January 2012
Copyright on musical recordings extended by twenty years in EU (for the sake of Cliff Richard): http http://t.co/aCXBhqxC
December 2011
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MONITORING ANALYSIS AND INFLUENCE, or: More Trust Through Better Workplace Spying. http://dia.so/1Iy
…and @GoDaddy vetoes my domain transfer. Weak.
When Santa and Mrs. Claus want privacy, do they hang a stocking on the doorknob?
GoDaddy Asks Customers To Ignore Its Disregard For Their Interests http://t.co/VmLf5G4u
ANNER http://t.co/MNpgfSgR
Turns out they want me to pay an additional “Microsoft Tax” to make @Netflix work on @Xbox; thank goodness for trusty ol’ @Boxee!
Beetle Borgs! http://t.co/Fy5Bn11S
November 2011
Happy #BuyNothingDay. Enjoy something genuine, and be thankful!
“Closed forever and ever” — R.I.P. Tucson’s Grill Restaurant http://t.co/wrnhVxbd
Prostitute Phone? Meet Rump Robot. http://dia.so/11Q
Prostitute Phone, Meet Rump Robot. http://dia.so/11Q
October 2011
Happy 2^5th Birthday, Spreadsheets! http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/10/celebrating-visicalcs-32nd-birthday.html
Welp, looks like #Ubuntu is giving me an Ocelot for my birthday. http://www.thisisthecountdown.com/
September 2011
University of Minnesota Bike Center a “one-stop shop” for students, staff and faculty http://dia.so/zU
Mozilla’s latest contribution to an increasingly cluttered web: badges! http://openbadges.org/
In preparation for Oneiric Ocelot, Ubuntu releases their answer to the App Store: http://developer.ubuntu.com/
In preparation for Oneiric Ocelot, Ubuntu releases their answer to the App Store: http://developer.ubuntu.com/
Hemoglobin Gets Its Own Action Figure http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/st_hemoglobin
Apple Bans Phone Story Game That Exposes Seedy Side of Smartphone Creation: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/09/phone-story
Copyright on musical recordings extended by twenty years in EU (for the sake of Cliff Richard): http://dia.so/q4
The strangest memorial to 9/11? Gotta be the one _on Mars_. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/pia05221.html
Clever designs from Minneapolis’ own Brock Davis: http://yellowtrace.com.au/blog/2011/09/01/design-free-thursday-brock-davis/
JP Morgan explains the Euro crisis with Legos: http://dia.so/ng
August 2011
Sounds like a good general rule when hunting: “Don’t shoot anything wearing a collar!” http://t.co/xp47iUm
What’s more toxic to big ideas: social networking, or rising income inequality? http://t.co/uipN3zS
Reminder to Tea Partiers: attribution is important - for instance, “F’ The Poor” was said by Mel Brooks, not Jesus.
RT @NewYorker: RT @nxthompson: The making of a theocrat. @ryanlizza amazing @newyorker piece on Bachmann’s roots. http://nyr.kr/ra3q7S # …
10-year-old hacker finds zero-day flaw in farming games. Hooray for budding geek girls! http://cnet.co/p0bv3q
July 2011
Visualizing the movements of e-waste… http://senseable.mit.edu/backtalk/
Visualizing the movements of e-waste… http://senseable.mit.edu/backtalk/
Remembering Diaspora*: The Open Source Social Network - http://dia.so/9E
Better Living Through Minvans http://flic.kr/p/a35boy
Microsoft seeking patent on man-in-the-middle snooping of peer-to-peer VOIP (e.g. their new toy, Skype) - http://dia.so/3w
Microsoft seeking patent on man-in-the-middle snooping of peer-to-peer VOIP (e.g. their new toy, Skype) - http://dia.so/3w
Loved Four Eyed Monsters (via Boxee) http://b0x.ee/nYubae
Bob Dylan and The Band – Tears of Rage →
http://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Dylan+and+The+Band
Descendents – 'Merican →
http://www.last.fm/music/Descendents
FBI hamfists Trident Tribunal raid: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/f-b-i-seizes-web-servers-knocking-… http://diasp.org/p/116111
FBI hamfists Trident Tribunal raid: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/f-b-i-seizes-web-servers-knocking-sites-offline/
December 2010