September 2011
5 posts
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First Impression: Windows 8 Developer Preview
Note: This is based on preview software. Things are bound to change! Setup Not many improvements, but that’s hardly surprising. It’s still ridiculous how often Windows’ installer has to reboot, though. That I have to reboot after setting up personal settings is probably the most ridiculous part of it all. That said, the process of setting up the machine after the installation is well...
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My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency - HUMAN EVENTS BBC - The Editors: How has social media changed the way newsrooms work? The quest for the golden Nintendo game Report - A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11 | American Civil Liberties Union
Who's the idiot disabling SSL on posterous.com?
Has he been fired yet? If not, why not?
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Resources for Gamemasters | gamemastering How an omniscient Internet “sextortionist” ruined the lives of teen girls Sustainability: PlantBottle Packaging: FAQ The Last Question — Isaac Asimov TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 1) | Hawk Host Blog Seriously, stop with the booth babes | Standalone Sysadmin Our Guide to the Best Coverage on President Obama and the Economy...
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Link Dump XXXXV
Gender gap in spatial abilities depends on females’ role in society “For the swarm!” Inside the world of professional StarCraft players Does Religion Influence Epidemics? - ScienceNOW ‘Spyware’ Incident Spooks Jihadi Forum | Danger Room | Wired.com Analyze your Web Server Data and be empowered with LogParser and Log Parser Lizard GUI - Scott Hanselman Editor who published...
August 2011
10 posts
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AP IMPACT: Some 9/11 charities failed miserably Strategies for Evaluating the Impact of Big Infrastructure Projects: How can we tell if one big thing works? | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation Myron Marston » Making your Gem Warning Free FREQUENCY OF ACCOUNTING REPORTS » Grumpy Old Accountants UI-Patterns.com Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests...
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Cheaper Than Paper: A Firsthand Examination of the Google+ Profile Reporting Process Canadian Library Lends Out Humans | The Mary Sue “A sort of PC”: how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work) Why the parliamentary system can’t save America » Filibuster Cartoons » Archive Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F - Alexis Madrigal -...
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Link Dump XXXXI
Fear without Function: Do Sex Offender Registries Reduce Crime? — Marginal Revolution How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine Can we grade the teachers? « Phil Ebersole’s Blog Emacs pandoc-mode Levi Kornelsen - Google+ - *TABLETOP GAMERS! If you respond to this post, it means two… American identity according to social media (infographic) | TechJournal South ...
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UK riots could cost taxpayer £100m | UK news | The Guardian The Federal Constitutional Court New drug could cure nearly any viral infection - MIT News Office Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany - Wikisource Queues and Background Processing By Ken Levine: A jaw dropping pilot you’ve got to see
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Sneak Peek
History Imperial Germany Weimar Republic Drittes Reich And Then There Were Two A Modern Nation Geography
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Link Dump XXXVII, Sunny Sunday
Give 100 Percent? « Samantha’s Blog Any set of figures needs adjusting before it can be usefully reported | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian Ryan A. :: “Our Bloodstained Roof” BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Science: From Cradle to Grave BBC News - More women than men in higher education in Scotland Dispatch From Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana...
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Link Dump XXXVI
Who is harmed by a “Real Names” policy? - Geek Feminism Wiki P2P lawyers get their comeuppance in the form of fines, suspension Rationally Speaking: In defense of belief Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents - Timothy B. Lee - Disruptive Economics - Forbes C. S. Lewis on intelligence in Christianity | The Reinvigorated Programmer Morgenthau Plan - Wikipedia, the free...
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Others and me
Treat your fellow beings with respect. I’ve been raised with this simple sentence. My parents have been fairly a-religious for as long as I can remember, aside from having been raised Protestant (my Mom), and Catholic (my father). However, I haven’t been indoctrinated in religion (as Dawkins would say, I’m sure) with religion or faith. My schooling was humanist as well, with no emphasis on...
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Weekly Standard: The Feminine Lie Mystique : NPR Why I am more pessimistic about the euro than are most people — Marginal Revolution Twitter admits editing offensive Trending Topics, plans more Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity | The Economist
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What does the new gdp report imply for structural explanations of our current troubles? — Marginal Revolution The Daily Mash - L’Oreal disappointed at ban on fraud Five More Mistakes That Will Expose You As a Rookie This Week’s Top MuckReads: Patent Trolls, Drug Cartels and Kidney Transplant Patients - ProPublica When Patents Attack! | This American Life Fourandsix Technologies - Photo...
July 2011
36 posts
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Egalite For Bebe? France’s Free Child Clinics At Risk : NPR Wil Wheaton Blames Piracy On The Entertainment Industry [Video] | Screen Rant Pilot errors outlined in 2009 Air France crash - USATODAY.com OK, climate sceptics: here’s the raw data you wanted - environment - 28 July 2011 - New Scientist
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Link Dump XXXII, Program Edition
Misinformation and its consequences | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation Why the US needs a data privacy law—and why it might finally get one UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts Webinars | Engine Yard inactivity log for davidz: Writing a C library, part 1 Whistleblowers Say Nuclear Regulatory Commission Watchdog Is Losing Its Bite -...
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Link Dump XXXI
Girls Go Geek… Again! - Fog Creek Blog Update on the credit rating agency vigilantes — Marginal Revolution So sue me: are lawyers really the key to computer security? Hitler-Blog – Einer gegen die Hitlerjugend - tazblogs
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prog21: The Nostalgia Trap Schneier on Security: Revenge Effects of Too-Safe Playground Equipment The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian NASA uses high-tech briefcase to test materials in space | al.com
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IBM Press room - 2011-07-22 Made in IBM Labs: Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough Storage Performance for Big Data Applications - United States The Oklahoma City Bombing Safe Haven Oslo | ThinkProgress Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: ‘We have lost a beautiful, talented woman’ | Music | guardian.co.uk ESA seeks $1.1 million in legal fees from fighting CA videogame law Censorship...
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What I can that journalists and so called experts...
Ask questions.I have a friend who works, and lives close to, Oslo, Norway (He’s all right, as far as things can be all right after yesterday). I happen to know the numbers concerning terrorism in Europe: Islamist activity doesn’t really exist (3 incidents in 2010), but that home grown terrorism is very real (246 events in 2010). That’s something that a terrorism expert should...
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Maximum PC | The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History - Page 1 The McKeown Thesis: A Historical Controversy and Its Enduring Influence Øystein Runde Facebook users’ app use contradicts their stated security concerns, study finds
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Give Directly — Marginal Revolution Collapse of Responsible Government, 1924-1934: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Revealed: Man Sought in Plot to Influence U.S. Politics Is Prominent Figure in Pakistan - ProPublica The fiery descent of Atlantis… seen from space! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Remember That “Eurabian Civil War”? How to Settle, Once and for All, the Whole...
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Today’s Final Landing of the Space Shuttle Liberty Academy | LearnLiberty An underappreciated benefit of experiments: convincing politicians when their pet projects don’t work | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation Google buys Fridge to build groups in Google+ | Digital Media - CNET News Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new...
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The Phone Hacking Scandal By The Numbers - ProPublica “Pick Your Poison: Do Politicians Regulate When They Canʼt Spend?” — Marginal Revolution Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com Does using social media interfere with creativity? — Tech News and Analysis Apollo 11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Short Story Tips « The Story Corrective Why...
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How Facebook Secretly Ends Your Relationships - Datamation Pandoc - About pandoc The Frustrating Economics of Digital Goods - The Majestic Sea Creature Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » GUNS ON CAMPUS: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
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GOP’s hard right shift in debt talks may put deal at risk - David Rogers - POLITICO.com Cryptography Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love AES SCARECROWS AND ASPARTAME: THE DEBT DEBATE » Grumpy Old Accountants Dear Playboy: Deepak Chopra is wrong | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
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Historical Mythology: Don’t worldbuild without it - The Fictorian Era Beligian Newspapers Claim Retaliation By Google After Copyright Victory Warum über Loverboys nicht geredet wird | law blog Joan Robinson’s “Open letter from a Keynesian to a Marxist” Inca Paradox: Maybe the pre-Columbian civilization did have writing. - By Mark Adams - Slate Magazine
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Rupert Murdoch says sorry as crisis forces Rebekah Brooks out | Media | The Guardian SQL Server 2011 Denali publishes tables as Windows network folders « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting Corporate Sponsors of Open Source Software App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk VLC kämpft mit Lücken und betrügerischen Klonen | heise...
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Speed matters: how Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond Lieber Christoph Keese - SIXTUS.CC How Do You Write? - The Fictorian Era Harold Innis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Flesch–Kincaid readability test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sirra: Revision by Lee Prewett The Editor (Guest Post) The Space Shuttle Is Dead, Long Live The Space Shuttle! : Monkey...
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All this talk of climate change is making the astroturf grow like crazy - Gavin Tapp Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - Press Whatever happened to the WSJ editorial integrity committee? | Poynter. Translation of Matz Q&A article after joining Heroku @ Bamboo Blog Bridge Building: Mentorship Done Right Crime doesn’t pay? It does if you’re a phone crammer
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30 Years
The things that happened in the 30 years I’m around on this ball o’ mud, in roughly chronological order: The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War The end of border checks within Europe Two expansions of the European Union The Internet moving from curiosity to being ubiquitous, and grander than anything cyber-prefixed could ever have been 9/11 The Euro Germany’s first...
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Link Dump XVIII, Health Edition
An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine | NeuroTribes FOSS Patents: Apple’s latest patent foe: the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web-sites! Do NOT pre-populate URL fields with “http://” | The Reinvigorated Programmer WiFi-hacking neighbor from hell gets 18 years in prison Reporting from the International Health Economics Association 8th World Congress | News, views, methods,...
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Armer Thomas Knüwer « Stefan Niggemeier You are what you tweet: Tracking public health trends with Twitter RPT-COLUMN-It pays to be Murdoch. Just ask US gov’t: DCJohnston | Reuters The fruits of immigration — Marginal Revolution
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Link Dump XVI, Great Deals Edition
The Art of the Deal The Impact of Low-Skilled Migrants on High-Skilled Women’s Work | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation The Great Fiction — Marginal Revolution How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history TED Blog | The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far)
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Renewable energy tops nuclear power in the US Michigan foreclosure firm implicated in robo-signing | Michigan Messenger GROUPON: COMEDY OR DRAMA? » Grumpy Old Accountants RoboHash The game has changed. The emperor has lost his clothes | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian TheMoneyIllusion » Tyler Cowen, Richard Rorty, and the truth about wealth Elgan: How Google+ ends...
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The magic button — Make Everything OK heise online - Amazon hat in Europa keinen Schutzanspruch auf “1-Click”-Bezahlverfahren science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt by Feynman Last flight of the Space Shuttle: a 30-year retrospective For the good of all of us: CERN launches open source hardware effort
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Failure Rates and Management
You have a test for every method in your code, you have refactored your code such that you have short, sweet methods and it follows the Law of Demeter. In short, you don’t believe that your code is free from failure, you have proof that it is free from failure: your tests are all green and DRY. It’s running in production for weeks, months, years now, and no exception, no unexpected behaviour is...
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Examples of Colour Blindness in Games at Scenario Girl Casey Anthony Trial Shows the Limits of Forensic Science in Proving How a Child Died - ProPublica The Daily Mash - Parents ‘have right to know if News of the World pervert lives next door’ It is time to act on Mao’s call for democracy - FT.com Computational science: …Error : Nature News Appreciating the power of a...
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Lazy Ruby Cryptography
What is Cryptogrpahy? Cryptography is the art of making clear text illegible by anyone but the original recipients. It is an art that is at least as old as the Roman Repulic, when Julius Caesar used the Caesar cipher to encrypt orders to his centurions in the Gallic wars. Since then, cryptography has evolved into a science unto itself, which helped kickstart computer science (and thus...
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Link Dump XII, Unintended Consequences Edition
Freakonomics » Helmetless Motorcyclist Killed While Riding to Overturn Helmet Law Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women | Overthinking It The Perk Bubble Is Growing as Tech Booms Again - WSJ.com The best intro book for any topic | BestIntroBook.com Three Reasons To Stop Head-Hopping « Gem State Writers
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Flash Fiction: "Homecoming: Worlds"
It was a rare sight on the exploration ship’s monitors, and Explorer Jonse was relieved when she saw the yellow star and its planets. The early sensor readings hinted at living conditions on at least two planets, both within the habitable zone of the G2 star. Duty comes first, her mental programming reminded her when she considered setting a direct course for the habitable zone. Instead, she set...
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Link Dump XI, It's All Fun And Games Edition
Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal? Decennial Funfest! » Filibuster Cartoons » Archive PragDave: Pipelines Using Fibers in Ruby 1.9 CCD COE - Strategic Cyber Security The Smart Villain part 4: Interior Design - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog Destructoid Forums HP breaks 2.5 million web support links « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting “Check my...
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Link Dump X, ID4 Edition
FOSS Patents: The cost-efficient way for app developers to deal with Lodsys UPDATED: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation Creepy, Crusty, Crumbling: Illegal Tour of Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans [75 Pics] Saudis Arrest at Least 20 - WSJ.com The Impact of the 4th of July | News, views, methods, and insights from...
Link Dump IX, Lazy Sunday Edition
The true purpose of a drug trial is not always obvious | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic Royalty Version 3.0 » Filibuster Cartoons » Archive
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My Google+ wishlist
I know that some of this stuff will be coming, but hey, it’s lacking and everybody should know that it is lacking. This is a field test, and Google+ is rough around the edges, don’t forget that in the pundit’s excitement or doom-saying. Anyway. Stuff I Need Integration with my other Google services. Mail/Reader/Groups notifications in the Sandbar? Yes, please. Sharing...
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Link Dump VIII, Deutschland Ausgabe
Wer soll für zusätzlichen KVB-Nachtverkehr zahlen? » Elfnachelf - Wichtige Nachrichten aus Köln DE PLAGIO Satire - OrgCharts von Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple und Oracle - Thorsten Zoerner’s Posterous
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Link Dump VII
Windows Confidential: The Mystery of the Recalcitrant JPG Removing Popureb Doesn’t Require a Windows Reinstall « Webroot Threat Blog Google Web Fonts “Weird Al” Yankovic - Videos - artist all | Myplay: Powered by Sony Music NASA - Sunrise on the Moon Can the cane: corporal punishment has no place in our schools - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ...
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Google+
What is Google+
I’ll be blunt: I don’t have the foggiest. The closest I can describe the current incarnation of Google+ is that it is a Twitter and Facebook mash up.
Sharing content is trivial (plug any old URL into the Share box, and Google+ will try to guess what you are trying to share), and so is “resharing” posts by others. And unlike Facebook, there is no pretending that everybody is...
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Link Dump VI: Violence Edition
The Amwriting FAQ | Johanna’s big thoughts Gewaltspiele können etwas Gutes sein! blog.rhein-zeitung.de » Blog Archive » Googles neuer Dienst Google+ im ersten Test govpulse | Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Safeguarding Unclassified DoD Information (DFARS Case 2011-D039) Sexy Urlaubsfotos von Teenager-Mädchen « BILDblog www.mathjax.org The State of...