My thanks to Atoms for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their second collaboration with Marques Brownlee, the limited edition Model 251.1. Matte black high-tops with reflective details and red highlights (natch, for MKBHD), they blend function and style. Designed for everyday comfort, the 251.1 also includes a water-repellent upper and membrane,...
A bunch of inspiring choices, as usual, including previous DF sponsors Procreate and Copilot. ★
Michael Kan, PC Mag: On Friday, the ICQ website posted a simple message: “ICQ will stop working from June 26.” It now recommends users migrate to the messaging platforms from VK, the Russian social media company that acquired ICQ from AOL in 2010, but under a different corporate name. It’s an unceremonious end for a software program that...
Michele Giorgi bought and restored an original 128K Macintosh, and documented the entire project in splendid fashion. ★
Douglas Adams: I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can...
One more on the “best decade ever” front: a classic 2010 John Oliver segment for The Daily Show, wherein he “hopes to find the better, simpler time before America was ruined.” ★