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silveradeptGood day, everyone. We begin with images of the galaxy, as taken from the beauty of Australia.
We continue with the question of jus thow private your e-readers and e-book purchases really are.
Speaking of privacy, PrivacyFix, a browser extension that allows you to scan and lock down your privacy settings across multiple websites that want to track your data.
Out in the world today, Wired's assessment of the most dangerous people in the world. And how our increasing availability of medical knowledge and support groups online can make it a little bit harder to spot someone who is only there because of their pathological need for sympathy and attention.
How Curious Fifi, err, George, saved their creators multiple times and got them out of the Second Great War.
Domestically, Mr. Kucinich lambastes the idea of the Chained Consumer Price Index, as it would cut benefits, then index to the cheaper alternatives brought about because of the benefit cut, causign further benefit cuts.... And this was soemthing that President Obama was okay with.
The most deadly school violence was a bombing of a school in Michigan in 1927, and the people who survived that still remember it very vividly.
An author opened an independent bookstore in Nashville. Against predictions and the conventional wisdom. It's doing so well that the author has to stock and sign books in her basement.
Ah, also, politics. You know, where House Republicans brought the fires of Pompeii upon themselves by not being able to pass a bill to provide relief to hurricane victims. And that still believe that they should have let the economy die AGAIN because Moloch demands it. They did manage to get a bill through that staved off the worst possible result.
That said, when it came to letting the govenment spy on Americans, there were no impediments at all to getting a bill passed to keep letting the FBI and NSA intercept U.S. citizens' communication and not have to disclose it or discard it.
In technology, Facebook made a bit to buy Instagram, and floated the idea of having Instragram get the right to sell the photos of its users. That idea went over like a lead balloon and has been withdrawn.
The science of growing wine in a world where there are no regular seasonal changes. It's apparently possible, assuming you have enough people to make the grapes believe it's winter, and you have a region that does not drop below about 10 degrees C even in a years-long winter.
Talking about how the World Wide Web used to be more about open standards, interoperability, and having your own space, rather than being a named extension of someone else's corporate dream. (They also suggest ways to rebuild a more open web.)
A letter from TED and the TEDx directors asking the people putting on TEDx events to make sure their speakers are vetted and not pushing bad science or pseudoscience. (And speaking of good science - a nice piece about what actually killed Pompeii - it wasn't the lava.)
Also, a talk about how the fact that we are leaving records of our actions, thoughts, speeches, and writings on the web and archived in technology suggests that people aren't telling as many big lies in digital space. Little ones, perhaps, sure, but bigger ones aren't necessarily happening because they can be traced backwards.
The history of the most expensive amateur film to the date of this post - 26 seconds documenting the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
And then, take a peek inside the team of engineers that made the Obama campaign as good as possible in the digital realms. They were wielding massive amounts of data for disparate teams and functions, and everything finally worked out properly for them. And for the Obama campaign.
There's also an old hypothesis that turns out to be right - there are some people who have a medical condition that makes them sleep too much, and there is a way of helping them clear out their systems.
Last out, experiments that are continuing (and will continue) after their originators have died.
In opinions, the suggestion that mass violence perpetrated by white men is a reaction to the world becoming more equal and less the province of white men only.
The power of the books we read when we're coming into adolescence.
Yes, the Westboro Church are awful, but if they didn't target straight people, too, would they be quite as hate-designated? Furthermore, a piece about how even doing well can sometimes result in suicidal ideations, if you're part of a minority. (Frank discussion of suicide there.)
Last for tonight, how digital works and the ease by which we can have them conveniently available cause a large amount of mud when it comes to whether you can show those copies in classrooms.
Also, a society that wanted to prevent useless giving at present-big holidays.
And good practice when someone who is new at programming sends you something to do a code review.
We continue with the question of jus thow private your e-readers and e-book purchases really are.
Speaking of privacy, PrivacyFix, a browser extension that allows you to scan and lock down your privacy settings across multiple websites that want to track your data.
Out in the world today, Wired's assessment of the most dangerous people in the world. And how our increasing availability of medical knowledge and support groups online can make it a little bit harder to spot someone who is only there because of their pathological need for sympathy and attention.
How Curious Fifi, err, George, saved their creators multiple times and got them out of the Second Great War.
Domestically, Mr. Kucinich lambastes the idea of the Chained Consumer Price Index, as it would cut benefits, then index to the cheaper alternatives brought about because of the benefit cut, causign further benefit cuts.... And this was soemthing that President Obama was okay with.
The most deadly school violence was a bombing of a school in Michigan in 1927, and the people who survived that still remember it very vividly.
An author opened an independent bookstore in Nashville. Against predictions and the conventional wisdom. It's doing so well that the author has to stock and sign books in her basement.
Ah, also, politics. You know, where House Republicans brought the fires of Pompeii upon themselves by not being able to pass a bill to provide relief to hurricane victims. And that still believe that they should have let the economy die AGAIN because Moloch demands it. They did manage to get a bill through that staved off the worst possible result.
That said, when it came to letting the govenment spy on Americans, there were no impediments at all to getting a bill passed to keep letting the FBI and NSA intercept U.S. citizens' communication and not have to disclose it or discard it.
In technology, Facebook made a bit to buy Instagram, and floated the idea of having Instragram get the right to sell the photos of its users. That idea went over like a lead balloon and has been withdrawn.
The science of growing wine in a world where there are no regular seasonal changes. It's apparently possible, assuming you have enough people to make the grapes believe it's winter, and you have a region that does not drop below about 10 degrees C even in a years-long winter.
Talking about how the World Wide Web used to be more about open standards, interoperability, and having your own space, rather than being a named extension of someone else's corporate dream. (They also suggest ways to rebuild a more open web.)
A letter from TED and the TEDx directors asking the people putting on TEDx events to make sure their speakers are vetted and not pushing bad science or pseudoscience. (And speaking of good science - a nice piece about what actually killed Pompeii - it wasn't the lava.)
Also, a talk about how the fact that we are leaving records of our actions, thoughts, speeches, and writings on the web and archived in technology suggests that people aren't telling as many big lies in digital space. Little ones, perhaps, sure, but bigger ones aren't necessarily happening because they can be traced backwards.
The history of the most expensive amateur film to the date of this post - 26 seconds documenting the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
And then, take a peek inside the team of engineers that made the Obama campaign as good as possible in the digital realms. They were wielding massive amounts of data for disparate teams and functions, and everything finally worked out properly for them. And for the Obama campaign.
There's also an old hypothesis that turns out to be right - there are some people who have a medical condition that makes them sleep too much, and there is a way of helping them clear out their systems.
Last out, experiments that are continuing (and will continue) after their originators have died.
In opinions, the suggestion that mass violence perpetrated by white men is a reaction to the world becoming more equal and less the province of white men only.
The power of the books we read when we're coming into adolescence.
Yes, the Westboro Church are awful, but if they didn't target straight people, too, would they be quite as hate-designated? Furthermore, a piece about how even doing well can sometimes result in suicidal ideations, if you're part of a minority. (Frank discussion of suicide there.)
Last for tonight, how digital works and the ease by which we can have them conveniently available cause a large amount of mud when it comes to whether you can show those copies in classrooms.
Also, a society that wanted to prevent useless giving at present-big holidays.
And good practice when someone who is new at programming sends you something to do a code review.
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Date: 2013-01-04 07:55 am (UTC)I bet it's not as hard as being starved to goddamn death by your own child, but who am I to stick my nose in. *eyeroll*
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