February 2010
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Watch«It’s not enough these days to simply question authority, you got to speak with it too.» —Taylor Mali; typomation by Ronnie Bruce.
“And we’d better pray that noone sticks a finger into somebody’s eye...”
– Monopod on Airplanes - Photo.net Travel Forum
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Interview with a scammer →
I’m 23 years old and was released from prison in Nigeria in October last year where I served two years for fraud. I am now doing a business studies course at college and am in the UK
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Even without cookies, a browser leaves a trail of... →
Those with no technical knowledge generally believe that they are anonymous when simply browsing the Web
“Delhi’s strangest and shortest season – from mid-February to mid-March – has...”
– The Delhi Walla: City Season – Palika Bazaar Park, Connaught Place
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WatchTED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
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Modern Day Flintstones [Spiegel] →
«A modern-day Stone Age subculture is developing in the United States, where wannabe cavemen mimic their distant ancestors. They eat lots of meat, bathe in icy water and run around barefoot.»
For more see the earlier article ‘Evolutionary Fitness’ from The Times.
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Adobe Puts Secret Hold on HTML5 Spec
«In public, Adobe claims to “support” HTML5. On the private W3C mailing list, though, they’ve placed an objection to prevent the current spec from being published. My understanding is that Adobe is trying to block the API spec for the canvas element. The canvas element hasn’t gotten as much attention as the video element, but clearly, 2D graphics in canvas is competitive with Flash, and it appears...
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Hybrowse →
Hybrowse is an elegant way to browse the huge quantities of stuff on sites such as Etsy, using simple category (tag) filters by drilling-down through them—from most common to least. With no interface crud, you may only add or remove categories to narrow or widen the scope of items shown, serendipitously limited to a single page of results. If there’s less items than this, you can be sure...
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Chilled by Choice - NYTimes.com →
«Showering between November and March is a challenge.»
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The Accidental Hermit: A short history of the kick... →
«Kick sleds look like Zimmer frames on runners […] can be quite fast in flat areas, and ridiculously fast downhill. […] The ones who use kick sleds now are mostly those champions of common sense, the same elderly women who drink tap water, eat fish and vegetables, read books, knit and live to one hundred.»
If it weren’t for the fact my feet look like they’ve already got frostbite,...
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“The train moved so slowly that throughout the evening, passengers casually...”
– Cambodia: Sitting In A Puddle On A Train by Wandering Earl.
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“There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one...”
– Lord Chesterfield [via The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking]
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FRONTLINE: ‘digital nation’ →
Want to hear some South Korean kids sing about netiquette? Well here’s a distraction! Oh but you heard the news that multitasking is turning human-kind into imbeciles didn’t you? So close that Facebook window before hitting play, and for the love of all that is good concentrate. This PBS report looks behind the research and asks us, «is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much...
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WatchAn Inconvenient PR Truth «Ask yourself: what have I done to reduce my irrelevance?»
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Unhappy Hipsters →
Redecoration reinvigorates relationships.