[MyAppleMenu] Aug 16, 2014

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*** Google To Drop Microsoft-designed Touch Web Spec, Stick With Apple Tech ***
<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google-to-drop-microsoft-designed-touch-web-spec-stick-with-apple-tech/>
Peter Bright, Ars Technica

> The company's developers gave three reasons for the change. The first is that Mobile Safari only supports Touch Events, making it difficult for Pointer Events to ever gain traction, much less win out. Second, the way Pointer Events worked caused performance issues for WebKit and Blink not found in Touch Events. Third, Pointer Events precluded implementing some common design concepts such as pull-to-refresh.



*** Digital To-Do Lists Are Fine, But What Really Motivates Us? ***
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/08/15/340339212/digital-to-do-lists-are-fine-but-what-really-motivates-us>
Allie Caren, NPR

> But is that the key, to simply be <i>reminded</i>? Are there others out there who, like me, snooze things away each and every day? Maybe, maybe not.



*** Apple Adds Five Vice Presidents, Including Two Women, To 'Apple Leadership' Press Page ***
<http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/15/apple-leadership-press-page-updates/>
Juli Clover, MacRumors

> The inclusion of several vice presidents on the executive team is a new move for the company, as the page previously only listed the company's lineup of senior vice presidents. 



*** Value And Reference Types ***
<https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=10>
Swift Blog



*** Anchor Pointer Is A Great App For Finding Your Car Or That Great Fishing Spot ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/08/15/anchor-pointer-is-a-great-app-for-finding-your-car-or-that-great/>
John-Michael Bond, TUAW

> Anchor Pointer gives you a compass that directs you to locations you've already been to. It's designed for saving locations rather than finding them via discovery, which makes it ideal for hikers and urban explorers, or just to find your car at the mall.



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*** In Will Chancellor’s ‘A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall,’ The Hunt For Purpose Is On ***
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/in-will-chancellors-a-brave-man-seven-storeys-tall-the-hunt-for-purpose-is-on/2014/08/13/1ebc127e-19bd-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html>
Wendy Smith, Washington Post

> Will Chancellor’s first novel, “A Brave Man Seven Stories Tall,” is not always quite as clever as the author intends, but it has plenty of energy to atone for its predictable satiric targets and some real emotional heft to counter the whiffs of pretentiousness.



*** Their Lips Talk Of Mischief By Alan Warner – Boisterous, Crafted Comedy ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/lips-talk-of-mischeif-alan-warner-review-boisterous-crafted-comedy>
Steven Poole, The Guardian

> The title of Alan Warner's funny and lovingly 1980s-set novel is taken from the book of Proverbs in the King James Version: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief." The reader is thus put on notice that at least one of the novel's central characters might be described as "evil". By the end, it seems, maybe both are.



*** Them Dames ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/jules-feiffers-kill-my-mother.html?ref=books&_r=0>
Laura Lippman, New York Times

> Jules Feiffer’s graphic novel is a tribute to film noir and detective fiction. The mere idea of anyone doing anything for the first time in his 80s, let alone demonstrating a breezy mastery of it, makes me want to join the exuberant jitterbug on the first page of this propulsive story.



*** Book Review: ‘The End Of Absence,’ What’s Lost In A Connected World By Michael Harris ***
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-end-of-absence-whats-lost-in-a-connected-world-by-michael-harris/2014/08/15/8ff0721c-05e7-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html>
Lisa Zeldner, Washington Post

> But Gutenberg’s revolution was “a slow blooming <i>era</i> that took centuries before it was fully unpacked.” Our technological revolution has burgeoned with astonishing speed. And Harris notes that we are the last generation that will have known life both before and after the digital revolution, with its promise of instant connection with anyone and everything, anywhere. This gives us a singular vantage point to consider what we’ve gained — and at what cost.



*** The Pleasure Of Reading To Impress Yourself ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/pleasure-of-reading>
Rebecca Mead, New Yorker

> This linking of pleasure and guilt is intended as an enticement, not as an admonition: reading for guilty pleasure is like letting one’s diet slide for a day—naughty but relatively harmless. The distinction partakes of a debased cultural Puritanism, which insists that the only fun to be had with a book is the frivolous kind, or that it’s necessarily a pleasure to read something accessible and easy.



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