via Co.Design

So Microsoft now thinks the Web is better without plug-ins (via CNet):

“Metro-style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers,” said John Hrvatin, Internet Explorer program manager lead, in a blog post. “A plug-in free Web benefits consumers and developers and we all take part in the transition.”

How convenient. I guess that whole push with Silverlight to de-throne Flash is over, eh?
For the record, I was wondering Silverlight’s relevance way back in 2007.

Found this chair all by its lonesome underneath the Manhattan Bridge a few weeks back. Shot this on an old Minolta Autocord I picked up on eBay. Analog is dead. Long live analog.

How quickly you can switch your perception to see each can say a lot about how creative you are.

1955 Maserati A6G/54 Zagato
via asaucerfulofwheels

1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta SEFAC Hot Rod
via asaucerfullofwheels

1966 Jaguar XJ13
via asaucerfullofwheels

via The Next Web

Someone named DrFaustusAU on deviantART channeled Dr. Seuss and made a little rhyme and image:

There goes Gozer!
Gozer goes quick!

Ignore Walter Peck,
as the man has no…

via thisisnthappiness

Quote is from Francis Bacon, the car is a 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale (via asaucerfullofwheels)

From the Wisconsin State Journal:

Madison teachers will soon be handing out Apples to students.

The School District for the first time plans to buy more than 600 iPads for use in the majority of schools this spring. Another 800 iPads are expected to be in classrooms by next fall, all paid for with money from a state settlement with Microsoft.

Microsoft better get over those Windows 8 tablet hurdles.
Via The Loop

The 1963 Chevrolet Corvair by Bertone
via Just a Car Guy

Body by Ghia.
via Good Old Valves