“And Technology Review? We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital. Last fall, we moved all the editorial in our apps, including the magazine, into a simple RSS feed in a river of news. We dumped the digital replica. Now we’re redesigning Technologyreview.com, which we made entirely free for use, and we’ll follow the Financial Times in using HTML5, so that a reader will see Web pages optimized for any device, whether a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. Then we’ll kill our apps, too.” — Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps - Technology Review
The supermoon rises above the skyline of Seattle, Washington, as seen from Kerry Park. (© JR Bad Habit)
(via Supermoon 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Tour de C-U flying by the Cinema. (Taken with instagram)
Morning salvation (Taken with Instagram at Le Peep)
“Stuff Hipsters Hate” - of *course* I had to Instagram this photo. (Taken with instagram)
Yesterday on Twitter I spotted an article summarizing a new study that showed the healthcare costs of obesity are now greater than smoking. A good discussion followed, much of which focused on the obesity problem. However, the truly interesting part to me is the possible connection between rising rates of obesity and declining rates of smoking.
Some researchers have suggested there is a direct link. The theory goes that smokers tend not to overeat. Therefore, public health policy discouraging smoking has indirectly contributed to the rise in obesity. This logic seems slightly flawed since it doesn’t really explain the concurrent rise in childhood obesity - a population which likely doesn’t smoke. The rise in obesity also corresponds with the increased consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.
However, it does raise a host of interesting observations/questions regarding our approach to public health policy, including:
I created a Storify story from the Tweets/articles, which is embedded below.
Yeager, an IED detection dog, lies in front of a battlefield cross as Staff Sgt. Derick Clark, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Michael Dale Reeves observe a moment of silence in honor of Lance Cpl. Abraham Tarwoe, a dog handler and mortarman who served with Weapons Company, 2nd Bn., 9th Marines, during a memorial service on April 22, 2012. Tarwoe, who became Yeager’s handler in July 2011, was killed in action during a dismounted patrol in support of combat operations in Helmand province’s Marjah district on April 12. (via Afghanistan: April 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Why Do So Many Professional Athletes Go Broke? -
According to Sports Illustrated, 78 percent of NFL players and 60 percent of NBA players file for bankruptcy within five years of retirement. It’s an all-too-familiar coda to a pro athlete’s career, and director Billy Corben explores the why and how in the documentary Broke.
Stunning statistics, which bring to mind the recent rise and fall of Lenny Dykstra.
I’m surprised I had never heard of this expedition prior to watching this documentary. Three runners attempt to run across the entire Sahara desert (4,000+ miles) without taking a day off. I won’t spoil it by sharing more details, but I recommend this to anyone interested in crazy endurance events. (IMDb)
4.0/5.0
I biked here. #btwd (Taken with instagram)