The Blade Necklace
via swissmiss

Fresh from The Combustion Chamber: I ♥ NY and CALI posters.

From one of my favorite movies, Beautiful Girls (1996):
Kev: It’s a trend in diamonds. Champagne. It’s a nice stone.
Willie Conway: Yeah, no, I heard about this. It’s a new trend in the diamond trade, they’re trying to create a new market.
Tommy: Oh, right, right. yeah. They were callin’ ’em “piss”, but they weren’t moving any units. What’s with you, man?
Paul Kirkwood: What?
Tommy: Well, how much you pay for this brown rock?
Paul Kirkwood: What difference does it make?
Tommy: Diamonds are supposed to be colorless! You go out and buy a colored diamond for a girl you’re not even seeing, man, you must be eating retard sandwiches again.

via T.S.

The other day the news was Apple acquired video search and recommendation company Matcha.
This is good. I hope they apply this to their App Store ‘Genius’ commendations. Right now, Apple thinks just because I own a note-taking app, I want every note-taking app in the App Store. This is not the case.

One of the talented people I’ve met here in SF at Big Umbrella Studios is photographer Brock Daves.
He doesn’t fuck around with his cameras.



Images from brockdavesphoto.tumblr.com

Wow, a site made just for me.
via Designer News

Via BGR:

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has more than 55 million reasons to sell the company. Bloomberg reports that Heins will receive a pay package worth $55.6 million if he sells the company and if he’s subsequently ousted as CEO.
Not a bad package for running a crumbling company.
Backwards world we live in.

Taken from The Combustion Chamber

—Seth Godin
If you’re someone who’s itching to start your own ‘thing’—make art, open a store, bake your own pies—then you really need to read The Icarus Deception.

The NYTimes reports that “a team of California craftsmen is restoring the first Duesenberg sold to the public to its original 1921 glory and to compete at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance.” Be sure to check out the 2-minute video accompanying the article.

You ever here some use the term, “It’s a Duesie”?

It came from this car.

Frank Caliendo’s impersonation of Morgan Freeman is insane.

If you don’t believe that’s not Morgan Freeman, here’s Caliendo doing it on a radio show.

Most of us geeks and nerds know Apple’s product cycles are pretty regular.
I know this from not only following the tech news regularly, but I’ve also known about MacRumor’s Mac Buyer’s Guide for at least 8 years now. Apple releases a new iPhone every year, or to be more accurate, every 338 days.
Please share this knowledge with any non-nerd/geek relatives who nag you about whether they should get a new iPhone now or wait.
There’s absolutely no reason anyone should still be saying, “Dammit! I wish I had known Apple was going to drop a new iPhone. I would have waited.”
No more excuses.