February 2009
5 posts
Playboy interviews Steve Jobs (from 1985) →
pile:
There are some hilariously dated remarks in here, but it’s incredible how much foresight Steve shows, especially when it comes to the crazy idea of the internet (the WWW was the breakthrough he predicted here):
JOBS: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of...
January 2009
9 posts
Arrived in Chicagoland.
Announcing the Congress API - NYTimes.com →
Very cool idea. Basically this would allow a developer to access data about Congressional reps and their votes for use in software. The problem with most of this “public record information” is that it is difficult to access and interpret, but this would allow developers to access that information behind the scenes and interpret and display it however they want.
