[Kinda scary. -egg]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/opinion/sunday/wars-on-drugs.html?hp
Saturday, April 6, 2013
"The new Home app/UX/quasi-OS is deeply integrated into the Android environment. It takes an effort..." [feedly]
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"The new Home app/UX/quasi-OS is deeply integrated into the Android environment. It takes an effort..."
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The new Home app/UX/quasi-OS is deeply integrated into the Android environment. It takes an effort to shut it down, because Home's whole premise is to be always on and be the dashboard to your social world. It wants to be the start button for apps that are on your Android device, which in turn will give Facebook a deep insight on what is popular. And of course, it can build an app that mimics the functionality of that popular, fast-growing mobile app. I have seen it done before, both on other platforms and on Facebook.
But there is a bigger worry. The phone's GPS can send constant information back to the Facebook servers, telling it your whereabouts at any time.
So if your phone doesn't move from a single location between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. for say a week or so, Facebook can quickly deduce the location of your home. Facebook will be able to pinpoint on a map where your home is, whether you share your personal address with the site or not. It can start to build a bigger and better profile of you on its servers. It can start to correlate all of your relationships, all of the places you shop, all of the restaurants you dine in and other such data. The data from accelerometer inside your phone could tell it if you are walking, running or driving. As Zuckerberg said — unlike the iPhone and iOS, Android allows Facebook to do whatever it wants on the platform, and that means accessing the hardware as well."
- Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy — Tech News and Analysis, via Tim M.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Animal sculptures from thrift store plastic
Sayaka Ganz creates marvelous animal sculptures from plastic crap she picks up at thrift stores. "Sayaka Ganz: Reclaimed Creations" (via Juxtapoz)
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How DC insiders launder insider market information for the rich
[This is pretty creepy :(. -egg]
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/05/how-dc-insiders-launder-inside.html
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Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact
"I've never seen anything like this. This secret world has finally been revealed," said Arthur Cockfield, a law professor and tax expert at Queen's University in Canada, who reviewed some of the documents during an interview with the CBC. He said the documents remind him of the scene in the movie classic The Wizard of Oz in which "they pull back the curtain and you see the wizard operating this secret machine."
Freehand Playable Circles, in Any Tuning, on iPad: New Orphion Editor
[Boy, this looks like a very cool iPad controller. -egg]
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http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/04/freehand-playable-circles-in-any-tuning-on-ipad-new-orphion-editor/
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"I can't think of another interface at the moment that provides this much free experimentation. You could, theoretically, make up new pitch layouts for each performance. You could find a single layout and get really good at that, practicing it as you would a new instrument. Or, you might use this as a canvas with which to experiment with different designs, perhaps even realizing your favorite later in hardware and letting the iPad be the prototype."
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Neil Freeman Gives a Tour of Bushwick, Brooklyn : The New Yorker
Neil Freeman Gives a Tour of Bushwick, Brooklyn : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/neil-freemans-alternative-geography.html
Broadly, the goal of Freeman's stuff is to visualize geography in surprising ways. Using publicly available data sets and software tools to manipulate them, he cuts familiar places into pieces and tiles the pieces into new patterns. Three years ago, for instance, he had the idea to draw a map in which every street in a city is centered on the same point. Viewed this way, New York takes on the shape of a sea urchin; Chicago, Freeman's home town, is a four-point star; Los Angeles shoots out jellyfish-like tentacles across several axes. Often he generates a new work by messing around with scale: "Scale is a convention in maps that people take for granted and don't notice." In 2003, he created a deck of playing cards featuring maps of all nuclear-capable nations, rescaling the maps so that each of the sixty-seven nations was the same size; the following year, he took the subway grids of dozens of cities—Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, Madrid—and fit them to a single scale, revealing distinctions that weren't as visible before.
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[Some enjoyable cinematic post-rock ambientish stuff from an AVL composer I hadn't heard before. -egg]
Original content here?
So far, this blog has only existed as a place to paste interesting things that I find around the web. Personal updates have mostly been on facebook. But I'm increasingly unhappy with facebook. What I really want is a fully open-source alternative. But boy, have there been a lot of false starts there (notably Diaspora*). I'm half-considering making this blog (or perhaps a self-hosted wordpress blog) be the primary place I put original content, even tiny snippets. I've got an IFTT recipe set up to automatically move stuff from this blog to FB. The huge downside, of course, is that 99% of comments are on FB, and there's not a way to push those back to here in any permanent way. Dunno. Mulling it over.
Brain-to-brain interface for Direct Rat Control
[O_O -e]
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Life imitates "Fringe" with development of brain-to-brain interface
Scientists managed to link the brains of a conscious human and an anesthetized rat, allowing the human to wiggle the rat's tail with his thoughts. And all God's creatures said, "Holy shitballs!"
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Artist Hong Yi Plays with her Food for 30 Days | Colossal
Artist Hong Yi Plays with her Food for 30 Days | Colossal: "
Some really nice stuff here, as art-made-from-food goes:
Some really nice stuff here, as art-made-from-food goes:
Why I switched from iPhone to Android | TechHive
Why I switched from iPhone to Android | TechHive: "My positive reviews of new iPhones and new editions of iOS have always been sincere. Wait, "sincere?" Sometimes, they've been downright florid. I've been so enthusiastic that I've often been accused of saying those things because I'm an Apple fanboy.
I've always had a standard response. "In 2007, I switched to the iPhone because it was way better than the Windows Mobile device I was using at the time," I would say. "If someday in the future somebody makes a phone and an OS that's a better fit for me and my peculiar needs than the iPhone, I'll make the exact same choice."
Yep: that day has come. "
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I've always had a standard response. "In 2007, I switched to the iPhone because it was way better than the Windows Mobile device I was using at the time," I would say. "If someday in the future somebody makes a phone and an OS that's a better fit for me and my peculiar needs than the iPhone, I'll make the exact same choice."
Yep: that day has come. "
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Caldera (2012) on Vimeo
[Beautiful short animation about the shifting worlds of mental illness. -egg]
Caldera (2012) on Vimeo:
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Caldera (2012) on Vimeo:
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
How "workarounds" cause people with dyslexia to be more creative [feedly]
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How "workarounds" cause people with dyslexia to be more creative
"Mounting evidence shows that many people with dyslexia are highly creative, out-of-the-box thinkers, and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that their brains really do think differently." An interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on adaptive responses to a "neurodifference" that affects as many as one in five Americans.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Lightest-ever aerogel is only twice as heavy as hydrogen - Boing Boing
Lightest-ever aerogel is only twice as heavy as hydrogen - Boing Boing:
 In a Nature paper called "Solid carbon, springy and light, scientists from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China introduce a record-breakingly light aerogel, lighter than helium, only twice as heavy as hydrogen: Gao Chao's team had already been building macroscopic graphene materials in one and two dimensions; to create the new aerogel, the researchers branched out into the third dimension, using a new method of freeze drying the solutions of carbon nanotubes and graphene to create malleable carbon sponges.Graphene aerogel is the new world's lightest substance [Crave/Michelle Starr] (via Beyond the Beyond) |
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