“Godspeed,” photographs of fireflies by Katrien Vermeire. No words to describe how amazing this is.
Here’s a little bit of genius thanks to the magic of *magnets.*
Thumbtiles are simple square glass frames with magnets on each corner. Just pull the glass off to switch photos out — so easy.
Was Steve Jobs a Samuel Crompton or was he a Richard Roberts? In the eulogies that followed Jobs’s death, last month, he was repeatedly referred to as a large-scale visionary and inventor. But Isaacson’s biography suggests that he was much more of a tweaker. He borrowed the characteristic features of the Macintosh—the mouse and the icons on the screen—from the engineers at Xerox PARC, after his famous visit there, in 1979. The first portable digital music players came out in 1996. Apple introduced the iPod, in 2001, because Jobs looked at the existing music players on the market and concluded that they “truly sucked.”
