Me n my homies (pops is making a weird face) (Taken with instagram)
An 86-year-old Yorkshire man, Brendon Grimshaw may have lived alone for many years on the tiny island paradise of Moyenne in the Seychelles in the middle of the Indian Ocean since he bought it in 1962 for £8000, but he is rarely lonely.
For Brendon has spent the years reintroducing the indigenous giant tortoise to Moyenne and now shares the island with 120 of the magnificent creatures, on one of the world’s smallest national parks.
The BBC’s Simon Reeve went to visit him.
Once a hideaway for pirates, the island is now a paradise of accidental conservation! But it took a lot of work in the last 50 years to change it.
He hired his own Man Friday, a Seychellois called Rene Lafortune, who helped him transform Moyenne.
Together they planted palm trees, mango and paw-paw.
They saved rainwater and pumped it up the hillside by hand, or rowed back to the main island to collect a barrel of fresh water.
It was backbreaking, exhausting work. ‘My hands were covered in blisters,’ said Brendon…
Slowly the trees grew and fruited, and eventually water, electricity and a phone cable were piped across from Mahe.
Brendon also encouraged around 2,000 native birds back to the island by feeding them. Fifty years very well-spent.
via Kottke.
“Cook’s remarks may be immodest, but they are not hyperbole. No other company could today produce something like this new iPad. Not at these prices, at these quantities, at a worldwide scope, with a content ecosystem and user experience of the iPad’s quality. Apple is in a league of its own, and the iPad exemplifies it.”
Awesome UI coming from this new to-do app from Realmac Software. Really sets it apart in the extremely saturated to-do app market.
“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.”
Very well done.
“Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the simplicity, to understand everything about it and how it’s manufactured. You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
Jony Ive (From Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson)
(via The Russians Used A Pencil which was sent to me by Wells Baum)
(Source: minimalmac)
Tumblita 2.1 is now available on the App Store!
With the extra available time over holiday break I’ve been able to bring some new features to Tumblita as well as clean up some things, some of the most notable are the following:
- You can now post multiple photos in one post! (5 max)
- Tap images from photo posts to save to your camera roll or view the click-through-url
- Fixed a bug some people had with not being able to see their queued posts
- Added some polish to the UI
- various bug fixesAs with every update, here are some promo codes to hand out to your friends, enjoy!
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(Source: tumblitaapp)
Joy Division and Alpha King (Taken with instagram)
Killed (Taken with instagram)
