February 2012
12 posts
Teller Reveals His Secrets →
Teller is a surprisingly good writer.
Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience? A magician’s data sample spans centuries, and his experiments have been replicated often enough to constitute near-certainty. Neuroscientists—well intentioned as they are—are...
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to... →
Path just earned a permanent delete. Why do I have to email them to delete information that I didn’t give permission for them to take in the first place?
Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its...
