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I’ve seen Path, the new "un social" network (limit 50 friends) plugged by pundits and journalists. I tried it and just didn’t get it. Didn’t know what it was for, who it was for, and why it was getting attention. So I am glad finally to come across a commentator who seems to agree with m...
Read more →Check out Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike(from [Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/members/318783044fd511917d3bc9765d8...
Read more →Check out The Flawed Legal Architecture of the Certificate Authority Trust Model(from Freedom to Tinker: ** "The bottom line is that the CA Trust Model’...
Read more →This is really nice: Restfulie – Rest from Scratch. It’s a package of code for creating REST clients and servers with built in content type negotiation and other goodies. Watch the fun tour-do-force video too: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11294789&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 “Rest from scratch” with Rails and Restfulie – part 1 from Caelum on Vimeo.
I continue to be fascinated by this. Is WikiLeaks a good guy or a bad guy? I don’t know how I feel yet, so I continue to read. Here are more articles that have impressed me: From Jeremy Wagstaff’s Loose Wire Blog: > “Asked why he chose to work with three major news o...
Read more →Like many, I don’t know yet whether I support or condemn the Wikileaks action that has been discussed and debated at length on all fora. You have to agree that it has yielded some interesting insights about the way the world works. First of all: as far as a diplomat making *snide comments...
Read more →I’ve always been a major space travel fan and geek. This video linked from Engadget incredibly had me glued to my seat for almost 40 minutes. Some fantastic super slow motion footage of the launch. Note especially how the two narrators just love the shuttle and love their jobs. They can’t get enough of it, even after having seen this stuff a million times over.
Check out this really interesting Pogue article in the New York Times: “Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone’s Unsung Hero”. Here’s a tidbit: > “It’s the screen of every touchscreen phone, like th...
Read more →Following up from yesterday’s post, in fact, I was able to get $300 for my mint condition iPhone 3GS on Craig’s list, and was able to buy a new iPhone 4 from Radioshack for $260 after tax! So, if you have an iPhone 3GS in good condition, and your AT&T contract is up, then you should upgrade to an iPhone 4 and make $40 in the process. Cool!
So Radioshack is offering $50 off the price of an iPhone 4 for the next several days. As far as I can tell, the difference between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS is not that great, so I’ve not really been that interested. But it got...
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David Weinberger has, as usual, an interesting take, and some interesting links relevant to our perception and the defense or offense of Wikileaks. From his post: > “I here just want to comment on a particular theory of truth that many are using to justify Wikilea...
Read more →I just returned from my mother’s birthday party with about 300 photos – I would say 70% of them are no good, so I selected about 40 of the best ones and then had to decide how to share them with everyone who cared. A little bit of research produced the following options which I am sharing with YOU ...
Read more →The thing about a bubble is that while people worry about it, no one is actually sure whether they are in one, and especially when it will be over. The other thing about bubbles is that they keep happening because they are the result of human nature (greed and self-deception): > “Less than a decad...
Read more →I work at the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, where we are creating new, modern, open source, and publicly owned technology for operating all aspects of voting in the US. By the way, do not assume this means ‘internet voting’ — it does not. There is a lot of old techn...
Read more →With apologies for quoting a Foxnews story, and with thanks to Scott Adams for the link, here’s a fascinating behind the scenes story of Stuxnet: > “The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters where scientists...
Read more →I went to RubyConf and heard a detailed presentation on a new possible feature of possible Ruby 2.0 called ‘Refinements’. I have to admit that I didn’t fully grasp how the feature really would be used. Here’s a nice and quite techical article about it: Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice from Katz Got Your Tongue?: > "The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby 2.0 is to make monkey-patching safer. Specifically, the goal is to make it possible to extend core classes, but to limit the effect of those extensions to a particular area of code."
I was experimenting with a lit...
Check out ‘Like a Full-Body Massage’: Thinking About the TSA(from James Fallows :: The Atlantic: > “3) The ‘zero-risk’ mentality vs ‘acceptable’ risk. Every society acc...
Read more →I happen to be reading iWoz, which is Steve Wozniak’s memoir/biography/whatever. It’s a very breezy easy read and fun if you follow this kind of thing. So naturally this caught my eye: > “Woz then moved on to the topic of Android saying that Android smartphones, not the iPhone, would become dominant...
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