Noticed this morning just how much larger the 15" MPB is than my previous 13" white laptop. My new one barely squeezes into my timbuk2 messenger bag. I’m digging the larger display for photo editing but think the 13" is more practical for day to day work. The 15" is not quite big enough to…

Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Bette…[J Atten Disord. 2008] – PubMed Result Link to Journal article re: Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Better After Walk in the Park.

A ‘Dose of Nature’ for Attention Problems – Well Blog – NYTimes.com [duh!!!!] The researchers found that a “dose of nature” worked as well or better than a dose of medication on the child’s ability to concentrate. What’s not clear is how long the nature…

Editing photos on new mbp, base model upgraded to 4GB RAM. Very zippy. New trackpad gestures are killer.

Count Basie Remodel: Had a chance to walk through the theater this afternoon and take some pictures. The rest of the photos will be posted in some different news articles around the web, but here’s a sample.

No Firewire port on the new macbook means no video editing. That’s bit lame. AAPL forcing consumers to buy MBPs to do video?

watching apple notebook event on engadget. sad that no matter how good the laptops are, AAPL will fall on jobs’ noticeable weight loss.

Happy, encouraged and maybe feeling a little vindicated as a result of Krugman winning Nobel in economics: http://tinyurl.com/4lpbv9

Commercial Alert — Protecting communities from commercialism Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental…

What about austerity? – The Boston Globe The bailout package is essential to keep the credit markets open. But absent sentences that include the word austerity all the bailout will accomplish is a temporary postponement. Bailout and…