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The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time

It’s been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-conomy, with the “e” standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S.workforce undergoing a massive change. No longer do we work at the same company for 25 years, waiting for the gold watch, expecting the benefits and security that come with full-time employment. We’re no longer simply lawyers, or photographers, or writers. Instead, we’re part-time lawyers-cum- amateur photographers who write on the side.

Today, careers consist of piecing together various types of work, juggling multiple clients, learning to be marketing and accounting experts, and creating offices in bedrooms/coffee shops/coworking spaces. Independent workers abound. We call them freelancers, contractors, sole proprietors, consultants, temps, and the self-employed.

And, perhaps most surprisingly, many of them love it.

Read more at The Atlantic

Would personal computers have gained GUIs without Jobs? Sure, but not as early. It took Microsoft 10 years to come up with a decent GUI, and that was with the example of the Mac staring them in the face. How likely is it that non-Apple smartphones would look and behave the way they do now if the iPhone hadn’t come out in ’07? And we’re still waiting for good tablets other than the iPad.

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In a sense, you’re using a Steve Jobs product whether it has an Apple logo or not

@drdrang

*sigh* not again

Apple lost another prototype iPhone. Yes. In a bar. Again.

*sigh* not again

That scene. Changed forever.

in a climactic scene from “Return of the Jedi,” when Darth Vader hurls the evil Emperor to his demise on the Death Star, he would now shout “No!” (In all previous versions of “Jedi,” Vader has committed this crucial deed in silence.)”

On Wednesday, a press representative for Lucasfilm confirmed that this change will be included in the Blu-ray release, writing in an e-mail: “Yes — Darth says NO.”

NY Times

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Source: The New York Times

Melbourne voted best city in the world

Miss that place.

Melbourne voted best city in the world

parislemon:

Apple’s vision for the future of computing versus Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing.

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So this is @irene. The real Irene.

At the beginning of last week, people began tweeting messages to me to, somehow, communicate with Hurricane Irene. In response, on Thursday, I posted "Btw, tweeting messages to @irene doesn’t deliver any messages to the hurricane. Sorry.“

Friends started retweeting the post, and more and more people started seeing it and following my account. By Friday morning, that tweet was reshared more than 100 times. I didn’t think much of it.

In case you missed it, here’s a collection of @irene’s entertaining tweets during the hurricane that said hi to the eastern seaboard of the United States.

So this is @irene. The real Irene.

Comex to start an internship at Apple

It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also been a while and I’ve been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.

Nicholas Allegra, creator of JailbreakMe, a teenager who impressed the heck out of experienced web security researchers Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, joins Apple.

Comex to start an internship at Apple

You’ll be missed. Hopefully someone will buy the app off Google or add similar features to their own.