October 2011
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Kill Screen: Feeling Anxious, Depressed? You... →
Well now, so all that time playing with LEGOs and camping really helps me now? Haha!
killscreendaily:
Have you been feeling frustrated, stressed, down in the dumps? Maybe it’s because you spent too much time preparing for adulthood as a child, and too little time playing:
Suicide rates quadrupled from 1950 to 2005 for children less than fifteen years and for teens and young adults...
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Ohio Mock Zombie Outbreak Inspired By CDC Message... →
This is awesome! I read about the CDC’s post back in May, but it’s great to see this kicked off!
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Alexander Chen – Baroque.me: Bach Cello Suites No.... →
Rather cool visualization of Bach on strings rather than notes.
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Devices That Can Listen In on Cellphone Traffic,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Law enforcement and military officials are increasingly using secret devices sometimes called “stingrays” to locate people via their cellphones, even when the phones aren’t in use, the Wall Street Journal reported recently. But finding people isn’t all that this type of gear can do.
These types of machines mimic a cell tower and cause your phone to connect to the machine instead...
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The iConstitution: how to protect user freedom in... →
While not 100% sure this is the right way to go about things, it’s at least an attempt at addressing the issue.
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BBC News - Radar that can 'see' through solid... →
Well now. Does this explain Superman’s X-ray vision?
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Hands-on: Nokia's Lumia 800 is exactly what... →
These phones look really good. If I wasn’t an entrenched apple user, I think I would be using one of these. I just wish that there was a front facing camera.
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Washington Post Illustrates Oakland Police... →
Regardless of what you think of OWS, using this image to headline your story, where police used tear gas and rubber bullets, is disingenuous at best.
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
Wow, what a nightmare. I like new features, and being unable to get them (while still under a 2-year contract even!) would drive me nearly insane.
(Via @asymco)
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The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One...
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Codify – iPad →
And you can too code on an iPad.
(Via Daring Fireball)
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HOW TO: Spy on the Webcams of Your Website... →
I know this guy. Great job disclosing this Feross!
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The Frame: Japan marks 6 months since earthquake,... →
That’s some pretty amazing cleanup efforts and progress 6 months after the disaster.
The Education Optimists: Passing the Buck →
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Darpa Robots Will Turn Dead Satellites Into a... →
This is a pretty cool idea. Recycling can be fun! Just dream up orbital zombifying, saw blade wielding, robot satellite antenna arrays!
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Ohio's War on the Middle Class | Mother Jones →
Horrible news from Ohio. But it’s easily replicated across the nation.
(Via Instapaper Editors)
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Behind All the Buzz: Deblur Sneak Peek |... →
This. This shows just how awesome and great Adobe really is. I mean, when it’s working so far, it works amazingly.
(Via Daring Fireball)
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The Majority of Facebook Users Have Changed Their... →
This really is good news. Now, do those people know just what the settings mean? Not the power users, but the majority of those who are changing their privacy settings. Do they just change things away from public yet keep all the advertising features on (instant personalization, etc)?
infoneer-pulse:
It’s a myth that most Facebook users never change their default privacy settings, said...
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Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read | 43 Folders →
Just read it and then go buy Instapaper 4. After that, READ.
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We Can All Become Job Creators - NYTimes.com →
Now this is an idea that should (in theory) work now, fast, and focused. I applaud this idea. Corporations should know that if things don’t pick up, retail and spending will decrease. A small effort now in support of this will pay huge dividends later - rather than the large costs of inaction.
I just hope that this isn’t a path back to oligarchies, but in megacorp form.
Via Daring Fireball
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A Day in the Life of Privacy →
Well worth a read. A look into daily life these days and how often the devices we use and our entire environment is set up to disclose and expose our private information. To summarize, often and everywhere.
infoneer-pulse:
As soon as I woke up this morning my privacy was compromised. My Android phone has GPS enabled so that the phone, and any widget on it, can determine my geolocation. I am...
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iPad Thoughts Again
So this whole iPad thing. I wrote about it back when it was first announced and was writing from a perspective that had never seen or really used one. I was optimistic, both from an Apple watcher’s perspective (in terms of how Apple will make money with it) and also from an everyday user’s perspective (automatic transmission analogies, and Nintendo’s Blue Ocean...
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Curmudgeon: Education Nation is Full of... →
A math teacher’s rant on, “what students want”. Rather epic.
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I Support The Occupy Movement – banner project ~... →
An interesting idea for supporters of the Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Everywhere movements who do things online.
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“Inviting a school into your personal life—whether voluntarily or involuntarily...”
– Always, always watch yourself online. But you shouldn’t be doing illegal things in the first place, let alone posting about them online.
College Admissions Officers Are Definitely Checking Your Facebook Page - Education - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)
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Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your... →
Not good news. Bad enough that they already get this info, but selling it?
infoneer-pulse:
Verizon Wireless users, listen up:
Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for “certain business and marketing reports” and for “making mobile ads you see more relevant.”
This info includes the...
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How Siri's Robotic Voice Will Help Her Win Your... →
Quite an interesting blurb. I agree, keeping a robotic voice artificial keeps down expectations, where when they make mistakes yet sound human causes anger.
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters |... →
This makes sense. The Bailout tax and the hedge fund taxes he proposes seem like ideas that really should have been put in place already. But really, I can’t see any good reasons against these five proposals. The only one that might have a good reason behind opposing, can be dismissed these days. One could claim that taxing all stock and derivatives would punish the markets at a time of weakness,...
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“ We have almost doubled the number of young adults with at least a bachelor’s...”
– Things I vaguely knew already, but am more confident about now
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If Streaming isn’t Copying, can Libraries be... →
This sounds like a possibly good idea.
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ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education →
This looks like some interesting software. I’ll be keeping this.
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“Not at this distance, your honor.”
– Oh wow. Yeah.
Samsung Lawyer Cannot Tell Samsung Tablet From Apple iPad - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD
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BBC News - German police find explosive devices on... →
Yeah… Anti-militant terrorists.
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BBC News - Iran agents 'planned US terror attacks' →
Confirmed via FBI press release as well. It doesn’t quite make sense though.
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“If everything is shared automatically, nothing has significance.”
– An assertion that I had not thought of in line with “frictionless sharing”. It’s much the same with all the game-related posts that you see. Doesn’t one just start to tune those out, knowing that no one ever really wanted to share it? If so, then everything Facebook intends with this is...
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Steve Jobs didn’t | asymco →
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Reeder for Mac 1.1.2 E-Mail & Internet Software... →
I use this all the time. Works great! I use the iPhone version as well and if I get an iPad, Reeder for iPad will be one of my first purchases.
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“Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our...”
– A really pressing issue these days. Is this how some of the scifi empires that I read about, the stagnant ones, emerged? Management and individuals were able to access too much information, depressing risks? Or was it the immediacy and publicity of the access that causes “minority shareholder... 