Macworld tested the fusion drive (ssd flash drive + hard drive) in one of the new Mac mini models. The result: it’s about as fast as Phil Schiller said in the last Apple special event.

Lena Dunham (of HBO’s Girls fame) conceived this short for The New Yorker, to announce the launch of their iPhone app. Jon Hamm and Alex Karpovsky joined the party in this funny bit evoking an ’80s VHS look of a talk show.
The app itself is elegant with…

Iconatomy — a project named from the words ‘icon’ and ‘anatomy’ — consists of a series of collages that seamlessly merges two celebrities from two different eras of film history. It is the creation of George Chamoun, an artist based…

Hypocrisy is a messy part of human life. In Politics and media it seems to multiply. Great article by David Simon (and its follow-up) on the hipocrisy of news media dealing with political sexual scandals (triggered by the Petraeus scandal).

Out of the blue, at least for most of us, Apple announces a sneak peek of (Mac) OS X 10.8 code-named ‘Mountain Lion’. I suggest reading John Gruber’s article on the new operating system, on how Apple understands the differences between point-&-click and touch…