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Make me a sandwich shirt sighting! Oh and here’s a nifty...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:42:01 -0700

Make me a sandwich shirt sighting!

Oh and here’s a nifty blog about Castro street restaurants. =)

Google's Metamorphosis

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:57 -0700

More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey — if not personally, then at least culturally within the company. On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with the traditional Western concept of personal privacy.

A lot of people seem surprised by Google’s alliance with Verizon on mobile network neutrality. That stance doesn’t fit with my view of the Larry/Sergey Google. But it fits my idea of the Schmidt Google like a glove.

This rings true.

xkcd: Ahead Stop

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:04:46 -0700

xkcd: Ahead Stop

Virtual Shackles - The Soviet Mind Game

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:04:46 -0700

Virtual Shackles - The Soviet Mind Game

"She wants you to listen, not to offer a solution to what she’s venting about."

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:03:45 -0700

“She wants you to listen, not to offer a solution to what she’s venting about.”

- Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years

A bubble of Kentucky between Missouri and Tennessee…

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:03:44 -0700

A bubble of Kentucky between Missouri and Tennessee…

What a beautiful Austrian town… 1906 Scanned Color Photos

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:02:45 -0700

What a beautiful Austrian town…

1906 Scanned Color Photos

Where does your 911 tax money go?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:01:44 -0700

Where does your 911 tax money go?:

Georgia collected $8,537,319 in prepaid 911 fees. “None of these funds were allocated for 911 or E911 use,” the report says. Instead, they too sat in the state treasuries’ general fund.

California’s listed but not the amount.

Kindle’s eInk at high magnification Kindle and iPad...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:00:44 -0700

Kindle’s eInk at high magnification

Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal

This is why my packages arrive so late. Amazing Amazon Box (via...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:00:44 -0700

This is why my packages arrive so late.

Amazing Amazon Box (via jingc)

jingc: Smog settles in the valley of the Sierra Nevada...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:44:07 -0700

jingc:

Smog settles in the valley of the Sierra Nevada mountains

This is your planet on drugs.

The Biggest Fossil I’ve Ever Seen! - GraphJam:

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:18:45 -0700

The Biggest Fossil I’ve Ever Seen! - GraphJam:

The Correct Answer Is Always Dynamite

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:18:44 -0700

The Correct Answer Is Always Dynamite

New federal antipiracy regulations await returning students

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:04:45 -0700

New federal antipiracy regulations await returning students:

Baylor University doesn’t want its students using peer-to-peer networks. A BlueCoat PacketShaper locks down bandwidth to students, and all inbound ports are blocked by the campus firewall to keep “computers from acting as servers or super nodes in peer to peer networks.” Illinois State uses a packet shaping device called the Packeteer; it singles out P2P traffic and clamps down hard on its available bandwidth to ensure it can’t disrupt other, likely more productive uses of the campus network. In addition, the school’s intrusion prevention system tries to block P2P traffic in both directions at the campus border, though only if it comes from residence and wireless hotspots—faculty and staff are trusted to use P2P applications responsibly. Reed College in Oregon shapes bandwidth using a NetEqualizer device, though it doesn’t single out P2P traffic. Instead, the system keeps on eye on overall user bandwidth use. Anyone using “excessive bandwidth” gets a friendly call to “ensure that the bandwidth consumption is for legal purposes and that the user is aware of the College’s policies concerning illegal file sharing.”

Here’s to hoping Caltech doesn’t fall prey to this incredible waste of everyone’s time.

Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:01:43 -0700

Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors:

The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to malfunction.

I hope this gets more attention before someone has a chance to do something nasty.

Summer basil

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:21:44 -0700

Summer basil

Beautipedia by David Jones

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:19:45 -0700

Beautipedia by David Jones:

safariextensions:

Beautipedia is an extension to make Wikipedia a better environment for reading articles.

Reminiscent, in some ways, of Instapaper Greystyled translated to Wikipedia. It uses jGaramond which—while not as attractive as some other Garamonds out there—has broad Unicode character support. It doesn’t indicate which words and phrases are links until you hover the mouse over them, which may be a blessing or a curse depending on how you use Wikipedia.

Looks great for an afternoon of reading, but as Jonas mentions, the lack of distinguishing features for links could be a deal breaker.

Cordless Dog: Stay

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:16:44 -0700

Cordless Dog: Stay:

Looks useful. Watch the video to get an idea of how it works.

Stay can store a set of windows for every combination of displays that you use with your computer. For example, if you have a laptop that is sometimes connected to an external monitor, you can store two sets of windows in Stay; one with the external monitor connected and one without. This done, you’ll be able to ensure that your windows are always where you want them to be by having Stay restore windows whenever you connect or disconnect the external monitor. Stay can even be configured to automatically restore windows as displays are connected and disconnected.

Sea water rainbow Sea Water Bow The bow below the horizon does...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:12:00 -0700

Sea water rainbow

Sea Water Bow

The bow below the horizon does not match the one in the sky.

The upper bow is an ordinary bow made by falling rain.

The lower bow was formed by sea spray.

The sea water bow has a slightly smaller (by ~0.8°) radius because salty water refracts light more strongly than rainwater.

Materials that refract light even more strongly produce smaller bows still.Glass makes bows about half the size of rainwater bows.

Photographed in the Pacific Ocean by J Dijkema.

Dieter Rams: Less and More (via Release Candidate One)

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:11:45 -0700

Dieter Rams: Less and More (via Release Candidate One)