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Petapixel links to a great slideshow (as a video, which is a nice thing) covering the travels of a now 76 year old Gunther Holtorf traveling 500,000 miles and 26 years with two cameras and one truck.

What a great little video about time. Some might find it depressing but it really gave me quite a bit of joy.

The latest episode of Nerds On Draft focuses on one of my favorite Boston breweries, Pretty Things and their wonderful Saison. We also talk about how complicated “leisure” time can be.

I continue to be a huge fan of David Lanham’s art. It decorates my office and my kid’s bedroom because it’s beautiful and spilling over with wonder. He’s now updated his wallpapers for the big iPhones and you can buy them all (and get free updates) at his Gumroad site.

Allen Pike on the current nightmare of the iOS shift key: So, I filed another Radar. Perhaps, with time, they can find it in their hearts to make a change. A change to the shift key - the most important issue of our time. Seriously, this has to be something that’s been reviewed internally and given the thumbs up. As Allen points out, it’s not like the confusion is a secret or people just forget they hit the key.

4 nerds at the crack of dawn talking about big phones, bigger hands and perpetual motion cats. My saturday mornings are my favorite mornings.

More fantastic work from Brett Terpstra. Once loaded, you can click any answer on the page and it will be converted to Markdown (including comments and source links) and returned. I use Pinboard with notes to track my StackExchange gems but this is really powerful too. Importantly, the notes are available offline and easily edited and expanded on. Watch the video. It’s nice.

Not much more to say. It’s just sad. chew-toys for halfwits

MacUpdate is currently running a bundle sale that includes Scrivener 2.5 and iStat Menus 5 for $50. It’s a pretty good deal if you were already planning on purchasing this software. There’s other good stuff, like Ember, if you need the deal sweetened a bit more.

I’m a happy Backblaze subscriber. I love them all the more for their regular report on hard drive reliability. The assumption that “enterprise” drives would work better than “consumer” drives has not been true in our tests. I analyzed both of these types of drives in our system and found that their failure rates in our environment were very similar — with the “consumer” drives actually being slightly more reliable.