The future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web

"And Technology Review? We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital."

"Last fall, we moved all the editorial in our apps, including the magazine, into a simple RSS feed in a river of news. We dumped the digital replica. Now we're redesigning Technologyreview.com, which we made entirely free for use, and we'll follow the Financial Times in using HTML5, so that a reader will see Web pages optimized for any device, whether a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. Then we'll kill our apps, too."

Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review
The future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web.

My wife's recent cake (for a little kid's birthday):

Learning a new language isn’t easy, especially if you can’t immerse yourself in an environment where the language is spoken.

A new extension called Language Immersion for Chrome tries to simulate being immersed in a foreign language by combining Google Translate with your normal browsing patterns. Depending on the language you select and your existing comfort level, the extension will automatically switch certain words and phrases on web pages you browse to the new language, providing a painless way to immerse yourself in a language without interrupting what you were doing online.

You can get Language Immersion for Chrome here: http://goo.gl/yKvIt

The Technical University of Munich has cancelled its mathematics journals from Elsevier. Beginning of a trend?

BibliothekElsevier < Mathematik
Elsevier-Zeitschriften, 2.5.2012. Aufgrund unzumutbarer Kosten und Bezugsbedingungen hat das Direktorium des Zentrums Mathematik beschlossen, alle abonnierten Elsevier-Zeitschriften ab 2013 abzubestel...

Therapist, what a word! I'm not capable of reading it as a whole.

Play Wolfenstein 3D online! http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game_NA.php

That was one of the scariest games I ever played alone (back in 90s)!

Celebrating 20 Years of Wolfenstein 3D - The Game That Started It All
Move: Run: Shift. Fire: X; Strafe: Z; Open: Space. Developer Commentary from id co-founder John Carmack Watch a video about the legacy of Wolfenstein · CLICK HERE FOR WOLFENSTEIN COMPILATIONS DISCOUNT...

Why would anyone (in their right mind) do a remake of Robocop and Total Recall? I mean, they are perfect enough!

New Robocop is far from Total Recall of unique original
Two classic Paul Verhoeven movies are being remade, but studio noises indicate each will be a maddening hotchpotch

Only in Russia: A Mobile Sauna, Soviet Style | Autopia | Wired.com
After a hard day’s driving, a sauna is the ideal place to relax and take away the strain on the muscles – which is why one Russian decided to create a rolling hot box he can take with him wherever he ...

Opa is a new programming language that lets you write both client and server code in the same language -- and database access code as well. You write the program, and the Opa compiler distributes the code as needed to the client or server and takes care of all the communication. You can force code to the client or server with 'client' and 'server' keywords. The database can be CouchDB or MongoDB and some others.

Opa - Web application programming platform
What is Opa? Opa is an open source, simple and unified platform for writing web applications. All aspects are directly written in Opa: Frontend code, backend code, database queries and configuration. ...