This is pretty effing cool. Real-time analytics of font purchases from MyFonts.com. (Lots and lots and lots of Museo)

[via @behoff]

The potential of this technology is both incredible and creepy. To be able to potentially recreate visual representations of experiences and memories based on brain activity could have wild implications for many different aspects of our daily lives.

The pivot Netflix has undertaken has been wrought with shortcomings and misteps, none of which are necessarily the pivot itself. The most aggregious is it’s failure to effectively communicate to it’s customers. Apple Outsider outlines just how easy that could’ve been to correct.

That’s why today we’re announcing significant changes to our company. First, we are renaming the DVD by mail business to Netflix Classic. This is the same DVD rental service you’re used to, but it’s more than just a name: Netflix Classic is a new company, operating independently as a subsidiary of Netflix.

Moving forward, Netflix as a company will be dedicated to streaming media. This is a realization of our original vision, and of the company’s name: watching movies over the Internet. The Netflix.com website and mobile apps will exclusively service our streaming library. DVD members will manage their queues at classic.netflix.com.

If you subscribe to both services, you’ll see two charges on your credit card instead of one, but you’ll pay the same total amount per month you do now. This, along with our recent pricing changes, is just a necessary outcome from creating two separate companies. DVD members will of course still receive the same red Netflix envelope that has been familiar to them all these years.

If there was a yearbook for our social media applications…

A collection of some of the most interesting images collected by Google’s Street View cameras.

The New York Times’ Tech columnist, David Pogue, puts the brand new Verizon iPhone through its paces.

And to answer everyone’s question, the Verizon iPhone is nearly the same as AT&T’s iPhone 4 — but it doesn’t drop calls. For several million Americans, that makes it the holy grail.

I took the Verizon iPhone to five cities, including the two Bermuda Triangles of AT&T reception: San Francisco and New York. Holding AT&T and Verizon iPhones side by side in the passenger seat of a car, I dialed 777-FILM simultaneously, and then rode around until a call dropped. (Why that number? Because I wanted to call a landline, eliminating the other person’s cell reception from the equation. Also, Mr. Moviefone can carry the entire conversation by himself, so I could concentrate on the testing.)

In San Francisco, the AT&T phone dropped the call four times in 30 minutes of driving; the Verizon phone never did. The Verizon iPhone also held its line in several Manhattan intersections where the AT&T call died. At a Kennedy airport gate, the AT&T phone couldn’t even find a signal; the Verizon dialed with a smug yawn.

Most impressively, the Verizon iPhone effortlessly made calls in the Cellphone Signal Torture Chamber of Doom: my house.

[via @zeldman]

Verizon is not holding back with their new ads.

Oh, and pre-orders for the Verizon iPhone ran out in less than a day. Can’t wait to see how long it will be until analysts start revising their estimates.

[via TechCrunch]

An absolutely amazing piece of new medical technology.

[via Mike Industries]

There’s not a whole lot that needs to be said.

It’s the same phone. The only difference is the network. And Verizon’s network is better.