December 2008
27 posts
“Harvard is basically a glorified corporation, operating with a profit incentive....”
– Chris Langan
“Call it micro-classifieds. Paul Rawlings, a developer in the UK, launched...”
– I honestly cannot fathom why anyone would ever think this is a good idea — we already came up with a way to sell things online. It was called eBay. If your idea can fit into the sentence “a ______ for your Twitter,” it’s probably not very good.
Watchour family on Christmas.
“Drunk people are like monkeys, so if you do have to wait, keep them distracted...”
– How To: Score At Your Company Christmas Party | www.holytaco.com
Pope likens saving gays to saving the rainforest |... →
remember that the Pope is the ‘vicar of christ’ on earth. Merry Christmas!
My new favorite Onion article. →
LOL (via molluskular)
“The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they...”
– Albert Einstein (via jsth2breethe)
“Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in...”
– Google cranks up the Consensus Engine • The Register (via mikehudack)
“But standing there, and looking toward today — and more importantly...”
– Clay Shirky
Gmail Enables SMS Messaging From Chat →
(for real this time)
“Fun matters because it creates a legion of advocates for a technology that...”
– Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar Team | TechRadar UK (indirectly via David)
Watchyes.
“Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who...”
– Neil Postman (via) (via syntheticpubes)
Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security...
“In more instances than we want to admit, tips not only won’t (and can’t) help us...”
– Merlin Mann: Real Advice Hurts. Read it. (via marco)
“Large organizations will start to do worse now, though, because for the first...”
– The High-Res Society
Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon | TorrentFreak →
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay.
“The truth is, giving up our online anonymity may not be all bad - we’ll...”
– The End Of Online Anonymity - ReadWriteWeb