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“… smart and educated people don’t always spawn innovation. America’s advantage, if it continues to have one, will be that it can produce people who are also more creative and imaginative, those who know how to stand at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences.”

Walter Isaacson, NYTimes OpEd

For those that still use it, a good deal to catch up on versions.

Compares him more to David Sarnoff who led NBC and RCA (he actually never founded neither but was promoted up). Combining new hardware, radio then television, with software or content, like shows.

Except, for it to work as a game, the first and last letters remain stationary. So the tracking is based on the space between those two letters. For some words, the tracking was just too wide! Classic non designer or beginner mistake when kerning words in beginner type class…

“When Jobs walked in, Watson says that his power, charisma and genius were palpable. “It was like when Clint Eastwood walks in to the room.”

Jobs didn’t look immediately at Watson, but looked instead at the set-up and then focused on Watson’s 4×5 camera “like it was something dinosauric,” Watson recalls, “and he said, ‘Wow, you’re shooting film.”

“I said, ‘I don’t feel like digital is quite here yet.’ And he said, ‘I agree,’ then he turned and looked at me and said, ‘But we’ll get there.’”

If you go to the NYTimes puzzle site Saturday Oct. 8, the answers are on Saturday Crossword for Friday.

The Economic Times (Times of India)

VentureBeat

Is a project tracking the lives and careers of arts graduates.

Check out the Locations and the Occupations tabs. After Arts Education, Design is the biggest employer for arts alumni. Also interesting is that more arts alumni work outside of the arts but not by very much over those that do. On the Locations map it is interesting to see how big Miami and Dallas are. Miami is as big for art majors as Chicago. Dallas is bigger than Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.

in the Netherlands.

I’d post the Vimeo video here but inexplicably, the conference organizers have turned that option off. I guess they don’t quite get social networking in the Netherlands yet…

I think this quote about typography from Jobs is from the Stanford speech

Via I love typography

He talks about being different, travel, accept difference to be better, Walt Disney and LSD.

From an Academy of Achievement awards ceremony.