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"The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product..."

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:55:09 -0700

“The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care as much about DRM as they do about baseball players juicing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.”

- Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy

"For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise..."

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:43:02 -0700

“For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into “grains”, just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan. If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.””

- Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist

alex and luke dot com (via alexandlukedotcom) Two friends are...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:17:22 -0700

alex and luke dot com (via alexandlukedotcom)

Two friends are driving around the continent, and using social media to direct their car. Might be an interesting project to keep an eye on.

TEDxVancouver - Neill Blomkamp - 11/21/09 (via TEDxTalks) The...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:11:50 -0700

TEDxVancouver - Neill Blomkamp - 11/21/09 (via TEDxTalks)

The director of District 9 talks about the search for alien life.

Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:39:35 -0700

Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast:

This is a bit exciting.

"AAAAAaaaaaagh!” “Please calm down. Breathe deeply. Anxiety is a normal part of the temporal..."

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:57:50 -0700

““AAAAAaaaaaagh!” “Please calm down. Breathe deeply. Anxiety is a normal part of the temporal displacement field. It will pass quickly. OK. OK? OK. Now: Hello. I am you, from the year 2010, two decades in the future.””

- An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and Wonder

Canada follows America’s lead on reducing emissions | Alberta | News | Edmonton Sun

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:13:48 -0700

Canada follows America’s lead on reducing emissions | Alberta | News | Edmonton Sun:

This headline (not the story or the ensuing action) makes me so sad. 10 years ago, this would have been reversed.

HacKey

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:06:56 -0700

HacKey:

HacKey searches through your Last.fm favourites and ranks them by musical key, which is nifty. It’s a three-way tie for me between C Major, C# minor, and G Major, each getting 13%.

Office Worker Hobo Code

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:37:35 -0700

Office Worker Hobo Code:

Hobo code rewritten for the average office worker. Put together by an old coworker of mine, who is better than us all.

Apple's Mistake

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:41 -0700

Apple's Mistake:

I think this is one of the best criticisms of the App Store process yet:

How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn’t like?

Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:34:48 -0700

Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" :

Great article about Cayce Pollard from William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. I have an article sitting in the wings on Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer that I really need to do something with.

Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:07:47 -0600

Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists:

A Must Read. I’ve come across SEO experts in the past, and been mighty unimpressed with their “recommendations”. One company I worked with paid thousands of dollars to an SEO and started getting worse engine placement. (I had a moment of victory when I managed to capture the #2 spot on Google for their company name by just having decent content that happened to mention them).

Chrysler Turbo Encabulator (via docah) This MUST be a hoax...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:38:28 -0600

Chrysler Turbo Encabulator (via docah)

This MUST be a hoax video.

NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:35:51 -0600

NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations:

I love conspiracy kooks.

PJF's Pages - Journal - Facebook Privacy talk at BarCampMelbourne now on-line

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:58:05 -0600

PJF's Pages - Journal - Facebook Privacy talk at BarCampMelbourne now on-line

PJF's Pages - Journal - Dark Stalking on Facebook

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:25:09 -0600

PJF's Pages - Journal - Dark Stalking on Facebook:

The start of a potentially interesting series on Facebook privacy and how to get around it via Facebook’s own APIs.

Single Ladies - Beyonce (via PomplamooseMusic)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:09:42 -0600

Single Ladies - Beyonce (via PomplamooseMusic)

Decoding Jackson Pollock | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:24:24 -0600

Decoding Jackson Pollock | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine:

I loved Pollock before, and I love him even more now. A biographer of Jackson Pollock describes how his partner, an art historian, discovered Pollock’s own name embedded within his work, Mural.

It’s Party Time! (via cabel)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:55:42 -0600

It’s Party Time! (via cabel)

Ex-MP Jaffer facing drug, DUI charges - The Globe and Mail

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:57:37 -0600

Ex-MP Jaffer facing drug, DUI charges - The Globe and Mail:

My former MP was pulled over and charged with DUI and cocaine possession. He was a star Conservative MP. Priceless.