic, No Telling Where It Stops   —  I am somewhat amused by the lack of commentary on the latest advance in gold. Did people sell, waiting for a correction that did not come? I do not know the answer to that, but I can see that financials have been clobbered, led by Bank of America, while gold has soared. These events are not unrelated. Bank of America Daily click on any chart for ...

Noreply / Mish Global Trade Wars, Smoot-Hawley, and Peak Oil Followup to 12 Predictions from Michael Pettis   —  In response to Michael Pettis: Long-Term Outlook for China, Europe, and the World; 12 Global Predictions Reader Craig writes ... " I was shocked by your commentary on 12. I thought for sure you would come out blasting U.S. trade restrictions as protectionist and leading to economic slowdown in the U.S. Instead, you basically said what Trump has ...

10. 5 Metrics to Measure the Health of Your Community 1 hour ago   permalink

Lisa Barone / Small Business News

Sure, you’re active in social media, but as a responsible small business owner you know that it’s your site and your own community where you should be building your home base. This is where you direct people you meet in other outlets and it’s where you’re trying to form the real conversations and conversions, because this is the only ...

11. 15 days exploring Muslim America 1 hour ago   permalink

Bassam Tariq / Boing Boing

.herebecaptions {padding:5px;background-color:#111;color:#eee;} Aman Ali and I have been on the road for the past 15 days exploring Muslim America. We started our trip in Alaska, somehow ended up in Hawaii and are now on our way to Mississippi. Our challenge … Continue reading →

12. Twitter, Epigrams, and Alexander Pope 1 hour ago   permalink

Nathan Pensky / Boing Boing

One of the most interesting aspects of the advent of social networking is the "transcription" of our social lives into text. More than ever, our digitized world as reflected in social networking puts a high premium on being able to … Continue reading →

13. Down the Line 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.frieze.com

Lauren Cornell is executive director of Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum, New York, USA. The 16 May 2011 issue of The New Yorker featured a cartoon titled ‘In the Nostalgia District’. It depicts a row of run-down buildings. Their facades read: ‘Joe’s FIX-IT shop’, ‘Photo Developing’, ‘Stationery Supplies’, ‘ACME ...

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Nicolas Nova / Pasta&Vinegar :   The promise of locative media seems to remain just that: a promise

14. The Syntheshredder 1 hour ago   permalink

Douglas Brundage / Hypebeast

Combining two often-intertwined fields, music and skateboarding, the Syntheshredder is “a sonic staple” that can turn a skater into a musician and a ramp into his or her instrument. The general idea behind the machine is that by transforming input from skaters zooming around a bowl (which has already been built), the project could ...

15. JR x Reed Pages Trailer 1 hour ago   permalink

Douglas Brundage / Hypebeast

New from famed French street artist JR, who is well known as a globetrotting and socially-conscious figure in a particularly aesthetic realm, comes this trailer for an upcoming project. Produced in collaboration with Reed Pages, jeffstaple’s latest pop culture endeavor, the video is brief and doesn’t reveal much information. ...

16. Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge 12 hours ago   permalink

Torrentfreak.com

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :   Delay On Hulu Availability More Than Doubles Piracy Of Fox Shows

Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar :   Four short links:

17. Lenovo ThinkPad Honeycomb Tablet Up For Sale, Shipping Soon 2 hours ago   permalink

Matt Burns / TechCrunch

Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet is meant for business types, but it just might be the best Honeycomb tablet available right now. It was announced late last month alongside the consumer-oriented IdeaPad K1 and the Windows version, the P1. Well, Lenovo is finally ready to take your credit card in exchange for a place in the shipping line. The tablet ...

18. Tolstoy on Difficulty, 1897 3 hours ago   permalink

Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing

A timeless quote from Tolstoy: "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man … Continue reading →

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Memex.naughtons.org On difficulty   —  The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing :    Tolstoy on Difficulty, 1897

19. Supercookies: het nieuwe gevaar? 2 hours ago   permalink

Bas Groot / Frankwatching

Ze kwamen opeens in de media een paar dagen geleden: de supercookies! Waar je volgens Tweede Kamerleden al moest vrezen voor gewone cookies (‘digitale spionnetjes met gleufhoeden’) zijn er nu dus ook supercookies, waar, naar verluidt, de KGB bleekjes bij afsteekt. Brrr, eng! Het verhaal ging als volgt: Wall Street Journal kopte dat ...

20. In Spain, design your own clothing via 3D simulator 2 hours ago   permalink

Springwise / Springwise

Crearmoda allows users to design their own clothing using a 3D simulator, and then offer up those designs for voting and incorporation by others.