Using the information in a thread on IH8Mud ( 1985 FJ60 Wagon Horn Problem), I just got the horn working in Dawn’s 60. I used some teeny little rubber grommets, sliced in half, as spacers. Glad that did the trick, since the screws on the cover are stripped.
I’m sure this trick works on FJ40s (at least the late models with the smaller steering wheel, since I’ve got one of those wheels on hand) and FJ62s, too.
Here’s the easiest way I’ve ever seen to determine your dominant eye, from ArcheryWeb.
(Via Shawn Blanc)
The Seed of Apple’s Innovation is almost seven years old now. And it’s still entirely relevant today. Maybe even more so, since it’s clear that many of Apple’s competitors still don’t understand why the fuck they’re getting their asses kicked.
Steve Jobs: Look at Microsoft (MSFT ) — who’s running Microsoft? Interviewer: Steve Ballmer. Steve Jobs: Right, the sales guy. Case closed.
(Microsoft’s stock price has now been stagnant for over a decade…)
I’ve had a few manifestos open in tabs for a while now. There’s some good stuff in these, and I keep meaning to find a home for them…
Right Brain Terrain’s manifesto, written in the pages of a Moleskine notebook. I think I like their logo most of all, though much of their work is also pretty great.
The Holstee manifesto. “If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. … Stop over analyzing, life is simple.”
From Fast Company’s design outpost: Paddy Harrington, of Bruce Mau Design, talks about 3 Conditions That Set The Stage For Blinding Insight. A bit over-the-top title-wise, but the project (a new website for Studio Gang architects) is interesting, as are the conditions.
Here’s the short version, lifted from the middle of the article:
1. Immersion Surround yourself with both the problem and with inspiration. That means drawing on the field of study itself, and gathering all the information that you can. It also means drawing on inspiring, but unrelated fields. Insight can come from anywhere.
Jean-Louis Gassée takes a look at Apple’s Q2 numbers in his latest Monday Note column. His columns are almost always interesting and insightful; this one’s no exception.
To me, one of the most interesting numbers is the Asia-Pacific growth (76% growth, vs 28% overall) of the Mac platform, accompanied of course by overall 151% revenue in the region. Also interesting, but unsurprising, to note that desktop sales are still going down by single-digit percentages every quarter — 6% this quarter — while laptop sales grew by 59%.
Why RIM chose to ship the PlayBook in such a state is unfathomable. The iPad 2 and Xoom have been out for weeks, so there’s no heading them off at the pass. Instead, the PlayBook debuted with all eyes on it — but instead of a world-class performer, we got the homeless guy who plays air guitar in front of the mall.
One of many money quotes from Galen Gruman’s highly entertaining review of the RIM PlayBook ( “PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable”) at InfoWorld.
Click through for full size at Orbit Visual. Also, soon to be a poster!
Adobe releases touch-based SDK for Photoshop. Great things expected, and probably rightly so.
As I was saying eons ago…
And probably before any of that, we’ll start seeing people using iPads as “controllers" for their desktop computers. I can’t imagine software developers haven’t been thinking about “tethered apps" already. Think of an application running on your computer’s big screen(s), and interacting with that with the companion software running on your iPad.
