Notification Center shows on-screen pop-ups every time you receive an email, instant message, friend request, calendar alert, etc.
Mountain lions will not notify you before they pop-up and eat your face.
It’s Friday, and you need something funny.
There is a twofold improvement here. The first, obviously, is with the high resolution display. The second, improvement comes from the lamination process they will presumably use to place this panel under the glass. It’s going to look like a live magazine.
As expected from Pentagram, this looks like ass. Why not use the beautiful Microsoft Store logo, or even a modernised version of Microsoft’s Windows logo from 1985?
This logo has no soul. The window is wrong from a perspective standpoint, and looks like an entirely separate element. The circular dot over the “i” looks stupid in such a close proximity to the oval “o”. The numeral isn’t even in Segoe.
Melissa Martin, writing for the Winnipeg Free Press:
The bill, otherwise dubbed the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, would give police access to Internet subscribers’ private information without a warrant, among other increased powers.
Outrageous, right? This is the Canadian equivalent of SOPA combined with elements of DCMA. It’s insane and ridiculous, and us Canadians have had enough:
Robert Jensen, a Prince Edward Island man and regular critic of the Harper government, came up with the idea on Thursday morning and urged his followers to spam [Member of Parliament Vic] Toews’ official Twitter account with useless personal trivia.
Jensen later faxed his grocery list to Toews’ Ottawa office; but by then, the Tell Vic Everything movement had become a bona fide sensation. Only eight hours after Jensen’s original Tweet, there were thousands of messages in the Tell Vic Everything pile — and the momentum was still picking up. “I’m killing myself laughing,” Jensen wrote on his account. “Now this is what we call peaceful, democratic protest, Canuck-style.”
