Solar Roads – think about it. Kinda sells itself. Think about all those parking lots cooking in the heat all day. And all those new electric cars sitting there needing charge. Solar paving could be a reality in the future.… Read the rest
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More Facebook = More Loneliness
File this under the “no shit” category – but new research is showing that women who share more private information to Facebook end up feeling lonelier than those that don’t.
This type of thinking has been out in the public … Read the rest
Mean Tweet Thursday
The Great Cable Scam
Don’t overspend on cables – HDMI especially. So many predatory companies out there lying to you, trying to take your money by confusing you with tech talk.
Why All HDMI Cables Are The Same
If you are spending big money … Read the rest
A Lil Dap Available Now
Why Wait for Pono? The Fiio X5 is here now, and getting good reviews.
I say more HD players will equal more HD digital music, which is always good news for our psyche , and even ripped CD’s … Read the rest
From Your Face
Save face? About face? In your face? A Chicago artist has decided to have some fun with digital surveillance – he’s printed and is selling a realistic mask of his own face for your public enjoyment.
The idea isn’t … Read the rest
Falling Debris
Check out this amazing story about a norwegian skydiver who almost got cut in half by a meteorite. Seriously.
shorter version:
… Read the restR.I.P. Knuckles
One of the finest DJ’s ever, a guy who opened his own club to DJ his mix of music, called the Warehouse, which in turn helped birth the genre “House”.
Genre games are stupid – this is top end dance … Read the rest
The Problem With A-B’ing And Why Neil Young Is Right About Sound Quality
Great Tape Op post that’s thinking big about audio, music, and hearing.
The main crutch of the good enough team is what is called the double-blind listening test (shortened to ABX). When doing studies based on perception, it is the … Read the rest
Resolution, Not Frequency Range
Anyone arguing about audio and getting stuck on the overall hearing range of humans is actually missing the point.
What digital audio has really been doing is giving us lower resolutions on the sounds we can hear.
… Read the restHave you ever
Small World Big Problems
A good article investigating child labor in the electronics industry, and what Apple in particular tries to do regarding the complex issue.… Read the rest
Computer Shoes Zap You With Feedback
There have been shoe computers before. Since the early 1980’s people have been shoving embedded computers of some sort into their shoes for mileage and step tracking. Apple & Nike have been doing this for 15 years too.
Now, started … Read the rest
The Internet Is Owned – Act Accordingly
The top guy at Kaspersky Labs, one of the top security/encryption geeks walking, and one of the more restrained ones, dropped this bombshell during his keynote at their latest security conference:
… Read the rest“I operate under the principle that my computer is
Library sticks 1 million pics on Flickr and asks for help making them useful
Fun times if you are looking to kill a few hundred hours….
British Library sticks 1 million pics on Flickr, asks for help making them useful | Ars Technica.
… It’s Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car
It’s Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car – Slashdot.
I told y’allz.
I build (and then query) databases, and have been doing it for many years.
Facebook, Google, NSA, the cops, drug stores, retailers, the education … Read the rest
Attack of the Screen Zombies!
Great article about how most of us are growing addicted to our devices:
https://medium.com/better-humans/aa594e4cf609
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The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes – Slashdot.
What an amazing group of stories about sound, and what sorts of things can be learned by removing as much of it as possible.… Read the rest
