The State Department on Friday urged Americans to respect its warning against traveling to North Korea, saying in a cheeky Twitter message that there are not too many former U.S. presidents left available for rescue missions.
Cee Lo Green’s funky little ditty. With an awesome video.
What we’re about isn’t making boxes for people to get their jobs done, although we do that well. We do that better than almost anybody in some cases. But Apple’s about something more than that. Apple at the core, its core value is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.
Steve Jobs /via Zee
BRABUS iBusiness Is an Apple Fan’s Dream Mobile Office
The iBusiness is most definitely “the business.” The German-engineered, four-seater luxury sedan is the type of car for people who have drivers, and that’s a very good thing, because there’s no chance you’ll be paying much attention to the road in one of these babies unless you’re being paid to.
Each car comes packed to the gills with outstanding multimedia capabilities, including two iPads in the rear seats with matching Bluetooth keyboards for each. The iPads are capable of controlling every aspect of the S600′s COMAND system, including the radio, navigation system and telephone, in addition to BRABUS’ own custom multimedia functions. Don’t think you’ll be limited to offline or 3G use, either, because the car boasts its own wireless internet via UMTS and HSDPA connections.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Mac mini in the back seat that uses a drop-down 15.2-inch TFT display, Magic Mouse and USB 2.0 ports accessible to both passengers for real computing power. Finally, because you wouldn’t want to use iTunes on the Mac mini or the iPod apps on your two iPads, there’s a 64GB iPod touch in the center console that also controls the whole shebang using a custom BRABUS iOS application.
Seems that Twitter today updated their direct message email notification. In the new format, the content of the message finally takes priority billing and it includes much more information about the message itself such as the line that says, “Direct message sent by (sender) to (receiver) on (date).”
While the information was already there in the older format, this one line makes it that much easier for people to identify the nature of the email.
You can now send a direct message back to the sender (provided the person also follows you) by clicking on a button on the email and it will take you to the Twitter page already set up to send the message once you’ve signed in.
It also includes an instruction to send a direct message via SMS should you prefer to do so.
If you haven’t set up to receive your Twitter direct messages by email, you should, it makes messaging that much more effective and efficient. You can set this up by going to Settings > Notices> and clicking on the check box for Direct text email.
If you wish, you can also set up to receive direct message via SMS by going to Settings > Mobile, and activating device updates. By default you will not receive updates from anyone unless you go to their Twitter pages and turn on tweet notification, so your phone won’t be flooded with constant updates from everyone you follow.
Footnote: If you’ve set up to receive direct message via third party services such as Topify, there’s a chance your message won’t be shown. This could be a side effect of the new email format from Twitter. I don’t know for sure, but it’s certainly possible.
My suggestion is if you use such a service, keep direct messages out of it. If the service goes down for maintenance or breaks down, you won’t get your DM emails. At least with Twitter, you rely on it directly instead of on some middleman.
Calvin and Hobbes Homage of the Day: Comic book writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo pay loving tribute to Bill Watterson’s legendary strip with a supervillainous two-page parody in Superman/Batman #75, which hit stores yesterday.
A letter to students from a Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
“Take back your state for your kids and start the contract again. There are lots of places you can start, for example, building a transportation system that won’t enslave you for two decades as their chauffeur, instead of raising fares and cutting routes in a deadly helix of mediocrity. Lots. Get to work.”
Message is applicable to residents of Jakarta as well
A letter to students from a Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
About that UPS ad by Ogilvy Jakarta
Three days ago I saw a tweet pointing out the work that Ogilvy Jakarta had done for UPS. I have to say it ’s a very nice job, conveys all about speedy delivery and got me impressed. Few campaigns by Indonesian agencies impress me but this one was really smart and distinctive.
Unfortunately there was a similar work by New York artist Ryan Johnson from 2007. Similar is probably not quite right, they’re identical except for the colors and the package each UPS sculpture was carrying.
Now, Ogilvy Worldwide has issued an official statement saying the team in Jakarta had no knowledge of Ryan Johnson’s work. As a friend and acquaintance of some of the team members, I’d like to believe that statement very much but if I didn’t know them, I’d be very skeptical just like Co.Design editor Cliff Kuang in the piece I linked to.
On the other hand, in retrospect, it’s easy to understand how the Ogilvy team came about with that work without seeing Johnson’s sculpture. Lines are identical with speed and it’s only natural to convey the message for UPS in the way that they did.
I don’t know if any of the team member is familiar with Johnson’s work and who came up with the idea. I’ve never heard of the artist but then I’m not in the creative industry, nor do I hang out at Ffffound (did they really have to make it that difficult to spell?)
I can only imagine the flurry of correspondence between the parties involved and the facepalming across the globe. Hope things work out for you guys.
Why working at home is both awesome and horrible – The Oatmeal
My daily routine. Perfectly presented in comic form.
Illustrated Internet of the Day: French artist Renaud Forestié’s wistful take on Sad Keanu.
I wouldn’t mind it if this were adapted into a full-length animated feature. Pixar, I’m looking in your direction.
[thanks kness!]
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