December 2011
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Reactions to Gruber: Reaction to Reaction to My... →
Just looking at this claim, the answer is, “all of them”, these days. There are free versions of both of those, not to mention WP7. But the thing that Gruber (and others) point out is that Apple designs tend to have fewer continuous irritations and annoyances, leading to an experience that does not consume time that could have been spent on something else.
johngruber:
“Hi, I’m just...
November 2011
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Mall owners pull plug on cellular tracking, for... →
infoneer-pulse:
You may now shop two malls again without fear of individualized tracking—at least by your cell phone signal. Privacy concerns raised by US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) have ended plans by malls in southern California and Virginia to “survey” customers’ shopping habits by tracking their cell phone signals.
» via ars technica
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“We now have to deal with the fallout from personal science. We’ve so...”
– Issues with the Placebo effect and the effect on policy and science. Things have consequences.
Seth’s Blog: Marketing of the placebo: Everyone gets their own belief
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Reasoning With Vampires →
Reasoning in short bursts.
Before I had any right to dismiss Twihards or criticize the psychologically unhealthy relationship model that Bella Swan and Edward Cullen present, I felt obliged to read the books. So I did. All four novels, one novella, and an incomplete document in portable format. The content lived down to my expectations, but I was unprepared for how poorly crafted the saga is.
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“Americans who deem South Korea’s education system a model (President Obama,...”
– Again from October, but still relevant.
In South Korea, too many college grads, too few jobs - The Washington Post
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The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
A bit older, but still something to think on as we go about the ‘social web’.
Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers - that’s the social graph.
Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving...
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Kill Screen: The Old Testament is built in Lego... →
I took a look at the site, and it is pretty amazing. Relevant and reverent as well. A nice showcase of why LEGOs are really that awesome once the hit critical mass.
killscreendaily:
Brenden Powell Smith has been building Biblical scenes out of Legos and posting them on his website for the past 10 years, and now his illustrations are being collected in a new book titled The Brick Bible.
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Mobile "rootkit" maker tries to silence critical... →
Hm…
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Forget Shopping, Friday Is Update Your Parents'... →
Yes. Do this.
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Bob Ostertag: Militarization Of Campus Police →
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“I was stunned and appalled by the UC Davis Police spraying protestors, but...”
– The video is appalling.
(Via Daring Fireball)
Viewing the UC Davis Pepper Spraying from Multiple Angles - Waxy.org
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Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman,... →
A more systemic look at some of the police tactics in use today that enables the kinds of police action that we’ve been seeing recently.
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Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same... →
Oh. Well then. Huh.
infoneer-pulse:
The team behind the finding in September that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and found the same result.
If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics.
» via BBC
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“On a windy Sunday morning in October I found myself biking through sparse,...”
– An interesting view of the Starcraft II esports scene in the US.
StarCraft changed my life | The Verge
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Facebook tracking is under scrutiny →
Not the best news for Facebook, but possibly good for the rest of us.
infoneer-pulse:
In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users’ privacy by making public too much of their personal information.
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is...
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Honda Media Newsroom - Headlines - Honda Unveils... →
This is pretty cool. Cap unscrewing is not that simple. So is jumping on one leg.
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“Congress is considering two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills, the...”
– Simple and blunt.
Protect The Internet
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Could Checking Facebook in Class Help Students... →
No. Just… No. If kids are not focusing, due to their unrealistic expectations of internet access, then they should not be pandered to. Technology use is not a right. It hasn’t been, nor should it. If you’re in school, and care, then whatever is going on on Facebook or twitter can wait. Why do people even consider giving in to self-centered student’s desires here?
infoneer-pulse:
It may...
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The Geography of Recession | STRATFOR →
Stratfor’s stuff is always interesting to read. However, they are very geography biased in terms of their analysis. But they’re at least consistent and well thought out within that paradigm.
This time they’re looking at transit networks and the current recessions around the globe.
Report: 39% of photos on Twitter posted from iOS... →
Wait, so twitter for blackberry is more popular (photo-wise) than android? We are talking about the same RIM developed, shrinking market share platform being compared to the largest mobile platform, right?
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How The World Will Shape Itself to Please Social... →
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“In a Monday court filing, Warner Brothers admitted that it has issued takedown...”
– Yeah, and these guys want more non-judicial powers? Ha, ha, ha. But they’re close to getting it too.
Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw, didn’t own copyright to
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Lost Civilization Discovered In Sahara Desert |... →
This is pretty cool. Archaeology away!
Also, who says that archaeology isn’t a technology-embracing discipline?
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Researcher thinks Pius XII went undercover to save... →
You can also read this which came out a bit earlier.
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“Young people who move to an apartment or get a house for the first time don’t...”
– I know that since I moved off to college, I’ve not paid for cable TV once. I’ve paid for cable internet, but that’s not the same thing.
Charlie Ergen’s quote via The children are our future, and they’re not paying for TV — Online Video News
Nice to finally see a CEO of a pay tv network calling a...
The Mirage →
Well this is a sobering look at “post-partisanship”. Yeah… Not happening.
New social media? Same old, same old, say Stanford... →
Actually, the increases could have been much higher back then, proportionally.
Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes - UX... →
Now with math and evolutionary explanations!
(Via Daring fireball)
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Teens on Facebook: mostly kind, but cruelty is... →
How is this news? I mean, having the data helps, but children that age already experience this sort of thing all the time. What would have been more interesting to me would have been a comparison to how the same teenagers felt about social interactions at school to see if there’s notable differences.
What's the language of the future? - Globalization... →
Sounds to me a lot like standard, or several other version if this common tongue named by scifi authors back in the 1950s.
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“Jason Perlow, reporting for ZDNet:
Adobe is stopping development on Flash...”
– So, how do those feature charts look like now?
Daring Fireball Linked List: ZDNet: Adobe to Cease Development of Flash Player for Mobile Browsers
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Yelping with Cormac →
THIS IS AWESOME. READ THESE.
Especially: Starbucks, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Apple Store, and IKEA.
(Via Daring Fireball I think)
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“Ars discussed the proposal with Ryan Radia of the Competitive Enterprise...”
– From a libertarian, but they tend to be the few that pay attention to this sort of thing. Worth trying to stop if you have the time.
The Stop Online Piracy Act: Big Content’s full-on assault against the Safe Harbor
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Windows Phone Is Back, Full of Great Tricks -... →
A nice review of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). I say again, if I wasn’t an apple person, I would be getting one of these.
(Via Daring Fireball)
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One in five willing to make Facebook friends with... →
Wow.
But what we did find weird was the number of people willing to add complete strangers as friends. The initial batch of friend requests had about a 20 percent success rate. These were unsolicited friend requests between people who couldn’t possibly have relationships, and yet one in five people were willing to make the connection. If that complete stranger had a mutual friend in...
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WSJ Gets Away from Whole Distracting “News” Thing →
Just what is this “news” thing you speak of? We interface, or chrome if you’d like.
(via Paul.Kedrosky.com)
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Side by Side Screenshots: Gmail App for iPhone vs... →
Webview much?
(via Paul.Kedrosky.com)
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Stanford marching band and Fan of the House's... →
Whee! Go Card!
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Not Your Standard C-Level Setup →
This is pretty cool. This guy could run, and did for a while, his whole business off of an iPad and keyboard. Now, I’m not there yet, but I’m getting s bit closer now with a real case for my own iPad. Writing papers is still a bit of work, but quite doable.
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Europe's first farmers didn't abandon their... →
Just as I was taught. I would have said called it, but I was taught it.
