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One of the greats and one of my favorite comedians. Always brought a smile to my face. Rest in peace.
Out of all of the comedy bits he ever performed or movies he was ever in, this clip is probably my favorite:
Good Will Hunting Movie Clip - watch all clips http://j.mp/x4zDOC click to subscribe http://j.mp/sNDUs5 Sean (Robin Williams) recalls the day of the biggest Red Sox game in history and how he missed it over a girl.
Some great interviews with Robin Williams over the years:
this is from the late show with david letterman on march 3,2011
Robin Williams discusses his movie "Awakenings" in this interview with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1991. Subscribe to Johnny Carson's YouTube channel http://bit.ly/johnnysub.
Robin Williams
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Robin Williams' first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is so wacky that Robin has to calm himself down and drink from Johnny's mug. Airdate 10/14/1981. Watch more Robin Williams at http://bit.ly/carson_robin and more comedians on the Tonight Show http://bit.ly/carson_comedians.
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Robin Williams as a guest on The Late Show. Original Broadcast Date: 9/4/08
Robin Williams as a guest on The Late Show. Original Broadcast Date: 9/4/08
He's back on TV with CBS' "The Crazy Ones," but Robin recalls his early hangovers on "Mork & Mindy." Click to SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/15RBrIF Click for FULL EPISODES: http://bit.ly/YBlWRC
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John Chidgey, host of one of my favorite podcasts, invited me on this week to discuss the difficulty with predicting the weather. I had a lot of fun as a guest host on the show as John allowed me to geek out on a subject that I rarely get to geek out about. Now perhaps you'll see why I tweet about weather a lot.
Pragmatic Episode 31: It's Supposed To Be Raining
Since information could travel faster than the weather we’ve strived to predict the weather more accurately into the future. Joel Housman joins John to dig deep into just how hard weather prediction can be and why.
Thanks for having me on John.
Ever year, Adam Savage walks the floor of Comic-Con incognito, hidden in plain view wearing one of his elaborate cosplay costumes. This year, Adam debuts a costume he has been working on for almost a decade: the space suit from Ridley Scott's Alien! Subscribe for more videos of Adam and Jamie's projects and obsessions!
This is by no means a comprehensive review of the entire application. This post is meant to tell you why I ditched my former podcast client and switched to Overcast full time. If you want to read such a review, I recommend you check out these reviews - Macworld, MacStories, Tech Distortion, iMore.
This morning Marco Arment released Overcast 1.0. You can learn more about the application from the Overcast website or just go to iTunes and download it. The application is free, but has just one in-app purhcase for $4.99. If you make this purchase, additional functionality will be unlocked:
It is now the only podcast client I use. Here's why:
When I first found out Marco Arment was working on an iOS podcast client as his next project, I was immediately excited. Having been a long time Instapaper user I knew, in general, my design tastes jive with the decisions Marco makes in his apps.. Marco was nice enough to give me an invitation to the first beta release of Overcast on May 10 of this year. On May 13 I emailed Marco to tell him that I had just deleted Downcast from my phone. I have been using Overcast as my primary podcast client since. [ 1 ]
Applications that allow you to export OPML files can be read by Overcast to import all of your feeds.
Being able to see the entire beta process of Overcast has allowed me to see the app's many iterations and appreciate the finished product more than I normally would. One of the earliest features that I was able to appreciate was the ability to quickly migrate from Downcast to Overcast. Downcast, as many podcast clients do, supports the ability to export an OPML file of your feeds. When you export this file, you can choose to attach it to an email. I emailed it to myself, selected to open the attachment with Overcast. Overcast recognized the file and imported all of the podcasts.
On first launch, until you import or add podcasts, you're presented with the photo above. After adding a few podcasts, making a few playlists or importing your existing feeds, the homescreen might resemble the below image.
One of the things that I rely on a lot with podcast clients are playlists. I listen to so many podcasts, that I don't always have time to listen to them all. My listening habits also vary greatly:
Playlists help me tackle all of these problems. One such feature, Priority Podcasts, attacks one of these problems directly. When configuring a playlist you may designate which podcasts fall under this categorization. These episodes will be pushed to the top whenever they are downloaded, making it unecessary to create a dedicated playlist for just these episodes.
Another feature I love of Overcast is how it handles its own podcast directory. Within the directory itself Marco has a curated list of very good podcasts, broken down by category. Just this along has allowed me to discover 2 or 3 new podcasts that I wasn't aware of yet, but I now love. Another feature is Twitter recommendations. After signing in with your Twitter app, you may flag podcast epsisodes as favorites with a star button on their respective episode pages. When you view this section of the directory, any people you follow on Twitter that have also done this will cause the episodes they favorited to be listed. This is similar to social functionality that Marco added to Instapaper years ago. I liked it then and still like it.
In his announcement post, Marco goes into detail about two of the earliest ideas he had for Overcast: Smart Speed and Voice Boost. When I first saw these in the beta, I ignored them. I've never been one to listen to podcasts in any way other than how they were recorded (minus editing of course). However, after seeing these being discussed by other beta members on Glassboard, I began to give them a try. While I don't use Smart Speed for every podcast, or even every episode of the ones I do, it is a nice feature when needed. Voice Boost, however, is fantastic and makes a huge difference when listening to podcasts in the car (or when I'm mowing the yard with headphones on).
Another reason I instantly fell in love with Overcast is the UI layout of the actual play screen. Marco put a lot of thought during the development of Overcast, all the way up through the beta changing this screen many times due to tester feedback. The end result is lovely giving the user just enough information and exposing the most important controls. Annoyances that I've had with other podcast clients, such as play/reverse/back buttons being too close together or the scrubber being hard to use, have been fixed for me. Additionally, whenever an episode is playing, a very nice animation effect is shown throughout the app in various places to show the sound of the current episode. Check out the gallery below to see examples of the play screen UI as well as this animation.
The wait was long, but it was worth it. Overcast 1.0 is a solid release, which Marco has put a lot of work into. I love using it, and appreciate its design (and nice app icon!). I cannot possibly recommend it highly enough so you should just stop right now and get it. I think you'll like it too.
[ 1 ] Also, apparently I am user #2.
Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic performing Word Crimes. (C) 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
This is such a good parody. Much better than the original. This song is on his new album Mandatory Fun, which you should go buy right now.
Yesterday's video he released, Tacky, was also fantastic:
Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic performing Tacky. (C) 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Gruber at Daring Fireball and Jim Dalrymple at The Loop both commented on a horribly written article by Reuters' Christina Farr this week. Their main issue with her article was how it inaccurately and inexplicable claims that Apple somehow is feeling the most pressure from accessibility advocated to improve accessiblity on iOS, when in truth Apple is way out ahead of Android and all other competitors when it comes to accessiblity support.
A few things in this article stuck out to me as oddly slanted. First, in what world does the above paragraph make sense? Why should Apple be “feeling more heat” than Google on the accessibility front? Where does the article state that iOS is far ahead of Android in terms of out-of-the-box accessibility for the vision impaired? (It doesn’t.)
Then Farr pulls a quote from Tim Cook out of context, selectivley leaving off the later half of the quote to make it sound as if Tim Cook is scorning accessilbity, when he was actually doing the opposite.
Here is the quote she used:
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook in a 2013 speech at Auburn University described people with disabilities “in a struggle to have their human dignity acknowledged.” He said, “They’re frequently left in the shadows of technological advancements that are a source of empowerment and attainment for others.”
Here is the entirety of the quote, unedited:
“People with disabilities often find themselves in a struggle to have their human dignity acknowledged, they frequently are left in the shadows of technological advancements that are a source of empowerment and attainment for others, but Apple’s engineers push back against this unacceptable reality, they go to extraordinary lengths to make our products accessible to people with various disabilities from blindness and deafness to various muscular disorders. I receive hundreds of e-mails from customers every day, and I read them all. Last week I received one from a single mom with a three year old autistic son who was completely non-verbal, and after receiving an iPad, for the first time in his life, he had found his voice. I receive scores of these incredible stories from around the world and I never tire of reading them.” “We design our products to surprise and delight everyone who uses them, and we never, ever analyze the return on investment. We do it because it is just and right, and that is what respect for human dignity requires, and its a part of Apple I’m especially proud of.”
Dear Reuters, you fucking morons: You can’t pick and choose which parts of a quote you want to use to fill the narrative of a story you already have written. You could have written a fine story about accessibility and everyone would have agreed with you, but what you did is show your lack of integrity, essentially harming a very important message about accessibility.
Next time, stick to the facts.
Also check out this follow-up post by Gruber in which he quotes the opinions of an actual disabled person when it comes to accessibility on iOS.
Now moving on to the topic of accessibility in general, Marco Arment took the opportunity of these blog posts to advocate for greater emphasis by Apple on 3rd party developers to support accessibility in their apps:
Accessibility failures should be embarrassments to all developers because they’re usually very easy to fix. For most problems, you just need to add label text to a custom control or image button. Rare “complex” issues are usually less than an hour’s work.
I try hard to get accessibility right… when I remember to. My triple-tap home-button shortcut is always mapped to VoiceOver so I can easily test. I include VoiceOver users in betas whenever possible and had an extremely valuable and insightful accessibility review in the WWDC labs this year. But I still occasionally ship unlabeled buttons, hidden-view clutter, or inaccessible custom views.
Poor or broken accessibility is exactly the sort of problem that Apple’s App Review team should check for: many developers forget to test it, it’s easy for Apple to quickly test when reviewing each app, and it’s easy to fix.
Marco goes on to explain more about the issue in general and some steps Apple might take to improve accessibility support in iOS when it comes to the App Store.
Ed Finkler is a friend of mine by a mutual acquantaince and location (he went to college and lives in the hometown of my wife; a mutual friend used to work for my wife's dad during college who owned a book store in town). And thus I am happy to be able to link to this post that Ed made on Sunday:
I find myself more and more concerned about my future as a developer. …
My tolerance for learning curves grows smaller every day. New technologies, once exciting for the sake of newness, now seem like hassles. I’m less and less tolerant of hokey marketing filled with superlatives. I value stability and clarity.
Marco Arment, another friend (who I don't think knows Ed personally...small world) took Ed's post to heart and largely agreed with it:
I feel the same way, and it’s one of the reasons I’ve lost almost all interest in being a web developer. The client-side app world is much more stable, favoring deep knowledge of infrequent changes over the constant barrage of new, not necessarily better but at least different technologies, libraries, frameworks, techniques, and methodologies that burden professional web development.
Go read both posts.
