From Andrew Pouliot comes a great tip about using the Core Animation debug mode both on a touch device or in the simulator. This really helps get to the core of blending and where your app can stand to speed up.

“It’s an assault on the senses, a barrage of crazy imagery. Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one.”

(Via io9.)

(via stevenf.)

I like Girl Talk. A biomechanical engineer that makes wicked mashups. Wired has a story on a song from the latest Girl Talk album, Feed The Animals. There are 35 samples in the song, expertly blended. Amazing.

Graham Lee with a great explanation of authentication and authorization with beer and WWDC.

Ms. Taken is a clever fake engagement ring hidden in a key fob. The real kicker is the parody of Lonely Island’s Jizz In My Pants song/video.

(Via Geekologie.)