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I took Werbach’s awesome “Laws of E-Commerce” class and he played World of Warcraft and Second Life (what’s that?) in class.
Hands-on with the Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L lens
The Canon EF 1200mm f/5.6L is a 36 lbs, $120,000 lens.
More from The Digital Picture:
The new EF 1200 was then marketed by Canon in July, 1993 with an annual production volume of around 2 (that’s right - “two”) lenses. The EF 1200 L was available by special order with lead times running about 18 months.
Why such a long lead time? For one reason, it takes nearly a year to grow fluorite crystals large enough to be ground and polished for use in this lens. In addition, the lens is “virtually hand-made”.
Caffeine and Calories
The Calorie vs. Caffeine matrix. Note the activities along the side that you’d have to partake in to burn off those calories.
Google Reader adds “Send To” feature
This is pretty cool. There’s a lot of stuff I share on Reader that I don’t feel like posting on Tumblr, but this makes it a lot easier (Here are instructions on how to add Tumblr to your Send To list, which is how I posted this link).
Fine, Fine, I Agree that Apple is Doing a Tablet
Some quotes from Steve Jobs in 2003:
M: Do you have plans for movies on the iPod?
J: I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen. To paraphrase Bill Clinton, “It’s the music, stupid, it’s the music!” Music’s been around for a long time, will continue to be, it’s huge. Not speculative, a real tangible market.
and
M [Walt Mossberg]: A lot of people think given the success you’ve had with portable devices, you should be making a tablet or a PDA.
J [Steve Jobs]: We didn’t think we’d do well in the cell phone business. What we’ve done instead is we’ve written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.
What’s even funnier, though, is the “Mac Observer Spin” on the interview:
You can stop putting off that Palm and/or cell phone purchase. If you have been waiting for Apple to deliver either device, despite all the hints and suggestions to the contrary, it would seem that it is time to bury that hope.
(via minimalmac)