Proposed Photoshop CS5 Interface: Hyperrealism

Summer Sports and Outdoor Shopping List

	Garmin Forerunner 310XT Garmin has shrunk the guts of this baby enough that it looks almost like a standard, if very odd, watch. Metrosexuals might give it a pass, but soul-sucking hipsters could probably get away with wearing it in public.
	Vibram FiveFingers KSO Vibram FiveFingers will make you look like you have plastic gorilla feet. They'll draw curious, often appalled stares from strangers and mockery from your family. Just like going barefoot, except without the cuts, abrasions and icky stuff between your toes. Ugly as a bucket of vomit. Just looking at the shoes is a one way ticket to the uncanny valley.
	Benchmade 551 Griptilian Flips open as smoother than 18-year Macallan. Grippy, textured handle. Well-balanced. Sturdy hinge-locking mechanism. Blade steel rates 58-61 on the Rockwell C hardness scale, meaning it will hold an edge.
	5.11 Tactical Light for Life Pro Flashlight The 5.11 shrugs off the yoke of battery dependence and instead uses ultracapacitor technology to propel photons. You'll never need to buy another flashlight in your lifetime, at least until they can keep your head alive in a jar. High-power pro flashlight pumps out awesome illumination and recharges ridiculously fast. Flashlight will outlive you. Seriously brilliant, blinding — a boon for flashlight junkies.
	Gerber Remix We wanted to love this skeletonized, futuristic knife, if only because it looks like it might be part Terminator. And we, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.
	Gerber Metolius Fixed Blade Gerber's Metolius is a versatile, inexpensive and fairly lightweight knife that looks incredibly macho. In other words, it's just what you want strapped to your hip when you pull your Prius into state park campsite #304 and start setting up your REI tent and your portable espresso maker. Looks menacing enough for Rambo approval.

Nice idea, horrible name

 

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Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OS

What's so exciting about the netbook platform is that it gives operating system designers a chance to start again.

They can forget the old-fashioned metaphor of the desktop interface that's been around since the 1970s. They can even abandon the file system concept. Instead, they can create an operating system quite simply geared-up for online activities. The computer becomes a gateway. It ceases to be an end in itself.

Moblin is an example of a platform from which you can launch your online adventures, whatever they may be. It's a jumping off point. It's the ultimate tool for online activities. It entirely shifts the user's focus to online activities, but that's cool because it's where practically all users spend their time.

Microsoft products just don't come close. It's laughable to even think they might. Microsoft is just too tied to the old-fashioned metaphors and ways of working, and could never have produced Moblin. Not in a million years. Technologies like Moblin are just one more nail in the coffin of the Redmond giant.

New great Wired Blog

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(Comic Book) Reading is Fundamental

Some of my best friends as a kid wore capes. No, I’m not talking about my neighborhood pals Eddie, Gary or Ethan. Well, sure, we all dressed up as superheroes at some point I’m sure. But what I’m referring to are the caped crusaders, the men of steel, the  living legends who filled my head with stories of sacrifice and glory. Yes, I most definitely grew up on comics.

iPhone Stencil Kit

This is one of the most beautiful iPhone-related products I've ever seen: A stainless steel stencil kit to quickly draw iPhone applications user interfaces. It even comes with a Zebra mechanical pencil.

I want it badly. They have only made a hundred of these for $16.95 each. If you are one of the thousands of iPhone app developers, you better hurry up here.

I soldatini degli anni '70

I soldatini Atlantic , Airfix , Baravelli ci hanno regalato lunghe ore di gioco negli anni '70 e rimangono una parte ancora viva della nostra infanzia.

In questi siti puoi trovare informazioni storiche e curiosita' sui soldatini da gioco e da collezione piu' belli e piu' rari , da guardare o da comprare.

http://www.freewebs.com/atlanticplus/

http://www.airfix132.de/

http://www.airfixtoysoldiers.co.uk/

http://www.hatitalywaterloo.it/

http://soli.inav.net/~edzwil/index.html

http://pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/