Try Photoshopping a dollar bill or other bank note and it will stop you in your tracks.

To take better advantage of old/secondhand Mac hardware as it ages out of the role it was originally purchased for. Especially when it loses mainline MacOS support, or is resold into hands that like the hardware at a then-bargain price but don't want MacOS. Fights electronics/computing waste.

Time to round up Silhouette.

"Company that killed global retail discovers global retail is dead."

Cell phone cameras are good, really good. Make no mistake, the low end of the compact camera world is being hollowed out by them. Almost no new products are being released there, most companies are just selling through stock or making very minor changes for a new name.

But have you ever tried to print a cell phone photo? They look amazing on screen, but they tend to fall apart in print. At least for now. Give it a few years...

I remember doing this decades ago with the 'microwave powerplant'. Nice to see real life catching up.

Somehow, I doubt all of this happened in the last two hours. Especially as crunched as Apple's update servers are right now.

And in other news, the sky is falling.

Just finished a couple hours of Civ 5. Honestly, it's disappointing. The new no-stacking concept has solved the stacks-of-death problem, but just created serious roadblocks in the game itself. And I do mean roadblocks - movement is a major hassle. Cities and the effects of what you do with them are more opaque than ever. In an attempt to simplify, they ended up just glossing over the gameplay. Same with diplomacy. They didn't actually make things simpler, they just stopped giving you the numbers involved.

I can get behind a number of the new mechanics - embarking land units is a great idea, the hexes are swell, the game is very pretty. But if feels more like a cheap rip-off of Civ than an advancement.

The pull-back strategic view is great in concept, but poor in execution.

I hope it will grow on me, but for now, Civ5 is one step forward, two steps back from Civ 4 (which itself had serious issues).

He's invented analog?