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An iPhone app you can wrap your fish in
The NYTeims tries out newspaper as website iPhone app as newspaper: The founder is no doubt spinning sliding in his grave.
Futile style
(It’s tempting to ask why this lasts as long as it does, but to many that question would suggest that this is way too long; it may be so, but a better question is whyit lasts precisely as long as it does? Not a deep question — but this is a fine example of a [...]
DJ wars
Todd Vanderlin: Theo Watson @ fffff.at Go team!
History of interaction in 42 seconds
(ironic sans)
Those who hunt elves and can’t teach deserve neither
Who needs an accurate Santayana quotation when autocompletion ? The first time it’s a tragedy, the second time a madlib.
Electric Kool-Aid; or, Against Tufte, (public) note 00002
From the Program for the Future Conference comes a mural of “Co-Evolution of Human Systems and Tool Systems,” that is, “the landscape of our era, beginning with 1925, the year of Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart’s birth”: Detail: Subsequent “shifts” include the “Shift from Industrial Age to Information Age” (ca. 1955–1958), the “Shift from Information Age [...]
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Google: ‘Privacy? Depends–where are you?’
A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Google’s refusal sparks snark: for example, “Larry Page, the company’s co-founder, didn’t want a privacy link ‘on that beautiful clean home page,’ said one executive at a Google competitor” [...]
“The fossil record doesn’t tell us much about social life.”
So says Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on facial expressions, according to Errol Morris in “The Most Curious Thing” in the NYT. As prosecutors become more media-savvy with all their perp-walks, PR campaigning leaks, and the like, it follows to reason that filmmakers would become the new prosecutors: forensics [...]
Private-public key history
Steve Bellovin’s “Prehistory of Public Key Cryptography” (08-01-16) says the technique was developed several years earlier than thought—and, according to former NSA Director Bobby (Ray) Inman, “a decade earlier than Diffie and Hellman,” possibly inspired by “a World War II–era paper by an unknown person at Bell Labs.” In a talk “The Early Days in [...]
One botnet per child
OLPC mesh networking + Windows XP? Oh dear. Groklaw asks: “What are you doing to those children?” C|net’s Matt Asay expands: OLPC is rather about liberating developing nations from their vassal status that continually keeps them at the mercy of the pricing and licensing of Microsoft and other proprietary vendors. By building on Windows, Negroponte [...]
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