80s Japanese comic strip about Wozniak, Jobs, and Apple (6)
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Back in 1984, Japanese manga artist Mitsuru Sugaya wrote a fun comic book for kids about the birth of Apple. It was originally published as a two-part series in a popular manga compilation called Koro Koro Comics in May and June that year, but Sugaya published the story in its entirety on his blog on July 11th—iPhone launch day in Japan. "The year before I wrote this, I went to Silicon Valley and stopped by ...
Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC (38)
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Our pal Douglas Rushkoff posted an insightful essay about the RNC speeches. I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing ways. Sometimes it’s good to distinguish between the rhetorical devices and the underlying substance. Even people who use manipulative language sometimes have an important point beneath ...
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Sam said:
I agree with Douglas. It was very hard to watch the RNC on Wednesday, I got very angry.
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Casey said:
THX, JB.
Stuff We Like: Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock (6)
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Dock any internal SATA hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock, which appears to have taken swappable ...
Amit Gupta shared as favorite New "nanoantenna" material sucks heat from any source to cool devices, generates electricity (9)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We're always up for another way to harvest energy from the sun, but this new nanoantenna material developed by the DoE's Idaho National Laboratory makes solar panels seem a little passe. The material, composed of tiny gold antennas set in polyethylene plastic is tuned to gather 80 percent of energy from infrared rays in its production version, and can gather energy from the sun, earth, or even your PC's warmth. The ...
Pacemakers can be remotely pwned (25)
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Kevin Fu (associate prof at the UMass Amherst/director of the Medical Device Security Center) gave a Black Hat presentation in Vegas yesterday in which he demonstrated a way of remotely disabling a pacemaker, using open radio technology. It sounds like other implantable devices, like those used for auto-administering drugs, would also be vulnerable to the attack. The attack relies on the fact that the control protocol for these devices does not use any cryptographic security ...
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Alex said:
Ooops, no encryption? That was stupid...
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Liz said:
niiice.
Simple Encryption: Introduction and Substitution Ciphers (2)
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The starting point talking about encryption is to understand what the point of it is; what it's supposed to do, what problems it's supposed to avoid. Encryption is fundamentally about communication: you've got two parties who want to communicate, but don't want anyone else to be able to listen in. They way that you do that is by sharing a secret. You use that secret to somehow modify the information that you're going to send, ...
Visions of China: A 2008 Olympics Picture Blog : Preparing for the Biggest Organized Event of Them All: The Olympics (28)
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I’m not sure there’s an event I ever cover that requires as much advance logistics planning as the Olympics. Travel plans start up to a year before The Games, and from there on you continue to prepare until the games begin. In this post, I will discuss how I did my best to prepare for these games in advance, and how I packed all of my equipment for the Olympics—something that took well over a ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Interesting look from one of the photographers who'll be covering the Olympics.
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Wojciech Beling said:
Dobrze że nie jestem fotografem :)
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Pat said:
wow who knew?
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vanlandw said:
The photo takers in the group will like this one
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blindsurf3r said:
a photographers view of the olympics...
Warsaw Street Types (2)
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'Z dawnej i niedawnej Warszawy" : album typów ulicznych : 20 autolitografji' (approx: The Recent and Former Warsaw: An Album of Street Types: 20 lithographs) from the Polish Digital Library (1926).Józef Rapacki (1871-1929) trained as an artist in Warsaw, Cracow and Munich. He travelled to Italy on many occasions and was known as a landscape artist early in his career, but later in life he was more inclined towards illustration and graphic art works.I'm not ...
Hollywood Finally Discovers How to Make Web Video Profitable (29)
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It's a quintessential Hollywood moment: a star on a soundstage, the focal point of every person and every piece of equipment in the room. The star on this particular January day is Rosario Dawson, the 29-year-old actress who earned her cred as an Uzi-wielding prostitute in Sin City. She's being filmed against a greenscreen in extreme close-up, highlighting her sculpted cheekbones and olive skin. "We've got this joke in vice," she murmurs in a voice ...
Spamwar's worst mistakes being recapitulated by the copyright wars (7)
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My latest Guardian column, "Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam," looks at the fallout from the failed tactics of the spamwar and asks how the entertainment industry plans on doing any better trying the same tactics on an even grander and more savage scale: Content-based filters These were pretty effective for a very brief period, but the spammers quickly outmanoeuvred them. The invention of word-salads (randomly cut/pasted statistically normal text harvested ...
Pocket Enigma Machine in a CD jewel case (21)
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Bletchley Park, the "home of the codebreakers" -- where Alan Turing and co cracked the Nazi Enigma machine -- sells "Pocket Enigma Machines" made from a clever cardboard disc inserted into a CD jewel case. It comes with a very good booklet explaining the basics of ciphering and deciphering with Enigma, and with a bunch of fun Enigma-related activities. Proceeds go to the nonprofit that runs the excellent Bletchley Park museum. The instructions supplied explain ...
How to Hack a Technical Job Interview (96)
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Job interview master Vj Vijai describes how make the best impression at a technical interview using people skills (versus technical skills). His talk, which happened at O'Reilly's awesome Ignite event, is informative, funny, and short. Vijai also has a web site outlining the principles, linked below. The next Ignite will happen in NYC on 7/29. Thanks, Brady! Hacking the Technical Interview
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10p said:
NLP is hilarious, all the same.
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Derick Valadao said:
May be useful.
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Marcel said:
funny, inspiring and even practical
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Ken Rossi - Liquid NY said:
This for all it's technical b.s.... is quite funny...
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Chad said:
This is a great video about a technical interview but could be used in a regular interview. Note: There is one sexual reference.
The Saturday Profile: No Longer a Reporter, but a Muckraker Within Japan’s Parliament (1)
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A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No (2)
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“Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, is the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.
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dana said:
totally shocked this actually made it to the NYTimes...
● Itching and perception (4)
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I try not to miss any of Atul Gawande's New Yorker articles, but his piece on itching from this week's issue is possibly the most interesting thing I've read in the magazine in a long time. He begins by focusing on a specific patient for whom compulsive itching has become a very serious problem. (Warning, this quote is pretty disturbing...but don't let it deter you from reading the article.) ...the itching was so torturous, and ...
Rainbow Boom/Rainbow Bust (1)
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You are looking at a pattern of rectangles sitting in front of a multicolored background. For most people, the pattern appears to expand or, if you press the “click to reverse direction” button, to contract. The perception of expansion or contraction (of “rainbow boom” or “rainbow bust”--an economic metaphor) occurs even though the image is completely still. Comments: The key to the motion is the contrast between the colored edges on the rectangles and the ...
Artificial Sweeteners Confound the Brain; May Lead to Diet Disaster [Scientific American Mind] (4)
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Splenda is not satisfying--at least according to the brain. A new study found that even when the palate cannot distinguish between the artificial sweetener and sugar, our brain knows the difference.At the University of California, San Diego, 12 women underwent functional MRI while sipping water sweetened with either real sugar (sucrose) or Splenda (sucralose). Sweeteners, real or artificial, bind to and stimulate receptors on the taste buds, which then signal the brain via the cranial ...
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Joel said:
Sugar satisfies - other artificial sweeteners don't. Duh.
Perspectiva (1)
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"First edition of this rare treatise on perspective and draughtsmanship, important for its use by artists, architects, and goldsmiths. The woodcuts are all the author's original work, though he was clearly influenced by Leonardo and Dürer.The text begins with elements of linear geometry, and moves towards more detailed presentations of two-dimensional figures and the construction of stereometrical bodies. The third part, on human proportion, owes much to Dürer's 'Vier Bucher von Menschlicher Proportion' (1525); this ...
Ira Glass on Storytelling (1)
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Ira Glass, host of PRI’s This American Life, is a master storyteller. But it’s taken him a many years to achieve that status. Today I came across a series of four videos of Glass explaining storytelling and his own past in broadcasting. He gives simple advice for storytellers of all kinds, and he even plays clips of his old (and pretty embarrassing) NPR reporting. If you’re looking to develop your sense of narrative, or just ...
Shorts That Don’t Suck, Vol IV: Music Video Edition (1)
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For our fourth installment of “shorts that don’t suck,” we turn to an art form which many have declared dead or dying: the music video. It seems that the age of the internet has done something drastic not only to the business of music, whose coffers have been drained by file-sharing and music-pirating, but to the business of the music video, which goes through every crisis that its parent business goes through. The main result ...
