January 2010
31 posts
Young Blood Reverses Signs of Aging in Old Mice →
[via W. Ellis]
CAP AND TRADE LETS THE TERRORISTS WIN →
(via groupuscule)
9to5Mac claims that they’ve talked to a few content publishers (magazines, newspapers), and those publishers are claiming inside knowledge about the device. Most importantly, that it’ll be “[nowhere] near $1000, as has been reported elsewhere.” [Giz]
Will have been not wrong.
Barack Obama: Normal Human
As for what Obama reads online, his advisers said he looks for offbeat blogs and news stories, tracking down firsthand reporting and seeking out writers with opinions about his policies. Obama was particularly interested in Atlantic Online’s Andrew Sullivan’s tweeting of the Iranian elections last year, said an aide, who requested anonymity to discuss what influences the president.
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Emotion Markup Language →
This is by me, on Motherboard, because of Alex.
Good planning
WASHINGTON — Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade, according to a government-financed survey — dismal news for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and diplomacy.
But another contrary trend has educators and policy makers abuzz: a rush by schools in all parts of America to offer instruction in Chinese.
Some schools are...
Why can’t I help myself from watching the inane special election coverage on cable news?
People have stymied sense of denial about the situation. It’s very neurotic, anxious, and repressed. It’s feeding into a strongly Gothic political temperament where popular culture is haunted by vampires and zombies. The population identifies with vampires and zombies, wants to marry them, settle down with them. There’s an autumnal hush over the cultural landscape. People...
People with iPhones: Redemption has come! →
Er, that’s not really the right word.
But! This allows push RSS, which means that it will send you blog posts without having to ask for them. Which further means that I can read blogs on the train without having to remember to ask my phone to ask the internet for them.
I’m sorry if no one cares about this, but I have been waiting for it for some time.
"While Apple values and appreciates vibrant public... →
More Sources Claim Chinese Government Involvement... →
Yeah, it’s 2010.
"At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las... →
msmandrake:
fiatluxemburg:
So many questions.
This idea more or less happened inside my head awhile back! When we are building new sensors in my lab, we are always having to do so many corrections to our output readings because of all the ambient currents (electrical, WiFi, etc.) in the environment. If we could harness that noise …
But, like, isn’t that noise inside of me right now?...
"At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las... →
So many questions.
Wait
So tumblarity is done with?
A quick search reveals that the community is very divided on this change.
obsoletethebook:
Indeed, there was a moment where creating in-case-I-die letters and archiving them online seemed like a great thing to do. You had to designate a “guardian angel” to notify the site of your passing, which meant sacrificing some of the surprise factor your friends might experience upon getting a postmortem email to you. Or else you’d need to remember to notify the archiving site’s...
As more documents are scanned and go online, many works of historical scholarship will be exposed as flimsy and haphazard. The existence of modern search technology should push us to improve historical research. It should tell us that our analog, necessarily partial methods have had hidden from us the potential of taking a more comprehensive view, aided by less capricious retrieval mechanisms...
groupuscule:
Look, I know I should just create “fuckyeaheliezeryudkowsky,” or something.
Yes, that is exactly what you should do. That is the whole point of everything! (Making it easier for me to consumer the Internet)
New fun Google Suggest game!
Someone HuffPo noticed that there are no suggestions for “islam is”, but there are for other religions. Allegedly, a Google spokesperson has said it’s “a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can.”
A bug with society! Results also mysteriously cut off for
“jews are” (but not “jewish people are”, the top completions for which are...
"Burj Dubai", Renamed "Burj Khalifa", Opens With A... →
skyscraper:
For the sake of our tags, for now we will continue to call it “Burj Dubai” on this tumblr.
This decision sets some weird precedents for language.
Press Release: Lady Gaga Named Creative Director... →
For actual.
(via obsoletethebook and Engadget)
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Ok, I am aware that there is a lot of reporting (that I’m not going to bother finding at the moment) that the Apple Tablet/iSlate/Unicorn Machine will cost about $1000. I firmly stand by my relatively baseless assertion that it will actually be shockingly cheap.
My main reason for thinking this is that rolling the tablet out isn’t just a product release, it’s a bid to enter a...
