Isaac Moore

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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

— Alexander Pope

Apple thinks they still own your iPhone. Tell them they're wrong.

Apple likes to play games with their customers, namely by pretending that your iPhone belongs to them. They restrict your device, and control what you can and cannot do with it. To bypass these restrictions, a group of digital vigilantes produce what are called, ‘jailbreaks’, which allow you full access to your own device, bypassing Apple’s restrictions. Now, jailbreaks require exploits. And Apple likes to patch exploits, by extracting information about software crashes from your device, and sending them back up to Cupertino. These crash reports cause major problems for the progress of jailbreaks, because they allow Apple to find and eliminate any exploits in their code.

Now, I’m not going to get into a rant, but if you support the notion of getting what you paid for, the best thing you can do is to take five minutes and install this utility on your computer. It won’t bloat your system, or take your time, but it will stop Apple from propriatorizing a device that you paid for.

Please, just take five minute and do this.

Kelvin is awesome? Oh wait, it is.

I honestly never thought of units of measurement like this, but Kelvin does make much more logical sense. Why aren’t we using Kelvin?

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

— Mark Twain

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What is the future of user interaction?

This is brilliant. This is absolutely brilliant. It’s a whole new perspective on a topic I never even thought twice about. And all of you should read it, because it’s true. And this one person was genius enough to see that.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hoffman

The other day, I Tweeted briefly about my thoughts on the current state of the public eduction system. One of my friends linked me to an RSA Animate video, of a lecture by Ken Robinson. I really have no words to accompany this, it describes my thoughts on the education system as it is better than I ever could.

Please, watch this, and share this.

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Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,

disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.

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Apple Computer, 1997

It seemed like the right time to share this.

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