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Microsoft Should Have Made A Laptop
Whatever you think about Microsoft’s Surface Pro, it’s impossible to deny its beautiful design, and the quality of the the tech behind it. It’s a siren, luring you into an oddly metaphored whirlpool of unsure typing. I’ve been using it for close to two weeks now, and the entire time I couldn’t escape one feeling: Microsoft should have made a laptop.
The Perfect Definition Of This Goddamn Digital Life
Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap. I am. You are. We all are.
Qantas Incident Reminds Us Of The Sad State Of Air Travel
Let me tell you about the story of Wynand Mullings and his t-shirt. Mullins, a Kiwi living in Sydney, boarded a Qantas flight with a funny t-shirt that said “My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die”, a quote from The Princess Bride. Some people freaked out because they thought Mullins’s name was Iñigo and that he thought they killed his father and that he was going to kill them all now. True story, folks.
Opinion: Hey, Can I Now Use My Phone On Planes?
I’ve travelled 29,000km on aeroplanes this year. That’s 27 flights. And on each of those 27 takeoffs and 27 landings, a hungover flight attendant has asked me and my fellow travellers to turn off our phones. I didn’t, not once. And you know what? I didn’t die. All 27 planes found the runway, none of their engines sputtered out.
Rant: Why Twitter’s Election Night Success Is Not A Success
Twitter is bragging because it didn’t go down on Election Day. The info-bloat peaked at 327,452 tweets per minute last night, and not a single Fail Whale appeared! High fives all around! Way to… work like you’re supposed to.
