Some will blow this off as simple marketing fluff but everyone at Apple should be proud of this accomplishment and the company’s commitment to the environment.

I test my poor wife on this stuff all the time. Like most people, she plays along with these little quizzes and questions but had no idea they can be used to harvest details about her for nefarious purposes.

Always fascinating to listen to Cook.

DeLong makes a great point. For those of us with children, Apple’s parental controls for the iPad are a blunt instrument.

This might be the coolest thing you watch all day.

As a City Kid, I’ve never had much need to “identify the plants and animals around me” but now that I live in a semi-rural area, I’m kind of curious about the flora and fauna I see. This app may be able to help.

I find this to a very odd thing for our Royal Canadian Mint to do.

When I read about this yesterday, I was sure it was an April Fools’ joke. Good to read it isn’t.

My wife and I watched this video this weekend and were enthralled. We immediately went out and bought semolina flour so we could try our hand at some of it and now I want a pasta maker for myself.

If this is the future, let me off the planet. I want no part of it.

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This history is more interesting than it has a right to be. That being said, don’t ever do this to strangers on the street.

What a great idea.

This is the most wondrously nerdy thing I’ve read all day.

Cook’s comments in general are interesting but the Facebook burn is getting all the attention. I’m looking forward to watching the full interview.

I really hate the idea of there not being any ability to opt out of at least some of these alerts. I certainly won’t need an alert that an earthquake is happening – I’m pretty sure I’ll already know.

“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for. In plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means.”

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Thos of us old enough to remember the bad old days know that Apple had a reputation at times for not being very “gamer friendly”, whether it was towards gamers themselves or game developers. Steve Jobs was famously apathetic and dismissive of the Mac as a gaming platform. But the iPhone has changed all of that.

I think this behind the scenes video is even more interesting than the ad itself.

It’s good to be the king. Apple makes design and engineering choices that other companies wouldn’t even imagine doing.

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Today is the first official day of spring for those of us in the northern hemisphere. The cherry blossoms and tulips are just starting to bloom here in the Vancouver area. While I know many in the northeastern US and the Canadian Maritime provinces are hunkering down in the teeth of yet another snowstorm, just hang in there and hopefully, this video will remind you what you have to look forward to.

Along with the slight name change, the app comes with a bunch of cool features.

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Reading this story this morning made me incredibly sad. These are magnificent animals and we are hunting them to extinction.

Jeopardy! has always been my favorite game show but I never gave the process of the creation of the clues much thought.

For many, Cohen will be an acquired taste but he’s always been one of my favorite songwriters, right up there with Prince. But where Prince had a love of life and sensuality to it, Cohen would be described as depressing (not by me though). But I still love listening to him.

I love this video. These cartoon sound effects are as familiar to me as my own voice.