I Am a Flying Bear

June 10th, 2010Blog1 comment

Why is this bear so sad? He’s flying! Maybe it’s because he’s in a wheelchair and he’s injured. I wish him the best.

iOS 4: It’s Full of Stars: So WWDC has come and I’ve downloaded and installed the developer GM candidate of iPhone (iOS) 4. I installed an earlier beta of the OS months ago when it first came out but it was too crashy — this one is rock-solid and shows off the implementation of the features we’re going to get in a few weeks.

Folders are great, although you really want to organize them on your computer with iTunes — dragging one app around at a time is really slow. Multitasking is excellent as well. I noticed that if you bring up the multitasking bar and swipe all the way to the left, you get the screen lock control and iPod player controls. Really nice. Also the OS feels a bit snappier on an iPhone 3GS. Really looking forward to getting my hands on the new hardware at the end of the month.

Google’s new backgrounds: Google becomes Bing. Does this mean that its charming (and uniquely original) Google doodle logos are going away? I hope not.

If all else fails, you can ride an elephant into Buddhist monkhood: Tony Jaa quits making movies to become a Buddhist monk: He apparently rode an elephant to the temple to begin his new life. This article has some very interesting tidbits about the making of Ong Bak 2 — chickens were sacrificed before shooting and the movie had to be split into two movies to manage cost overruns. Quote:

The fire is completely gone from Jaa as a performer, he’s put on weight – not to Segal levels but he’s lost all of his definition…

Neat how they managed to get a dig at Steven Segal in there while they were at it. Why can’t they just leave Segal alone???