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Heartbroken, in Disrepair
Tom & I recorded this cover yesterday in the living room. Dan Auerbach rocks. Check it out on youtube
Apple Knows Where You Are and Tells Others
Privacy matters. As you know, I love apple products, but according to apple’s new privacy policy, this is very facebooky… “To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data [...]
Disruptive Thinking @ Singularity University
“Singularity University (SU) is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to [...]
BP Spill Infographics
Typically the nytimes.com has the best, timely infographics – but the Wall Street Journal easily topped them with great, clear infographics aof the BP spill and the complete mess from the Deepwater Horizon Rig. Short BP stock. WSJ BP Infographic Nytimes Gulf Oil Spill Topic
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Matt McKeon a developer with the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research’sCenter for Social Software has this interesting post: “The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population [...]
Steve Jobs on Flash
Nice description of why no Flash on iPhone/Pad by Steve Jobs “Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by [...]
Department of Defense Power Point Graphic – WOW!
Look at this simply AWFUL graphic, from a NY Times article on Powerpoint – “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general Powerpoint, oh how I hate thee… My question is, “Why is [...]
Calculus
Great, simple overview of Calculus by Steven Strogatz on nytimes.com. “Calculus is the mathematics of change. It describes everything from the spread of epidemics to the zigs and zags of a well-thrown curveball. The subject is gargantuan — and so are its textbooks. Many exceed 1,000 pages and work nicely as doorstops. But within that [...]
iPhone 4 SDK bans Flash, Java, Mono…
Apple just slapped Adobe/Flash again http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/08/apples_iphone_4_sdk_license_bans_flash_java_mono_apps.html http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler
iPad + ABC
My favorite guy in the brown truck delivered my iPad this morning and we have been impressed so far. The ABC application works great! Check it out here: http://abc.go.com/site/abc-player-for-ipad or just download it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc-player/id364191819?mt=8 and of course, you will want to see what is on the inside, so check that out here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-13579_3-10003019.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20