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The Next Web breaks down the uproar and confusion generated when Spotify changed the shade of green on its application icons and logo. (FWIW, when my desktop app icon updated I immediately noticed a positive difference on my Dock).
"Euro Truck Simulator 2" (or, as its buddies call it, ETS2) is made by a Czech company called SCS Software, and it’s pretty much what it sounds like — a simulation game in which you drive a truck around Europe. You start out with a dream and not much else, working as a trucker-for-hire for companies that want to ship dry milk from Duisburg to Dortmund or lumber from Germany to France.
by Mika McKinnon on Earth & Space, shared by Rob Bricken to io9
Pluto and Charon have captured our hearts and imaginations. But how did these adorably strange worlds form, and what consequences could that have on what we see now? Astrophysicist Amy Barr Mlinar chatted with us about catastrophic collisions, subsurface oceans, and Pluto’s lack of craters.
ok like im kind of pissed that 13 year olds on here have nice lookin blogs and good aesthetics. when i was your age i was roleplaying sexy vampires on gaia so im going to need you to start sucking a little more
It’s hard to forget Natalie Walsh’s fiber optic dress that we featured a while back on our blog. A delight of whirling strands, it is a futuristic flapper dress. Well, the owner of the the fiber optics company, Ants on a Melon, wanted his own stylish illuminated wear, and Natalie came through with this coat. The design follows the lines of a vintage tail coat, placing the tips of the fibers at the back flaps for a sparkle at each step. You can see her detailed construction on Instructables. The coat takes advantage of a specific flashlight assembly with attachable fiber optics. So, the first consideration is some smoke and mirrors to hide the unit. Natalie creates a long vertical pocket of similar dark fabric to conceal it. She could have chosen to place this inside the back of the coat, but why waste those fibers which contour the shoulders so nicely?
Once the placement of the fibers is decided, they must be stitched into place, which is the time consuming part. Natalie makes sure to secure them first in groups to hold them in place, and then works to whip them individually as they separate in the pattern. I thought they looked a bit unruly, and Natalie offers advice for dealing with the large clump.
What I have found is not to even try to comb them out, instead separate out a bundle at a time. I used around 12 fibers per bundle for this coat, and ended up with a total of 30 bundles, 15 per side.
The resulting coat is fabulous, and as with the dress, Natalie recommends trimming the fiber optic pieces in a layered style, much like hair. The layers really show up in the light painting shots and add to the movement of the piece. I’m sure the owner is loving his new wearable art, and it helps to show how easy it is for someone to create an illuminated wearable without having to start from scratch.
If you like drawing attention to lines with light, you might want to consider EL Wire as another option for clothing. It’s slightly thicker and faster to stitch. We have a great tutorial to make a Tron Hoodie that will have you glowing in a linear fashion, and yes, you can even have it done in time for your late night beach party. So, start sketching where you want your light to be–you can do this.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
As of yesterday, when the fourth developer beta of iOS 9 was issued to testers, those running a prerelease version of the operating system can no longer leave app reviews in the App Store. Negative app reviews left by beta testers is a perennial problem for app developers (as highlighted well in this post over on MacStories), and it's nice to see Apple taking steps to fix it even though OS X El Capitan beta testers can still leave app reviews as of this writing.
Up until now, users testing new iOS versions could leave bad reviews for apps that didn't work correctly under the new OS. The problem with this, of course, is that developers can't submit apps targeting the new OS until the software (and the development tools) are finalized. That leaves a three-or-so-month gap between when users can get the software and when developers can fix specific bugs, and the iOS 9 public beta means this prerelease software is being distributed more widely than in years past.
The final version of iOS 9 is due this fall—if the past three years are any indication, it will happen in September around the same time that new iPhones are introduced. The public beta is currently available for anyone who wants it (sixth-generation iPod Touch owners aside), but it looks like it won't be updated as quickly or as often as the developer beta.
Yes, you read that right. I have no idea what it’s about, or why it’s named “The Runner”, but I do know that the trailer contains Nicholas Cage spouting this epic line:
“Even though this is a BRITISH Petroleum spill, it’s AMERICA’S Ocean”
"if you ever found yourself in a situation where a drone is not only trespassing on your property, but is intentionally trying to harm you, then you can probably shoot it down. But this is only if the drone is swooping and trying to ram itself into you, or was outfitted with some (illegal) ammo of its own and started opening fire.
Violent retaliation in the name of “self-defense” has proven to be a slippery slope in America, and drones could be no exception. After all, if one person finds a drone hovering outside his or her bedroom window, spying, couldn’t that kind of buzzing voyeurism be considered a “threat”? Not quite, Sachs says.
“It would have to fall under ‘self-defense’ as it is commonly known: to save yourself from deadly force, or imminent bodily harm,” he says. Someone simply looking at you doesn’t cut it. Put another way: If someone starts taking pictures of you on the street, that doesn’t give you the right to punch ‘em in the face."
huh, drones have more legal protection than most black people
Before you decide to shoot that drone out of your backyard, there are a few important things you need to know.
by Cheryl Eddy on True Crime, shared by Cheryl Eddy to io9
Favorite Tumblr of the moment: Encyclopedia of Hypothetical Police Procedurals, “the definitive guide to non-existent police procedurals.” Written by Luke Burns and James Folta, it won a humor prize from Chronicle Books; peruse its pages for descriptions of TV shows just a shade too cheeky to be real.
The American ghost town has assumed different forms: the abandoned gold-rush towns out West, the silent Floridian subdivisions of underwater McMansions. Now, we have fiefdoms of mid-Atlantic office space, on streets named Research Boulevard and Professional Drive, thinning out in the sprawl.
in Cars 2 one of the racecars mentions their mother. and then the racecar waves to his mother in the audience. one automobile birthed another automobile.
when Mater tries to convince a car that he is not a spy, he says “i’m not a spy. my specialty is towing and salvage”. the car responds by saying “right. and mine is developing iPhone apps” before winking. not only is this a poorly placed pop cultural reference, but they have iPhones in this world. smartphones. Cars can hold mobile phones and use them and use their touch screen for various uses.
in Cars 2 there is a Pope. The pope is a car in a pope hat. he rides around in a Popemobile. a CAr is riding in another car. they make reference to the Popemobile. “is the Popemobile Catholic?”, Mater says as a “well duhhh” moment, much like our saying, “Is the Pope catholic?”. presumably this means the Popemobile is employed and must be specifically Catholic in order to be the chauffeur and carrier to the regular pope. Also, Catholicism is in this Universe. this means that there must have been an actual Jesus Christ car. also they mention at one point that gasoline is a “fossil fuel. as in dead dinosaurs!” so there must have been dinosaurs at one point in the Cars universe but were they actual dinosaurs or car dinosaurs how did this civilsation start how did the
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 22, 2015 is:
octothorpe \AHK-tuh-thorp\ noun
: the symbol #
Examples:
"To demonstrate and test the varying thicknesses that a pen is capable of imparting, Ivy League students often begin by writing an octothorpeknown to some plebians as a 'hashtag.'" Evan Siegel, Columbia Spectator (Columbia University), December 6, 2014
"Whatever it ought to be called, Messina chose to use this symbol for collating Twitter searches in 2007 because he wanted a sign that could be input from a low-tech cellphone. He had two options: octothorpe or asterisk. He chose the former." Roman Mars, Slate.com, December 17, 2014
Did you know?
A versatile symbol with many names (among them hash mark, number sign, and pound sign), the octothorpe has become popularized as the go-to symbol for marking trending topics on Twitter and other social media. It is believed to have been adopted by the telecommunications industry with the advent of touch-tone dialing in the 1960s. Stories abound about how the odd symbol got its name. The octo- part almost certainly refers to the eight points on the symbol, but the -thorpe remains a mystery. One story links it to a telephone company employee who happened to burp while talking about the symbol with co-workers. Another relates it to the athlete Jim Thorpe and the campaign to restore posthumously his Olympic medals, which were taken away after it was discovered that he played baseball professionally previous to the 1912 Games. A third claims it derives from an Old English word for "village."
'The statement did not specify that Goode (who is white) was hogtied, but a video taken by a witness and distributed by Edwards shows a man identified as Goode face down on a gurney with his arms and legs tied behind him and his arms attached to his legs.
Goode, who has asthma, was complaining that he could not breathe while he was face down with a strap holding his head to the gurney pad, Edwards said.
His wife was not allowed to go to the hospital with him, Edwards said. He was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Desoto.
I keep thinking how much more powerful the Spiderman origin story would be if Peter Parker was an African American kid, whose Uncle Ben was shot by police while being arrested for a minor parking infraction. There is no formal investigation, and Peter decides to put himself on the line to prevent it happening again. He tackles the white crimes that go unpunished, punishes POC criminals fairly. He is the leveler, always fighting to be without bias, to be just. To protect people like his uncle.
This not only mirrors so much of what’s happening in America, but feeds right into the complex relationship between Spiderman, the authorities and the media.
Peter Parker is a brilliant student, awkward, a nerd, but is branded a thug, a gang member, a criminal, because of his appearance. The media latch on to that and misrepresent him totally.
The police, humilitated by the fact that he refuses to work with them and often punishes cops themselves for brutalizing innocent people, or guilty people who still deserve better treatment than they get, attempt to hunt him down.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
If you like skulls, need some wall decoration, and have some spare time, this papercraft wooly mammoth skull would make a great project!
Super Opinionated.