After using Mountain Lion for a month now, I’m certain of it.
Snow Leopard is dealing with a guy with one personality… Mountain Lion is dealing with a woman, PMSing, with multiple personalities.

Over at SFGate, James Temple calls out Silicon Valley on it’s innovation bullshit:

It’s fairly obvious the region’s business culture and investing philosophy – that is to say, the free market – often doesn’t reward the kind of “deep innovation” Levchin and Thiel trumpet.

The media attention doesn’t go to pasty scientists working tirelessly on something that maybe, might, someday change the world, it goes to the fresh-faced entrepreneur with the game trending in the App Store.

Venture capitalists are eager to cash out on their investments in as few years as possible, which requires products ready to ship and stable financial track records. And the public markets don’t reward big risks; they applaud predictable growth.
It’s not just companies in Silicon Valley that have beaten the word to death. Go to most agency, start-up and consultancy websites and you’ll find “innovation” peppered through all the copy.
Everyone loves to think they’re innovative. Very few are.
link via Matt Mullenweg

—James Murphy, LCD Sound System
via swiss miss

I was a late-comer to Mountain Lion, for no reasons worth going into here. But the transition the last couple months has been rocky here and there. I’m not much of a fan of the half-baked in-between state Mountain Lion occupies between iOS and earlier OSX iterations like Snow Leopard. I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking things here and there to get them either back to the way I like them, or to activate features I think Apple missed. One of these is involves the web inspector for Safari 6.
I’m a web developer, and it’s crucial for my job that browsers have a way to inspect a web page, showing me the DOM tree, all elements and attributes, inheritance, etc. One of the most important things for me, since I focus on front-end UI, is how CSS is being called. Back in Safari 5, this was easy in the web inspector. When inspecting elements on a page, any styles applied to an html tag would show in a details window, along with styles inherited from parent elements. Also present would be the file name and line number where the style lived. It was easy to find the exact style that was affecting an element.
For whatever reason, in Safari 6, the web inspector was changed. It still shows which styles are being computed, but it doesn’t show where they came from. You have to click back through the DOM tree until you find the element with the associated style. This adds a lot of time to testing a webpage, especially if you’re diving into someone else’s work. See below:

In the above image, I selected a div that gets just about all of its styles from parent elements, but while I can tell which styles are being computed, I can’t tell where they are. For example, I know what font-family is being applied to the div, but where is it coming from? This has been a source of frustration for me ever since I updated to Mountain Lion and have tested pages in Safari. Thankfully, WebKit has come to the rescue.
The WebKit Open Source Project is still using a web inspector with CSS details similar to that found in Safari 5. See below:

This is an image of the web inspector in the latest build of WebKit. I have the exact same div selected as in the previous screenshot, only in this one, I can see which styles are being applied from parent elements, and where they live in their corresponding CSS files. This is going to make testing styles in Safari a lot easier for me.

The largest indoor sculpture ever, Big Air Package, by Christo:

via Co.Design

Evolution in the design portal model.
Love it.
via Designer News

Taken from The Combustion Chamber

LG will reportedly build a smartwatch to compete with Apple, Samsung and Google
Damn. Google is in. Samsung is in. Now LG is in on building a new “smartwatch”.
Fuck it, I’m in too. I’m building a smartwatch. I love making business decisions on baseless speculation.
(Funny, this reminds me of grade school, when you find out in the hall that the teacher is giving a pop quiz, so you scramble to learn the material before get in the classroom.)

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