Category Archives: mostly pointless.

Testing Dictation in Mountain Lion

Actual Text:

The feature about OS X Mountain Lion that excites me the most is dictation. It allows me speak and have it automatically transcribed into text. This is me testing it out right now. So how did it do?

Transcribed Text:

The future about sex
Ours is dictation
To speak and have it automatically transfer that this is me testing it out right now so how did it

Not horrible, but still not something I can use for anything of importance. Double tap the function key while you are focused on a text area to try it for yourself.

Bacon Typography: A Delicious Use of Oink And Paper | Co. Design

If you’ve always wanted to meet someone who brings home the bacon, look no further than Henry Hargreaves. And this has nothing to do with Hargreave’s successful career as a model for famous fashion houses including Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, and Jil Sander. The model-turned-photographer simply decided one day to dabble in pork fat and create a bacon alphabet.

via Bacon Typography: A Delicious Use of Oink And Paper | Co. Design.

Bike Lanes are for Bikes

A guy in NYC got a ticket for riding his bike not in the bike lane. His reaction was to make this video showing what happens when you ride your bike only in the bike lane. Make sure to watch till the end.