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Yahoo
Often large companies are attracted to ideas and ways of thinking that don't exist inside the company, they acquire them, and are surprised to discover the larger company has natural, powerful and well rewarded anti-bodies that resist everything about the ideas and people acquired. There is a premium irony at work in all this. What companies want through the acquisition is impossible to actually get. They often whitewash the failure and repeat. more »
Yahoo was ambivalent about social tools, where people spend their time wrapped up in relationships with other people. Yahoo thinks of itself as a media company ...
read more »FORGOT PASSWORD? CLICK HERE.
This is a nice little system you can easily add rules to called PasswordCard -- while not the most secure thing out there (you'd do better with a password manager) so many people use the same password across sites, and often an insecure one at that, this would be a better alternative than nothing. Look, you're not going to use this if you're Julian Assange or something, but consider once again the evidence of the terrible habits of people using terrible passwords (via Gawker) then stored terribly. And here, and here.Powerhouse
This Week In Wikileaks
The Guardian has maintained great coverage and analysis throughout the week
The state department knew of the leak several months ago and had ample time to alert staff in sensitive locations. Its pre-emptive scaremongering over the weekend stupidly contrived to hint at material not in fact being published. Nor is the material classified top secret, being at a level that more than 3 million US government employees are cleared to see, and available on the defence department's internal Siprnet. Such dissemination of "secrets" might be thought reckless, suggesting a diplomatic outreach that makes the British empire seem minuscule. more ...
read more »RIP Leslie Nielsen
Of course Airplane, and Police Squad and Naked Gun. But Leslie Nielsen also starred, long before, in one of the classic 50s sci-fi flicks: Forbidden Planet.Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir
Everybody who as on the atomic test sites wore these badges that showed you how much radiation we were getting and we had to turn those in every day or every week depending on how close we were to the site, and so, ah, they really did tell us the potential dangers we had but we were all aware of the nuclear or the atomic fallout that could occur like hair falling out and so forth, but none of us thought we would die from these exposures, and a lot of my friends have died and who were cameramen... more »
I see you are practiced in worshiping things that fly
Your Hand + The LHC
Anthropocene
According to the authors’ own descriptions, at least two-thirds of the studies aimed to study nature in places devoid of human influence, including "protected areas" like national or state parks. But when Martin pulled back the camera slightly, she saw something different. Using each study’s geographic coordinates, she plotted the field sites against Ellis’s database, to see where on the scale of anthropogenic usage each site actually sat. To her surprise, she found that at least half the studies were conducted within regions that, on a six-by-six-mile scale, would be considered densely settled. In other words, more than ...
read more »The Tetris Effect
People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street.[1] In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of habit. They might also dream about falling Tetris shapes when drifting off to sleep or see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes.[1] In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination or hypnagogic imagery ...
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