January 2012
“ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for...”
– My Guantánamo Nightmare - NYTimes.com
December 2011
Two cats from a friend are staying with us because they (some company, not the cats) rare renovating his house. Constantly seeing how cats behave around humans makes me wonder what the hell cats actually think humans are. Do cats think humans are just really big cats? Probably not. Do they think humans are supercatural gods or something, or are cats more like atheists? Or do cats think that humans...
October 2011
September 2011
“The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only...”
– Nik Cubrilovic Blog - Logging out of Facebook is not enough
“What clued me in was an article on ReadWriteWeb that says that just reading an...”
– Scripting News: Facebook is scaring me
August 2011
“On a message board for prosecutors, Bradley was asked by another prosecutor how...”
– Insane. Perry Doesn’t Care About Innocence | Dispatches from the Culture Wars
“There was a pattern to the parole board’s decisions, but it wasn’t related to...”
– Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
“The Northwestern team identified the breakdown of cellular recycling systems in...”
– Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says - chicagotribune.com
“second most valuable company in the world. Regardless of the final value of the...”
– What they’re “protecting” us from - Anil Dash
Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill... →
Google just bought itself a huge patent portfolio (and some kind of hardware company or something).
“I found those protests exciting, yes because I was young and a bit of a twerp...”
– Holy crap, my opinion of Russell Brand just took a 180. I want to quote all of what he wrote, but I won’t, so read it here: Big Brother isn’t watching you « Russell Brand.
“But wait, there is one more thing — patents. HTC as a company will pay out...”
– Patents create a market where even a big company like HTC can’t compete. It’s impossible for a startup to enter this market. Yo, HTC — you got problems. And Dr. Dre can’t fix them — Tech News and Analysis
“In the wake of the riots in London, the British government says it’s considering...”
– Morons. Blaming the tools: Britain proposes a social-media ban — Tech News and Analysis
“Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab have developed technology that may someday cure...”
– I hope this happens before I die (of the cold). New drug could cure nearly any viral infection - MIT News Office
“Quark, developer of the desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, has been...”
– Remember when everybody hated Quark and loved Adobe? Not so much anymore. This makes me sad. Quark sold to merger and acquisition company | Publishing | Creative Notes | Macworld
Watch(via Executives spoof video from Microsoft MGX FY12 – istartedsomething)
Watch(via Scifri Videos: Where’s The Octopus?)
“De Waal thinks that the previous tests handicapped the chimps by putting them in...”
– Charity of the apes – chimps spontaneously help each other | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
“Zero-sum “win the future” rhetoric notwithstanding, it doesn’t...”
– Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity | The Economist
“Obama added that while it may look ugly at times, politics is about Democrats...”
– Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough Concessions By Both Democrats And Democrats Alike | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away.”
– Facebook’s Marketing Director, Randi Zuckerberg, via Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“My new results also contradict Wolfe-Simon et al.’s observation that cells...”
– RRResearch: #arseniclife
“The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an...”
– The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake - ACM Queue
“Exploiting Florida’s liberal public-records laws and Google’s search algorithms,...”
– Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again | Threat Level | Wired.com
“There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending....”
– Debt deal: anger and deceit has led the US into a billionaires’ coup | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
July 2011
FOX News Facebook Page on 9/11 Cross Generates... →
Incidentally, most of them are hilarious. Stuff like
these people are f’ing scum of the earth. can we start killing them now? few groups are filled with more hatred than athiests [sic].
I lol’d.
“Risky play mirrors effective cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety,”...”
– Schneier on Security: Revenge Effects of Too-Safe Playground Equipment
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