December 2011
45 posts
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Time for a Change? Johns Hopkins Scholars Say... →
Huh, not quite so sure on the need for the timezone alterations (in favor of a unified world timezone) but the harmonized calendar would be rather nice. However, deciding when major holidays fall (which day of the week) would be difficult I think.
infoneer-pulse:
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly...
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Japanese Roboticists Are Building the Tallest... →
GUNDAM! GUNDAM, GUNDAM! GUNDAM!~
I’m sorry, I heard nothing else.
…Wait, VOTOMs.
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Don't Break the Internet - Stanford Law Review →
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“When journalism was local, the math of reporting was pretty simple: you found a...”
– The second to last paragraph is the killer one.
Seth’s Blog: The new lazy journalism
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When animals play videogames, we all win.
I was amused. It’s just a more sophisticated way of playing with your pets than laser pointers.
killscreendaily:
The world’s is facing uncertain times: revolutions, Occupy protests squelched by all-too-liberal uses of police pepper spray and batons, and the looming threats of NDAA and SOPA hanging over our heads. It’s a lot to think about.
In the meantime, here’s a video of a bearded dragon...
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the... →
Now I feel old.
parislemon:
Wow, time flies. I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking it was pure magic. It was easily one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen in a theater because I was totally transported back to being a little kid and reading the books.
I also remember the rumors for years that the movie was getting made than it wasn’t getting made — with plenty saying it would be...
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Lego Is for Girls - BusinessWeek →
Well, it looks like LEGO has done their homework. I’ll wait and see for myself, but it shouldn’t be that bad, yes?
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Kill Screen: Models want to look virtual.... →
Just what people who consider their own body image need to know. No, you can’t actually look like those models, as they don’t actually exist as people, just dummies photoshopped to look like models.
killscreendaily:
While art direction in big budget games is largely a race towards the photorealism, it seems that the fashion world would like to be virtual. The clothing retailer H&M has...
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Platform Wars: Simulating the Battle for Video... →
If you’re interested, you should take a gander at this.
(Via Kill Screen)
Data caps a "crude and unfair tool" for easing... →
48% of Americans were in the top 10% of bandwidth users at some point in the day. Hmm.
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“The idea that press freedom is about protecting journalists is anachronistic,...”
– Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
Wonderfully Childish: Modular Prefab Modern... →
Like minecraft, but closer to being real (by actually being real). These look cool, and if they’re stIll around later I’d consider them.
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“This is a joke. This bill will have very little impact on jobs directly. And of...”
– Economist Dean Baker’s assessment of the MPAA’s bold claims about job losses due to piracy, in a long but well-worth-it analysis of the SOPA fight over at Huffington Post. (via arlpolicynotes)
U.S. Oil Independence Beckons as Exports Rise:... →
Well now, this is interesting is it not?
Not totally to be taken seriously. Exports > imports, but that’s about it.
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Megaupload Video Reinstated, Universal Says “You... →
Well, the video in question between megaupload and UMG is back up on Youtube for now. So yeah, we’ll see how this goes and how long it lasts.
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“But more importantly, Universal argues that its takedown is not governed by the...”
– Well great. This is fantastic. So they have the law, and then they also have extra deals that allow them to make an end run around the law? Our freedom of expression is being controlled by a secret agreement that we can’t see the contents of, can’t appeal, and didn’t really know existed until now....
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→ The Book of Jobs (not the Steve kind) →
A harrowing look at parallels between the Great Depression and the Long Slump. He advances an alternative model for the causes of both, and proposes a solution for the fundamental economic restructuring that he feels is required to fix things.
(Via Marco Arment)
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FBI Says Carrier IQ May Be Used In 'Law... →
Well now, isn’t this good news for everyone. I also wonder if CarrierIQ is on handsets sold outside the US…
(Via Daring Fireball)
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“Passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act or Protect IP will send a loud signal to...”
– Online piracy laws must preserve Web freedom - CNN.com (via arlpolicynotes)
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Star Trek The Next Generation: Enterprise-D... →
This… is pretty cool I guess. 24 hours of the Enterprise-D’s ambient engine noise.
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“We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning...”
– Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’ : NPR
(via rachelfershleiser)
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BBC News - Deadly attack rocks central Liege in... →
Not good news.
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“What if the library building is gutted and turned into classrooms and graduate...”
– An interesting look, but I find the proposed model unlikely for its dependence upon a paperless environment. I’ve lived through the “paperless office”, and so I find myself skeptical about that aspect, not really the rest of his point.
Are Academic Libraries Too Big To Fail? (What if...
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All the world’s a game | The Economist →
The Economist has a very interesting series of articles on video games in this edition. They also have a pretty good article on esports too.
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Norway Ran Out of Butter Because the Entire... →
So, so now THIS IS TRUE. I’ve also heard (from people who live there) that it’s not all due to consumption though.
No quite that much, it is ‘only’ 136$ pr kg, which means an American whit a 20kg baggage limit can get 2720$ for a round trip that cost 600$ from the East coast.
Another source says this:
According to a domestic news site I just visited, the reason for the shortage...
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Social Media War Posters →
These are pretty cool. I found them via Laughing Squid.
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Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical... →
Well crap. We’re (possibly) screwed patently in a medical direction.
(Via @siracusa)
★ (Windows Store Revenue Split) →
This sounds pretty cool actually. I hope Apple pays attention to this as well.
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BBC News - Japan's youth turn to rural areas... →
Interesting to see this happening in Japan of all places.
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Cuts to first-class mail to slow delivery in 2012 →
Well now. The beginning of the end? That would be very disappointing.
infoneer-pulse:
Unprecedented cuts by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class delivery next spring and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day.
The estimated $3 billion in reductions, to be announced in broader detail later Monday, are part of a...
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U.S. Presidential Candidate Cain Admits Quoting... →
Highly amusing. I’m glad that at last he’s owned up to watching Pokemon, and using it as inspiration.
No joke, you can get your inspiration from any source, and as long as it actually works for you so much the better.
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BBC News - New Icelandic volcano eruption could... →
Not good? Iceland apparently wants to own the holiday news cycle again this year… maybe.
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“Mexico’s National Institute for Anthropological History has also tried to...”
– Yay archaeology!
BBC News - Mayans ‘did not predict world to end in 2012’
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Study confirms many of us go online for no reason →
So this post has no reason to exist I suppose.
infoneer-pulse:
For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us — and the majority of young adults — go online for no good reason at all.
The report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that on any given day, 53 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds go online just to have fun or pass time.
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SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to 'Net... →
This looks much more promising than anything else so far.
American deceptionalism - Opinion - Al Jazeera... →
The fact that trickles like this have to come from Al Jazeera is really telling some days.
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Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with... →
This is not good, but good to know about. Even HTTPS? Really?
(Via @glyphobet by way of @tanonev)
