Nailed it. Too much information just waving in the wind, waiting to be exploited over and over again. Screaming to be exploited, just for attention.
Current Events
More Apps About Buildings & Food
Check out David Byrne’s fake iPhone apps, very cool. I actually found this link as live Talking Heads was streaming. We have converged.
… Stop Using Facebook To Login To Other Sites
If you love or hate Facebook, never visit or live on it – that’s fine by me. Waste your time however you see fit. But please don’t contribute to Facebook ruining the internet as I know it. Using a Facebook … Read the rest
Tech Titans
Market speak for computer companies during my geek-life:
My first glance:
IBM = titans, Microsoft = nerds, Apple = hippies, Atari = artists
My High school years:
IBM = clumsy old titans, Microsoft = business nerds, Apple = misguided hippies … Read the rest
Creepy Commerce
OK I’ve been ranting about this possibility for about three years now, and this is actually the primary reason why I have avoided Facebook: Walmart just bought their way into your Facebook ‘timeline’ data. Yep, all of your life’s … Read the rest
Art & Commerce
If enough people stop paying for a product it will cease to be made on a sufficient enough scale to be a product. Sponsored content is paid for in-part by the sponsors, so if you watch your video and listen … Read the rest
Solar Panel Breakthrough
Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels. Good news on the alternative power front — anything to help us get some nearly free energy.
Seems to me that anything that gets us using … Read the rest
Spring I Beckon You
It’s the dreary days of Winter here, where it’s either grey and cold or white and colder outside. Every couple of days, for an hour or two, the sun pokes through but it doesn’t excite much since everything outside is … Read the rest
Infamy & Glory
“Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain’t worth a shit — not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
— William S. Burroughs
Been thinking about this one reading the conservative … Read the rest
We As A People Will Get There
It hasn’t been that long. Don’t forget.
2 wars. The al-Qaeda and Bin Laden boogieman.
No hope for healthcare or tax breaks for the folks. Anti-intellectual, anti-science screamers in charge.
I remember very clearly how scary it was for america.… Read the rest
The Obama Argument
Here’s a well made argument on why and how Obama is far more successful than the current narrative in the news allows. Give it a read if you are interested in straight talk and a factual review over hyperbole. If … Read the rest
Politics 101
Pulled from the headlines and translated by me:
President Obama: I want a new agency to protect US consumers against predatory lending and other financial exploitations. I ran on this idea, won, and will get to work setting up the … Read the rest
That’s Too Close!
Modern American Racism
It’s the end of 2011 in America. Some say post-race. I say BS.
Some of us were raised to treat people based on the value of their character, while some use skin color and cultural differences to separate. Don’t … Read the rest
An Update On The Human-Robot Competition
Hello humans. I have two items I’d like to brief you about. As always – be vigilant. Robots are not to be trusted.
The Squishy Robot has no skeleton and can crawl (shimmy?) underneath … Read the rest
The Truth Comes Out
They held out for a couple of years by hiding behind anonymous internet postings and various code words, but the right wing media in the US has finally let loose on what they think of President Obama and his wife … Read the rest
More Than Lip Service
Here’s Steve Jobs demoing his NeXT Computer running the OS NextStep from the early 90’s. He calls it “Interpersonal Computing”.
What’s amazing to me is how 20 years on most of this demo holds up. There are things the NextStep … Read the rest
Password = 123456
The worst passwords of 2011. If you are on that list prepare to be hacked.… Read the rest