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I should point out that, although Lanai was formed millions of years ago by a volcano, there aren't actually any active volcanoes on that island. The only active ones are on the Big Island (also known as Hawaii).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_Hawaiian_volcanoes

> Even dragging out the USB cord to plug my phone into my MacBook Pro doesn’t yield a simple solution. Open iTunes, iPhoto, etc. – haven’t found the answer.

There's an app called Image Capture, installed on every Mac, that lets you easily download certain photos and videos from your iPhone (or any other camera). It simply presents a list of media on your device, which you can save in any location you want. There's no organizational aspect, unlike iPhoto. Image Capture doesn't help with the uploading/sharing part, of course, but it's much more streamlined way of directly downloading photos versus iPhoto.

Wait, really? It seems to work for me (Safari 5.1.4 / Chrome 20.0.1096.1 on Lion).

I'm a little busy, but possibly! My email's now in my profile.

I did the redesign, so I'd be happy to answer any questions here!

I'm particularly interested – if anyone has experience using Ember – about the concerns raised about Ember's performance with large amounts of data and "hairy custom view situations," as borismus puts it. Is Ember actually going to be slow when dealing with large data sets?

This reminds moe of Joe Davis' Telescopic Text: http://www.telescopictext.com/. Assuming you see this on a desktop computer, it's exactly the opposite of Frankie's responsive text: instead of gradually reducing the amount of information, it gradually increases it.

The OP, written by Inkling's CEO, also says: "I also previewed Inkling for Web, which will make all of Inkling’s great interactive content available in any web browser."

I wonder what this could mean for using Google+ in the classroom – perhaps teachers could post links in a circle exclusively for the students in their class, and allow students to comment and discuss those links. Also, on a hangout, students could more easily collaborate on group projects, especially if they use Google Docs.

You also can't vote on job posts, which is how I distinguish them from regular stories.

It was Paul Rand who designed NEXT's logo: http://imprint.printmag.com/branding/paul-rand-steve-jobs/ . And here's Steve Jobs talking about Rand: http://512pixels.net/steve-jobs-on-paul-rand/

Just so you know, I think the link on your website to your author application form is wrong (it goes to https://hyperink.wufoo.com/forms/hyperink-author-application..., which says "page not found").

FeeFighters has a pretty good free ebook called "How to Be a Credit Card Processing Ninja" - http://feefighters.com/blog/free-ebook-launch-how-to-be-a-cr...

Oh, one more thing in the footer - the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links don't go anywhere. But it looks great otherwise!

Although it is on a New York Times blog, not on the main site...

I was just wondering, actually, if Apple would make something to compete with Instapaper. The iPad is not necessarily an ideal ebook reader - it's heavier, more expensive, and harder to read in the sun than the Kindle or Nook.

Don't get me wrong; I love the iPad, and I've read a couple of books on it too. But what I really like doing is reading articles on Instapaper. The iPad seems ideal for reading and collecting Instapaper-length stories or essays. To me, it would make a lot of sense to integrate something like "Reading List" into iBooks, and market that as a feature. It may not replace Instapaper/ReadItLater for us, but I'm sure consumers who have never heard of either will love Apple's Reading List.

They certainly think there's a problem with EBS: "Since that last failure, we have been doing everything we can to move ourselves off of the EBS product. We're about half way there. All of our Cassandra nodes are now using only local disk, and we hope to have all of postgres on local disk soon."

Where are you from? I've actually never heard it before (in the US).

Hmm, okay, but doesn't that sound kind of strange too? Why would FaceTime use an image from the camera roll instead of one from its own cache?

But why would Facetime be using this? It seems unnecessary.

I'm actually working on this, after being inspired by Brett Simmons' article: http://inessential.com/2011/03/16/a_plea_for_baked_weblogs.

My app is pretty similar to what you're describing - you can compose posts online (or in plain text files), and when you're done, it generates a baked (static) version. It's written in PHP, just so you can easily use it on most servers. It's actually pretty close to being done - I can let you know when it's ready.

That's strange. It looks fine on FF4 using Snow Leopard.

http://d.pr/LXvR

I think the point is that, with Scheme, the tool you use is less important than the thinking you do. With Java, you have to worry about your environment before you can worry about programming.

It's nice that they're so good-natured about it. That gallery of photos, and the commentary, is hilarious.

And how did the Transmit icon get on a German... adult store?

Yes, exactly. Perhaps the 4 weeks approach is to link it with the existing home delivery system (which is also calculated by week), but it sounds strange in practice.

I guess we'll see how it turns out, though. Maybe most customers won't actually mind these irregularities.

Well, the iPad's pricing is relatively simple to figure out: $499, plus $100 for every storage increase after that. If you want 3G, that's $130 extra.

The New York Times, on the other hand, seems less logical. The website+smartphone app is $15/4 weeks, the website+tablet app is $20, all three is $35, so the website is worth... nothing? Or, you could go with the home delivery option, which would cost you $455 (all digital access) -$304.20 (daily delivery in NY) = $150.80 less per year, even though they have to print all that paper.

Yeah, I think a good number of people don't understand how tsunamis work, even here in Hawaii. During an emergency, radio and TV broadcasters here try to explain that tsunamis are more like solid walls of water - i.e. the entire ocean lifting up six feet, but of course, people don't listen. That makes it very dangerous when there's a tsunami warning (like last Thursday), because people think, oh, it's just like surfing! six feet is not even that much!, which means that some people don't evacuate. Plus there are always some geniuses that insist on sitting next to the shoreline, and the police have to shoo them away.

Update 3: About three hours later, there's still no all clear. Oahu and Kauai are a lot better off than Maui and the Big Island, where there have been reports of flooding and damage. They're still gathering information, though, because it's still dark here, but there may have been waves of up to 9 feet.

Update: Tsunami waves have begun to hit the islands, but it's relatively small for now.

Update 2: About an hour later, still very moderate waves, although the water has been receding so far that you can see the reefs. No damage reported. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center doesn't expect this to be a major event, although there's still a few hours left in the danger zone.

I'm in Hawaii right now (out of the evacuation zone). They expect the tsunami to hit in about 45 minutes. The tsunami sirens have been going off about every hour, the evacuation zones have been blocked off, and even the police are starting to move to higher ground. Honolulu Harbor is pretty much empty, and it seems like all flights in and out of the airport have been cancelled.

Also, Waikiki Beach is deserted, the hospitals are being inundated with people seeking shelter, and we're all basically holding our breath. The scary thing is that many people don't realize that a tsunami wave is not like a surfing wave; it's basically a solid wall of water, and we're expecting 6-7 feet at the moment.

If you want to follow what's going on, check out #hitsunami on twitter; it's being updated very frequently. Also, there's a live webcam of Waikiki Beach at http://hitsunami.info.

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Apple is also apparently sharing an developer version of Lion with security researchers[1], so hopefully it'll be more secure by next year.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/26/apple-wises-up-by-sharing-...