This is 13 minutes long, but worth every second. In it film-maker S.G. Collins argues that in 1969, it was easier to send people to the Moon than to fake the landing in a studio. Technologically speaking, he says, it was impossible to shoot that video anywhere other than the surface of the Moon. A lovely piece of debunkery, filmed with the assurance of an Errol Morris.
Daily Archives: September 15, 2014
Old Amsterdam
Just came on this photoshopped version of a photograph I took in 2003 from a boat on an Amsterdam canal. The building in the background is the Rijksmuseum. Corny but nice.
Everything is connected…
Quote of the Day
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Apple Pay’s revenue stream
Further to my Observer column yesterday, this from Bloomberg.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) will reap fees from banks when consumers use an iPhone in place of credit and debit cards for purchases, a deal that gives the handset maker a cut of the growing market for mobile payments, according to three people with knowledge of the arrangement.
That’s a small cut on millions of daily transactions. Adds up to a formidable revenue stream.